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Chicago, Illinois, US

New York, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

San Francisco, CA, US

• As a member of the Wikimedia Cloud Services team I was responsible for the OpenStack, Kubernetes and Elasticsearch platforms that provide data services for internal production workloads and the volunteer community. My.
• Automate and deploy production Ceph storage cluster used for OpenStack virtual disks and images.
• Implement high availability on OpenStack endpoints and services.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• At Dell/EMC I started as a site reliability engineer supporting our cloud based object storage platform and quickly switched focus to lead the virtualized compute team. I was responsible for the key architecture and.
• Defined the policies, procedures and software used to monitor the OpenStack platform and supporting services.
• Using Ansible and SaltStack develop tooling to manage the configuration and automation for services and platforms.
• Provided 24x7 tier 3 support for IaaS platform components, including full-time escalation point for OpenStack and Ceph.
• Mentor and lead internal teams to promote “Infrastructure as Code” and the use of API driven architecture platforms.

Chicago, IL, US

• At the University I successfully redesigned and centralized the monitoring, metering, and logging infrastructure using tools like Ansible, Nagios, Graphite, and ElasticSearch. While here I also championed the Hadoop.
• Supported production services for a 2,000+ member research community spread across the world.
• Responsible for the HPC batch scheduler (SLURM) and distributed file system (GPFS and Gluster.)
• Mentor colleagues and students to help improve their Linux and Open Source software skills.

Lemont, IL, US

• At Argonne I successfully launched their first production OpenStack platform. As the lead, and only OpenStack engineer, I was responsible for the entire lifecycle of the system. Prior to managing OpenStack I was a.
• Lead infrastructure engineer for a production 600+ node OpenStack cluster based on Diablo and Essex releases.
• Worked with development groups to migrate traditional HPC applications to cloud based services.
• Developed new tools and APIs that provide information into HPC system utilization, performance and capacity management.

US

• At Harpo I introduced new tools and procedures to automate and manage the configuration of their environment. The new tools and processes enabled us to deploy true production like development, staging and QA.
• Lead the design and implementation of the first configuration management platform using BCFG2.
• Responsible for the architecture and design of the base Linux configuration, Apache and Netscaler load balancers.
• As part of a small team we provided 24x7 support for the entire environment including systems, networking, storage, and java applications and servers.

Batavia, IL, US

• At Fermilab I was responsible for a cluster of systems that collected data from the collider. While here I streamlined the operating system provisioning process and successfully replaced all ad-hoc / manually managed.
• Responsible for the architecture and health of the critical data systems in the collision detector facility.
• Automated system installations using PXE boot, kickstarts, and local YUM mirrors.
• Primary support for NetApp and Nexsan storage platforms.
• As part of a team providing 24x7 support for 3000+ Linux servers and supporting services.

At VACS I led the professional services team that was focused on providing Unix and storage professional services to our customers. Working directly with the customers I would design, implement, and personally support long term hardware and software solutions.