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Herndon, Virginia, United States

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

► Analyze cloud cost and usage data to develop strategies for optimization.► Optimization of cost and application performance/usage of resources.► Develop automation to reduce cost and optimize resource usage.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Transitioned to Foundational Infrastructure Automation Team in support of the enterprise cloud initiative. Supporting business units with migration of applications to the AWS cloud environment.► Review/Add/Modify NACL and Security Group changes as needed for business functionalityInitiated NACL Review project to condense and consolidate NACL rules.► Working with team to implement a firewall solution within AWS providing inspection and finer grained traffic rules.► Worked within team to design and implement pDMZ (Partner DMZ) cloud environment to securely provide data exchange services to external partners.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

► Designed and implemented automated Docker container base image build system providing the base image company wide for all business and application teams.► Designed and implemented SSH.com Universal Key Manager to inventory and manage ssh keys across the enterprise.► Lead HPC/Grid Engineer for the Fannie Mae Enterprise Grid and SAS Grid infrastructure. Interaction with internal technical teams, business unit management and development staff on a regular basis.► Designed and implemented SAS Analytical Grid increasing efficiency, performance and lowering costs► Designed and implemented DDN GridScaler utilizing IBM GPFS and Mellanox Infiniband supporting SAS Grid environment

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Sales Engineer working with existing and new IBM Platform Symphony customers.- Creating and presenting presentations to technical and executive staff.- Working with technical and business staff to understand their environments and applications to provide technical guidance for improvements or enhancements.- Helping create sales proposals

Vienna, Virginia, Us

As a Sr. Technical Architect I work with various clients on various projects ranging from new infrastructure design/deployment to HPC/Grid/Cloud projects. Project: Fannie MaeFannie Mae has a very aggressive and interesting project utilizing VMware tools (vcac, appd, vco) to provide end-to-end automation of lower environments for full app development and testing. This project was a short term project for me but it was interesting. The VMware suite of tools was very capable and powerful beyond virtual machines with the use of Puppet.Technologies Summary:* vCloud Automation Center* vFabric Application Director* vCloud Orchestrator* Bash Shell Scripting* Automating the installation and deployment of several open source apps (apache, tcserver, jenkins)* Automating the installation of COTS software (Oracle DB, Oracle Client, internal apps)Project: Morgan StanleyCurrently providing support and development to further stabilize and optimize their internal Grid Computing Environment.Tasks:• Tools development for various purposes• Operational support tools• Automation tools• Languages used: Bash, Python, Perl, Java• Escalation point for support when SLA's are closing or the issue can't be resolved• Provided multiple internal training sessions on the grid product in use• Technical Lead for Grid Redesign• Technical Lead for POC with Amazon on using EC2 for Grid computing

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

As a Sr. Technical Consultant I’m sent to various customer sites to perform various degrees of work. Professional Services:• Site reviews and design/architecture projects• Pre/Post Production Support• Site Audit for performance and stability improvements• Assistance to the sales team for advanced technical issues• Global and remote services to numerous customersTraining Services:• Training material review• Content development• Training delivery to customers on-site and remote through virtual classroomsPlatform Technologies:• Platform Symphony• Platform LSF• Platform ISF (Infrastrustrue Sharing Facility ie cloud)• Platform MapReduce (hadoop)• Platform Analytics• Platform RTM• Platform HPC Suite

Bethesda, Md, Us

Contract position with NIH as a Linux engineer for their HPC environment.Achievements:• Deployed Puppet for systems management• Deployed Zenoss for systems monitoring• Performed POC for Linux to AD Authentication

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Recently transferred to the Technology Infrastructure Solutions Delivery organization. I have been placed as the Senior Solutions Architect to continue working on the Enterprise Grid design and implementation.Working within the Technology Infrastructure and Operations (TIO) group I performed many duties including systems administration, engineering and architectural design.Achievements:• Lead Architect for the Enterprise Grid Computing project• Lead Architect for the Enterprise Automation Project• Lead Linux Engineer• Worked on the enterprise virtualization project• Secondary engineer for deploying Kerberos• Primary IBM xSeries specialist• Designed network based firmware update system• Deployed cfengine for the HPC environment• Authored many documents and procedures around Linux administration• Developed many scripts for Linux administration

Washington, Dc, Us

Contractor for Department of LaborPrimary duties included incident handling and security related tasks for the Office of Workforce Security (Previously Department of Unemployment). Work was performed for the primary systems located in DC as well as the systems located in the state offices.• Deployed a distributed Snort Intrusion Detection System• Configured Sun BSM• Deployed Tripwire• Created a centralized monitoring system using syslog• Deployed swatch to gather and send alerts based on pattern matches• Deployed Nessus to perform weekly audits and generate vulnerability dashboard• Created custom Solaris Jumpstart• Deployed an Enterprise Backup Solution (Veritas Netbackup)• Configured and maintained NetAPP NFS solution• Centralized authentication through LDAP

Washington, Dc, Us

Sr. Systems Engineer employed by DRC on site and working for The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)Supervised and worked within a team of individuals providing 24/7 operational support of the production Solaris servers. Servers ranged from apache, tomcat, oracle DB, mail and other custom applications. Servers provided functions internally for NARA as well as serving the general public and historical researchers.Achievements:• Designed and implemented a custom jumpstart solution• Migrated NARA systems from telnet to SSH• Reviewed security events and documentation with the NARA security staff• Re-designed the web server infrastructure to provide redundancy and improved performance through load balancing and replication• Worked with a team to evaluate and deploy an enterprise monitoring solution• Deployed a central Out Of Band (OOB) Console network• Designed and deployed an enterprise backup solution using Veritas NetBackup• Deployed a centralized RedHat kickstart solution• Built and tested an Oracle 10 Grid

Worked within a team providing level three support for production servers. Duties included diagnostics of systems and implementing corrective actions. • Interfacing with support staff and clients to determine problems.• Working with clients and sales staff for development of proper architectures.• Working with the engineering group on developing new products and debugging existing ones.Achievements:• Worked with engineering to debug and finalize the Linux solution• Prototyped the use of OpenMosix for HPC product solution• Prototyped Sun Grid Engine for HPC product solution• Developed LDAP authentication solution for a large client• Developed Apache web server product offering• Wrote numerous documentation and procedures

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Worked within a small team responsible for the development of the UPS.com website. Typical duties included but were not limited to deploying java applications, troubleshooting deployments and documenting and writing installation guides.Achievements:• Deployed a custom Solaris Jumpstart solution

Systems Operations Lead for a startup E-Mail Service Provider. Broadword Communications provided a carrier grade e-mail solution for B2B applications and corporate environments.Achievements:• Built the enterprise DNS systems• Helped design and build the e-mail infrastructure• Configured and deployed Cisco PIX firewalls• Configured and deployed HP OpenView• Configured and deployed HP Service Desk

Milpitas, Ca, Us

Worked on the 3rd shift as part of the operations team for SGI's productions systems. Primary duties were monitoring the systems and taking corrective actions when faults occurred.

Malsch / Heidelberg, De

Duties included monitoring and maintenance of the internal servers and help desk activities. I was the primary point of contact for the Windows NT servers and Solaris server. There was the PDC/BD and multiple file/print servers and specialized application servers. Along with the server administartion duties I answered help desk ticket requests and worked with outside vendors on production solutions and with partner companies on information sharing now known as B2B.Achievements:• Deployed Thin-Client solution with Windows Terminal Server• Migrated form Novell to a pure Windows NT environment• Deployed Novell ZenWorks

Denver, Co, Us

Worked as the nightUnix instructor. Class syllabus included the following• Installation• User management• Printer management• Web technologies (Apache, CGI, Security)• Mail (Sendmail)• Practical Unix securityAchievements:• Re-designed the Unix curriculum

Single admin for internal business systems and primary contact with clients and vendors. Working closely with clients I was involved in school lab designs and planning. Performed training seminars to instructors from private college clients. Performed on-site installations and troubleshooting of systems that were deployed on-campus.Achievements:• Increased company review through new contracts• Expanded company solutions with the addition of a consulting division• Entered CompTIA Corporate membership

Duties ranged from daily management functions of the Windows and Linux servers for user administration and system upgrades. NorthState.Net was a small ISP with a total staff of four people with approximately 300 users. Customer support on-site and by phone-mail were required for new and existing clients.

Was the owner/operator (sysop) of a public dial-up Bulletin Board System (BBS) in Redding CA. During this time I worked with many other sysops in the area and helped them with setting up their own BBS's and with another Sysop we created AlterNet which was an early BBS networking system to allow BBS messages and mail to be transferred and synchronized between different BBS's. This was pre wide spread internet and all communications were dial-up. I closed the system down after internet access became more popular and Forums have since replaced the old BBS.