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Raleigh, NC, US

Minneapolis, MN, US

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

Maintain reliability of Sharefile application. Improved ansible automation code, improving data separation, idempotency, and performance.

On the ContainerX team supporting the infrastructure for the contiv docker network plugin. Built test openshift cluster for qa testing, and creating openshift specific test to work with the kubernetes and docker tests.On CI/CD team managing automation infrastructure, adding new features and proposing enhancements.

Deploy new cloud environments using automated procedures in ansible and puppet. Create new automation to make things easier for the team. Evaluate new products for inclusion in cloud environments. Troubleshoot openstack cloud issues, including nova errors, rabbitmq clustering problems, mysql and haproxy issues, and many others. Implementing new cloud.

Durham, NC, US

Implementing patch management, configuration management, and identity management systems. Updating backup using Spectralogic tape library, EMC Data Domain DD640, and EMC Networker. Updated build server process, reducing new builds from over a week to less than an hour, using spacewalk and puppet. Updating aging monitoring system with groundwork monitoring..

Head Engineer for Trefoil Consulting. We specialize in Linux solutions. I have 18+ years with Linux, and over 25 years in the computer industry.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Manage network and systems infrastructure for the Global Metrics and Focal Point applications in the MTS department.

Manage the linux infrastucture for the company. Implemented LDAP for authentication across production and internal linux systems. Created an automated build system, both pxe and boot cd, using cobbler. Built red hat clusters using gfs with both RHEL4 and 5. Created a package/patch management system using mrepo. Built many RPM packages for distribution.

Hanover, MD, US

Managed firewalls for thousands of clients at AT&T Managed Security Services, using various firewall software, including Lucent Brick, iPolicy, Checkpoint Firewall-1, Cisco PIX, ASA, FWSM, and router ACLs.

US

Optimized web site and database performance on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Sun Solaris servers.

St. Ignatius, MT, US

Managed the Intelligent Systems Lab unix systems. The ISL is part of the Automation, Robotics and Simulations Division of the Engineering Directorate of NASA at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Wrote several device drivers for a mips 450 pc/104 linux embedded system. Implemented amanda for backups, instead of a custom tar script. Migrated from NIS.

Managed the Intelligent Systems Lab unix systems. The ISL is part of the Automation, Robotics and Simulations Division of the Engineering Directorate of NASA at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Wrote several device drivers for a mips 450 pc/104 linux embedded system. Implemented amanda for backups, instead of a custom tar script. Migrated from NIS.