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St. Louis, MO, US

• Coordinated with globally distributed internal teams and customer Systems Engineer/SRE teams to support big data analytics solution installed in customer's environments. The customer-facing role required collaborating.
• Collaborated closely with customer Systems Engineers and SREs to conduct thorough investigations using the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process, promptly identifying and resolving issues or escalating them to R&D for.
• Coordinated with R&D and DevOps to drive field-experienced deployment improvements with a customer-centric approach. Improvements pre-validated the environment before deployment and code tuning to optimize the.
• Designed and implemented highly effective customizations for various SaaS solutions, including LogicMonitor, Coralogix, and BlinkOps, to optimize monitoring capabilities and automate remediation processes. Leveraged.
• Mentored, trained, and provided ongoing support to a team of skilled Support Engineers, facilitating their professional growth and enhancing their technical expertise. Fostered a collaborative and knowledge-sharing.

Austin, Texas, US

NI (National Instruments) is now part of Emersonhttps://www.emerson.com/en-us/news/2023/emerson-completes-ni-acquisition

Holon, IL

OptimalPlus is now NIhttps://www.ni.com/en-us/about-ni/newsroom/news-releases/ni-completes-acquisition-of-optimalplus.html

Denver, Colorado, US

• Provided Linux system engineering support, including virtualization, containerization, and two-factor authentication. Supported PaaS platform (ASP and tenant environments), including Windows/Active Directory.
• Re-architected tenant environment, fixing networking and security issues, hardening Red Hat (STIGs), and puppet modules for systems management. Automated deployment of Red Hat systems with services including Identity.
• Implemented RSA Authentication Manager (AM) for the Red Hat and Solaris tenant environment. Integrated RSA AM with Red Hat IdM. Created PowerShell scripts to automate deployment and bash scripts to automate agent.
• Supported PaaS environment, including VMware vCenter & ESXi; Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI); Windows Active Directory, WSUS, and GPO; Veeam backup; McAfee ePO (HBSS); and Tenable Assured Compliance.

Boulder, CO, US

• Provided Linux, Windows/Active Directory, virtualization & cloud, and DevOps technical support. Contribute to information systems and infrastructure design. Delivered subject matter expertise on infrastructure and.
• Managed VMware for corporate, development, and production clusters. Automated ESXi installation (pxeboot & kickstart); wrote PowerShell for vCenter & ESXi configuration; leveraged PowerShell & host profiles to ensure.
• Managed data center, systems, and storage; handled systems procurement, provisioning, re-provisioning, and decommissioning; managed documentation and diagrams. Collaborated with networking and security teams to.
• Automated systems management and provisioning. Implemented a Satellite server (Foreman+Katello), which handled systems provisioning for bare metal installation as well as ESXi and OpenStack compute environments..

Boulder, CO, US

• Managed corporate application servers providing diagnostic support, systems management, updates, and bug fixes. Diagnosed bugs in the environment (OS+java) and corrected them. Improved application stability, security.
• Coordinated with the Business Development team for workflows and created PowerShell scripts for user management (on-boarding and off-boarding). Created PowerShell scripts to synchronize user attributes between the HRMS.
• Supported Security and Desktop Support teams for endpoint management, including Altiris and JAMF. Created custom scripts for systems management (MacOS LAPS) for better-securing workstations.
• Supported the company's on-prem and cloud infrastructure utilizing Windows Server 2016 & 2019, Active Directory, GPO, WSUS, Azure, Office 365, and Azure DevOps (VSTS). Rectified systems and provisioning problems.
• Supported infrastructure and application monitoring systems, including SolarWinds and CheckMK. Managed and honed configuration to better reporting system downtime and outages.
• Assisted OpenStack deployments (Rocky containerized). Automated Red Hat installation, configuration, preparation of Docker 1.18, and modification to the ansible deployment scripts to fit this environment.

Alexandria, Virginia, US

• Designed, administered, and maintained multiple IT systems, servers, and software. Responsibilities included maintaining systems functionality, availability, security, and performance, as well as scheduling, planning.
• Administered high-performance computing (HPC) systems and clusters; including Cray, HPE, Dell EMC, and IBM. Built GPU compute cluster, including installation, configuration, and management of RHEL7, slurm, cuda, cudnn.
• Implemented Ansible which reduced manual systems management processes by over 90%. ITIL change management and implementation was streamlined by new processes providing up to 80% faster delivery of systems and products.
• Managed and migrated VMware infrastructure to 6.5. Installed, configured, and handled virtualization assets including vCenter, ESXi, dev & prod clusters, Horizon 7.4 (VDI) with nVidia GRID for both Red Hat and Windows.
• Led systems management; integrated systems management with CMDB and Ansible. This reduced errors in assets management from 3% to 0%, increased systems reliability and up-time and provided faster delivery of systems.
• Trained and onboarded new employees; set goals and worked toward achieving them by mentoring and supporting. The process resulted in an increase of new employee's productivity by better acclimation to the system and.

Alexandria, Virginia, US

• Headed migration to RHEL7, designed and automated installation with PXE boot, kickstart, scripting, and custom systemd services. Project included workstations, application servers, and compute servers. Systems PXE.
• Launched Docker environment, which aided research & development efforts as well as provided collaborative environments with data compartmentalization. Project included IP assignments, nginx reverse proxy, and PKI.
• Managed software stack, including 20+ commercial binaries and 50+ open-source. Open source software was compiled from source code, maintaining multiple versions to support research and development. Developed an.
• Integrated ITSM:CMDB with other management systems and synchronized to infrastructure servers. This reduced errors in infrastructure and assets management from 3% to 0% while increased systems reliability and up-time.
• Managed web servers. Refactored Perl scripts adding new capabilities and removing errors. Programmed PHP HTML5 video streaming for mp4/vp9 video content. Scripts checked PKI to ensure data streams were protected to.
• Coordinated migration to Windows 10. Managed Active Directory Administrative Templates (admx), Configured Group Policy Objects (GPO). Created PowerShell scripts for systems management and software installation.

San Diego, CA, US

• Managed full scope of web and IT operations for 3 century old print and online publication covering Southern California business news, data, and events. Collaborated with sales & marketing, editorial, and circulation.
• Re-engineered technology infrastructure and consolidated 24 servers to 6 via virtualization to support growth, redundancy, advanced security, network monitoring, and increased operational efficiencies. Delivered more.
• Created custom web applications to work in conjunction with intrusion prevention system to effectively deter ongoing brute force attacks and hacking attempts.
• Identified and provided strategic direction in improved business models, including subscription models and data packaging. New product lines contributed more than 25% in additional annual revenue despite the market.
• Executed successful, responsive site redesign with an emphasis on seamless secure user experience and content accessibility across multiple devices.
• Spearheaded the formation of the technical support and helpdesk team with emphasis on efficiency and a proactive "above and beyond" service orientation.

San Diego, CA, US

• Interfaced with the publisher, sales and marketing, editorial staff to develop direction, strategy, and priority to facilitate the delivery of the website, data products and other services. Oversaw CMS and eCommerce.
• Designed custom simultaneous print/online content management, administration, and data delivery systems boosting company-wide productivity by 300%.
• Organized ongoing in-house development of several highly specialized web-based applications versus vendor outsourcing resulting in $300,000 in annual savings.
• Led migration of over 100,000 web pages into a custom built CMS allowing for more intuitive editing and data entry by non-technical staff, reducing help requests by over 95%.
• Built and refined custom search engine utilizing Verity, SoundEx, and language stemming, which improved the quality of search results for avid readers and the search speed by 400%.
• Established first intranet centralizing content, web-based applications, and employee portal improving company-wide communication and productivity.