Cloud Technology ConsultingArchitect web application environments for AWS.Plan and execute infrastructure migrations from co-located data centers to AWS.Work with development teams to create consistent local development environments using Vagrant and Docker.Implement infrastructure as code by provisioning assets with CloudFormation and Terraform.

* DevOps lead for TrustNet, a java app backed by postgres, cassandra, zookeeper, solr, memcached, and redis * CI/CD of Venafi Cloud Spring apps in Docker and Kubernetes on Rancher and ECS/EKS * Worked with product teams to design and implement dev, test, UA and production environments * Implemented, secure by default, infra as code with packer and terraform modules for deploying services to vSphere and AWS * Created and managed Jenkins pipelines and build agents * Configuration management with Chef * Implemented alerting, monitoring, metrics and log aggregation with Opsgenie, ELK and DataDog * Setup on-call rotation with pagerduty * Provided detailed documentation of tasks in JIRA along with related articles in Confluence

* Provided engineering and support for Django applications. * Codified application environments to be secure by default using HashiCorp’s tool chain. * Built versioned image artifacts from Packer templates. * Created Terraform modules and application stack templates. * Stored environment properties and configuration with Consul, ConsulEnv and git2consul. * Created a DevLab project enabling development environment parity with production. * Container runtimes as systemd managed units. * Managed secrets with Vault * Leveraged configuration management to deploy and configure applications. * Created Salt states for adherence to SOC 2 policies for auditd, rsyslog, pam and aide. * Started the internal centralized logging project with ELK stack and Beats. * Managed cloud assets hosted on AWS using the CLI and golang SDK. * Managed enterprise customer VPNs.

Architect and manage information systems and services to support a LAMP based SaaSPlanned and managed the upgrade from SonicWALL NSA 3600 HA Firewalls to Cisco ASA 5525X Multi-context HA Appliances.Scripted VPN profile migration from SonicWALL config to the new ASA config. Then, coordinated and assisted customers with updating their peer device’s settings.Developed and maintained an intermediate host based routing environment to facilitate traffic flow during migration.Improved the network by implementing core, distribution and access layers. Configured switch ports with VLAN associations and or trunk links with downstream switches. Aggregated trunks with LACP. Prepped for addition of EqualLogic SAN. Created interface with VMware vSwitch environment. Configured redundant 4-port NICs for A/B core and SAN fabric. Assigned unused host ports as passthrough interfaces for management and or monitoring as a port mirror to admin VMs.Migrated physical servers to redundant virtual machines Setup and or managed the following:All aspects of vSphere 5.1/5.5 multi-site environment. Leveraged Bash and PowerShell vCLI for scripting the creation of virtual resources. Including creation of VM Templates, and rapid cloning of VM Templates to production. Backups done with Bacula to offsite EqualLogic datastore.Notification servers, Python scripts and print/fax, for delivery of mission critical messages to customersCustomer database interfaces with MirthConnectCrush SFTP for secure customer bulk-file transferDNS/BIND servers, sites and forward/reverse zonesPercona MySQL running on FusionIO and JBoss JavaEEInternal mail services using Google Apps, Postfix and SendmailOpenSUSE, zypper/YaST package and configuration manager; Nagios, Logstash/Kibanna Elastic Search, WordPress, Apache, Mirth Engines, iptables, stunnel interfaces

Engineer and deployment of NetApp/Cisco UCS Flexpod running VMware ESXi and Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V.Windows Server 2008 to 2012/R2 Hyper-V Failover cluster migrations.

Created an isolated testing environment for the evaluation of; Windows Server 2012, HP BladeCenter/FlexFabric, NetApp Storage, 10GBE, OneLogin ADFS SSO and Windows Azure.Saved over $200,000 by converting Microsoft based services from individual Dell PowerEdge servers running VMware to HP converged infrastructure running Windows Server 2012 Datacenter and Hyper-V Failover Cluster ServicesProvided VMware 5.1/5.5 cluster for CentOS based services including; DNS/BIND, RADIUS-ActiveDirectory authentication for wireless access and git/svnStabilized the Exchange Server 2010 messaging environment, then provided high availability through Microsoft’s Clustered Database Access Groups using individual BL465c G7 Blades as VMWare hosts.Created an isolated testing environment for the evaluation of Windows Server 2012, HP BladeCenter/FlexFabric, NetApp Storage, 10GBE, OneLogin ADFS SSO and Windows Azure.

Provided cost saving Citrix XenApp Virtualization solutions, delivering high performance line of business applications to a variety of client devices.Managed Production Windows Server Environment, iSCSI SAN, Active Directory and network services.

Support and repair Apple hardware and software.

Proactively managed the business operating system and supporting elements to deliver high performance and availability to a demanding SQL environment.Supported the corporate office, end users, client devices, POS, and line of business applications.

Worked with clients to design Novell, Windows and Cisco networks for delivering line of business applications.Designed and deployed voice and data infrastructure, which saved customers thousands of dollars in reoccurring monthly charges and also linked many sites for their first time.