Network Field EngineerCompleted an AT&T contract as a Field Engineer installing Cradlepoint E3000 routers for the LA Voting Centers. deploying to 7 voting centers in my area.DevOps ServicesSupport Partners DevOps contractor: supplying DevOps services for Media and Entertainment clients.

As a Sr. DevOps Engineer for the Pennymac DevOps group I designed and delivered multiple AWS cloud projects including Serverless, AWS EKS Kubernetes, Docker container builds and deployments as well as classic AWS EC2 load balances high availability systems.

Sr. DevOps Engineer for the Platform Engineering team This team designs and deploys a large docker container micro service system for the Deluxe One product. Four environments are built and maintained with Hashicorp Terraform in AWS. This system allows the developers to build and deploy hundreds of micro-service docker containers automatically across the Hashicorp Consul, Vault and Nomad infrastructure in AWS. This infrastructure is economically able to support development and production systems with AWS spot instances.

Senior DevOps Engineer at Warner Brothers Technical Services. I designed and deployed infrastructure for many WB applications. The WB Technology team is a lot of fun. I competed in the 2017 Hackathon.Screeners, screeners.warnerbros.com - I redesigned Warner Bro's secure streaming (SVOD) and offline playback platform. The automated infrastructure as code delivered a brand new application end-to-end. The React Native codebase delivered encrypted DRM'd (Widevine, HLS, DASH), forensically watermarked content to the Screeners iOS, Android, AppleTV, Web and Electron-based offline playback manager in less than 6 months. The secure VPC infrastructure build was automated with terraform and deployments were automated with AWS Codedeploy in Jenkins.WB Television Distribution wbtvd.com - The legacy WB Television Distribution website was redesigned and migrated from a data center to a dedicated AWS account. Multiple environments for development stage and production were built with terraform automation. The infrastructure as code was automated to allow for infrastructure updates and migrations with zero downtime.

Taos Mountain consulting with a great team at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

DevOps at Palerra building the Loric Platform:Palerra has released its cloud security platform, LORIC. Using LORIC, enterprises can now benefit from the only solution to automate security configuration management, threat detection, predictive analytics and incident response for their entire cloud footprint. This single, powerful platform delivers comprehensive visibility and ensures continuous compliance, while dramatically reducing costs and manual errors through built-in automation.First Operations engineer for Palerra (formerly known as Apprity) employee #7. Worked with founders and team to design and deploy the Palarra application infrastructure in AWS cloud using Puppet, AWS CloudFormation and Python scripting. We Started with daily 'onebox' builds in AWS and progressed to fully secure VPC topology with high availability across AWS zones. Then Palerra transitioned from Puppet to Ansible playbooks as well as Docker and CoreOs. The Palerra application containers are deployed across a CoreOs cluster. Cassandra NoSql, Spark Analytics and Solr search cluster builds are also automated with Ansible. The configuration management code is maintained in git and integrated with Jenkins for fully automated build and deployment.

Operations Engineer for Taulia's cloud-based invoice, payment and dynamic discounting management solution.

Unix Systems DevOps Consultant at Taos Automated Deployment of Intuit's mint.com Stack in Amazon Web Services using CloudFormation, EC2, AWS cli tools as well as Python boto module scripting. And Saltstack configuration managementDeveloped configuration management templates and state management using SaltStack and jinja templates for multiple environments including KVM/QEMU Private Cloud and AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) in multiple regions and availability zones. Produced solutions for sensitive data and enhanced security for applications in the cloud. Including file system encryption, Apache mod_security & mod_qos, key management, in-memory file system for sensitive dataSetup Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment for DevOps CI/CD deployment to AWS with Jenkins.

Developed a Python alert script for the Qwest Cloud Computing project Configured Splunk to monitor SNMP trap log and trigger a real time alert Python script. The snmp_trap.py script then interrogated the Splunk data store via the RESTful interface , parsed the XML result, formatted each trap message and sent it to legacy monitoring system. This allowed for the timely integration of the new monitoring system with the existing BMC Patrol infrastructure.Led the Qwest Lab Automation project connecting Qwest IP certification labs at multiple sites. Managed offshore development of Lab Topology and Configuration Management System (LTCMS) lab scheduling and topology configuration application with HP Network Automation back end. The LTCMS as part of the Lab Virtualization project provided cost effective utilization of lab resources across the country. Technical lead on the VoIP CPE Management system. Managed the weekly status meeting and coded the required software changes for extensive line of equipment and VoIP product features. Implemented changes supporting an aggressive product rollout schedule including adding additional Customer Premises Equipment, emergency fixes, upgrades, and adding new features. Helped retain important Qwest customers as well as developed new revenue enhancing products.Designed, developed and deployed a distributed anycast DNS monitoring system utilizing FreeBSD, Ganglia and anycast capacity planning web reporting with perl, Apache, AJAX and Postgres. The DNS Monitoring and Performance System (DMPS) allowed Qwest to cost effectively target system upgrades while maintaining high performance and availability of the DNS infrastructure.Developed the Accounting and configuration management for Qwest's RADIUS AAA 12 proxy and redundant 6 server back office system. Automated the RADIUS proxy configuration and RADIUS accounting CDR billing data collection utilizing freeradius, Oracle database, high performance C IP protocol daemon, and perl.

Developed router SNMP agent enterprise MIB integrating net-snmp with C++ based IOS as part of the distributed router software development team.Evaluated Element Management System (EMS) vendors for inclusion in the router product.

Worldcom – Sr. Software EngineerDeveloped VoIP ETL and data mining tools while employed in Vint Cerf's group. UUNET – Software EngineerDeveloped the Dial Access Network (DAN) management system for Ascend MAX NAS and designed the 3rd Normal Form network schema using Sybase. The "Config-App" GUI and dynamic SQL software allowed for the rapid build out of the UUNET DAN product. The rapid expansion of the DAN network from several hundred thousand to millions of ports was a major contributor to UUNET's profits.

Designed, configured and tested automation solutions for Niro customers.

Designed, configured and installed automation solutions for a variety of clients such as Perdue, Merck and Nanodyne Inc.

TI (formerly Rexnord Automation) – Proposal manager and inside sales for S3 SCADA and DS3 Distributed Control System. Proposals resulted in over 2M in sales.