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Commerce City, Co, Us

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Work in an Agile and SAFe™ environment to automatically generate complete customer environments in order to test SolidFire storage clusters in a way that closely resembles how customers actually use the product. * I saved countless hours of analyzing SolidFire volume statistics by creating a Golang microservice to collect data from SF clusters and loading it into a Graphite database, which allowed my team to easily look at QoS performance and configure it very quickly to optimize all the… Show more Work in an Agile and SAFe™ environment to automatically generate complete customer environments in order to test SolidFire storage clusters in a way that closely resembles how customers actually use the product. * I saved countless hours of analyzing SolidFire volume statistics by creating a Golang microservice to collect data from SF clusters and loading it into a Graphite database, which allowed my team to easily look at QoS performance and configure it very quickly to optimize all the workloads quickly. * I saved hours of time configuring a Promethus monitoring system with hundreds of virtual machines by completely automating the addition and removal dynamically of systems as they are brought up using event-based triggers, microservices written in Golang, kubernetes and python which enabled completely hands-off approach to infrastructure configuration. Show less

Boulder, Co

Work in an Agile and SAFe™ environment to create environments and scenarios that closely resemble an actual customer environment to test and evaluate SolidFire storage clusters. * I saved a ton of time and allowed my team to focus on testing our storage systems by automating the creating of entire customer environments that place our storage cluster in a customer-like environment. * I saved a days worth of work by developing automation to collect Vdbench output directories from… Show more Work in an Agile and SAFe™ environment to create environments and scenarios that closely resemble an actual customer environment to test and evaluate SolidFire storage clusters. * I saved a ton of time and allowed my team to focus on testing our storage systems by automating the creating of entire customer environments that place our storage cluster in a customer-like environment. * I saved a days worth of work by developing automation to collect Vdbench output directories from hundreds of virtual machines and process them centrally to upload data to an Elasticsearch index. This allowed my team to quickly analyze results graphically using tools like Kibana and Grafana to find inconsistencies with our test runs. * I made my team more efficient and improved onboarding time by creating a maintaining a wiki that documented all my automation thoroughly, customer environments, best practices and common troubleshooting techniques. Show less

Boulder, Colorado

Work in an Agile environment to develop customer-like environments to test and evaluate SolidFire storage clusters. * I saved 90% of the space used for virtual machine templates by creating only a single base template for Ubuntu, RHEL and Windows OS' and created Saltstack orchestrations and python scripts to build them up dynamically to their destination configuration. * Saved my team countless days of troubleshooting hundreds of virtual machines by creating a centralized logging… Show more Work in an Agile environment to develop customer-like environments to test and evaluate SolidFire storage clusters. * I saved 90% of the space used for virtual machine templates by creating only a single base template for Ubuntu, RHEL and Windows OS' and created Saltstack orchestrations and python scripts to build them up dynamically to their destination configuration. * Saved my team countless days of troubleshooting hundreds of virtual machines by creating a centralized logging solution with Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. * I Reduced the time to deploy network infrastructure services like DNS, DHCP, PXE and Hypervisors to 15 minutes from a whole day affair by automating the entire process with Saltstack and python. This also enabled me to build infrastructure with code and made creating test environments repeatable and consistent. * I automated the installation and configuration of DNS, DHCP, PXE and other infrastructure systems to bring a base physical Ubuntu system into a KVM Hypervisor running virtual machines with Vdbench, testing filesystems against a SolidFire cluster in under 15 minutes. Show less

Escalation Engineer on the Federal team supporting government support contracts.

Tasks at present include helping the transition project complete splitting of Rogue Wave Software, and ISD/Quovadx into seperate entities after Battery Ventures purchased Quovadx (Rogue Wave's parent company at the time). I am responsible for splitting up the UNIX-based and virtual infrastructure based on VMware for each company.

Own a company that provides both System Administration and Software Engineering specializing in web sites to customers.

Sr. UNIX/Windows Systems Administrator for the company and it's 3 divisions, Rogue Wave Software, ISD/Quovadx, and CareScience. Responsible for OS Support and SOX certification on the companies Oracle Financials systems. Responsible for supporting web developers and automating all web-based updates and activities, including custom programming to support Adobe Contribute. Provide support to software developers by doing common systems administration tasks on build servers of all different UNIX… Show more Sr. UNIX/Windows Systems Administrator for the company and it's 3 divisions, Rogue Wave Software, ISD/Quovadx, and CareScience. Responsible for OS Support and SOX certification on the companies Oracle Financials systems. Responsible for supporting web developers and automating all web-based updates and activities, including custom programming to support Adobe Contribute. Provide support to software developers by doing common systems administration tasks on build servers of all different UNIX flavors. For the last 3 months, I helped split Rogue Wave Software, and ISD/Quovadx into 2 seperate entities as the company has been purchased by Battery Ventures. I am a member of the transition team responsible primarily for splitting the companies UNIX-based systems, and virtual infrastructure running on VMWare. Show less

System administrator supporting mostly Solaris systems for Galileo's Co-Location project.

Started out as AS/400 Operator, then after about a year moved to become the only UNIX Systems Administrator for the Denver office. I managed mainly Solaris and HP-UX systems running Oracle.

Performed QA tasks on software created for Qwest's JD Edwards billing system running off of their AS/400 platform.

Performed QA on CAD Applications created by Auto-Trol Technology. Software was QA'd on various platforms including Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and Windows.

Performed help desk duties for users consisting of Windows, Macintosh, Solaris, AS/400, and Windows NT users. Included many system administration tasks for all platforms above.

Management Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Attended classes specific to IS fields, including AS/400, Novell Netware, S/36, Mainframe programming (JCL.

Diploma, Various