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Chicago, Il

Lead the Infrastructure Engineering & Operations team for our award-winning social product line. My team owns physical and cloud infrastructure (both private & public), network, storage, backups, monitoring, OS & application tier, and provide "DevOps" to our development teams, including continual integration, SCM and agile development tools. We host production, development, and test environments for both B2B and B2C products, including top-20 grossing games on Facebook, Apple's App Store, and Google's Play Store.This production infrastructure serves up over 700 million hits a day to over 1.5 million daily active users.

Chicago, Il

Architect and build the physical infrastructure for our award-winning social product line. Infrastructure designed for and proven with exponential growth. Lowered costs and increased both uptime and capacity versus previous managed hosted solution.Instrumental in the implementation of agile-style development through introduction of tools and process. Work alongside development heads to insure smooth integration among their teams.

Chicago, Il

Upscale retail store in Chicago, providing tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, pipes, vaporizers, glass, hookahs and quality customer service.

Chicago, Il

Technical manager of a small international team for WMS' award winning Player's Life product. Responsible for full implementation of systems and network for both production and non-production environment. Hands-on engineering and administration alongside my team. Extensive work with Dell server hardware, Juniper switching and firewalls, F5 load balancers, CentOS/RHEL Linux, MySQL InnoDB and NDB, Apache, tomcat, Python, Django, mod_wsgi.

Chicago, Il

• Network engineering for 10k device/25-site International WAN, including DNS/DHCP• Enterprise Cisco Wireless administration.• Architect and support VMWare private cloud infrastructure.• EMC CX3-80 Clariion, Cisco MDS fabric, Dell Equallogic ISCSI, and Coraid ATAOE SAN adminstration• On-site tradeshow support for marketing and sales teams.

• Design and implementation of a IBM Tivoli Single Sign On solution between the company’s legacy Active Directory tree and new customer SSO directory.• OpenLDAP design and rollout for server authentication.• Support of IBM DB2 databases, IBM Balanced Control Units (BCUs), and Netezza data warehousing appliances.

Small web and online game hosting company, including shared hosting platforms such as cPanel and Plesk. Located in Chicago, primarily serving local voice-over talent and amateur online gaming teams.

E-mail appliance sales engineering and support.