Helping Avidxchange navigate their cloud-native journey.

Manage DevOps team responsible for providing CI/CD and PaaS to our development teams. Technological oversight includes Kubernetes environments, Jenkins pipelines, Atlassian Stack, Salt Stack and Rancher.

Serve role of a technical manager responsible for a 10 person team with a global company presence (over 50 world wide sites). Team responsibilities include custom application integration and support, Microsoft Windows server administration, Linux server administration, and procurement, management and capacity planning for VMWare virtualization platform, compute infrastructure, storage infrastructure and backup infrastructure. Also responsible for monitoring and alerting. Work with senior leadership and vendors on capacity planning , budgeting and purchasing.Team Projects Included: Replacement of global storage solution, replacement of 80% of global corporate compute resources, replacement of global backup solution. Quadrupled production compute capacity. Scaled from 400 to 650 virtual servers. Update Windows Server environment to 2012. Implement configuration management for MS Windows and Linux servers. Implementation of new Microsoft Exchange and AD for China. Implementation of identity management solution (Okta).

Architect the network, system and storage technologies across cloud service offerings. Work with procurement team on capacity planning and new hardware technologies. Design and deploy VMWare environments. Manage and scale Network Appliance storage devices. Design private cloud solutions for large customers. Work with engineering to address operational deficiencies in services and infrastructure. Write helper code as necessary. Monitor system performance and make recommendations on capacity and functional changes.

Manage network infrastructure and servers for hosted retail point of sale solutions. Work with Cisco routing, switching, WI-FI and security devices. Configure and maintain NetApp, VMWare, RHEL 5 and Windows. Work directly with customers on IPSec VPN mesh network infrastructure.

Work on Roles Based authentication schema and management tools for over 180 distributed global sites. Coordinate security directives on standardization, policy, procedures and management. Implement and manage identity management, firewall and intrusion detection tools.

Responsibilities include design, procurement, implementation and management of all aspects of production, QA and development environments. Setup and maintain production network, systems and security. Identify and eliminate any singe points of failure across services. Setup and maintain enterprise monitoring. Setup and maintain rapid server deployment with PXE and kickstart. Develop multiple environment repositories for promotion of new code from dev to production. Maintain continuous integration environment. Develop puppet infrastructure and scripts for server automation. Create hub and spoke VPN for WAN connectivity from remote sites to the main production hub. Implement change control. Consolidate logging and log reporting. Leverage Amazon EC2 cloud for data center geographical redundancy & disaster recovery.

Manage technical operations employees for the Web Services division of United Online. Work with management team to set division priorities and strategies. Responsible for 24x7 oversight of several Internet properties including MySite.com, FreeServers.com, GlobalServers.com and Namesdatabase.com. Identify and eliminate any single points of failure across product technologies. Create and implement disaster recovery plans and procedures. Responsible for managing projects for my team as well as other teams as required accomplishing division objectives. Serve as principal systems architect for the systems and services that comprise the properties of the Web Services division. Manage presences in 4 remote data centers and relationships with remote employees across the US. Budget for growth of all Internet properties as well as the division.

Set direction for network, system and application security architecture. Provide project management for the implementation of security and systems related projects. Design security conscious networking, and application infrastructure. Draft security “Policies and Procedures” documents for approval by state appointed committees. Engineer and document network, system and host based security templates. Implement and provide security patches and packages to systems groups for deployment onto production resources. Provide architectural direction for and assist with implementation of multi-tier applications and complex system architecture. Manage network devices including PIX Firewalls, Cisco IDS, Snort IDS, Cisco VPN, Cisco switches and routers.

Work on design of a cloud CRM solution using a service oriented application environment. Responsibilities included design and implementation of applications, systems, networking, security, scaling and redundancy.

Work closely with the senior staff on design of software, systems and network architectures. Provide a leadership role in directing the implementation of software, systems and network projects. Managed systems engineers and system administrators for EBA division. Managed multiple teams and projects company wide. Act as mentor for system and network administrators. Provide engineering level support on applications, network and servers. Implement security and intruder detection infrastructure. Architect and implement highly available multi-tier server/service clusters. Provide technical details and documentation for marketing and sales staff. Act as technical advisor for third party integration. Facilitate communication and cooperation between operations and development.

Managed systems and database operational staff. Managed the scaling of the server and workstation resources by 500%. Designed, implemented and administered Internet and Intranet services including mail, DNS, WWW, full news feed (nntp), anonymous ftp and network monitoring. Improved data reliability by moving to redundant storage solutions and clustered services. Implemented backup strategy providing on-site and off-site solutions for critical data. Maintained a capital budget of over one million dollars.

Developed real time software applications for controlling robotic warehouse management equipment. Maintained existing customer software systems by providing 24x7 phone and on-site support. Ported systems software between different variants of UNIX including AIX, HPUX, SCO, UnixWare and SunOS. Setup and designed Internet services including WWW, mail and DNS. Administered UNIX servers and workstations.