Leading a small team that leverages our Puppet, Ruby, and Linux System administration skills to ensure that customers can quickly and easily remediate systems that don't currently meet compliance specifications for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, NIST, and more.

Using puppet to Automate compliance mappings to specific compliance standards such as NIST, DISA, CIS, HIPPA, (the list continues).

I provided support for customers that have questions about designing data flows that are efficient and maintainable. Additionally, I provide suggestions for tuning OS parameters and help design customer flows from the ground up.

I was responsible for administering 16 different NiFi clusters which are comprised of over 100 servers that I service and maintain. These clusters ingest, distribute, transform, validate, and process large amounts of data every day. I ensure that our various clusters are optimized to handle the largest volume of data possible on the hardware that the cluster is built on. I do this by tuning OS settings, NiFi configurations, and upgrading hardware wherever possible.

I automated the build and test environment for the SIMP open source project.

I was responsible for creating an environment in which we were able to rapidly provision an entire system using kickstart and puppet. The kickstart file configured a puppet server, which then pulled the puppet baseline from a remote git server. After some manual tweaking, it was as easy as adding a dns, dhcp, and tftpboot entry via puppet to get each other box in the system kicked and configured as needed.I streamlined our workflow by introducing git to the team and putting our puppet baseline under git control. This made tracking changes and deploying changes to other systems extremely easy.

I returned to my position as the continuous integration specialist. My task was to integrate OpenStack into our test environment.

I was responsible for converting PL/1 code into JAVA. I also had to interface heavily with the customer to ensure the converted code produced the same output as the old PL/1 code. I was also in charge of coordinating with a partner project to ensure that requests that they would send us for a product matched the format of a request our project would expect to receive. We achieved this by creating a WSDL that both parties agreed to conform to.

In this position, I was mainly responsible for building a continuous integration environment for out puppet code in jenkins. The jobs in jenkins would build a custom RedHat or CentOS iso, kick a libvirt/kvm VM using the iso. The jobs in jenkins would then fully configure dns, dhcp, and tftpboot via puppet and kick a second VM pxebooting from the first VM that was built. This ensured the product we were releasing was free of critical bugs that would prevent customers from using the iso.

I was responsible for creating and modifying existing XSLT files to transform xml requests generated from filling out a web form into Autonomy Query Language, so that our search engine, Autonomy, could be queried to retrieve specific records that match the AQL request. I also helped maintain the web page that customers used to perform their record searches. The web page was written using JAVA and JSP.

In this position I was responsible for troubleshooting internet connectivity issues for students at wvu. This included trips to their dorms to test physical connections, as well as removing/reconfiguring software that might be preventing their computers from connecting to the network. I was also responsible for removing malware, recovering lost data on broken hard drives, replacing hardware, and basic troubleshooting for student's and staff's personal machines.

I was an intern in GenVec's Information Systems department over this summer and winter break. I was in charge of providing technical support to all of the other departments. I also managed user accounts (added, deleted, modified) via Active Directory. I was also in charge of collecting requirements from each department for implementing a new contact management system that the company would be using.