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Durham, North Carolina, Us

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Built & designed infrastructure using Kubernetes & cloud formation to ensure redundancy and ease of deployment. Ensured HIPAA compliance throughout the infrastructure and actively worked towards ISO 27001 and HITRUST certifications.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Worked to bring DevOps, which was previously outsourced, in house. Setup monitoring and graphing for better infrastructure awareness. Worked to reduce overall AWS costs by over 50%.

Durham, Nc, Us

Worked on the Datomic product team to put in place infrastructure and monitoring for a new product offering.

Austin, Texas, Us

Appia was acquired by Digital Turbine.Design, develop and implement an automated Linux (Centos, Amazon) infrastructure using Puppet, MCollective and AWS and move existing applications off windows seamlessly to it while aggressively growing.Working with automating and sizing infrastructure and monitoring for Kafka, Storm, Zookeeper, Redis, Aerospike, JBoss, Tomcat, Elastic Beanstalk, Flume, Graylog, and Vertica. Automating release and ops tasks with Jenkins & Packer.Manage infrastructure serving 1mm+ events per minute.

Durham, Nc, Us

Design, develop and implement an automated Linux (Centos, Amazon) infrastructure using Puppet, MCollective and AWS and move existing applications off windows seamlessly to it while aggressively growing.Working with automating and sizing infrastructure and monitoring for Kafka, Storm, Zookeeper, Redis, Aerospike, JBoss, Tomcat, Elastic Beanstalk, Flume, Graylog, and Vertica. Automating release and ops tasks with Jenkins & Packer.Manage infrastructure serving 1mm+ events per minute.

Beertronics is based in Durham, North Carolina, we develop software and hardware for use in collecting information about the serving of beer from kegs. Our SoTap™ system provides an inexpensive means of collecting usage data from each tap line in a beer serving establishment. Our goal is to provide an easy way to collect data about what is on tap, to provide trending data about how long it is on tap, peak selling times, pricing, while interfacing with Point of Sale systems to provide information about loss. In addition to the behind-the-scene usage reports for owners, we also provide an easy to implement, digital tap list using televisions within their establishment and social media integration. These always up-to-date listing of taps is automated to keep customers aware of what is currently on tap.

Brentford, Middlesex, Gb

Managing Linux Clusters used by the Computational Chemistry and Crystallography Departments on multiple sites in the US, UK and France. Implemented a complete central system management and monitoring system using Puppet and Xymon and implemented cluster management using Cobbler/Koan used over multiple sites. Designed and implemented an upgrade path from RHEL4 to RHEL5 which included maintaining support for older programs not supported in RHEL5. Responsible for upgrades and in-house modifications to scientific software used by the groups. Supporting Linux based workstations used by scientists in both departments.

Brentford, Middlesex, Gb

Managing Linux Clusters used by the Computational Chemistry and Crystallography Departments on multiple sites. Implemented a complete central system management and monitoring system using Puppet and Xymon and implemented cluster management using Cobbler/Koan used over multiple sites. Designed and implemented an upgrade path from RHEL4 to RHEL5 which included maintaining support for older programs not supported in RHEL5. Responsible for upgrades and in-house modifications to scientific software used by the groups. Supporting Linux based workstations used by scientists in both departments.

• Day to day maintenance of IBM servers as well as deployment and upgrades of current production servers to RHEL5. • Heavy use of our cobbler based KickStart system utilizing Koan for fast deployment.• Use of Yum and up2date for keeping system packages up to date, as well as using in-house rpm repository for deployment of in-house packages.• Modification of CFengine based configuration management systems for easy server deployments and maintenance changes.• Heavy use and setup of Hobbit monitoring systems, as well as the creation multiple monitoring and reporting scripts for Xend, MySQL server monitoring and MySQL backup verification, and IBM blade center monitoring.

• Worked with Perl, PHP, shell scripting, and SQL (on MySQL and Postgres databases) in a Linux environment.• Worked as part of the Infrastructure group and created a MySQL maintenance script to monitor and maintain our MySQL database farms. This included replication, backups and backup growth, and log/replication file cleanup as well as trend/status reporting to our monitoring systems.• Ported the AP wire feed parser to Perl from C++.

Supported McClatchy Interactives’ software by working with a small support team to make sure that all mission critical operations are functional for more then 40 online papers. • Worked on everything from simple HTML to server software setup.• Worked first-hand with Real Media Ad Systems, Real Networks Streaming Servers, all of McClatchy’s software, Mailman, Lyris ListManager.

Boston, Ma, Us

Assisted in updating server backup systems, tape rotations, consolidated reporting for all UNIX servers to single report. Assisted in network anti-virus operations and repair. Worked on help desk at busy times.

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Helped implement new websites designed by creative department, including Wentworth, Ocean Spray. Updated, repaired existing sites. Created “wire frames” to show client website navigation before build.

Served as primary PC repair and deployment technician, working independently. Repaired off-lease PCs donated by local businesses to Webhood, then deployed them at Cambridge area youth centers. Other jobs included installing and repairing networks, answering questions from centers’ staffs.