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New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

- Managed and maintained Quartet Health's diverse AWS and containerized (Fargate and Kubernetes) environments.- Migrated Quartet's services to EKS that were previously hosted directly on EC2.- Migrated Quartet's services from EKS to Fargate upon realizing that Kubernetes was a bad choice for their infrastructure.- Migrated Quartet's aged self-hosted SFTP server setup from a single server to AWS Transfer Family, increasing security for clients and reducing maintenance… Show more - Managed and maintained Quartet Health's diverse AWS and containerized (Fargate and Kubernetes) environments.- Migrated Quartet's services to EKS that were previously hosted directly on EC2.- Migrated Quartet's services from EKS to Fargate upon realizing that Kubernetes was a bad choice for their infrastructure.- Migrated Quartet's aged self-hosted SFTP server setup from a single server to AWS Transfer Family, increasing security for clients and reducing maintenance complexity.- Implemented Atlantis for handling Terraform via GitOps.- Created a custom VPN solution around OpenVPN CE and OneLogin/Okta, significantly reducing complexity and cost.- Fully built and automated an Informatica environment via Terraform.- Provided guidance and mentorship on AWS, CI/CD best practices for all engineers.- Significantly reduced Quartet's AWS costs.- Nurtured a healthy DevOps culture enabling dev and infra teams to work well together.- Worked with security team to ensure HIPAA and SOC2 compliance for the infrastructure.- Deployed Darktrace and Rapid7 across cloud and endpoints for security monitoring.- Maintained remote IT support for over 400 workers.- Rebuilt the IT support department, discovered and shut down a laptop theft ring.- Migrated Apple and Windows MDM solutions to Kandji and Microsoft Intune.- Managed Quartet's Google Workspace and O365 environments.- Managed and maintained Quartet's self-hosted Github Enterprise.- Improved security by automating updates for all user control machines.- Implemented Okta as the company's new SSO platform.- Taught and mentored in DevOps, systems engineering, security, and IT management.- Optimized the IT support workflow from user requests to problem resolution.- Deployed company device asset tracking where they previously had none. Show less

Brooklyn, New York, United States

- Managed and maintained Voice's GCP and Kubernetes environments.- Became familiar with blockchain technology. Specifically the EOSIO blockchain framework.- Was instrumental in streamlining a massive lift-and-shift migration from Block.one's infrastructure to Voice's.- Migrated services included multiple Kubernetes clusters,over 200 GitHub repositories, PostgreSQL databases, CI/CD pipelines, and DNS records, and NPM packages.Streamlined their CloudFlare and PagerDuty accounts by… Show more - Managed and maintained Voice's GCP and Kubernetes environments.- Became familiar with blockchain technology. Specifically the EOSIO blockchain framework.- Was instrumental in streamlining a massive lift-and-shift migration from Block.one's infrastructure to Voice's.- Migrated services included multiple Kubernetes clusters,over 200 GitHub repositories, PostgreSQL databases, CI/CD pipelines, and DNS records, and NPM packages.Streamlined their CloudFlare and PagerDuty accounts by managing them via Terraform and Buildkite.- Became their go-to resource for tricky Terraform and Bash related issues. Show less

Greater New York City Area

Overhauled AiCure's code deployment process to make it a true CI/CD processMade AiCure's existing services more resilient by implementing optimizationslike container autoscalingMade use of Lambda functions to reduce cost and make management ofinfrastructure easier to maintain

New York, Ny

Built custom tooling to automate and provide accountability for the entirety of Univision's and Gizmodo Media Group's DNS infrastructure.Containerized and automated of Univision's Jenkins environment.Rebuilt Univision's AWS environment entirely in CloudFormation.Brought visibility to cost of operation of all Univision AWS accounts via CloudHealth. Implemented CI/CD pipelines to test and automate other processes wherever possible.

Orlando, Florida Area

Administrator for high traffic college catalog websites consisting of a few hundred servers. Closely worked with and supported the needs of developers.- Was made lead systems manager with and put in charge of managing a team of admins.- Managed and improved upon their existing AWS stack.- Managed and improved upon their existing Chef environment.- Led an effort to transition to Docker containers wherever possible.- Led an effort to migrate more of their legacy… Show more Administrator for high traffic college catalog websites consisting of a few hundred servers. Closely worked with and supported the needs of developers.- Was made lead systems manager with and put in charge of managing a team of admins.- Managed and improved upon their existing AWS stack.- Managed and improved upon their existing Chef environment.- Led an effort to transition to Docker containers wherever possible.- Led an effort to migrate more of their legacy infrastructure to AWS specific services.- Automated the creation of vagrant boxes for developers via continuous integration.- Automated various long and manual workflows. Show less

Maitland, Fl

Purpose: Administrator for high traffic travel website consisting of over 250 servers. Closely worked with and supported the needs of developers.Achievements:- Deployed SaltStack to configure and effortlessly manage new and existing servers. This reduced new setup times for new servers to half an hour.- Contributed to the SaltStack project fixing bugs in the MySQL module.- Wrote a SaltStack based template system for managing thousands of MySQL credentials.- Had… Show more Purpose: Administrator for high traffic travel website consisting of over 250 servers. Closely worked with and supported the needs of developers.Achievements:- Deployed SaltStack to configure and effortlessly manage new and existing servers. This reduced new setup times for new servers to half an hour.- Contributed to the SaltStack project fixing bugs in the MySQL module.- Wrote a SaltStack based template system for managing thousands of MySQL credentials.- Had formulas for users and grains management accepted into the public SaltStack formula repository.- Reduced the time a MySQL slave rebuild takes from a whole day to a few hours.- Learned how to use Zabbix at a much larger scale.- Learned how to work with MySQL replication.- Made developers' lives easier by managing their sandbox VMs through Vagrant.- Deployed the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) to greatly simplify and make sense of logging data.- Facilitated the move to a virtualized environment with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.- Set up, configured, and provided troubleshooting for a Dell Compellent 80 terabyte storage array attached via multipath iSCSI. It was the storage backing for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Show less

Orlando, Florida Area

Purpose: Providing IT support for DoD contractors and commercial clients with a mix of Windows and Linux servers.Achievements:- Set up monitoring for over 50 servers with Zabbix.- Streamlined client's in-house IT support process for 5 servers and 30 workstations.- Solved internal mail related problems by setting up DKIM and SPF for StackFrame.Noteworthy Extras:- Acquired Security+ certification with this employer.

Orlando, Florida Area

Purpose:A non-profit that donated refurbished Linux PCs to those in need.Achievements:- Set up 4 public web terminals for the Ronald McDonald house of Orlando.- Gave LTSP setup to the Hope For All day care center for abused children in Orlando, FL.- Gave individual desktops to 3 families as well as provided them with training and support.

Winter Park, Fl

Purpose: Provided in-house support for servers, workstations, and web server.Achievements:- Set up and continue to manage a Linux VPS for their website.- Recovered from 3 server hardware failures with no data loss and minimal down time.- Gained invaluable experience in the management of Windows based small business servers.- Implemented automated local and off-site server backups.- Repair and maintenance of network client computers.- Successfully deployed… Show more Purpose: Provided in-house support for servers, workstations, and web server.Achievements:- Set up and continue to manage a Linux VPS for their website.- Recovered from 3 server hardware failures with no data loss and minimal down time.- Gained invaluable experience in the management of Windows based small business servers.- Implemented automated local and off-site server backups.- Repair and maintenance of network client computers.- Successfully deployed office wide server managed anti-virus software.- Facilitated better interoffice communication by deployment of local Jabber server.- Implemented disaster recover plans for the server and all workstations.- Implemented secure remote access to network for offsite interaction and system repair.- Reduced company expenses through the use of open source software.Noteworthy extras:- Provided training for coworkers in the operation of company client computers along with safe web browsing and email practices.- Switched many coworkers personally owned computers to Linux operating systems as well as provided initial training with its use. Show less

Orlando, Florida Area

Worked 8 years as a web developer for various companies. The details of these positions have been omitted due to a career change to system administration as they favor too heavily in LinkedIn keyword searches.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Digital Media, B

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), General Studies, A

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Concert Band, Brass Ensemble