I lead a team of system engineers who support the infrastructure needs of the company and maintain our production platform.

· Monitor and maintain reliability of all servers (Linux, Windows) · Developed installation automation (Kickstart, PXE boot) integrated with local repositories · Build and maintain custom RPM and GEM packages as needed · Responsible for the installation and maintenance of VMware clusters · Led a team of four operations engineers including the establishment of Kanban processes · Led project to replace physical hardware with VMware cluster backed by EqualLogic iSCSI SAN · Established remote monitoring and alerting via Nagios, Graphite, Ganglia, and Monit · Led configuration management effort with Puppet, including writing 40+ custom modules · Served as technical lead for company-wide business intelligence project incorporating IIS and SQL Server · Assisted in the deployment of automated BIND updates for 100+ domains · Establish backup/recovery policies (Amanda, BackupExec) and disaster recovery solutions · Responsible for troubleshooting and triaging system issues in all environments · Responsible for consistent and accurate performance analysis and capacity planning for all environments · Provide 24/7 operational support for customer facing applications (Ruby/Rails, Django) · Assisted in the planning, design, implementation and migration of RHEL 4 production system to RHEL 6 · Responsible for the hiring, training and management of new operations engineers

* Designed and implemented move from Samba based domain to Windows 2003 Active Directory* Responsible for the hiring and management of MIS staff, budget planning, and project scheduling* Responsible for all network services (web, email, ftp, dns) and the security of the entire network* Responsible for the implementation and maintenance of 90+ PCs and Servers* Wrote custom backup scripts to replace a failed backup system (over 200 GB nightly backup)* Remote and Local user training (80+ employees) and support

* Implemented Squid proxy/cache server to reduce bandwidth usage (35-45%) and filter web content* Assisted in rollout plan of 80+ Windows XP workstations utilizing Symantec Ghost* Assisted in maintenance of CheckPoint firewall and auditing logs* Installation and maintenance of Apache web servers, Oracle 8i database servers* Installation of Nagios network monitoring system for early warning detection of network outages for local network as well as remote sites