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Folsom, Ca, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Responsible for rapid design and implementation of web based (Python/Flask) application connecting Satellite Operation Centers to available Antenna Sites, facilitating communications and scheduling between sites.Championed development of container based infrastructure and modern microservice architecture inside Sphinx as well as with partner development teams.Provided mentorship and design review to team as features and services expanded beyond initial MVP.Helped build engineering team as company grew from 4-13 people

Managed a team of 5 engineers split between the UK and the US, responsible for the Moogsoft MSP platform.Cross functional role, responsible for coordinating customer upgrades, deploys, and escalations with Sales and Support.Worked to standardize MSP offering and drive cloud infrastructure cost savings across the company.Augmented the security director, providing domain specific knowledge around cloud security and best practices in AWS.

Columbia, Md, Us

Responsible for updates and extensions to CloudFormation Stacks that controlled IAM roles and permissions across 30 AWS accounts.Continued development on internal tools to centralize credential access and customer management functions.Worked in the Security Incident lifecycle, from investigation to mitigation and root cause analysis reporting.Provided training on security best practices across teams.Participated in internal security review exercises, spanning new services and applications to proposed architectural designs.

Columbia, Md, Us

Refocused in a technical track following an reorganization in a technical leadership role.

Columbia, Md, Us

Managed and grew the cloud services team from 5 members to 10 members across two continents and 5 timezones. Responsible for technical leadership, planning, and coordinating with other teams within Tenable as well as personnel management. Implemented quality of life improvements for the teams including minimal meeting schedules and adopting a "Nothing after midnight" pager rotation.

Columbia, Md, Us

Worked within a small team to design, build and administer a globally distributed platform in AWS using Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible. This platform supports the microservice architecture that makes up Tenable.io.

Foster City, Ca, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

● Designed, planned, and implemented live datacenter migration of primary Axcient site● Planned and performed full datacenter rebuild at Axcient Canadian site● Part of a team of 3 responsible for break­-fix and routine maintenance on datacenter systems● Rebuilt, refocused, and expanded monitoring infrastructure● Developed standardized builds for key infrastructure● Responsible for hardware, software, and facilities purchasing decisions/contracts● Lowered costs on each successive generation of infrastructure

Foster City, Ca, Us

● Manage small teams of developers and QA engineers both on and offshore (Beijing)● Coordinate with other engineering teams to build new features in the Policy Compliance product● Worked closely with Customer support to respond to customer issues and train support personnel● Recruit and hire new members to both development and QA teams

Foster City, Ca, Us

● Develop detection signatures to determine configuration state on variety of systems/platforms● Configure systems and network devices to support signature testing● Develop functions to support new detection methods and new platforms (Scheme, Lua)● Work as part of international team of developers and QA engineers● Help train new engineers on signature detection methods and function writing

Foster City, Ca, Us

● Maintain 800+ hosts in QA Lab for development and QA team use.● Create new lab hosts as needed for customer bugs and environment testing.● Work with support, development, and QA teams to troubleshoot customer bugs and setups in lab.● Create and patch targets from Microsoft, Oracle, SuSE, Redhat, Solaris, AIX, HP­UX, and others.● Plan, implement, and maintain VMWare ESX environment with 40 ESX server hosts.● Monitor and troubleshoot networks and systems connected with the QA Lab● Develop backup solution for VMWare infrastructure utilizing VCB and python.● Write automation scripts for day to day maintenance using python and shell scripting

Seaside, Ca, Us

Responsible for network operations, security, and general systems administration tasks as part of a team maintaining unix and windows based systems in an enterprise environment.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology

General Studies

Diploma