Patrick Freeman Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Red Hat is the world's leading provider of enterprise open-source solutions. We help customers and partners solve their business challenges, reduce risk, and accelerate outcomes. This is one of the reasons why more than 90% of Fortune 500* companies trust Red Hat. I'm currently a Partner Solutions Architect focused on supporting Federal System Integrators with sell-to, sell-with and sell-through motions. I'm also focused on enabling partners on our products, proof of concepts, program capture, business development, co-creations/GTM solutions, and shaping the end customer.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

I was the SRE and MLOps Technical Lead for our internal shared and managed services team. My team provided Observability, Analytics, and Machine Learning as a Service to 40+ product teams at Comcast. Our platforms (Elastic Stack/ELK, Hadoop, and Splunk) processed over 5 billion+ transactions daily. The services my team provided helped Comcast's product teams gain key insights, predict trends, improve the customer's experience, and focus on their core competencies. I worked closely with internal stakeholders to solution and build business cases for software procurement. I also worked with internal stakeholders to understand their challenges and data to help them decide which analytics and machine learning platform best suited their use cases. Some of the Comcast product teams I supported:- Comcast xFi- UBB (usage-based billing)- xFinity Wi-Fi- Edge SDN Virtual Services Gateway- Residential email- Next-generation voicemail - OTT (over the top media services)- SD-WANSome of the software I worked with:- Kubernetes (OpenShift V3, DIY K8s, AWS EKS, Rancher) - AWS (S3, Sagemaker, EC2, Cloud Watch, EC2, EMR, RDS, MWAA, Route 53, security, IAM policies)- Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (also Elastic Cloud Enterprise/ECE)- VMware, OpenStack- Ansible, Puppet - MLFlow, Kubeflow, Seldon Core- Databricks- Concourse, Jenkins- Apache Kafka/Zookeeper- HashiCorp Vault & Terraform- Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Blackmesh, Inc. was a solution provider to government agencies, non-profit organizations, development groups, and large enterprise corporations. We supported over 900+ internet-facing customers in 24x7 environment. I was the daytime technical lead for our Operations and Cloud Engineering teams. I also reported directly to the CTO. Initiatives I worked on:- Puppet to Ansible migration- Automation lunch and learns- DevOps practice- Security hardening and best practices- PaaS FedRAMP initiatives with OpenShift v3Some of the technologies I worked with:- OpenShift V3/Kubernetes, Docker- Ansible, Puppet- OpenStack, GlusterFS, Ceph - Jenkins- Supermicro servers - Drupal, Wordpress- Apache Solr, Apache HTTPD, Vagrant- CentOS, Ubuntu, RHEL- Varnish, Percona, MYSQLRed Hat, Inc. Partner

AgileX, Inc. provided secure, cutting-edge technology solutions. I served in a customer-facing role for the Department of Veterans Affairs and Defense Health Agency projects I supported. I was the technical lead/advisor to development teams, operations teams, and senior management. I was also matrixed across teams to support various tiger team initiatives as needed, specifically performance optimization, application deployment, and security hardening.Initiatives I supported:- Global health records management- Cloud-based development environments- Application performance SLA framework- Advance security evasion frameworkTechnologies I worked with:- VMware - Vagrant, Packer- AWS EC2- Elasticsearch, Kibana, Ruby- InterSystems Cache, Apache Solr- Chef- CentOS, STIGs - Jenkins, Sonar, Selenium- Nodejs, Angular

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Six3Systems, Inc. provided bleeding-edge commercial-level SaaS capabilities in disconnected environments. I served in a customer-facing role as the technical lead for the projects I supported. I also served as the link between development and operations. Overall, I provided full-stack application support for several mission-critical, customer-facing web applications and APIs.Initiatives I worked on: - Bash scripts to Puppet automation migration for app deployment- CI/CD- Atlassian Bamboo to Gitlab CI migration- Monitoring modernizationTechnologies I worked with:- Bash scripting, Puppet, Elasticsearch, JBoss - Apache HTTPD, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Nodjs, Angular, Java- JavaScript, MongoDB, Gitlab, Gitlab CI, Apache Tomcat- Microsoft Active Directory, Cloudera Manager, Hadoop- Redis, Nagios, Apache Kafka, Zookeeper, Selenium (also performed manual testing)Acquired by CACI International Inc.

Herndon, Va, Us

- Windows desktop support and installation - Tier 1 Linux and web application support - Tier 1 VMware and Citrix support - Windows Active Directory end user support- Microsoft Exchange mailbox support- CAC card integration and configuration - Tier 1 cyber security advisor and hardening - Network equipment installation - Network Operations Center operations - Mission critical incident management support for 24x7 operations - On-site/customer-facing role

Reston, Virginia, Us

- Provided tier 2 support- Windows Vista systems administrator- On-site/customer-facing role

Ashburn, Va, Us

- Desktop, thin client, and Cisco VoIP phone installations, supplies, and logistics- Helped champion cable management standards- Helped streamline equipment gathering, logistics, and installation processes- Helped recruit and mentor/coach new hires on standards- On-site/customer-facing roleAcquired by CACI International Inc.

Washington, Dc, Us

3531 (primary) and 3538 (secondary) were my Military Occupational Specialties. I served in just about every role imaginable for my MOS'. I was part of the III MEF (G4, Company Office, III MHG) and 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (MWSS-171). Some of the roles I've held:- III MEF Color Sergeant- Platoon Sergeant for several units- Corporal’s Leadership Course instructor - Lance Corporal’s Leadership Course instructor - Section Information Assurance and desktop support leadVehicles I trained Marines on:- MTVR/7-TON, Minesweepers (counter-IED equipment)- HMMWV- Refuelers (fixed and rotary wing aircraft bulk refueling operations)- MRAPs - Ambulances- Charter buses, GME- Hazardous materials handling certifications and SOFA driving certificationsSome career highlights:- Deep “Mission Essential Task 1” program implementation and management experience (zero discrepancies or findings during Commanding General Inspections) - Led Military Tactical Vehicle School of Excellence- Successfully fielded/rolled out Combat Operations Tactical Vehicle Simulators- Supported dignitary logistics and protection, high-risk motor vehicle operations- Convoy commander for several operations - Virtual Battlefields System experience - Supported initial fielding of Transportation Capacity Planning Tool/TCPTQualifications:- Army Battle Command Sustainment Support System User certified (BCS3)- Expert rifleman/marksman qualifications - Marine Corps Martial Arts brown belt certified- Water Survival Level 3 qualified - 294 Physical Fitness Test (PFT) score

Master'S Degree, Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Systems Management, Minor Business Administration