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Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon, Us

* Manage team of 4, and served as a member of the Leadership / Strategy Team* Migrated 100TB of customer data, and 100G DB from colo facility to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)* Mirrored entire infrastructure at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Business Continuity* Materially participated in the hiring process across multiple departments* Designated Security Officer. Responsible for obtaining and maintaining SOC 2 compliance* Automation : CI/CD, Selenium/Katalon web testing and deployments with Jenkins, backups, service monitoring, customer quarterly and cancellation backups, resource resizing (GCP/AWS) to match workload* Managed Various SaaS components, too numerous to list all. Git on Bitbucket, CloudFlare, Mailgun, Slack, Twilio to name a few* Maintained the stability of the application environments running on a LEMP stack. Production, Staging, QA* Deeply involved with the dev team on various projects, including the OCR project (all scanned documents), and the Sphinx project to index all the data.

Portland, Or, Us

* Designed and built this fault tolerant web hosting company from the ground up. All aspects from technology, security, network, disaster recovery, contracts, human resources, customer support, business administration and taxes.* Sold the customer base to https://www.canvashost.com in 2017* Technologies : Linux (CentOS), Windows, Cisco, WordPress, CPanel, Barracuda* Constantly analyzing and developing new strategies to keep hackers and spammers off the network

Promoting and support community based web professionals and providing a fast, secure, and affordable web hosting service.

Portland, Oregon, Us

* Design, Recommend, Install, Administer various technologies* Designed, Implemented, and Maintained VoIP/PRI phone system* Migrated T1 loop to more cost effective VPN Internet strategy* Design and Maintain Active Directory environment* Multiple projects designed and implemented : LAMP Stack, Oracle DB (SQL), GERS, Yahoo Maps, Google Maps and Driver Routing.

* Oversee all aspects of product development.* Review, specify, recommend, and purchase hardware and software products pertinent to current and future projects* Successfully hacked into multiple corporate networks in order to demonstrate security weaknesses to potential and existing clients* Actively participate in code development for the Mega Music Player, the Authotecq financial transaction system, and the IQ Secure Network Information protection devices. All projects involved encryption using DES, RSA and the proprietary DogCryption algorithm* Trained employees in the following areas: Networking protocols (IP/UDP/etc), C/C++/Basic, Linux, CGI, Systems Management

Los Angeles, Us

* Coordinate Year 2000 readiness plan for entire site* Supervise: PC support specialist and trainee* Intranet/Web: Develop and implement* Conduct basic PC and corporate email training for company associates

Woodland Hills, California, Us

* Project Lead / Manager and Mentor for projects too numerous to list* Systems Administration : Linux, Windows NT, VAX-VMS, SYSGEN* Network Administration : Cisco, SNA, DNS, TCP/IP* Languages : DCL, VB Script, Java, Javascript, C++, ASP, VAX-BASIC* Additional Tech Experience : STRIPE, RAID, Disk Controllers, RSA/PGP, ODBC, MSSQL Server, Oracle RDB, DECEDI

El Segundo, Ca, Us

* Systems Admin supporting 15 VMS Alpha Systems, 4 Win NT/95 Systems* Configured RZ29 raid sets on HSZ controllers* Functions Automated: account creations/modifications, file restores* Programmed in Postscript for report writing utility* Additional Experience: Problem Analysis/Resolution, Network model pools

Falls Church, Va, Us

* Tested software - Wrote test cases. Analyzed high risk areas.* Programmed in JOVIAL, VAX-FORTRAN, VAX-C, VAX-BASIC, Datatrieve* Developed DCL code for full image and incremental backups* Responsible for user administration and batch job maintenance

Washington, Dc, Us

* Promoted twice within a year, Programmed in Datatrieve* Assisted in the installation of a DEC-VAX cluster* Installations, upgrades & patches* Trouble shot system failures and user related problems* Supervised data processing of payroll and personnel information

General Education, General Education

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