Michael Welch Email & Phone Number

Arlington Va

Cloud architect and developer for Avantalytics, a retail analytics SaaS solution. Responsible for networking, implementation, and support of hybrid cloud infrastructure running both Windows and CentOS, MongoDB, and mobile app development.Developed website features in PHP, Javascript, JQuery, Highcharts, and Highmaps. Wrote customer features such as interactive data maps, task list management, automated time cards, and administrative tools for error logging.Developed multilingual mobile app on both iOS and Android platforms, published in Apple App Store and Google Play store.MongoDB Administration for a geographically diverse hybrid MongoDB Replica Set. Created a Disaster Recovery plan and managed backups. Wrote a Mongo Caching tool as drop in replacement for Memcache that supports Mongo Queries. Developed a GUI for Mongo supporting encrypted queries to the database, before feature was commercially available. XenServer - Manage two XenServer hosts which combined run 30 VMs, running a mix of CentOS and Windows.

Management of computing infrastructure and networking, as well as development of e-commerce platform for Emblemax, a retail company specializing in promotional goods.Developed an e-commerce platform hosting over 30 customer websites which annually gross over $100,000 in sales, and management of the underlying Web, SQL, and Mongo Database Servers.Administration of Windows Servers used by remote employees to access Shop Management Software.

Provided systems engineering expertise in the domain of infrastructure administration for VMWare and Windows platforms for federal agencies, such as IRS, Veterans Affairs, and CMS. Wrote an audit plans for VMWare and RedHat OS used throughout the IRS enterprise in support of security objectives.Executed hybrid cloud Proof of Concept implementing best practices for securing data in transit.