* Implemented policies, procedures, and controls to enable successful information security program.* Launched highly available, resilient, and secure microservices delivery infrastructure.

Responsibilities included:* High availability and uptime of production environments.* Increasing software developer productivity with continuous integration pipeline.* Implementing and maintaining information security standards and controls.

* Implemented application configuration management using Ansible, backed by Jenkins.* Implemented application deployment orchestration using Ansible, backed by Jenkins.* Implemented Gerrit code review system for configuration management changes.* Implemented Nexus as central artifact repository.* Developed PagerDuty and Pingdom modules for use with Ansible based deployment orchestration.* Maintained a mid-sized physical server farm running an Nginx, Glassfish, and MySQL stack.* Launched and maintained an AWS based platform that utilizes EC2, DynamoDB, S3, and CloudFront.* Worked in conjunction with development and operations team members to establish CI workflows with the end goal of CD.

* Developed automated server provisioning and application configuration management scripts using Chef.* Developed automated application deployment scripts using Capistrano.* Implemented Jenkins for continuous integration.* Architected and built Ubuntu 10.04 LTS based environments with a focus on high availability, scalability, and security.* Installed and maintained software such as Apache, Nginx, HAproxy, PHP-FPM, RabbitMQ, Node.js, Redis, Memcache, MongoDB, Solr, MySQL, and Varnish.* Communicated regularly with external clients in routine scrums or ad-hoc conversations.* Conducted architecture audits for existing and potential clients to identify growth patterns and scaling paths.* Developed Ruby and Bash scripts to utilize various components of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) API such as EC2, EBS, S3, and CloudFront.* Configured and maintained auto-scaling Amazon Elastic Beanstalk cluster.* Installed and configured Webmetrics, Munin, Nagios, New Relic, and Splunk Storm tools for event, performance, and availability monitoring.* Outlined load testing plans and created Selenium scripts to conduct load testing using BrowserMob.* Launched and maintained a social media business analysis application capable of digesting and performing real-time analysis on social media feeds from Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and news sites.* Actively advocated and participated in DevOps role, taking mutual ownership of goals and challenges alongside the development teams.* Maintained internal Ubuntu and CentOS based development VM farm.* Configured system and MySQL database backups using Amanda and ZRM.* Participated in 24/7 on-call rotation.

* Designed multi-tiered, redundant network and high availability Red Hat Linux and Windows 2003 & 2008 server solutions spanning multiple DC locations.* Conducted systems administration duties in a 24/7 environment consisting of hundreds of Red Hat Linux and Windows 2003 & 2008 servers for companies such as digital healthcare providers, major television networks, advertising agencies, and company benefits firms.* Developed a solution for an enterprise Red Hat Linux customer that required them to migrate a very large amount of Oracle data from one data center to another. The solution allowed the customer to complete an estimated 8 hour migration within 4 hours instead.* Architected and launched a Red Hat Linux environment running Tomcat linked to a primetime major network television show. The environment sustained a very high amount of traffic coming from the viewers without sacrificing stability.* Architected and implemented numerous Red Hat Linux and Windows 2003 & 2008 customer environments under very aggressive deadlines, allowing the company to meet their monthly revenue goals.

* Performed system administration and troubleshooting duties in a Sun Solaris server environment for companies such as large retail outlets, television networks, and major record labels. * Coordinated and interfaced with outside vendors, end users, outside department, and service providers to resolve issues.* Architected and implemented numerous Sun Solaris customer environments under very aggressive deadlines, allowing the company to meet their monthly revenue goals.* Overhauled the entire data center’s Legato Networker backup offering and implemented a robust solution with scalability and ease-of-use in mind.

* Racked and cabled new Sun enterprise servers and Cisco network devices.* Installed Apache and Tomcat software, maintaining appropriate maintenance levels and tuning.* Installed and configured Nagios & Big Brother for event monitoring, capacity planning, and performance monitoring.* Provided level 3 troubleshooting and resolution of system problems.* Responded to outages both during business and after hours.