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Santa Clara, CA, US

Charlotte, NC, US

Charlotte, NC, US

Developing automation solutions for Bank of America's implementation of Hashicorp Vault

San Diego, California, US

Developed solutions to automate application deployment and manage retail store assets as code using Chef Infra Configuration Management Suite

Member of operations team responsible for the design and implementation of systems, applications and services required to operate NTENT's software platform

Tokyo, JP

Member of engineering team responsible for migrating SIE’s technical assets into AWS. Duties included determining what aspects of the existing monitoring infrastructure could be replaced with CloudWatch or other SAAS solution and troubleshooting monitoring issues as other SIE services migrated into AWSResponsible for the management of cluster of EC2.

Lead engineer responsible for SIE’s implementation of open source application Nagios/Check_MK to monitor 4000+ hosts and appliances across multiple datacenters at no licensing cost to SIE.Developed numerous (50+) Python service check scripts used as part of the SIE monitoring infrastructure. These Python scripts replaced outdated bash shell scripts and.

San Diego, CA, US

Provided technical support for Qualcomm's Droid application development teams (encompassing over 2000 developers in multiple locations). Tasks included troubleshooting technical issues with individual software build environments (physical and virtual), supporting multiple automated build environments (Electric Commander, Jenkins) and providing assistance.

Plainsboro, New Jersey, US

Member of system development team responsible for the launch of Illumina's BaseSpace Onsite System, a genetic sequencing application suite running within a private cloud framework. Duties included providing technical support to developers and testers, troubleshooting issues that could have impeded the product launch and documenting processes pertaining to.

San Diego, CA, US

Managed 40+ CentOS systems which hosted multiple commercial websites (generating daily revenue) Duties included OS installation, package management and troubleshooting system issues. Environments included both physical and virtual instances (Xen). Heavy use of virtual shell (virsh) in the management of system virtual instances.Assisted development team in.

Designed and implemented a testing and demonstration environment for developer’s custom Java application consisting of LAMP stack and GlassFish application server. Installation method used customized Kickstart auto-install file bundled in iso of CentOS install media.

Worked with team to set up 30+ workstations and two Windows 2012 R2 servers Washington DC office. Duties included operating system installation (Windows 7), physically putting workstations into place, connecting workstations to network, setting up initial NAT ip scheme (within Cisco ASA 5505) and some work with Comcast to configure business level cable.

Performed administration duties including patching/updating server which hosted site (RHEL 5 OS), reinstallation and management of Apache web server as well as the creation of new content pages. Participated in the eventual migration of website to managed content system (Blackbaud Sphere)Providing network/system support for YWCA office (Windows XP/ 7 /2K3.

San Mateo, CA, US

Preformed system administrator duties for Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment consisting of 40+ servers. Tasks included operating system and 3rd party application installations, applying patches and system updates, troubleshooting system issues and documenting found solutions.Deployed and supported custom-build applications within BEA Weblogic Application.

Charlotte, NC, US

Provided system support for NPR Digital Media Team. Environment consisted of 30+ Debian Linux servers with multiple instances of Apache web server (hosting PHP based websites), MySQL and Tomcat application server. Responsibilities included OS and application maintenance, web server management, deploying applications onto Tomcat application server and.

Arlington, Virginia, US

Provided support for enterprise level case management application hosted across multiple Solaris 9/10 environments. Tasks included operating system installations, applying patches and system updates, system monitoring (using smf utilities), responding to support request and documenting procedures for help desk support tier. Designed Bash shell scripts for.

US

Participated in enterprise application migration project involving 40+ applications being moved from individual physical servers to virtual environments hosted on a single Egenera BladeFrame EX server. Each Blade having Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the operating system and hosting VMware instances. Tasks during migration included installation of operating.

Vienna, VA, US

Supported Solaris 9 environment consisting of 20+ SunFire E20K servers hosting enterprise level application. Task included operating system installations, monitoring system resources, troubleshooting system issues and responding to support request.

Designed and implemented system infrastructure allowing for the interconnecting of four library locations (file sharing and distributed print services) using Windows 2000 Server Active Directory. Performed multiple operating system and application installations for desktop PCs. Provided on-site and phone support for entire Alexandria Library.