VP of Operations (Technical) (6/2017 - Present)Director of DevOps (3/2016 - 6/2017) - Manage DevOps, QA, Docs, Security, and IT Teams - Turned Support over to a new department for increased growth - Research and recommend technology stacks - Manage technology and human resources - Handle compute resource billing (AWS, Azure) - Day to day human and tech resource management - Tech: AWS, Azure, Ansible, internal tools - 2016: Took over QA and built a team + manager role for this team (turned it over to the new manager who is AWESOME!), Built a new Support Team (Also, hired a manager who is KILLING it), Transferred support to a new org for faster growth, Split out DevOps into DevOps and Security, new security team is awesome.. holy cow.. I have the best teams ever.. and.. my Docs team (of one) is so awesome; and writing RPG manuals for very high profile folks outside of work? What? - Realizing that a Career Sysadmin/DevOps guy CAN do other stuff...... so fun.. fun fun fun....Engineering Team Lead DevOps (3/2015 - 3/2016) - Maintaining previous responsibilities - Lead the DevOps team - Manage day to day queues - wow devops, such dev, so opsSr. DevOps Engineer (10/2014 - 3/2015) - Research, Maintain, and develop methods of deploying infra-as-code - Focus entirely on AWS - Work with Eng, other DevOps

Typical contractor stuff; day to day maintenance, account management, scripting, aquihire migrations, general linux stuff.

Support backend mobile infrastructure. - NodeJS - Java - MongoDB - Ansible - Amazon Web Services- OpenStack (OMG! I HAVE THE CLOUD IN A BOX!)

Maintain large scale infrastructure, interact with application owners, troubleshoot systems and OS issues, deploy new technologies.

Maintain large scale infrastructure, assist others on my team, interact with clients.Technology: Puppet, Netapp, Openstack, KVM, AWS, DNS, VMWare, various Mail Services, RBLDNSd, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris 10, Hadoop, Java app stack support

Support a large scale infrastructure, building new servers for new games, maintain OS and hardware for various game platforms.Technology: VMWare, LXE, Puppet, DNS, Linux, various app stack support - flash, java, C

Maintain mid-sized infrastructure of about 400 production servers in a real-time financial trading environment. Supporting application owners, the applications themselves, and building a virtual infrastructure with as close to "zero latency" as possible.Technology: A lot of bash scripting, DNS, SMTP, Java apps, Oracle (from a Linux Admin side - not as a DBA), Linux, Hadoop

- Maintain a small AWS account for this startup - Lead a team of DevOps Engineers. - Began the process of "Infrastructure as Code" - Combined Agile + AWS moving Sysadmins into a more DevOpsy way of doing things.Support for: AWS, Java app support, support of the full SDLC, mentoring junior devops

Maintain mid-scale infrastructure for this real estate search company.Technology: Citrix Netscaler, AWS, local Datacenter buildouts, Hadoop, Java App support, PHP app support, SMTP, DNS, cfengine, linux, multi-tier storage support.

Started as Senior Systems Administrator, moved into Network Security Engineer, and eventually Network and Security Engineer.Technology: Cisco 5505/5510, Foundry SI400, Dell switches, Brocade Switches, Linux Firewalls, Vyatta, Linux OS, DNS, IPTables, AWS, VPN, Asterix

Maintain physical datacenter, rack and stack, network configuration, OS, Developer interaction and support, Python App Support for this startup.Technology: Xen, DRBD, DNS, SVN, Linux, smaller networking gear (dell, sonicwall, PFSense)

NOTE: Connexus and Netblue are the same company - there was a name change.Design, Deploy, Support Tomcat, Java, PostgreSQL stackDesign, build, and deploy large public-facing Linux (CentOS, Fedora) web clusters – this included working with the software architect to determine the needs of the development team, and ultimately the needs of the production environment, building servers from spec or purchasing based on spec, installing the OS, tuning for the particular need, and deploying into dev/stage/prod.Deploy Java applications into production via svnMaintain internal tools (Trac, Subversion, SugarCRM, MediaWIKI)Maintain Linux Database Clusters (PostgreSQL, MySQL)Work closely with the Network Engineers, Software Architects, and C-Level execuDesign, build, deploy, and maintain the development/staging/production environments.Design, develop, deploy, and maintain E-Mail deliverability system (Postfix, bash)Develop, deploy, maintain E-Mail feedback loop, whitelist, blacklist (Postfix, bash)Maintain PCI compliance (Security Compliance)

[Netblue and Connexus are the same company]

Provided support to the Development, Production IT, and Finance Departments of Misys.Technology: Linux, AIX 4x/5x, Solaris 8/9, Digital Unix 4, Tru64, OpenVMS, DNS, various file transfer systems that provided AP with payroll.

Maintain AIX (4.3.3 – 5.3), Solaris (5.5.1 – 10), Linux (RedHat AS 3.0/4,0, RHL 9, SuSE Enterprise 8, 9), HP/UX (10.2 – 11.23), BSD (Open, Net, Free), and Windows Servers. Maintain network, security, etc.

• Maintained all aspects of the Unix Systems for the Network Division• Support for Siemens Communications DNS, DHCP, NIS, and Security• Primary support for Raptor Firewall System• Worked with Exchange Architect to migrate SBS and Siemens COM from an antiquated, proprietary Sendmail System (Mailhub) to Microsoft Exchange.

Sr Linux Administrator for Indigo Networks' IShopHere.com division.

Performed various tasks for many different small companies.