● Technical lead for Redhat 8 golden image● Primary admin for Redhat Satellite Infrastructure supporting all Redhat installations at Verizon● Level 4 Production support for over 20,000 Redhat and CentOS servers(physical and VM)● Mentor/train team members via presentations, documentation, and working with individuals one-on-one troubleshooting cases● Subject matter expert for Redhat, Satellite, patching and clustering● Shell and Python scripting as needed for automation(Ansible, HPSA, BigFix, Satellite)

On contract at Verizon with Linux Engineering

• Attained PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer status specializing in Enriched Air, Wreck diving, Deep diving and Self Reliant diving. Trained and certified diving students from all over the world from beginner to advanced specialities.• Completed certification as an Emergency First Responder Instructor• Maintained remote network with FreeNAS storage, pfsense firewall, Linux, Splunk, OpenVPN and shell(Bash) scripting.

• Redesigned and standardized server infrastructure migrating from Solaris to Redhat Linux on VMware.• Upgraded and redesigned storage infrastructure across 3 data centers. Primary storage(100TB) for Oracle RAC OLTP and DW instances were migrated to EMC VMAX3 All Flash(replication via SRDF) providing a reduction of 70% on the largest jobs. Corporate and customer data storage overhauled and consolidated to 4 EMC VNXs replicating between data centers.• Designed, deployed and maintained a Splunk multi-site cluster ingesting 80GB daily. • Numerous shell scripting(Bash, Ksh) projects such as automated server setup, software deployment, system administration and security auditing as well as refactored dozens of business process scripts(Bash, Ksh, Perl)

• Platform lead in creation of dedicated mobile app and WS API for native mobile applications• Provided architectural governance, technical leadership and consulting across the enterprise, in support of individual project planning• Investigated enterprise components to be migrated to AWS

• Platform lead for Personal Financial Management services and secure data storage platform(vSafe)• Authored technical documents and coded scripts that define installation and configuration of enterprise infrastructure components