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Haslet, TX, US

New York, NY, US

• Deploy and manage large-scale data ingestion, transformation, and indexing
• Developed custom applications to improve the data ingestion process
• Designed and implemented data models, indexes, and search strategies to meetperformance and scalability requirements
• Onboarded data from various sources including dbconnect syslog and kafka buses
• Configured and monitored Splunk search heads, indexers, and forwarders
• Develop cross functional alignment to ensure successful project completion

Mclean, Virginia, US

• Created custom Splunk applications to onboard and cook data from numerous data sources
• Managed F5 load balanced Syslog-NG configuration for millions of events per minute
• Designed, developed, and implemented complex Splunk architectures and solutions.
• Developed Splunk dashboards and data models to provide meaningful insights.
• Troubleshot and resolved Splunk issues and provide technical support.
• Managed Splunk user accounts, onboarded new users, and provided user training.

Arlington, VA, US

• Technical lead for all Linux based operations
• Established a zero-downtime patching regiment on all Managed Linux devices including OS, Application Stacks, Firmware
• Technical lead for a highly visible upgrade of Splunk from 7.x to 8.x for multisite cluster
• Technical lead for identifying ownership and performing Universal Forwarder updates to 5000+ forwarders
• Technical lead for all SIEM Integration tasks
• Architected Standalone HA ES environment

Arlington, VA, US

• Developed strategy for upgrading Redhat and Splunk environments utilizing Ansible Role based playbooks
• Managed 90+ server deployment utilizing Multisite replication in multiple datacentersv
• Developed dozens of high quality Ansible Playbooks for automating complex manual operations
• Managed all aspects of highly customized Enterprise Security environment
• Imported data from multiple API based frameworks into Splunk
• Developed dozens of high quality dashboards focusing on current needs

New York, NY, US

• Sr Data Architect
• Designed report saving company between 250k and 300k in licensing costs
• Integrated Servicenow CMDB and Request data with Splunk utilizing inputlookups
• Designing and implementing Splunk-based best practice solutions
• Articulated and conveyed advanced technical concepts related to designing and developing processes utilizing Splunk best practices
• Captured, analyzed, and monitored front end application logs

Westlake, Texas, US

• Develop and implement software release management strategy for Splunk utilizing JIRA/Bitbucket/Bamboo
• Develop and implement migration strategy from Standalone SH to Clustered SH
• Develop Python scripts to automate the remediation of 700+ Splunk App configurations
• Standardize Splunk server configurations for 6.x and 7.x
• Develop Python and Bash scripts for backend Splunk and Linux administration
• Optimize data ingestion with a goal of complete CIM compliance

Toronto, ON, CA

• Engineered strategy utilizing Redhat Satellite with custom kickstart scripts
• Designed multiple highly redundant web solutions supporting 35,000 connections/min
• Support 1300+ Linux servers in a multi platform environment
• Designed multi-node Redhat IPA solution with replication supporting > 1000 users
• Perform asset and inventory management via python API calls
• Created multiple Splunk dashboards ensuring application and infrastructure visibility

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US

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• Architected virtual IBM MQ server solution utilizing VMWARE and Redhat
• Architected Redhat IDM solution utilizing Dirsrv 389 facilitating authentication for 25K+ users. Migrated 25K+ users using custom Python script from Solaris based LDAP service to Redhat IDM 389 LDAP service.
• Architected geographically distributed DR environments on multiple projects for mission-critical corporate applications.
• Architected global NTP solution consisting of Stratum 1 devices spanning multiple Datacenter’s servicing 10k+ devices
• Lead engineer for PCI upgrade project for deploying and securing hundreds of Redhat 6 servers and migrating services from legacy Redhat 5/4/3 servers.

San Antonio, Texas, US

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• Architected and maintained existing environments utilizing RHEL/Centos/Ubuntu within vmware, hyper-v, openstack, or on non virtualized dedicated equipment
• Wrote custom utilities using Bash and Python for auditing very large environments
• Engineered and deployed Redhat clustered services for fortune 500 customer
• Designed and implemented hybrid cloud solutions utilizing racked and scaling resources encompassing all of Rackspace cloud offerings
• Partnered with customers to identify unknown challenges, capacity planning, perform preventative maintenance, and security audits

Plano, Texas, US

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• Proactively monitor services and load for 3000+ customer environments
• Design and deploy custom LAMP hosting platforms based on provided specifications
• Engineer and Performance Tune MySQL platforms with replication
• Manage VM snapshots/migrations/restores/creation in VMWARE
• Engineer and Maintain global DNS solutions utilizing GTM

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• Architected Gluster NAS environment replication 8+ terabytes
• Architected centralized logging solution utilizing LEM, syslog-ng, and splunk storm
• Architected highly redundant Amazon environments spanning multiple regions
• Engineered and maintained hosting environments using RHEL/Centos/Ubuntu
• Engineered A10 configurations utilizing aFlex scripts w/ SSL Termination

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Data Science

Associates, Liberal Arts