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Chicago, IL, US

Founded the SRE team at Motorola Cyber Security, serving as both tech lead and individual contributor. I work daily with Python, CloudFormation, and Ansible, managing AWS production environments. I adopted the Google SRE model when establishing the team, ensuring there are no silos, giving us the flexibility to make necessary changes to achieve our goals..

Out of necessity this was two jobs. At our start up I wrote an AWS SAAS anti-abuse service targeted initially at email providers to reduce account compromises. Everything was AWS native and serverless written in Python using SQS, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, CloudFormation and all the glue that makes that work. In order to fund the startup I also worked as a.

San Antonio, Texas, US

Founded and led a software development team at Rackspace Email focused on anti-abuse, growing it to 12 engineers and overseeing hiring and development. Designed and deployed a Python-based, distributed abuse detection system on Linux VMs, processing thousands of email events per second to identify compromised accounts. The system evolved to prevent.

San Antonio, Texas, US

Worked on the email routing team managing inbound and outbound email for a large multi-tenant Red Hat Linux platform using open source and proprietary software. Led initiatives to enhance abuse protection, contributing code in JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and Lua. Prototyped a Python solution to predict the impact of new anti-abuse policies, optimizing.

Blacksburg, VA, US

Tech lead for the enterprise architecture team developing a cloud-based Red Hat Linux system for managing software power management agents. Designed and authored a high-performance server-side REST API using Python, MySQL, PHP and Redis for interfacing with 3rd-party systems, gathering, processing and storing data from the software agents. Managed the.

Blacksburg, VA, US

Led a refactoring of the PowerPack toolkit for large-scale systems which primarily focused on creating a robust, stable, useful interface to a state of the art power measurement and management system. Created a prototype kernel extension for MacOSX to improve power management. Participated in a project exploiting the side-effects of power-management to.

Reading, Berkshire, GB

Blacksburg, VA, US

Used C and C++ to build a commercial enterprise power management software product to save energy while providing a performance guarantee in data centers. Scaled the software to thousands of servers for HPC systems. Developed prototype ports for VMware and Xen and validated the Linux version on KVM. Assembled a continuous integration system for Linux.

Contract with MiserWare Inc. Responsible for proving the effectiveness and impact of a novel power management solution on common HPC and more general business workloads. All development was C with a little C++. Implemented a KVM stack for Linux package creation to shrink-wrap Linux products for Debian, SUSE, Red Hat and Ubuntu.

Reading, Berkshire, GB

Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies, School of Systems Engineering

Reading, Berkshire, GB

Administration of production Red Hat and Debian Linux and Xen servers. Developed a Java Portlet on Debian Linux for archaeologists to access large volumes of research data. Distributed systems programming with embedded C and TinyOS for wireless sensors to create a remote greenhouse monitoring system for environmental sciences.

Portsmouth, Hampshire, GB

Procured, installed and managed a Debian Linux-based cluster for use as a distributed systems testbed within the research group. Migrated various University owned production servers from Red Hat and SUSE to new hardware platform using Debian Linux.

Led a team building a Debian and Red Hat Linux-based e-commerce booking system for running customer facing websites and back office systems. Responsible for the administration of in-house and hosted Debian Linux email servers and LAMP infrastructure.

Fulfilled several contracts for NU-Zone Solutions developing server-side software on Linux servers with PHP and client-side HTML and JavaScript. Projects included a web system for county law enforcement which allowed them to order new or replacement sticker kits for vehicles via the Internet.

Migrated ASP and Delphi Windows NT programs to a Red Hat Linux AMP stack. Responsible for both the creative and technical aspects of website designs. Created a Linux email batching and processing system that automated early customer interaction for a hotel booking website.