Brought on board to stand up the mobile learning platform from Empowered Careers, now known as the Open Innovation platform. Aforementioned included production, stage and development environments all running on AWS. Assisted developers with debugging and other production issues. The platform was up in time for the first day of classes. Unfortunately, the startup's runway ran out, so management was forced to shut down operations. Technologies used in deployment:* Chef Server* Sensu (including Influxdb and Grafana)* Internal REST based service for ops* AWS (RDS, SES, SNS, SQS, S3, Elasticache, IAM, EC2, ELB, Route53)

Responsible for systems that power mission-critical services supporting the QLearn App and QLearn K-12 App. Including system management tools, configuration management using Opscode Chef, and system support for developers.- Deployed and Maintained QLearn Service on AWS - Developed and Maintained Chef Cookbooks to manage our Service- Switched from Scount.App to Sensu for Service Monitoring- Deployed RunDeck to manage service. - Wrote and Deployed internal AWS inventory service (Ruby on Rails) to assist Developers and DevOps Engineer locate and maintain our Service. Including CLI tools.

Built and maintained mission-critical backend services running on AWS that powered the mobile learning app. Including a staging and development environments for developers. Developed internal tools for our Ops Teams and Developers. Wrote nearly all of our Chef cookbooks for deploying our code.

Member of Operations team providing support for the "Danger Service" that powered the T-mobile Sidekick phone. Including on-call support, custom scripts, and server management of a large datacenter environment. Developed scripts and procedures to help with security remediation of over 4000 servers in a timely manor, limiting service disruption.

Responsible for Campus network, including 23 buildings and over 87 switches. Replaced aging hardware with new HP Procurve switches, and deployed new wireless access points for the campus.

Lead in the areas of System Administration (Solaris, Linux, Windows), Networking, Wiring and Telecommunications. Responsible for evaluating the effects new regulations and laws may have on these areas. Lead integration specialist entrusted with the research, development, support and implementation of new services to meet growing campus requirements.

Plan, coordinate, direct, and design all operational activities of the IT department, as well as provide direction and support for IT solutions that enhance mission-critical business operations. Oversee options of technical support, infrastructure ( network, phones, servers) and database support.

Plan, coordinate, direct, and design all operational activities of the IT department, as well as provide direction and support for IT solutions that enhance mission-critical business operations. Oversee operations of technical support, infrastructure (network, phones, servers) and database support.

Managed production servers running Solaris, Linux and Windows, and VMware. Provided services: web, mail, and hosting, LDAP, Active Directory, File storage, MySql. Upgraded servers and services as appropriate, applied patches, implemented new technologies to meet demands. Setup and Deployed Active Directory.

Responsibilities:• Supervise student workers• Administrate, monitor, and secure Linux and Windows servers• Account management and support• Develop and modified software to meet University needs• Work with professors and staff to find creative solutions• Serve on IT policy committee Achievements:• Simplified servers• Migrated to active directory from NT 4 Domain• Simplified desktop deployment using GPO’s and MSI Software deployment.• Migrated CVS repository to Subversion• Deployed Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)• Deployed McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator®• Managed Windows group policy with Active Directory• Participated in creation of a 5 year strategic plan for IT Department• Conversion of existing space to a server room