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* Hiring and Managing staff* Logistics for required parts and tooling * Production of Timber products* Saw-write for a Linn Lumber Sawmill* Harvesting dead and dying trees* Loading and hauling oversized timber* Maintainer, Operator, Owner of an Excavator for timber handling* Regulating the drying environment for lumber

Tampa, Florida, Us

* Instituted Code Review, Merge Requests with ticket tracking integration* Modernized and scripted the branching strategy* Initiated versioning with rolling build numbers for all components* Created Unit test jobs for each component* Connected the package builds into a CI pipeline * Refactored components in separate repositories for a more logical CI/CD pipeline * Containerized a number of services * Diagrammed build CI/CD flow and branching strategies * Completed the CI/CD and Automation pipeline * Optimized build times including job and pipeline cancel logic* Redesigned the many pipelines to allow for branch based testing* Coached a number of developers through git best practices* Lead a cross team deep evaluation of a numerous physical automation solutions for payment* Onboarded team members* Refactored installer creation scripts* Refactored login and token usage for a number of services* Containerized a major service and generalized a portion of the product configuration * Scripted the build of an Android app and its deploy to Playstore* Refactored Powershell Deployment scripts* Redeployed Anchore and Sonarqube services and aggregated the reports* Redeployed and upgraded Gitlab on a tight timeline through many releases * Integrated Slack, Jira, Azure, SonarQube, Anchor, Snyk and many more services with Gitlab* Deployed build nodes and maintained through a number of upgrades and expansions* Redesigned Infrastructure to be more robust and reliable* Created registries for Docker images and NPM packages* Finalized 100's of releases for many products * Documented releases while creating the Release Management Strategy* Debugged and amended Ansible playbooks for all services* Responded to a number of mission critical, time sensitive requests and outages* Generated a longer term Devops Strategy* Configured and administered Kubernetes clusters

Emeryville, Ca, Us

Stand-in for a Principle SRE:* Introduced consistent Development/Staging/Production methodology and environments* Created/Upgraded the Configuration Management for ~30 apps from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04* Standardized 4 SCM's to one Gitlab instance and managed the 100+ person user base* Introduced a Code Review process as a gate for getting into the release pipeline* Managed 200+ repositories and created tools for aligning Apps and Libraries for consistent deployment* Re-introduced and revised Ticket Management using Jira to Research & Development with Gitlab integration* Integrated 100+ projects into a CI/CD system using mostly Jenkins and Bash* Created backup and restore systems for Gitlab, Jira, Postgresql that integrated with Commvault* Reduced developer ramp up time from 3 months to around one day* Developed a solution that minimized developer wait time to about 5 min for testing database migrations* Implemented a deployment cache that reduced deployment time from 30 minutes of Application down time to seconds* Planned an automated database migration system for syncing the migration level and library versions of ~15 Apps to allow for branch based testing* Upgraded a mission critical database on Postges 9.3 and Ubuntu 14.04 to Postgres 9.6 and Ubuntu 16.04 including Configuration Management and Restore from Backup. * Diagrammed many Architectures, Systems and Processes live with a wide variety of teams* Administrated an internal package repository for Apt, Python, R, and Node.* Managed interns on a project of integrating search into our major applications using Elasticsearch* Designed and implemented about 60% of a Disaster Recovery(DR) strategy * Purchased and deployed NewRelic monitoring into a complex production environment* Purchased and Installed a 2.5P IBM Elastic Storage Solution(ESS)* Supported 30+ Engineers in daily operations* Reduced application downtime significantly* Rebuilt the backend for the machine learning team

Hanover, Md, Us

* Upgraded Atlassian's Jira and Fisheye through 6 major versions* Learned and took ownership of the entire build process, hardware, and infrastructure* Redesigned the monolithic build into separate functioning components, to parallelize the building of components and maintain isolation * Created a strategy to allow for developers to only have to build the components they are working on (3 hour builds down to under 17 min)* Responded rapidly to anything that blocked users daily work over the last year, (4-8 urgent daily, sometimes 20+)* Introduced a branching strategy through multiple groups over 3 major releases* Rapidly migrated all the older builds from Pulse to Jenkins over Christmas due to a major HW outage (under 2 days of downtime near the end of the release cycle)* Reorganized the DNS/DHCP files to be able to deploy machines automatically * Standardized the build/dev machines and templates* Refactored a touchy Perforce permissions scheme* Organized the build to allow for all the variations(el5/el6,optimized/debug) to build simultaneously * Expedited build work for a very urgent performance degradation inquiry * Moved from working on only the platform teams core issues, to working on the entire products build issues, and on to a new product design* Coordinated ~50 branches to main, reducing team overhead while keeping main stable * Moved many components from a prebuilt YUM repo into true build on demand components, increasing build robustness and reducing developer confusion* Introduced a separate docs component* Worked closely with IT on the VM infrastructure upgrades and purchasing * Used vendor contacts to get comparable quotes on VM HW* Documented modern build infrastructure, including Systems Architecture diagrams * Moved all but one piece of the build infrastructure onto a standard build image * Prototyped the automation integration with Jenkins for QA* Diagramed the automation system architecture, with QA review

* Pitched slides to potential investors* Researched potential investors* Designed a solution to address a focused market need

* Facilitated the Agile process in a 12-person group using Rally* Planned the transition of a complex product from FreeBSD to CentOS* Hired, mentored and tasked 8 junior staff* Created Salesforce reports to analyze release quality * Discovered the root cause of complicated defects* Designed robust solutions to complicated issues from the field* Reduced support volume by 50% by fixing high value to cost issues* Implemented fixes for a number of complex bugs* Devised a safe method of patching binaries on remote customer systems to minimize support effort* Designed and implemented tools for simplifying testing of a complex product* Completed and maintained a Continuous Integration system using Git, Perforce, and Jenkins* Reduced build times from 24 hours to 1 hour* Released more than 10 versions of the IP360 software and 4 new hardware models* Designed Accelerated Life Tests to prove long-term hardware viability. * Created an automation framework to validate a major cut over from FreeBSD to Linux using py.test* Designed, administered and monitored a tightly controlled automation lab of over 400 virtual machine images

* Designed Performance suites around FlowerFire's Sawmill integration with a Web Security Appliance* Automated long term compliance tests around Splunk integration with SMA * Automated long term performance tests in Python on Windows 2008 Server and RHEL * Completed detailed instructions in configuring an Email Security Appliance to work with LDAP * Debugged an enterprise level Security Management Appliance based on FreeBSD * Revised and clarified specifications from requirements* Documented and designed tools and procedures* Created test plans from specifications* Hosted meetings with the leads of other organizational units* Owned numerous high priority bugs to completion* Guided a high profile project to completion * Contributed to a major release

* Designed and implemented a secure billing system using PHP, MySQL and PayPal * Created a registration and authorization scheme involving Python, PHP and MySQL* Designed and implemented an interface to MySQL in Python* Built and administered Debian and Ubuntu servers within a production environment* Instituted regular builds, testing and code review * Succeed in securing finances from an angel* Debugged and redesigned install scripts using Inno* Designed test plans for a distributed backup application* Administered Red Hat Linux and Windows 2000 servers* Managed and trained the QA group

* Designed, developed and administered, a Technical Support Knowledge Base in PHP and MySQL* Created, selected and integrated tools that increased response volume, helping 75% more or about 600 customers per week * Installed and administered Red Hat Linux, performing the configuration required to host various virtual domains and MySQL databases* Interfaced directly with the Aladdin Systems customer base, on a large number of products, including StuffIt

* Implemented curriculum in conjunction with the SETI Institute using a combination of technologies including HTML, Flash, Director, QuickTime, JavaScript and Java* Performed QA for Knowledge Forum, a multi-user, database-driven server written in C++, that serves JavaScript embedded in HTML.* Generated Test Automation, using SilkTest* Performed Network and Server Administration* Provided Release Mastering and Final Testing

* Lead a team in the development of an open source tutoring application* Organized meetings with volunteers * Evaluated technologies * Conducted focus groups to assess feature requirements * Designed component architecture in Java * Created a live product demo in Director

* Performed Quality Control for the 1176LN Solid State Limiting Amplifier* Assembled the manufacturing kit* Performed the final audio and component test* Replaced defective components* Packaged and shipped

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