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Burbank, California, United States

Burbank, CA, US

Burbank, CA, US

Staffed out a brand new team providing 24/7 network escalation and incident resolution to Walt Disney Studios as a "Staff Lead" and then Manager.Given a customer-facing network support team in August 2022, currently working to integrate the NOC and Support teams into smoothly functioning unit encompassing all areas of network incident response and support.

Burbank, CA, US

• Earned Disney Inventor Award in October 2021
• Championed escalation support by participating in on-call rotation with Network Reliability and Implementation team
• Integrated automation tools from previous position into current team’s Ansible Tower infrastructure.
• Architected the Motion Pictures Production Avid Editorial in the Cloud project in collaboration with Avid and Microsoft – ExpressRoutes, VNET Peerings, and IPSec mesh, techniques for network throughput and performance.
• Slashed 30 engineer hours per show by developing Ansible Tower automation for three multi-tenant sites, allowing team to meet challenging deadlines and support 7x increase in content production for 2021
• Resolved continual outages caused by G.ARP issue Dell EMC Isilon network stack, which previously created interoperability issues with Juniper EVPN RPD that cost three months of deliveries

Burbank, CA, US

• Delivered 15+ reliable and secure networks for film production sites on time. Evaluated new software and hardware technologies for network automation as well as logging and monitoring platforms.
• Deployed ~30 IPSec tunnels between Azure, AWS, Palo Alto, and Meraki devices with BGP routing
• Developed network and subnet design web-based automation software in Python capable of using flexible starting parameters to produce deliverables, such as subnets, VLAN numbers, and device IP assignments to engineering.
• Built Mac and Windows GUI software with Python 2.7 and 3.x compatibility to automate production workflows for VFX and camera shot ingest, saving hundreds of labor hours
• Mentored and trained two engineers on networking, automation, and coding best practices
• Set up BGP routing between Cloud and On-Prem and between L3 Firewalls and Core SwitchesEvaluated new software and hardware technologies for network automation (Ansible, Terraform), as well as logging and monitoring.

London, GB

• Managed domestic networking requests to design and implement customer both MPLS and BGP solutions at Internet Exchanges; partnered with large-scale companies, including Apple, Google, and Amazon
• Assembled MPLS solutions for L3VPN, VLL/EoMPLS/VPWS/pseudowire, and VPLS/l2vpns to match global and Metro Ethernet service provider needs
• Executed and maintained CWDM/DWDM, wavelength physical infrastructure, and logical circuits across four continents and dozens of POPs
• Deployed firewalls and SSLVPNs between Palo Alto, Juniper SRX, Netscreen SSG, and Fortinet FortiGate
• Spearheaded testing interoperability of Juniper and Brocade devices for core and aggregation use
• Worked on and set costs for a large OSPF-based network with thousands of routes

• Optimized network routing by deploying OSPF to reduce labor hours previously involved in static routing. Negotiated contracts with internet service providers, resulting in lower costs
• Decreased telephone costs by 50% by switching from traditional PRI-based phone system to VoIP
• Boosted network reliability to 99.99% in utilizing fully redundant Cisco architecture; improved voice-call quality through QoS with LLQ with DSCP tagging from Cisco-compatible phones and catalyst switches
• Championed Windows Domain and Active Directory administration, tightened security, deployed group policies (GPOs) and implemented folder redirection backed by Samba/CIFS on Ubuntu file servers to allow agents to easily.
• Deployed OpenStack for the company's internal software development and services. Backed by a Ceph (RBD/RADOS) storage cluster
• Replaced backup system for servers and desktops that was originally set up for daily operation, but had never managed to back up more than 50% of the network in a week with a system that backs up 100% of all files and.

• Oversaw vendor management and procurement by building relationships with sales representatives and manufacturers
• Supervised 10-person team of retail employees during operations. Achieved tenfold increase in revenue over six years
• Other responsibilities included purchasing, setting up sales flow and POS systems, and because I couldn't help it: managing the website on an Amazon AWS system with automatic provisioning

• Directed independent contractors, including photographers, image editors, hair/makeup/wardrobe stylists, and assistants
• Managed AWS infrastructure and full-stack development to deliver terabytes of pictures to clients and editors
• Earned 2014 Silver Award of Excellence from Wedding & Portrait Photographers International
• Became an international award-winning Wedding and Portrait photographer who also specialized in in boudoir and bodyscapes

• Small business consulting, remote network management, web development, IT outsourcing. Specialized in Ubiquity wireless networking hardware.
• Led 6-person team of network, systems, and support engineers while working in a mostly remote environment.
• Increased volunteer support for NGOs by deploying Wi-Fi between campuses and dorms in Tanzania, East Africa.
• Maximized employee capabilities and reduced costs by deploying VoIP phone system to allow call center employees to work from home

Systems administration for sites primarily backed by the Zope framework. Also did extensive work translating graphic designer's mock-ups into working websites backed by a CMS. Learned a lot of CSS.

The entire IT department of a small company looking to expand from installing phone systems to providing city-wide Wi-Fi. The company also dabbled in providing any service that any company might want involving computers.Responsibilities included, but were certainly not limited to:Software development in Perl, Python, and C. Systems administration for.

5 of us started a tech company, because that's what you did in the late '90s DotCom Boom.Managed servers and networks for a company that provided shared and dedicated web hosting to businesses.

Systems administration and software development on RedHat Linux and Windows NT for PowerSurge Technologies and what became FastServers.net.