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Denver, Co, Us

Managing Linux security and infrastructure globally. Emphasis on IAM, SSH key management and security architecture. Centralized key management, enhanced security and compliance, automated key lifecycle, integrated with critical IT infrastructure seamlessly, improved IAM with realtime monitoring and logging.

Centennial, Co, Us

Built the first, full-featured Observability Platform in AWS for all teams with Prometheus and Grafana. Allowing the entire organization to view, trend and resolve issues before they become problems. Automated with Terraform and Ansible.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Senior Cloud Ops Engineer building out resources in AWS and OCI using Terraform, Ansible and introducing structure to deployments for Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. Automating everything! Team Lead and mentor to two other DevOps Engineers. Subject matter expert on OCI features, troubleshooting and capabilities for the company. Including tagging, VPN, security lists, NSG, LBs, Policies, storage, compute, etc.

Short contract to build out Terraform modules for a large policies project. During this time I also completed my Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and Terraform Associate certifications.

Austin, Texas, Us

As a Senior Cloud Systems Engineer I work daily with Configuration Management tools like Puppet and Ansible. Creating projects and managing code repositories with Gitlab. Creating Gitlab runners to ensure quality, tested and functional code. Using Jenkins CI/CD to trigger jobs with packer for creating images with functional and integration testing. Working in an Agile environment automating configurations and building out infrastructure with Terraform in AWS and OCI. Building migration tools to assist with migrating from one cloud to another. Deploying apps in Kubernetes and Mesos clusters with docker including a provisioning system used across all business units.

Irving, Texas, Us

● Team leader for Service Delivery and DevOps automating builds and solutions since 2014● Puppet/Ansible architect and Git administrator● Work daily with PE, ruby, sourcetree, stash, bamboo, r10k and hiera● Migrating environments into AWS using EC2, S3, VPC, Docker, etc. ● Converting over 60 custom puppet modules to Ansible● Automating everything (literally)● Senior Linux admin and Solaris admin● Configured 8 cache only BIND 9 servers for award winning production application● DevOps engineer - fluent in Puppet Enterprise and Ansible core, git, hiera, stash, bamboo, ruby, sourcetree ● Continuous Integration with r10k, code manager, Bamboo● Wrote custom facts in Ruby. Fluent in Bash. Effective in Python ● Personally built over 1,700 web/database/hadoop/Cassandra/kafka servers (as of August 2016), using automated post-installation tasks● Built many load balanced systems for critical production SFTP/DNS/MTA applications● Wrote and edited server security configuration standards, complex build sheets, checklists and guides● Puppetized server security hardening (PCI/Sox compliant)● Created automated inventory collection and import into CMDB● Created automated security audit module in Puppet which checks 35 PCI configuration items

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

50% Developing automation tools in bash, perl, ruby and python 50% RHEL/CentOS Server Operations.Senior VMware AdminSplunk server builds, performance engineering, development, dashboard queries.Puppet development, automated syntax checking and Git/Subversion administration.Jenkins continuous integration job development.iSCSI configurations with HP/Lefthand P4500 Storage.Completed Introduction to Ruby and Ruby on Rails training.MySQL, nginx, kanbanpad, mongo, elastic search, wpmon, etc.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Consolidating data centers by building out a completely virtualized environment for a Fortune 500 company. Fully automating the build process from start to finish and audit compliant!Installing, configuring, upgrading existing equipment with IBM's full line of hardware. From tiered SAN storage (V7000, DS8800, and EMC), fabric, standard and distributed switches, physical hosts, virtual machines, clusters, clones and templates running on X-series, including HP Blade and Cisco UCS Blade (B-series) enclosures.Senior Linux Systems Engineer. Working primarily with RedHat v5, 6, OEL 6, SLES v11. Building/configuring VMs, patching, LVM, bonding network interfaces, setting kernel parameters for SAN performance and Security. Scripting automated solutions with bash, python and perl. Extensive experience with SteelEye LifeKeeper Linux Clusters.VMware Admin - utilizing profiles, auto deploy, etc. Building out fault tolerant, clustered, highly available VMs. Installing, configuring, upgrading vSphere ESX/ESXi v4 and 5 with a intense concentration on HA, FT, vMotion (including storage vMotion), DRS, Data Recovery, Storage I/O and Advanced settings. Also installing, upgrading and configuring vCenter (v5). Currently preparing for the VCP 5 exam. Cisco UCS Engineer. Optimizing the virtual infrastructure on Cisco B-series blade servers. Setting standards for the data center on Cisco's UCS platform. Configuring profiles, pools, networking and SAN fabric on the UCS.Personally built/upgraded and delivered over 60 projects in first 6 months.Built, upgraded, configured, documented hundreds of virtual and physical servers. Built and/or upgraded over 24 ESX/ESXi hosts on IBM System-X and HP/Cisco Blade servers over 4 month period.Was asked to become Team Leader in a high-pressure environment within first 4 months.

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Formally instructed sophomore and junior level courses in Computer Science. Developed curriculum, created syllabi and exams for courses such as SQL, System and Network Administration, Computer Forensics, Security Risk Management, Computer Networks and Communications, Vulnerability Assessment and Management.

Migrating to, supporting and maintaining an internal cloud solution with vSphere 5.0.Backup Oracle DBA supporting both 10g and 11g.Managing a highly customized Puppet setup for efficient Configuration Management.Managing Brocade 5x00 switches and a variety of SAN disk arrays. Proactive monitoring and automating resolutions with Nagios, Splunk and Tripwire.Evaluated and updated the department STIG for Mac OS X to include several optional but highly recommended configuration changes. Also evaluated/updated the department STIG for Linux (Red Hat and CentOS).

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

-Automated Solaris 10, OVM server and zones builds.-Automated RHEL and SUSE VM provisioning and post installation processing.-Developed Enterprise Cloud architecture and configruations on HP blades and Cisco UCS using IT PAM and VMware.-Implemented Oracle IDM and RAC.-Applied security to Cloud components.

Hanover, Md, Us

-Lead Administrator and Architect for High Availability on a project to stabilize, automate and virtualize the top 14 products for an International Information Resource company.-Set the standard for a Billion dollar company to virtualize, migrate and document P2V servers and applications into Logical Domains (Oracle VM server) and zones.-Automated installations, configurations, and security for servers located world-wide. Using flash archives for installation and recovery.-Lead Architect to design, test and implement the migration and consolidation effort on a enterprise level scale. -Aggressively resolved complex problems while maintaining strong communication channels with a world-wide team of experienced system administrators.

Glen Allen, Va, Us

- Supporting real-time sytems for numerous financial customers like Edward Jones. Providing critical support for securities industry software and other custom financial systems in a production environment. Helped the company to pass several ISO 27000 audits and assessments.- I’ve gained extensive knowledge in Hudson configurations, builds, installs, user mgt, administration, parameters and scripting, managed plugins. Hudson is a continuous integration tool written in Java, which runs in a servlet container, such as Apache Tomcat application server.- Weblogic v10: installed, configured, and maintained multiple (up to 20 instances on a single server) weblogic servers supported in a 99.995% uptime environment for many clients in financial brokerage firms and banks. - JBoss versions 4 and 5 administrator. Gained extensive knowledge with mod_jk while improving communication between JBoss and Apache. Also configured reverse proxies in Apache. - Part of a team to implement Web Authentication Methods (WAM) for Apache and JBoss using SiteMinder. Maintained Tricipher for unified authentication Identity and Access Management (IAM). Configured users managed policies and resolved problems. - Created the first virtualized environment with Xen v3.0.3 on RHEL 5.4. Created VMs for developers, applications and environments (prod, qa, dev, test). This greatly enhanced process isolation in a secure, self-contained application environment. Resource contention and system/environmental changes were nearly eliminated. Supported developers in Test, QA and Production environments. - Performed many routine and junior level tasks in Sybase ASE v15 in a production environment. Created user accounts, edited the interfaces file for new builds, stopped/started the DB, added table space, viewed stats, wrote scripts to automate tasks as needed.

Denver, Colorado, Us

- I managed a team of expert system administrators responsible for over 300 Unix/Linux enterprise-class, geographically dispersed servers, storage and appliances in a 24x7x365 production environment. I have managed IT professionals for 8 years. During this time I managed production Database Administrators, Network Engineers and Operations in addition to Unix Support. In all I directly supervised over 15 IT professionals I have written employee evaluations, managed a multi-million dollar budget and had full accountability for all data center assets and equipment. - Virtualized our medium-sized data center. Including Solaris LDOMs and zones, VMware ESX/ESXi v3.5 and 4. - RedHat Linux and Solaris expert system engineer. - Managed all aspects of administration and inventory for over 300 physical and virtual servers.- I managed vendor relations for many years while at CU. I was responsible for negotiating and renegotiating contracts for over 2 million dollars in hardware and over a million dollars in software. I did all this while saving the University over 1.5 million dollars over the years as manager for system contracts.- Storage Specialist - I have several years experience multi-pathing iSCSI and Fiber connections to a Compellent SAN and managing NAS (openfiler). I manage over 150TB of data on new and existing hardware. - Security Practioner. Of the ten CISSP domains in the Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) I have hands-on experience building, configuring and maintaining security in five out of ten domains. - I have over five years of disaster recovery and business continuity experience. I have led a team of administrators through numerous disaster recovery tests over the past five years.- I was the lead administrator for several domain DNS/DHCP servers. Built for reliability, and security. I have worked closely with BIND since 2001. I have performed numerous successful upgrades. - Worked closely with developers across the entire SDLC.

Front Range, Colorado, Us

I instructed “CIS 220 Fundamentals of UNIX” at Front Range Community College in Westminster for several semesters. As a part-time adjunct faculty member I instructed a very diverse student base to navigate a UNIX file system and gain fluency in command-line utilities, editing key system files, and reading system log files, as well as be able to debug problems with these tools. I instructed students to be proficient in networking, security concepts and ethics, such as: OSI model network layers; SSL; SSH; DNS; and FTP. And to understand essential system and network services and concepts with practical application.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Managed every aspect of ~110 Enterprise Sun Servers. Including storage, file systems, patching, troubleshooting, maintenance, clustering systems, installation, configuration and security via OS hardening and Log management.

Denver, Co, Us

UNIX Operating System Instructor. From dual boot installation to the vmstat command. Taught fundamentals of UNIX file structure, commands, troubleshooting, monitoring, crontab, mail, fsck, shell scripting and user account maintenance to students who were new to computers and UNIX.

Installed, maintained and supported over 40 production HP-UX hosts for Pay Per View! Managed storage arrays, DNS and ID Management and Authentication systems for Single Sign On.

Support a reporting tool that worked with any database management system. Supported users through installation, configuration and troubleshooting.

Master Of Telecommunications (Mtel), Emphasis In Data Communications

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Information Systems

Associates In Applied Science, Information Management

Course Completed, Certified Kubernetes Administrator Course