John Shearer Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Davis, California, Us

Davis, California, Us

Brought into an expanding startup to cultivate DevOps processes and services infrastructure that can scale.

Tampa, Florida, Us

Brought in by my former manager to help build a company to provide real-time big data analytics ● Created and deployed a low-cost big data analytics proof-of-concept platform for demonstrating application performance and scalability ● Established automated host configuration procedures for hybrid physical / cloud computing environment ● Built and implemented officeless network architecture to facilitate remote development, multi-site distributed infrastructure, and provide secure public access to applications ● Extracted and parsed 1 billion data points from JSON structures in Hadoop files for product demonstration

San Francisco, California, Us

● Cut IT operating expense budget by 30% without sacrificing service by identifying and dropping unnecessary expenses ● Drafted and negotiated operations procedures and workflow across horizontal and vertical roles to give executive visibility into outages and streamline their resolutions, reducing downtime and improving management confidence in operations ● Spearheaded SAN and private cloud virtualization deployment to reduce capital expenses, operating costs, and business risks● Redesigned network architecture to improve security and facilitate automated software deployment● Worked with division managers to justify headcount in critical areas, recruit top candidates, and help them take ownership of their knowledge domains● Lead project to consolidate multiple application service platforms and configurations to a single, horizontally scalable single configuration platform to retire legacy hardware, eliminate legacy operating systems, improve reliability, and simplify administration

Portland, Or, Us

Reporting primarily to CxO transforming a startup culture reactive IT group into an efficient, high-performing, scalable, proactive organization by managing team of System/Network/Database Administrators and back-office/desktop support specialists to deliver both customer/partner-facing and internal corporate services for a SaaS & retail provider of online media merchant facilitation ● Introduced the first change management process to the organization to improve service availability without hampering speed to market ● Established structure and procedures in automated monitoring to ensure 100% baseline consistency on new systems & databases ● In-sourced IT operations to create manageable, reliable customer-facing services ● Led cross-functional teams to resolve business-critical problems that seemed unsolvable ● Re-engineered a WAN & VoIP solution and led implementation project, saving 20% of the original budget ● Arranged operations workflow and on-call services to accommodate legacy support structures while providing 99.5% operational responsiveness ● Analyzed business impact of service incidents and communicated results back to the management team to provide visibility and clarity

Managed developers, built data center infrastructure, managed reseller relationships, and guided product direction for a SaaS-based Email security & archival platform ● Implemented infrastructure and operational changes to dramatically improve service quality, availability, and reliability resulting in 100% customer and partner retention ● Pioneered and personally implemented enterprise-grade service infrastructure on a shoestring budget to give the company a viable service platform ● Introduced SDLC processes to improve quality while maximizing service uptime

● Envisioned, designed, implemented, and operated a web-based dynamic DNS service

Cupertino, California, Us

Computer Science

Ccna

Cissp

Cisco Wireless Networking