Elevated to Tech Lead within two months of being in the company.Elevated to Infrastructure Engineer for all Linux / Open Systems direction of Ultimate Software's IaaS department after 1.5 years. Including all Openstack, Linux, and Open source products.Primary architect, deployment, and support resource for Openstack cloud fabrics.Member of group to determine the company's 1, 2 and 3 year timeline for technology.Top tier of troubleshooting for company with regards to all areas of responsibility.Responsible for the education of employees with regards to all areas of responsibility.

Member of the Linux Administration team, which is part of the infrastructure group.Build/Rebuild systems for expanded capacity and to maintain a healthy technology age.Work closely with development, implementation, and client support to build systems that will solve their problems and facilitate their needs.Create scripts, mostly in BASH, to automate daily tasks, test systems health, transfer/backup data, and automate creation of Xen/Ganeti instances.Created PXE installation system that reduced the installation of new servers into a cluster from 4 hours to 45 minutes.Created automated VM installation program that reduced the creation and configuration from 2-4 hours to 7-11 minutes.Participate in both overnight and on call schedules.Assist and teach implementation and client support teams various system level tasks.Diagnose problem areas and create plan to resolve.Integrate logging and monitoring systems to give a better view into system health.Work with database group to upgrade production and staging databases.Minor network changes such as adding VLANs and port configuration.Participate in emergency calls, diagnosing network/database/system problems.Lead in architecture of automatic system creation and configuration using in house scripts and chef.Participant in major data center overhaul in our Miami network.Advice on future footprint and configuration of all systems.

Design and deploy customer defined solutions using Optenet products. Including large multi appliance deployments using industry standard protocols such as: NTLM, LDAP, WCCP, QinQ, LACP, RSTP, as well as routing and VLANs.Work with customers to create best use based on customer needs and support. Taking customer requirements and working closely with them to determine the best configuration of the final product.Support worldwide installations during customer turn-ups. Managing web filtering / protocol security portions of major customer projects. This would usually include multiple vendors working with customer windows to bring sites online during maintenance windows.Work closely with development on reported issues as well as new feature requests. Verifying the request or problem in a customer installation through traffic captures and mock lab installation.Installation of HA SaaS environment and deployed Optenet as initial customer. Involved as lead Systems Engineer, working with R&D, IT, and Solutions groups to install the initial Optenet SaaS offerings. Determined the best configuration, including recommendations on system monitoring.Assist sales team with technical meetings for new customers. Online or in person meetings with both potential customers, resellers and partners.Manage sales cycle, including design, installation, deployment and support.Create lab environments to prove out concepts required by customers. Mostly VMWare installations using ESXi supporting both Windows and Linux guests.Provide IT with assistance for managing Optenet’s United States locations. This is either the HQ located in Aventura, or our Miami datacenter. This could be anything from helping users to installing and configuring new IT servers.Serve as SME for North America as well as assisting LATAM and UK when needed. All questions for detailed information in these three areas would filter first through me, then to our Madrid headquarters.

Responsible for installation, configuration and daily maintenance of servers. Servers run variations of RedHat Linux Enterprise and Solaris.Participated in multi-department teams to troubleshoot enterprise problems.Migrate old open LDAP authentication system to a Multi-Master Fedora Directory LDAP installation.Part of project team to remove all single points of failure from the network.Redesigned, implemented and documented entire virtual environment.Primary administrator for virtual environment. (Around 30 hosts servers, 300 virtual)Assisted in most major changes during duration of job.Deployed automate network device change management software for network group.Part of project team for relocation of the development datacenter.Worked with team to centralize key server standards.Migration of entire Dev and Qa environments into virtual servers.

Migration from Solaris to LinuxAdministration of production Linux serversManagement of Bind DNS for Cox EnterprisesVarious tasks like custom RPM creation, VMWare image design, assisting in any area they requested

Continual management of production batch processing ( data mining ) for small company with large data needsDesign of clusters filesystem deployments for batch processingBackups for Oracle and batch systems using NetbackupDesign, implementation, and administration of direct attached, and SAN storageAll Linux related administration including automation of daily jobs, centralized authentication using NIS+, DNS, Email filtering.All network related administration including routers and switching, T1 / MPLS administration, MetroE, ASA / PIX / Checkpoint firewalling.All Windows related administration for small business including Windows AD 2003 with Exchange for mail / public folders.

Setup small office installation of NT4 domain using MS Exchange 5.5 for mail and workgroup collaboration.Installed and maintain multiple Digital AlphaServers as well as Dell/Linux servers for batch processing.Full life cycle support of Veritas Netbackup server. Storage backups of 20TB on a monthly/weekly/daily basis.Implemented disaster recovery of NT domain and MS Exchange.Utilize Bash and Perl to automate daily, weekly and monthly tasks.Handled research and purchase of all new hardware.Negotiated with vendors to purchase the best possible solutions for the budget assigned.Partnered with development and production staff to better utilize systems.