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Ravenna, Oh, Us

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

- Architected Kubernetes infrastructure, aligned with larger enterprise requirements and priorities.- Designed automation project to deploy and maintain Kubernetes.- Collected requirements from business stakeholders to design solutions. - Redesigned team’s primary workflow, dramatically reducing enterprise complexity. - Designed and implemented automatic certificates on deployment. - Mentored both Jr. and Sr. Engineers. - Promoted DevOps culture.- Designed and implemented DevOps pipelines for product managers and engineers.- Automated AWX (Ansible Tower, aka AAP) project onboarding. - Reviewed new technologies and tools.- Presented designs to audiences with differing levels of technical knowledge.

London, Gb

- Designed and implemented ETL processes.- Designed and implemented B2B data exchange processes.- Automated data wrangling processes.- Created data capture and data consolidation architecture.- Recommended tools and methodologies to managers.- Migrated ecommerce platforms.- Web Development

New York, Ny, Us

- Designed and implemented robust Linux infrastructure- Created automations to facilitate IT department orchestration.- Advised managers and identified points of systemic risk.- Recommended tools and methodologies to engineers.- Collaborated with developers and administrators.- Managed a large fleet of Linux Systems.- Reviewed implementations to determine enterprise viability.- Managed enterprise complexity in a methodological manner- Collected business requirements to design solutions.

London, Gb

- Contracted to fix systematic security problems.- Documented change management process, and any bad practices- Repaired significant unmanageable legacy practices.- Configured application stack to pass vulnerability scan.- Collaborated with developers and administrators.- Re-implemented DNS, master slave replication- Re-implemented LDAP integration scripts

- Scripted administrative tasks- Managed Large Number of Linux Systems- Racked Equipment, on-site and collocation.- Collaborated with developer, to automate deployment.- Addressed severe web scalability concerns.- Re-factored Monitoring System

- Scripted administrative tasks- Managed Large Number of Linux Systems- Packaged Applications- Automated Installations- Re-factored Monitoring System

Remote GNU/Linux administration via SSH, multi-SSH administration via SSSH tool. Scripted administrative tasks: cronjobs, BASH/Shell, Python/Pexpect, Tcl/Expect, and PHP.Configured/deployed and maintained VMware ESX/ESXi Servers, configured VMware Infrastructure Server on Windows 2003 w/ MSSQL. Created security hardened CentOS Image including, GRSEC, Rsyslog, IPTABLES, and TCPWrappers. Created ESX/ESXi instances with VLAN 802.1Q trunking.Configured/deployed performance optimized LAMP stack: Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHP-FPM, APC, Memcached. Optimized MySQL server for performance, created indexes, set up monitoring and redundant fail-over. Configured Magento eCommerce web platform, heavily optimized for maximum performance, Installation automated for mass deployment.Installed/Upgraded Nagios monitoring system, integrated Webinject and multiple plugins; Scripted Nagios redundant fail-over system. Installed/Configured Ntop, Collected network wide statistics.Built customized RPMs for commonly deployed software. Installed/configured company Yum/RPM repository. Compiled multiple software packages when necessary.Installed/configured SVN repository, remotely accessible with svnserve and svn+ssh. Filered SVN repository, removed accenentally uploaded data.Configured Juniper NetScreen firewall, Cisco switch configuration with VLAN 802.1Q trunking. Configured/deployed OpenVPN on redundant servers.Formally documented changes in company wiki, updated company systems administration documents.

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Remote GNU/Linux administration via SSH, remote Windows 2003 administration via rdesktop. Scripted administrative tasks: cronjobs and BASH/Shell.Maintained twenty eight servers: five Windows 2003, the rest CentOS 5 and RHEL 5. CentOS Includes Bind, NTP, IPTABLES and Rsyslog. Configured MS Exchange 2003 and AD, for internal collaboration and e-mail.Configured/deployed application stack: JBoss, Jsvc/Tomcat, JDK and Apache. Scripted installation of Apache Ant, which was utilized to deploy the production application/platform across the cluster.Installed/configured Nagios monitoring system; created advanced event handling scripts, and plugins, for Jsvc/Tomcat and SEL/IPMI. Installed/configured OSSEC, created custom logging events and notification rules.Created SNMP communities: servers, VPN, switches, and routers. Installed/configured Cacti, collected network wide performance statistics. Scripted network scanning: Python-Scapy, Fping, Nmap. Installed/Configured Ntop, for network wide statistics.Installed/Configured XEN Dom0 Hypervisor and XEN-HVM. Deployed DomU CentOS XEN instances. Created PHP web application, which enabled developers to perform specified administration tasks.Configured/deployed: Cisco VPNs, Cisco routers, Cisco Catalyst switches, and Juniper NetScreen firewalls. Upgraded Cisco IOS firmware via TFTP. Configured/deployed Avocent IP-KVM and Avocent Cyclades console server, out-of-band management.Racked complete out of state backup data center: router, switch, firewall, IP-KVM and console server. Racked Dell servers, flashed firmware/BIOS and configured RAID 5.

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Remote GNU/Linux administration via SSH, remote Windows 2003 administration via rdesktop. Scripted administrative tasks: cronjobs and BASH/Shell.Maintained twenty eight servers: five Windows 2003, the rest CentOS 5 and RHEL 5. CentOS Includes Bind, NTP, IPTABLES and Rsyslog. Configured MS Exchange 2003 and AD, for internal collaboration and e-mail.Configured/deployed application stack: JBoss, Jsvc/Tomcat, JDK and Apache. Scripted installation of Apache Ant, which was utilized to deploy the production application/platform across the cluster.Installed/configured Nagios monitoring system; created advanced event handling scripts, and plugins, for Jsvc/Tomcat and SEL/IPMI. Installed/configured OSSEC, created custom logging events and notification rules.Created SNMP communities: servers, VPN, switches, and routers. Installed/configured Cacti, collected network wide performance statistics. Scripted network scanning: Python-Scapy, Fping, Nmap. Installed/Configured Ntop, for network wide statistics.Installed/Configured XEN Dom0 Hypervisor and XEN-HVM. Deployed DomU CentOS XEN instances. Created PHP web application, which enabled developers to perform specified administration tasks.Configured/deployed: Cisco VPNs, Cisco routers, Cisco Catalyst switches, and Juniper NetScreen firewalls. Upgraded Cisco IOS firmware via TFTP. Configured/deployed Avocent IP-KVM and Avocent Cyclades console server, out-of-band management.Racked complete out of state backup data center: router, switch, firewall, IP-KVM and console server. Racked Dell servers, flashed firmware/BIOS and configured RAID 5.

Remote GNU/Linux administration via SSH, remote Windows 2003 administration via rdesktop. Scripted administrative tasks: cronjobs and Shell Scripts.Maintained thirty two servers; three Windows 2003, the rest CentOS and Fedora. Racked servers, and equipment, at data collocation. Configured MS Exchange 2003 and AD, for internal collaboration and e-mail.Installed/configured multiple LAMP stacks, configured/deployed Wordpress, RoundCube and TestLink. Configured/maintained production web application stack: JBoss, Tomcat, and JDK.Installed/configured Amanda back-up system, automated incremental backups. Managed Ultrium 2 LTO tape device, and switched tapes daily. Created SNMP communities: Servers, VPN, Switches, and Routers. Installed/configured Cacti, collected network wide performance statistics. Installed/configured Nagios monitoring system, created advanced event handling scripts. Scripted PHP/MYSQL for error notification.Assumed administrative contact for Dell corporate account, selected and customized all hardware purchased.

Remote GNU/Linux administration via SSH, XDMCP, VNC and Cpanel/WHM. Scripted administrative tasks: cronjobs, BASH/Shell, PHP and Perl.Installed/Upgraded CentOS 4, CentOS 5, RHEL 4, RHEL 5, and Windows 2003. Configured Sendmail, Exim4, Dovecot, BIND, Pure-FTPd, and OpenSSH. Configured performance and security optimized LAMP stack: Apache, Mod-FastCGI, MySQL, PHP, eAccelerator. Optimized MySQL server for performance, created MySQL databases/tables, installed/configured phpMyAdmin.Installed/configured X-Cart eCommerce web platform, optimized for maximum performance. Created PHP/XHTML Smarty templates, and patched security flaws.Audited systems security, installed/configured rkhunter and configured IPTABLES. Achieved verified PCI compliance. Monitored production network: netstat, and Nmap. Implemented statistics graphing/trending with Awstats.Managed office IT systems environment, fixed Windows registry errors, and performed Windows installations. Troubleshooted/replaced hardware on multiple platforms. Selected and customized all hardware purchased. Implemented office network: Linksys wireless/wired routers. Configured PPTP VPN, CUPS, and Samba.Migrated complete production web environment to new data collocation. Scripted incremental backups utilizing tar, gzip/bzip2 and RsyncWeb development utilizing HTML tables, JavaScript and CSS. Designed Flash Animation using Flash MX. Designed web graphics: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and GIMP. Interests and Activities Administrate personal Linux VPS and maintain man page archive, Tech-zilla.com. Always studying new systems, software and technology, and following industry trends. Creating audio/visual projects, and locating interests which need technical contribution.