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Minnetonka, Minnesota, Us

- Managed Jenkins, Jaspersoft, TIBCO, Apache, Oracle, Rancher/K8S in AWS- Automated cert changes, trust store sync, and disaster recovery setup

Torrance, Ca, Us

• Orchestrated huge mesh of angular and java spring boot applications with BitBucket, Postman, Argo CD, Harbor, Jenkins, and Rancher on Kubernetes clusters• Created tasks, projects, and maintained meticulous details of my progress in Jira• Created dozens of articles in Confluence to assist team members in managing the environment• Created scripts to make massive changes to Nagios• Created Python script to compare images between sites in overlays• Created new verticals with multiple virtual machines for cluster nodes, databases, application servers, Drupal CMS servers, PHP servers, and App servers• Tested various APM applications like Apache Skywalking, Signoz, and Elastic APM to enhance our application health coverage• Created modules in Puppet for K8S, MySQL, Docker, and Docker Compose• Created rules on F5 Stingray load balancer for internal and external facing applications• Managed backup site in Austin Colo• Created CNAMES, A records, and annotations in DNS for service names in K8S• Modified deployment.yaml files to ensure that no containers are running as root• Created Dashboards in Graphite and Grafana to monitor the entire infrastructure• Worked on disaster recovery for entire production environment, failed over to colocation and did complete troubleshooting and regression testing before flipping back over to primary site• I was responsible for maintaining all six verticals on backup site in Austin, TX• Managed AWS containerized spring boot and angular applications running on K8S• Managed security rules and policies in AWS environment• Managed systems, users, verticals, environments, connection strings, keys, and passwords in a database we called “config-service”• Managed secrets in Nexus Sonatype• Setup MySQL native and Percona replication for MySQL 5 and 8.

• Created pipelines in Bamboo for .NET, Node.js, and C# applications• Created tasks, projects, and maintained meticulous details of my progress in Jira• Created diagrams and documentation in Confluence• Used MSDeploy, PowerShell, and BASH for build, deploy, and transformation in Bamboo and Jenkins• Managed SAML SSO access to all Atlassian apps with Crowd

Palo Alto, California, Us

• Automated process of mapping groups to new users, based on scripted analysis of job codes, department codes, geolocation, organization, and clustering of data points with similar properties.• Rewrote and organized department runbooks for assisting colleagues with supporting internal customers and resolving issues more efficiently with better results.• Built relationships with product managers to facilitate more efficient resolution of issues, incidents, and requests.• Mentored colleagues on prioritization of department obligations, service level agreements, and responsibilities.• Assisted with the updating and managing of department PowerShell scripts. • Assisted solution architects, project managers, and application owners with the resolution of their requests, by implementing timely solutions. • Single point of contact for IAM / Security Operations, working closely with 15 different portfolios on 260 applications / projects.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

• IAM Engineer creating and managing single sign on solution for Kaiser in a Linux environment.• Worked with Epic and Imprivata to allow medical personnel to access medical records instantly with a tap of a badge.• Worked with Oracle Enterprise Manager to make changes to Imprivata.• Did Hex to Binary to Base 10 conversions to keep track of badge count capacity.• Constantly modified diagrams and technical white papers in Confluence as the project progressed.• Used Remedy to track resolution user login and badge issues.

Wilsonville, Or, Us

• Created BASH scripts using Expect and NMAP to generate reports and automatically populate Nagios configuration files.• Responsible for provisioning new end user laptops and troubleshooting end user issues for Windows 7 and 8.1.• Worked with HP Service Manager to resolve tickets and work on IT projects in a Linux environment.• Worked with HP Service Automation, Insight Manager, and VMware Virtual Center to provision new test systems.• Created a completely customized non-interactive Kickstart environment that installed the puppet client, relevant applications, copied over trusted keys, created users with special privileges, and made configuration changes to new physical and virtual hosts in a Linux environment.• Created new LUNS, Zones, and RAID configurations for Hitachi, NetApp, and EMC storage devices in a Linux environment• Wrote custom PowerShell scripts to automate the addition of new group policy objects, user accounts, group memberships, computer accounts, etc.• Managed multiple data centers with C7K Blades using ILO with Avocent KVM over IP, Dell PowerEdge Blades with DRAC.• Setup Report Portal server from scratch for QA Testing Analysis.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Managed hundreds of physical and virtual Debian, Redhat, and a fair amount of Solaris x86 and SPARC based systems (most of which were DevOps) in a Linux environment.• Managed SSH, x11, and telnet sessions, open files, total space consumed, load averages, processes, ZFS volumes, NFS shares, NIS access, DNS entries, and AD access in a Linux and Windows based environment.• Utilized P2V, V2V, and P2P using VMware converter in a Linux and Windows based environment.• Responsible for granting account access to NIS, Active Directory, Application Servers, and solving end user issues like VPN and resetting of passwords. Managed, Agile, Jenkins, Bugzilla, and other company specific applications.• Managed multi-tiered web architecture over J2EE, web services, and shared storage using Fiber Channel.• Maintained backups and restores for the large DevOps environment at HP using Symantec NetBackup.• Managed multiple data centers with C7K Blades using ILO with Avocent KVM over IP.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Project lead and individual contributor for datacenter migration in San Jose, CA.• Worked with two product teams that were recent acquisitions which dealt with the UCS Management System.• Managed physical storage volumes, HA clusters, DNS entries, NFS shares, network throughput and security, and working with product teams to constantly update the environment to better meet their needs.• Supported and managed a mixed environment of Linux file systems (Redhat, CentOS, AIX / HMC Lights Out, Solaris x86 and SPARC/ILOM, OpenVMS, and HP-UX/ILO).• Migrated Win2k8 and Win2k12 domain controllers from Virtual to Physical.• Managed three Virtual (VMware) and Physical (Cisco UCS/CIMC, HP C7K/ILO, Proliant / ILO) Linux / UNIX / Windows based networks in Houston, Austin, and San Jose.• Responsible for all interfaces, wiring, switches, routers, power, and cooling.• Managed a virtualization initiative to consolidate lab resources into a smaller space, energy, and administrative footprint.• Supported development teams to restructure server, network, and storage environments.• Implemented several custom vCloud implementations for the San Jose, Houston, and Austin labs.• Integrated Active Directory accounts into Virtual Center to manage permissions and resource objects and connect to SQL Server 2K8.• Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard, and PuppetDB for configuration management to existing infrastructure.• Deployed MCollective for orchestration. Wrote custom MCollective plugins to deal specifically with our needs.• Redesigned and redeployed the Nagios implementation. Nodes automatically added/removed themselves via Puppet.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

• Created custom Nagios solution for Lab environment and core Linux based infrastructure.• Created custom BASH scripts to automate the process of populating Nagios with systems and services.• Monitored core infrastructure switches, routers, and storage devices via SNMP, with Nagios and MRTG for things like fans, ports, throughput, FRU modules, etc...• Created Redhat Satellite Server for creating new virtual and physical machines with Kickstart and Cobbler.• Did troubleshooting of devices that were alarming in Nagios for things like high load averages, stale file handles, full root partitions, system up or down, NRPE agent not running, network throughput slow, system swapping and caching, iowaits causing high load averages, etc...• Monitored APS PDUs via SNMP for things like core fans, LED, sockets used, volts, and amps etc...• Wrote extensive expect scripts to enable hosts to be Nagios clients and to copy over the trusted keys, systat, and other programs, plug-ins, and configuration file changes.• Maintained Santa Clara Heterogeneous Data Center with many different types of lights out management systems.

Waltham, Ma, Us

• Built HPC Clusters for pairing and sequencing, and mapping genomes in a CentOS Linux based environment.• Primary Life Technologies point of contact between Universities, Hospitals, and Science Labs.• Assisted customers with the installation of Bioscope on their infrastructure and on Life Technologies “Solid Instrument”• Installed Torque, SGE, Maui, SKYLD, Rocks, Bioscope, SLURM.• Supported customers all over the globe troubleshooting Bioscope.• Setup Nagios monitoring server for HPC Clusters.• Supported Solid Instruments [Genome mapping and pairing Hardware/Software.• Primarily used Dell PowerEdge servers with DRAC lights out management cards.

San Ramon, Ca, Us

• Coordinated RFID tag effort to label all parts in the worldwide corporate refinery inventory in a Solaris SPARC based environment.• Coordinated effort to implement Maximo, WebLogic, and Actuate iServer installation and patch upgrades.• Coordinated effort to develop On Demand content integration for Maximo.• Project lead to track payroll and HR with IBM Maximo.• Peer review of enhancement packages - Java classes, JSP, SQL, and documentation.• Performed solution design and configuration of LDAP integration.• Troubleshooting of MEA interface and JMS messaging.• DB configuration, and Oracle triggers.• Managed Corporate Active Directory user and group management.• Responsible for creating aliases and groups for Exchange server to send out alerts to various technical teams and user groups.• Primarily used all Sun Solaris SPARC systems using the ILOM lights out management cards.

Englewood Cliffs, Nj, Us

• Led project to migrate all systems from the Wiley network to the Computer Associates network. Worked together with corporate security teams to ensure that all systems were properly scanned and hardened before adding them to the corporate Linux / UNIX / Windows based network.• Conducted project to clone and replicate test systems for QA, DEV, and Performance testing in a Linux, UNIX and Windows based environment.• Led project to migrate data center from Brisbane to Redwood Shores. Responsible for tracking inventory, host names, IP addresses, labeling, network drops, power, and the functionality of the network and systems after the move.• Led a project to create software to identify computer system owners, whether or not they’re still being used, If they’re IP addresses can be reclaimed, the re-imaging or building of the reclaimed machines, the issuance of the IP address to the new system owners, and the installation of OS, and applications.• Maintained 2 large heterogeneous data centers with HP-UX/ILO, AIX/HMC, Solaris SPARC/ILOM, Dell/DRAC, with Avocent KVM over IP for remote access and troubleshooting.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Project Lead building four usability labs, interviewed vendors, took competing bids, tracked progress, managed vendor installation, and came in under budget and weeks ahead of time.• Project Lead for conducting usability studies.• Project lead on creation of the Java Desktop Environment.• Project lead synchronizing enterprise data with employee smart phones. Implemented network changes to the corporate infrastructure and worked together with multiple teams and vendors. Made drawings and hosted meetings.• Did all recording, mixing, and editing of the usability study videos and distributed the results by streaming them with Real Media Server.• Belonged to the Bay Area Streaming Media Users Group and hosted meetings to better learn how leaders in other companies were using streaming media. Other BASMUG members represented AMD, Intel, Oracle, and many other prominent bay area companies.• Conducted reverse auctions with bidders worldwide to do the localization for Star Office.• Conducted a video conference usability study with the Hamburg Star Office L10N team, the Yokohama L10N team, and the Menlo Park Usability team all participating and viewing the studies simultaneously. I did all the coordination of reserving the conference room, preparing the equipment and environment, and ensuring that the video conferencing went off smoothly.• Configured and managed VERITAS Cluster and NetBackup, Sun Cluster, and was on the Sun Enterprise Identity Management Team.• Maintained several large data centers with Solaris SPARC servers using ILOM and ALOM cards for lights out management and troubleshooting.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Advanced Electronics, Advanced Electronic Circuits

Engineer'S Degree, Solaris Storage Management With Backup

Engineer'S Degree, Solaris System Administration

Engineer'S Degree, Unix System Administration

Diploma, General Education