Design and build automated zero-trust service networking solutions. Supporting customers from private data centers running baremetal/vm to the public clouds using ASGs, K8s, ECS, and serverless.

General HighlightsImplemented a new requirements documentation process using Inspec which also automates our service’s config, infra, and integration testing at the same time. This gives us a medium used to communicate enhancements from engineering, a continuous improvement loop from ops, and is a valuable quality gate we use in our CI pipelines that provide transparency and enable more people to contribute code responsibly.Standardized our development practices around PR, Reviewers, automated testing, and protected release branches that use Jenkins pipelines to orchestrate the workflow that protects production and ensures even our master branch is clean. Developed a shared library to encourage standard pipeline methods. This has significantly improved our team's ability to maintain existing pipelines and scale to support new ones.SAP HighlightsAutomated Cisco UCS blade OS provisioning and our Hadoop deployment across 17 data centers and over 500 servers in 3 months to support GDPR

Worked with the Service Delivery Team to Vet all new projects coming from Engineering to ensure efficient costs, quality designs, mature deployments, and support model can meet business SLA's.

Managed our global Operations team of 40+ people spanning across Virginia, San Francisco, Budapest, Bangalore, and Germany. We designed and supported core Infrastructure Services (OS, AD, DNS, NTP, Mail, SFTP, UCS, Vmware, AV), Monitoring Services (Zabbix, Splunk, Solarwinds, Gomez, Moogsoft, Optier), and more... for 15 data centers with a 2X growth rate in capacity and customers annually. We designed and supported high performance and availability storage and network solutions with Cisco UCS, and EMC Xtremio. The team improved SLA's for all our services (including the inherited problem children) to meet 99.9% or better in 2017.

I transitioned from tier 3 support to the team lead after the first year. The team was responsible for Providing 24x7 support for large Java application platforms running millions of users a day across 10 data centers. Tasks include: * JVM tuning, Apache administration, automating configuration changes and deployments with Puppet.* Developing automated health-checks and proactive performance monitoring with Zabbix, Splunk, and Pingdom

As a Senior Lead IT Engineer at Centurylink, Inc., I provide architectural guidance for our shared hosting environments and critical business applications. My responsibilities include myriad roles including Designing Shared and Stacked Environments, Network and Systems Architecture, Software Architecture, Web application Performance analysis, proactive performance monitoring and alerting, Developing custom tools and automation, and leveraging open source solutions for large hosting platforms. In addition to these responsibilities, I'm also part of an IT Services team who provides professional services to mid sized companies. With more then 13 years of IT experience, I have- Headed up multiple successful engineering teams, - Designed and implemented highly-available, large-scale hosting environments for both .NET and Java technologies, - Developed custom deployment tools (recently, one of these tools has undergone the patent process)- Automated many complex maintanance and support tasks using custom scripts and open source solutions- Provided 24x7 production support for hundreds of web applications across many companies with an emphasis on application performanceSpecialties: - performance tuning web servers, and complex java applications with many dependencies- automating application deployments and maint activities- leveraging open source tools

• Headed up a team of 30 engineers that successfully outsourced the hosting and support of over 200 java applications, and other dependent technologies within 3 months for a large healthcare company.• Designed and implemented a large scale Apache web server Farm consisting of more then 800 apache web server instances. This clustered, environment averages over 350 million requests a month or uses 3.5 Terrabytes of bandwith.• Supported 500+ WebLogic 7.0, 8.1, and 9.2 application installations.• Developed and standardized a fully automated deployment process for WebLogic Applications using WLST, python, and Ant.• Standardized, and implemented a Tomcat 5.5 Environment. I developed centralized administrative scripts that support fully automated initial releases and more.• Created automated security/health checking scripts for all client supported middleware products • Migrated over 500+ SunOne web servers to the new Linux Apache environment• Migrated 80+ WebLogic applications from Solaris to the Linux

• Maintaining, Deploying, Automating, and Tuning a Secure, clustered, stackable application architecture for .NET and J2EE applications. (.NET 1.0,1.1 & WebLogic 7,8).• Implemented a monitoring solution using Sitescope for a 200+ server environment (including: Sun One web servers, Netscape Applications, Weblogic Applications,.NET Web Services, Proxy servers, Vignette, Network routes, Netmail, and LDAP)• Built scripts to maintain Ecom and .NET environments more efficiently, and automated web server recoveries, deployments, and data gathering on Solaris platforms.• Administering Linux Systems• Administering Solaris Squid Proxy Servers

• Built, Maintained, and Tuned a Secure 3 tiered architecture for Weblogic applications utilizing load balanced front ends, Weblogic application servers, NFS and CIFS file shares, and Oracle back-ends focusing on multithreading, connection pooling, and memory optimization.• Built a Secure, Load Balanced, 99.99% high availability Apache Web Server Architecture• Developed a web based, trouble ticket escalation driven monitoring system for corporate, development, and production environments using open-sourcevapplications• Programming requirements include Perl, SED, AWK, JSP, and Bash Shell script.