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Nashua, NH

• Successfully migrated QLD DNS telemetry service from monolithic, backend-heavy infrastructure to hybrid using microservices
• adopting Object Storage eliminated need to manage complex iptables networking rules, and made redundant 60+ CassandraDB nodes
• Shifted installers from Bash to to containerized Ansible; deployed to 100+ core+edge hosts
• Provide standard Docker container to host Ansible deployments
• extend service monitoring with new Nagios+Sensu checks
• Manage existing services using Kubernetes kubectl

Manchester, NH

• Author Testplans against Dyn's Internet performance services stack:
• Bind DNS, Dyn API, DNS query metrics (stats/cust-usage/billing)
• Developed end-to-end test automation to exercise Dyn services
• isolated boundary tests using docker
• orchestrated multi-host test controller driving full integration events and validation over SSH
• test suite exercising Bind DNS's Zone Transfer using Primary, Secondary, Hidden NS modes

Pepperell, MA

• Worked at TZO.COM until acquisition by Dyn
• Authored frontend+backend code Manage TZO services** TZO DDNS account creation, TZO SMTP relay, Domain Registration (OpenSRS API)
• Wrote tools for customers + Support to lower costs** Ex: web utils for customers to self-test their network/port connectivity to TZO network.** Scan customer networks for unwanted open ports, IP reputations in DNSBL
• Ported TZO Linux DNS client to 8+ Linux distributions
• Developed, maintained multiple TZO.COM websites + portals, frontend+backend (PHP, Perl)
• ... integrated TZO portals, applying universal look-and-feel, even to frozen applications.

Pepperell, Mass

• Automated tests + monitors for TZO services (DNS, SMTP, DDNS)
• Validated 3rd party router DDNS behavior through automated WAN+LAN capture with tcpdump (Linux, PHP, Perl).
• Share findings with 3rd party developers (Linksys/Cisco, D-Link..)
• Migrate test host rack into VMWare free (5 versions of Windows, 8+ Linux OS)
• Leverage documentation from OWASP, find security issues
• Wrote and executed testplans for:

Pepperell, MA

• Principal Support Engineer for TZO Dynamic DNS (DDNS) + enterprise TZO High Availability/Failover DNS.
• Wrote tools to automate and reduce expensive engineering escalations:
• tools for customers to check their WAN IP, check their open ports (port scan from our hosts), detect blocking tarpitting on the customer side (impacting our ability to relay their data).
• tools employed specific HTTP and SMTP protocol checks
• Reduced support costs by writing friendly TZO Techdocs/Tutorials documentation
• ..complete walk-throughs of service onboarding (including product-specific instruction for customer's network side)

Lowell, Mass

• Product under test was a distributed filesystem and caching platform with interfaces in: MMS, HTTP, FTP, rsync, NFS, CIFS.
• Test proprietary Storigen filesystem using bonnie, dbench, LTP
• Write automated tests against customized Apache and proprietary filesystem using Perl and Bash.
• Execute and evaluate test suites: Apache Test, Microsoft Web Test
• Manual testing using dig, nslookup, tcpdump, netcat and telnet.Storigen assets were acquired September 2003 by EMC.

Lowell, Mass

• Write automated tests using Python 1.5 to validate behavior, or batch process media for workflow.
• Assist Customer Support, external beta test sites, and other escalation requests.
• Contributor to SynaPix presentation materials at NAB 2000 (process 2D to 3D, match-moving)

Lowell, Mass

• News Internet Services (formerly Delphi) Internet Services arm of News Corporation/Fox
• wrote test code using: Perl (backend), Segue SilkTest (browser), cURL/Bash
• made testplans + wrote tests to measure customer usage tokens (hourly, premium apps)
• Clients: British Telecom (BT LineOne ISP), Kesmai Gamestorm, News Corporation properties.

Nashua, NH

• Supported Aimtech's Internet e-learning (CBT e-learning) products on multiple OS and JVM.
• Write and execute test plans. Use the product like a customer, find bugs.Aimtech was acquired July 1997 by Asymetrix Learning Systems (a Paul Allen co.), now SumTotal.

Nashua, NH

• Assisted customers using Serif PagePlus Internet-based publishing software for Windows.
• Developed serif.com, migrating static pages to Perl based templates and CGI.
• Support Manager (US), trained hires, led Serif Online support (then CompuServe, AOL).
• Authored original training materials for 3rd party service bureaus
• (NOTE: Service bureaus at the time were largely Mac based and highly skeptical of Windows).
• Convert customer bug reports into simpler reproducible bugs for developers.