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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

• Deployed a nationwide internet speed testing product that facilitated 12 million speed tests per day, configuring and installing servers across 28 datacenters, supporting the rollout of a new 10Gbps fiber product• Led the technical deployment of a secure internet environment service for the US government, ensuring OS hardening, mitigating security vulnera‑bilities, auditing, and deploying security clients, ensuring servers maintained NIST standards, enabling Lumen to collect tens of millions of dollarsof revenue for the product• Developed Ansible roles and playbooks for Red Hat/Rocky Linux OS, including BGP, multi‑homed networking, firewall, OS hardening, applicationconfiguration, monitoring, and kickstart ensuring efficient and secure server setup• Rolled out Red Hat Satellite, enabling automated OpenSCAP, Ansible, and RHEL upgrades, significantly improving audit, upgrade, and reportingcapabilities, which maintained PCI‑DSS compliance• Facilitated cross‑team and cross‑discipline collaboration, driving knowledge sharing and advocacy that ensured seamless execution of complexdeliverables mentoring team members in automation and configuration management best practices• Migrated legacy Perl and Tcl code, rewriting code in Python for application redeployment• Developed and implemented Power BI dashboards to visualize key performance metrics and system data, providing management with real‑timeinsights for informed decision‑making and improving transparency across technical operations• Developed custom internal services and APIs to query router configurations and interface statistics, connecting lower‑tier support teams with real‑time network information• Held a leadership role on a team that managed DNS, DHCP, and RADIUS services for six million residential high‑speed internet subscribers as wellas virtual hosting products and SD‑WAN for enterprise customers