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St. Louis, Mo, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Us

Partner solutions, PoCs, demos, evangelism. Probably more :)

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Global Strategic Alliances Manager focused on network infrastructure partners such as Cisco, VMware, and Palo Alto Networks. Define joint solutions portfolio, value propositions and go-to-market motions.Work with product group to create joint technology strategies and roadmaps. Engage channel partners to enable their selling motions, and establish new routes to market. Assist product marketing in development of assets and evangelise solutions to customers in both pre-sales and events.Evaluate partner product APIs for integration viability. Trusted advisor to partners with emphasis on relationship management. Regularly engage executive leadership to align goals and address issues related to partnerships.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Joined Puppet to expand network platform capabilities. Worked independently to create immediate and long-term product roadmaps. Lead development and maintenance of integrations such as Cisco Nexus, IOS/IOS-XE, IOS-XR, Meraki, NETCONF/YANG, and Arista EOS. Established cross-functional relationships to build network automation business case, ultimately leading to fully staffed engineering team and related go-to-market activities.Partnered closely with Business Development team to manage relationships with partners such as Cisco, Arista, Cumulus, and Huawei. Provided direct support for Sales in activities such as demos, pre-sales engagements, and Professional Services back office support.Evangelized Puppet as a speaker at conferences such as PuppetConf, Cisco Live, Cisco DevNet Create, CeBIT, Usenix/Lisa, and NANOG. Created and delivered hands-on courseware and classes to external users.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Promote Juniper products through the creation of open source projects PyEZ, Ansible modules, and py-junos-netconify.Evangelize and foster DevOps principles for all of Juniper’s public-facing open source projects as well as existing hardware and software programmability. Build and deliver training content for Sales Engineers globallyWork with Sales on key customer engagements to ensure that Juniper is regarded as the best choice for solutions that support open automationContribute customer and user insights that influence product strategy and roadmapEnsure Juniper’s products are able to support Puppet, Chef, Ansible, SaltDevelop and publish open source automation examples, modules, and plugins for all automation frameworks, on GitHub and community sites Modernize Juniper’s existing software and hardware platforms with automation support and open source tools. Revitalize legacy product sales.Author and publish blog posts, op-ed articles, how-to documents and other content related to Juniper, cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, distributed systems, monitoring, and management.Engage users and represent Juniper in online forumsEnsure Juniper’s products can be easily deployed to the most popular cloud environments and marketplaces using deployment tools such as VagrantSpeak at conferences and meet-ups to evangelize Network and Security with DevOpsEstablish consistent best practices for all of Juniper’s public-facing open source projects Common Continuous Integration goals: Vagrantfiles for running test suites across multiple platforms Travis-CI integration for build testing and requiring third-party contributors to write tests Best practices Github service hooks + cloud services for technology at hand, e.g. Inclusion in third-party packaging systems and repositoriesMember of cross functional internal working groups which define the strategy and focus of automation for Juniper products.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Architected full replacement of existing private cloud infrastructure for migration to Amazon Web Services, eliminating all single points of failure while reducing opex by 95% $2mil -> $90k annually.Utilized DevOps methodology to create automated provisioning and monitoring systems. Focus on standardization of processes, configuration, infrastructure automation and centralized logging and monitoring. Contributed enhancements to Open Source projects based on internal requirements. Maintained internal package building.Work with Engineering and contribute to development of the next generation hosted SaaS architecture for Mobile Security Platform.Create and implement a disaster recovery and business continuity plan with low RTO and RPO.Develop and use automation tools surrounding monitoring, performance, security, and capacity planning.Optimize network configuration and load balancer setup to ensure data security as well as reducing bandwidth consumption.Help with day to day Operations and MSS service monitoring tasks. React to monitoring alerts for production issues in a timely manner to meet deployment SLAs.Work with the MSS Operations team during application upgrades and database migrations.Ensure uptime through precise monitoring implementations, good change management and incorporation of best practices.Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and night deployments, as needed.Open and track trouble and service tickets with hosting providers and 3rd party solution providersTroubleshoot and performance tune load balancers, application and database servers. Leverage existing datacenters, infrastructure and capacity to roll our new services in a cost effective manner.Perform forensic analysis and track down unsolicited access to the MSS SaaS serviceUse vulnerability assessment and web application scanning tools to ensure that MSS SaaS service is not exposed to known and unknown threats.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Served as Lead Domain Architect on a high-visibility mobile security project for a multinational telecommunications carrier implementing Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite. Architected all core services including RDBMS, web servers, load balancers, and J2EE application servers with a focus on scalability, redundancy and high availability. The architected solution provides best in breed mobile handset anti-virus, firewall, VPN and parental controls to over 35 million smart phones.Lead effort for a tier one multinational telecommunications carrier on a crucial router workflow automation project to drastically reduce operational expenditures. Implemented business requirements from multiple departments across the organization to facilitate the upgrade of core routers in multi-continent networks with an overall goal of minimizing human intervention. Solution provided workflow management software which leveraged business intelligence based on corporate policy, security requirements and event intelligence.Served as Lead Architect on multiple efforts for service providers globally to implement policy enforcement and identity management on access networks utilizing Juniper SRC-PE (SDN). Provided carriers the ability to implement unique business intelligence on their consumer facing networks to drive value added revenue for existing customer bases. Use cases included dynamic bandwidth control, volume based billing, quota enforcement, threat-abuse mitigation, and congestion admission control. Served as Lead Architect on multiple efforts providing AAA infrastructure globally for wireline and mobility customers utilizing the RADIUS protocol. Extensive accounting infrastructure integration into mainframe billing systems. Developed custom LDAP and SQL schemas, data models, and programmatically implemented business logic utilizing JavaScript to provide flexibility. Architected solutions which allowed for simplistic migration and integration of existing data repositories

Served as a dedicated resource for Juniper Networks Professional Services.Performed installations of SDX-300 Service Deployment System, SunOne LDAP, Funk Steel-Belted-Radius, and JBoss Application server in carrier-class edge networks. Lead business development efforts including developing outsourcing processes, solutions, and helping drive the development of the company from the ground up. Performed extensive network and system administrator functions, network design, security, capacity planning and full lifecycle development and management. Maintained and enhanced a legacy professional services automation and planning application used for tracking projects, opportunities and resources for Juniper Networks. Implemented new features via Ajax for an improved user experience. Participated at the executive level to bring a startup software development organization into the on-site service and network management space. Developed core business functions, deployment time-frames, marketing tactics and performed market analysis and research in order to better position the organization for growth.

Participate in a technical team specializing in IT outsourcing for small to medium sized businesses. Primary focus in Windows based server installations, collaboration software including SharePoint and Exchange, security services, web applications and on premise service. Maintained key customer relationships across multiple industries. Created new services and best practices in order to ensure consistency among all operational divisions. Served as escalation point for all level one support operators and on-site technicians.

Huntington Beach, California, Us

Aas, Advanced Network Design

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