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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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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