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Washington, Dc, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Develop automation for hybrid-cloud solutions (AWS/Azure/on premise), using Ansible, Terraform, VMware vRA Cloud, Chef, and other tools. Manage company-wide product lifecycle and roadmap for Linux OS, primarily RHEL and Amazon Linux. Architect and deploy automated Linux vulnerability management & patching solutions. Manage OS licensing. Design and deploy company-wide NTP infrastructure for time synchronization. Successfully migrated all external web sites and applications to the cloud (AWS). Advise application teams on AWS Cloud migration technologies and strategies. Provide engineering support for L2 resources as required.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Build and maintain UNIX/Linux infrastructure for investment and banking applications. Create and implement central management systems and processes to maximize the supportablilty of the infrastructure and the effectiveness of the team. Streamlined patching for 600+ Linux systems by implementing Red Hat Satellite Server, greatly reducing the cost and effort required to keep all servers up to date with security and other patches. Set up HP System Insight Manager (SIM) server to collect system errors from all HP servers and automatically open HP tickets for hardware failures. Created Red Hat kickstart process, automating and standardizing server builds. Implement HP Service Pack for Proliant across all physical servers, automating all firmware updates. Plan network, storage, and host designs for new VMWare ESXi clusters for Linux virtualization project. Manage vendor relationships with HP and Red Hat, working to escalate issues, minimize cost on new equipment and services, and maintain support agreements. Write scripts to monitor security events, performance, configuration changes, and other data to gain a more proactive view of the environment. Handle day-to-day requests and technical issues on Oracle/Solaris, HP/Linux, and VMWare/ESXi platforms. Set up and manage HP Proliant, HP Blades, and Oracle servers (T5XXX, M9000 etc.).

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Interface with developers, application architects, business unit managers, and other team members to evaluate hardware requirements and correctly size and design highly available systems and infrastructure. Support several hundred UNIX/Linux servers across the organization, including Solaris, HP-UX, and RedHat Enterprise Linux. Implement and maintain VMware infrastructure, virtualizing both Windows and Linux systems.

Design, install, and maintain highly available, well-performing, secure platforms to host 24x7 mission-critical applications. Interface with code vendors, business owners, and other technical teams to plan and implement new applications using Sun hardware, Foundry ServerIron load balancers, iPlanet web servers, and BEA Weblogic java application servers. Tune Oracle database servers (SunFire 68K) to ensure adequate performance during explosive business growth. Developed PHP/MySQL web-based application to track all datacenter hardware, document hardware setups, and automatically gather configuration information from all servers. Using open source tools, retrieve system performance metrics to analyze trends and implement configuration changes to maximize performance as needed. Routinely audit applications and scan systems to ensure compliance with GMAC information security policies as well as state & federal regulations for financial lending institutions.

New York, Ny, Us

Added web operations expertise to development teams to develop and deploy web-based applications to AOL's 31 million users. Ensured maximum scalability, reliability, and security for applications in development. Implemented technologies such as load balancing, failover, caching, and application security into existing and new AOL products. Designed and built several test labs to localize quality assurance testing for software development groups. Built departmental intranet platforms and applications such as search engine and web-based file management systems.

Deployed and maintained high-availability Internet systems and networks for high-profile customers co-located at GlobalCenter data centers. Provided consulting services to clients to plan, build, and maintain their large-scale web sites. Accounts included USA Today, Cox Interactive, SGI, Playboy, and Pacific Bell. Purchased, configured and maintained a variety of equipment including UNIX servers (many flavors), Windows NT/2000 servers, Cisco routers & switches, various firewall products, load-balancing products, CSU/DSUs and network-attached storage systems. Actively managed web site traffic for my clients and re-designed or added to network infrastructure to scale sites to increasing traffic. Participated in on-call duty as required to keep customer sites running smoothly.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Managed system and network infrastructure for software development teams at Javasoft. Designed and integrated a new Windows NT server infrastructure into existing UNIX environment. Maintained Solaris, NextStep, NT, and Macintosh servers and desktops, dial-in systems, network hardware, system backups, and all Internet/intranet-related servers. Wrote shell scripts to automate many routine system maintenance tasks. Managed the IT systems move from San Mateo to Cupertino, and relocated all systems with minimal downtime.

Responsible for all Internet-related projects and systems for the corporation. Managed the design, content, and implementation of both the external world-wide-web site and the internal intranet systems. Worked extensively with Information Systems, Public Relations, and other departmental managers and directors to gather content and to design and maintain a consistent look & feel for the company's web-based systems. Integrated Sybase and Lotus Notes databases with intranet servers using CGI and Lotus Domino technologies. Managed server hardware and software including Netscape Enterprise web and proxy servers running on Solaris, Lotus Notes 4.x Domino, and Checkpoint Firewall-1. Designed and implemented Internet access, firewall and dial-in solutions for newly formed company (PanAmSat). Set up and taught company-wide training classes for Netscape browsers and other Internet-related technologies. Provided support for an environment of 400 end-users and several Sun Ultra servers.