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Los Angeles, CA, US

Design new hybrid classical/quantum computing platform.Use AWS, Kubernetes, Grafana, Flagger, & Kubeflow as a Machine Learning computing design platform.

Determine if using a quantum algorithm fits your problem. Implement the solution on either IBM's Q Cloud, DWave's Leap Cloud, or Amazon's Bracket.

Driver Group - Manage infrastructure for genomics data processing pipeline that provides patient cancer screening and personalized drug recommendations and research. Specify, install and manage hardware and software infrastructure. Grow datacenter from ~50 VM's to ~700 VM's using Debian, Proxmox, Kubernetes, Docker, Puppet, Git, Shell Scripting, Python and.

Founded HealthGraph.Group SaaS Graph Database solution for Life Sciences and Healthcare Industry, Fully HIPAA & GDPR Compliant.Design and Implement Graph Database SAAS in Amazon Neptune using Cloudformation & OpsWorks, with Arch Linux, Kubernetes & Docker, Ansible and other NDA required software. Hire & manage teams. Assist in client development and sales.

Disrupt storage marketplace by challenging reining paradigms in providing low cost commodity storage servers and implementing high availability in software with a simple user Interface. Deliver storage as a service through an AWS S3 compatible API and web console.Design, test and manage the manufacture of storage and compute hardware. Implement easy to use.

Training at Puppet Labs, advising startups, and running CloudStor.it.

Hearst Inc. - Architect and implement infrastructure transition from physical datacenter to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Elle.com, WomansDay.com, RoadandTrack.com and CarandDriver.com. Manage code deployments, site updates and maintenance. Recommend, install, configure and maintain Zenoss monitoring. Technologies: Amazon Web Services, Akami, VMWare ESXi.

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

Support ~500 Macintosh OS X computers campus-wide. Administer Radmind to remotely manage OS configurations and all software updates. Write new modules in perl and shell for Xhooks to assist in remote administration.Deconstruct Apple's OS X boot sequence (which is completely undocumented). Construct a small network bootable OS X kernel package, and write.

The Cobalt Group: support over 2000 auto manufacturer and dealership websites and applications, across ~600 servers. Consisting of Sun, IBM Bladecenter, and Generic “x86 whitebox” hardware, running Solaris, RHEL, Debian, and VMWare ESX. Support DNS, Oracle, Apache, Weblogic, and numerous custom applications. Lead engineer for supporting 10 NetApp NAS.

Portland, Oregon, US

Manage website infrastructure including user accounts, DNS, and Apache. Install and configure Tomcat and Flash MX communications services for development and production servers. Assist with Java, PHP and Perl QA. Install and configure Subversion version control server and manage site release updates. Install, configure and maintain Redhat Linux.

Solaris/Linux Systems Administration Consultant to Sylvan Learning - Online Higher Education. Maintain approximately 30 local and offsite Sun and Linux website server systems and infrastructure. Troubleshoot and repair servers and software processes, update administration procedures, and install and test dual redundant Sunfire Database servers with RAID.

Design, configure and maintain a 50 server internet web site, with over a million registered users. Implemented on Intel servers running FreeBSD, Sun 4500's, Network Appliances and Sybase. Write shell scripts for data back ups, web site systems monitoring, and web site code development releases. Manage office FreeBSD and Macintosh workstations. Assist.

San Jose, CA, US

For Cisco Systems configure and maintain CCO website, with over two million registered users. Manage Sun Sparc Enterprise 10000's, 4500's, Weblogic and Oracle. Integrate Perl, Java and C developers new features and applications into website operations. At Goodcompany.com design, install and maintain: Sun web servers, Firewall-1, SecurID, Legato and ichat..

Assist in design & implement a commercial web site, using Silicon Graphics servers and Informix database. Manage Wan and Lan connectivity issues, hardware assets and repair. Write shell scripts to manage software updates, and provide development tools software and services. Assist Perl and C developers in QA process and manage Perforce software.

Zurich, CH

Responsible for intranet web services to all CS United States locations. Install and maintain SGI web servers. Provide web content authoring using HTML and Java. Provide HTML, CGI, and Java training to CS personnel. Deliver time critical commodities and financial positions and summaries data to financial officers using CS intranet. Member of team that.

Member of 5 person team that manages 600+ node TCP/IP Based network, and maintain 130 Sun and SGI workstations. Design and implement Night Vision World Wide Web server using NCSA httpd. Write Perl programs and shell scripts to automate everyday tasks and disseminate network wide configuration changes, to Unix hosts.

Research, develop and implement test plans and procedures for real time Unix and MPX operations systems. Provide formal problem reports and recommend fixes · Unix administrator for Naval real time operations center: manage 30 Sun and Solbourne workstations, write shell scripts for software updates. Specify hardware and software solutions, and provide.

Washington, DC, US

Support 24/7 real time operations using Sun and Soulborne Unix servers and workstations, and Gould MPX mainframe computers. Provide data analysis and reporting to national agencies. Manage team of 5 personnel.

General

Diploma, General Studies