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Raleigh, NC, US

• Designing, implementing, and troubleshooting Distributed CI and OpenShift solutions for Red Hat partners.
• Creation of and contributing to Ansible playbooks and Python code to facilitate solutions for said partners.
• Code review and feedback of colleagues' contributions via Gerrit.

• Assorted projects, including:
• Automating manual security scan-enabled Jenkins CI/CD Opipelines.
• Designing and architecting greenfield AWS Organizations implementation.
• Containerizing entire internal application stack.
• Lift-and-shift of from on-premises to AWS.
• Building multi-environment CI/CD pipelines.

Arlington, VA, US

• Spearheading complete overhaul of patching process across all cloud environments.
• Utilizing Ansible and Ansible Tower for Linux and Windows patching across both Azure and AWS.
• Developing Terraform-based infrastructure provisioning system.
• Maintaining cloud-native backups for all business units utilizing Azure and AWS.
• Utilizing Datadog monitoring and Pagerduty as part of on-call rotation.

Long Island City, NY, US

• Completion of Associate of Arts degree
• Completion of 7 professional certifications:o Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHEL 8)o AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professionalo CompTIA Linux+o LPIC-1 Certified Linux Administratoro Kubernetes Certified.

New York, NY, US

• Dedicated to architecting and deploying all server deployments for Ticket Plant, the backend queried by Bloomberg Terminal.
• Mixture of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IBM AIX, and Sun Solaris servers.
• Expanded capacity and retired older, far more power inefficient servers.
• Worked on automating manual build processes with Ansible Tower.
• Coordinating with various departments to troubleshoot issues pertaining to Ansible Tower automation outside of our department's access scope.
• Troubleshooting performance and networking issues with Splunk and various in-house tools.

• Responsible for planning the move of all internally hosted HPC and Docker resources to AWS.
• Focused on moving all internally hosted HPC and Docker resources to AWS.
• Created CloudFormation stacks to begin lift-and-shift to AWS, including EKS.
• Deployed HIPAA compliant auditing and logging solution for GermLine and all other product offerings.

New York, New York, US

• Responsible for the architecting, design, and implementation of entirely new environments and deployments for customers.
• Hybrid deployments between on-premises VMware and AWS.
• Utilized Foreman and Puppet for software deployment and infrastructure configuration management.
• Utilized Jenkins and Gradle for deployment of Apache Tomcat-based Jahia content updates.
• Architecting, engineering, and maintenance for both customer-provided and internal infrastructure.
• Responding to and maintaining our NewRelic-based monitoring system.

Jersey City, NJ, US

• Focused on Windows operating system design, architecture, and implementation for both in-house VMWare ESX VMs and AWS cloud servers.
• Set up and reconfigured Active Directory domains across both environments, installing and configuring new Microsoft SQL server clusters for new projects' needs as they arise.
• Maintained DNS records across both InfoBlox and Active Directory.
• Updated existing and installing (EV) SSL certificates.
• Monitored all mission-critical servers and infrastructure via SolarWinds.
• Focused on a core Verisk business unit above all others, which entailed the previously-mentioned duties but also all across their particular Linux environment as well.

New York, NY, US

• Architected, deployed, and maintained an environment of approximately 500 servers across both on-premises Cisco UCS utilizing VMWare ESXi and AWS.
• Wrote Ansible playbooks for upgrading, reconfiguring, and deploying all new servers.
• Utilized Jenkins for all code deployment and rebuilt Dev environment Jenkins server.
• Performed monthly OS patches across all environments.
• Upgrading our CentOS 5 and 6 environments to CentOS 7.
• Deploying (EV) SSL certificates for both internal and customer websites.

London, GB

• Architected, implemented, and monitored WGSN's entire Cisco UCS and AWS Debian Linux-based digital architecture.
• Transitioning our physical load balancers to virtualized load balancers.
• Maintaining our developers' individual Linux VMs.
• Responding to and maintaining our Nagios-based monitoring system.
• Working on our Akamai and other CDN accounts.
• Deploying code via Jenkins across all necessary environments.

New York, New York, US

• CentOS Linux-based digital media operations.
• Working on migrating to an entirely AWS-based infrastructure.
• Making DNS changes to reflect changes to our assorted environments.
• Editing and configuring Puppet modules for configuration management purposes.
• Designing and implementing an external-network monitoring implementation to replace the previous hodgepodge of monitoring systems.

• Freelance PC and Mac repair.
• Malware and virus removal.
• Data backup and restoration services.
• Network setup and troubleshooting.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• 24/7/365 customer support via email, telephone, and tickets.
• Installed, configured, and architected CentOS, Debian, and Windows servers per customer specifications.
• Performed data migrations, web and database configurations, and most other systems administration duties customers would call upon.
• Monitored all customers’ servers via in-house monitoring solution.

Richardson, TX, US

• Sole systems administrator for the entire company
• Responsible for any and all IT needs company wide.
• Architected and implemented greenfield AWS environment for prospective customers.
• Deployed Jenkins server to begin utilizing CI/CD methodologies.
• Migrated 95% of on-premises servers from CentOS 5 32-bit to CentOS 6 64-bit.
• Designed and deployed Nagios monitoring solution.

• 24/7/365 customer support via telephone and tickets.
• Installed, configured, and architected CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, And Windows servers per customer specifications.
• Carried out all customer-requested systems administration duties, including MySQL and PHP optimizations, security audits and hardening, DNS record alternations, etc.
• Helped deploy a company-wide Nagios monitoring solution for all customers.
• Carried out day-to-day datacenter operations in a 1,000-server datacenter.

US

• Member of the highest-ranking group of customer-facing support within the company
• Maintained and worked on monthly security audits and hardening of customer servers.
• Performed custom server deployments, data server migrations, and everything else that was not covered by The Planet’s normal level of support.

US

• Member of approximately twenty-person team responsible for highest level of customer support
• 24/7/365 customer support via telephone and tickets.
• Supervised and mentored Level 1 support personnel based in India
• Installed, configured, and architected CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, And Windows servers per customer specifications.
• Performed all customer-requested systems administration duties supported by terms of support, such as aiding with reconfiguring Apache or IIS, customizing PHP, DNS changes, etc.
• Helped carry out day-to-day datacenter operations in a 10,000-server datacenter.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Member of ten-person team building, deploying, and reconfiguring all datacenter equipment.
• Built out and deployed Dell, HP, and Supermicro servers.
• Performed OS installations and configuration per customer specifications.
• Carried out day-to-day datacenter operations in a 20,000-server datacenter.

Houston, Texas, US

• Member of an approximately dozen-person team carrying out all server builds and deployments.
• Responsible for customer support via telephone and tickets.
• Implemented all customer requested server changes, installations, DNS alterations, etc.
• Carried out day-to-day datacenter operations in a 5,000-server datacenter.

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Political Science And Government

High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates