During this time I had a health challenge that made it impossible for me to work full time. I have fully recovered and am again seeking full time contract or permanent employment in Linux-centered, automation-driven, cloud-centric computer operations.• Software and hardware development projects, including crowd-sourced audits of MBTA bus usage and performance and a Python program to read pass card codes from card readers using Wiegand signaling, consumer-oriented audio accessories, and devices for ride share drivers.• Provided high-contact end-user support of MacOS and Windows desktop environments.

Short contract engagement to analyze, document, and upgrade a MongoDB cluster.

Supported development and deployment of web apps written in Ruby on Rails. Configuration management with Chef, primarily a CentOS environment. PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, memcached.

Portfolio management software, customers in the financial services industry. Ruby on Rails web app, configuration and release management with a homegrown package. I did substantial work on network issues, including resolving shortcomings of network switches and upgrading a mixed-implementation IPSec VPN plus firewall multi-site installation to all Juniper SRX devices.

Wide ranging IT generalist and production web app support role. Software was in Java running on JBoss. We used Hudson, TeamCity, Subversion, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Ruby, MongoDB, Javascript, APM AppMan, Cacti, Ganglia, Nagios, PagerDuty, Confluence, Jira, LDAP, iptables, F5 load balancer, AWS, SoftLayer hosting, Savvis colocation.