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Livermore, Ca, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Technologies: Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Go, Python, C, Linux, Keycloak, JWT, OAuth2, Vault, iPxe, PXE, KiwiNG, conman/conmand, PorsgreSQL, SQL. Develop and support REST based services (primarily Python and Go) running under Kubernetes enabling system management on Cray's Shasta platform.

Houston, Texas, Us

Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, Kong, Go, Python, Linux, Keycloak, JWT, OAuth2, Vault, iPxe, PXE, KiwiNG, conman/conmand, PorsgreSQL, SQL. Develop and support REST based services (primarily Python) running under Kubernetes enabling system management on Cray's Shasta platform. Implement enhancements enabling Keycloak to federate authentication to an external LDAP service. Work with JWT and OAuth to implement REST API based authentication in the API gateway (Kong). Support and extend iPxe as required to support Shasta operations including implementing JWT token based request authentication. Enhance the node console and logging service (based on Go, Conman daemon, HashiCorp Vault, Expect and ssh) as required to enable console services on Cray's Mountain class hardware. Developed and enhanced REST services as needed to support node boot orchestration.

Houston, Texas, Us

Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, KVM, virt builder, Python, python-ldap, Apache Apache OpenLDAP, ldif, Apache Directory Studio, ansible, bash, shunit, TCP/IP. Develop multi-tenancy platform infrastructure for managing the lifecycle of tenant virtual machines and containers on Cray's analytics platform.

Houston, Texas, Us

Technologies: OpenStack Kilo (primarily Glance, Neutron, Ironic and Nova), OpenVSwitch, Python, Eclipse, git, Ansible, bash, cloud-init, CentOS 6/7, Docker. Led the effort to initially deploy and support Cray's OpenStack on the Cray Urika XA and GX platforms for system management. Enhanced the OpenStack Ironic (bare metal) deployment agent (Python) to support Urika GX use cases. Supported internal operations, customer deployments and worked to resolve performance issues. Functioned as a representative for the project requirements to the broader OpenStack engineering team within the company. Managed and mentored a group of developers as part of the OpenStack effort. Hosted a summer intern twice and was the project advisor.

Houston, Texas, Us

Technologies: Java 6/7, Jersey, Spring, Spring security, Rmi, Jmx, Jms (Active MQ), log4j, Mockito, Junit, Selenuim, AWS, Jenkins, Artifactory, Maven, Eclipse STS, git, svn, SLES, Centos 6, Nagios, Nagios XI. Developed Java RBAC REST services to enable the lifecycle management of the Cray Graph Engine running on the Cray XMT and Urika XA platforms. Evaluated tools for system management including Nagios XA, Bright Cluster Manager and Cobbler. Led the initial effort to deploy and support AWS Linux VMs for use by the offshore team in their development work.

Livermore, Ca, Us

Lead developer, systems administration. Technologies: Oracle Identity Manager/Java/J2EE/SQL/Oracle 10 & 11g/RHEL Linux/Active Directory/LDAP/Alfresco CMS/Endeca/bash/Maven/Hudson. Lead design, implementation and deployment of OIM security infrastructure into multiple production environments. Lead developer of OIM based user management and registration system. Acting Oracle DBA handling installations on RHEL, upgrades, migrations, backup/recovery, and SQL development as required. Supported and customized Alfresco CMS to meet project needs. Designed and implemented java based data acquisition, conversion, and transcriber data loading processes which interfaced with Semantic databases, Lucene, and Endeca search engines. Deployed/supported application stack at multiple locations.

Livermore, Ca, Us

Developer technical lead. Provided technical leadership for a team of 10 in planning and successful upgrade of 700 user eMatrix Engineering Central PDM application with customizations.

Livermore, Ca, Us

Java/J2EE/Oracle/Servlet/PLSQL developer on MatrixOne PDM (eMatrix Engineering Central) deployment for 700 users. Designed and implemented customizations, data migration processes, custom parsers, Oracle Advanced Queue messaging framework, document conversion system, integrations with CAD tools, and message based integrations with other remote systems to support business processing. Supported rollout on Solaris with Oracle.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Java/J2EE/JSP/Servlet/SQL/Oracle developer on CRM system used by the call center to manage and process insurance applications in dynamic startup environment. Designed and implemented UI enhancements, SQL, PDF document archival system, batch printing system, and data acquisition system interfacing with carrier extranets. Participated in weekly release process and worked closely with call center staff to resolve any issues.

C++/MFC/SQL developer on Win32 ODBC/SQL Server database application used for tracking clinical information in health care environment. Designed and implemented enhancements to UI, bulk data loader, COM based notification server, and HL7 messaging system.

Managed build and release process for cross platform Win32/Mac C/C++ application libraries in support of application developers. Wrote test suites in C++ for tools produced by group. Maintained and enhanced Win32 MFC applications as required.

Supported three NetWare 3.12 environments serving multiple locations. Installed and maintained Novell Groupwise 4.1 services connecting multiple locations. Installed and configured PCs, servers, and networked printers as required. Upgraded many parts of the network to CAT5 from BNC. Recommended and purchased IT components as required. Provided end user support.

Provided desktop and Novell/NT server support in health care environment. Installed, upgraded, and configured Windows desktops, networked printers, print servers, cabling, and ethernet network gear as required. Performed account maintenance and other sysadmin tasks on Novell Netware and NT Server as required. Provided Windows and MS Office user support.