* Oversee software engineering department* Develop technical roadmap* Optimize distributed systems deployed on Amazon Web Services

Crossbill gets intimately acquainted with your company, customer insights and complex technology stacks so that we can create a strategic vision, and set clear milestones to reach that goal. With a roadmap in hand, we work with your existing team of software engineers to deliver a solution or develop the software itself. Together, we will ensure that your software systems have robust foundations that will thrive under pressure.

- Wrote both a high and low level design for a public facing EC2 Networking feature, developed a a working prototype meeting instructions-per-counter (IPC) performance requirements, and a lead a group of engineers to deliver feature, contributing code and serving as a mentor responsible for maintaining high code quality- Develop software (written in C) running on packet processors (i.e. any packet that enters and exits the EC2 network traverse these devices) that deliver features for EC2 VPC- Design, implement, and deploy distributed system that steers traffic across the EC2 network (e.g. us-east-1, us-west-1)- Design, implement and lead software engineers for delivering new VPC features- Writing C++ distributed systems using for steering traffic via border gateway protocol (BGP) within the EC2 Network

- Develop control plane software, written in primarily Python, that manages adding, deleting and modifying of DNS records across many highly visible DNS zones, such as: amazon.com, amazonaws.com- Build and design command line tools (tailored for other software and system engineers) to manage the creation of DNS zones - Rotate on call responsibilities to ensure availability of Tier-1

- Created automated testing using Jenkins, Tox and GitHub's API- Developed NodeJS app integrating Akamai Netstorage, AWS Lambda and SumoLogic- Developed python CLI tool using boto and click to manage Route53/DNS across multiple accounts- Integrated CLI tools with #slack using webhooks- Maintain infrastructure environments via Cloudformation wrapper tool- Maintained Jenkins environment for Django applications- Maintained python library integrating boto

As director of DevOps / Technical Operations for FOX NE&O, my team is responsible for all application/infrastructure hosting. Leading a team of talented engineers, we fully subscribe to the Dev/Ops philosophy. We treat the infrastructure as code and deliberately rotate our servers frequently - creating muscle memory.- Transitioned team into full stack application support, with a focus on automating infrastructure.- Reduced technical debt by bringing in vendors including Ansible and MongoDB. - Migrate VM servers into horizontally scalable applications in public cloud- Developed Python scripts/libraries to interface with Rackspace Cloud APIs (pyrax)- Reduced operations costs by 100k+ with proper capacity planning- Introduced central log management as part of standard build process using logstash, redis, elasticsearch, kibana- Removed variances between QA,Stage and Production environments via automation- Integrated configuration management (git + ansible) into toolset- Developed deployment pipeline for Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) using Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Rackspace APIs- Instituted process of ongoing rotation of servers in infrastructure (Immutable infrastructure) - Introduced and implemented concept of Infrastructure as Code- Responsible for Rackspace hosting for Fox Sports, FX, FBC .COM sites - Responsible for maintaining Akamai configuration- Attended industry conferences (i.e "Akamai Edge, DevOps Days")

- Developed wireshark dissector to analyze TIP/muxv7 protocol to assist TAC with troubleshooting video conference neogitation- Provided full stack troubleshooting for security products including CPAM, Cisco Security Surveillance Manager- Conducted MySQL Brown Bag sessions to TAC/RMS services organization- Conducted SIP (Session Initiated Protocol) Training- Travelled to Germany as JouleX SME (Subject Matter Expert) to develop training material- Provided high touch engineering support for Cisco Telepresence Exchange for AT&T, T-Systems, Orange

- Firm understanding of wireless communications to provision high capacity point-to-point links using RF technology (licensed/unlicensed in 2.4ghz, 5.1-5.9 ghz UNII, 18ghz, 24ghz spectrum) with speeds up 1gbps-Introduced and conducted weekly training sessions for level 1/level 2 technical support to cultivate organizational intelligence.-Responsible for all routing/switching from backbone to CPE (OSPF, VLAN, VRRP) – Cisco IOS, Linux and RouterOS-Working knowledge of 802.11a/b/g/n medium access control-Participated in a 6 month project of upgrading major base stations-Participated in the development of an enterprise web application using PHP, mysql, javascript/jquery (Zend Framework) for provisioning customer premise equipment-Installed and configured MPLS to facilitate in iBGP free core-Highest point of escalation for troubleshooting latency, congestion, packet loss-Institutionalized knowledge based management system in order to improve internal documentation as well foster collaboration

- Participated in 24×7 pager rotation for production system coverage to quickly resolve production issues- Designed and implemented private cloud consisting of Dell,VMWare, NetApp, and Cisco- Installed and configured various storage arrays via iSCSI and Fibre Channel- Automated business processes utilizing .NET (C# & Powershell)- Architected storage environment utilizing deduplication, thin provisioning- Participated in a production remote hosted Data Center Migration consisting of 40+ web servers, 30+ SQL servers, 100+ Virtual Servers- Designed, Implemented, and monitored corporate network infrastructure consisting of multiple Cisco switches, routers, firewalls, and wireless access-points- Responsible for installing and maintaining all ISAKMP/IPSEC VPN connections to remote sites- Improved network/system security by implementing central authentication (LDAP/RADIUS/TACACS+)- Implemented system to detect production changes (Rancid, syslog, SNMP Traps