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New York, NY, US

Hartford, Connecticut, US

Hartford, Connecticut, US

• Transformed the culture of a DevOps team from a top-down to a bottom up approach where every engineer is empowered, entrusted and supported to implement his/her own solution.
• Plan, coordinate, and implement the migration of a big data application from on-prem physical servers to SaaS based solutions running on Google Cloud Platform.
• Streamline deployments by automating checkout tasks and optimizing the multithreading count which resulted in a 66% reduction in deployment time.

Hartford, Connecticut, US

• Led a cultural shift in the DevOps team from manually completing tasks to automating workwith code, attaining reductions in processing time as high as 95%.
• Spearheaded strategy sessions between engineering and development teams which alignedteam expectations and identified risks from migrating applications to a containerized, cloudbased environment running on Kubernetes.

• Providing engineering and product solutions.
• Free Linux education videos on https://www.timtan.com

San Francisco, California, US

Took a once in a lifetime trip with my wife and kids were we drove around the eastern United States visiting the many world class zoos and aquariums. From there we flew to Asia, were we met old friends, ate too much, and created memories that always give us a reason to laugh, smile and give thanks.

Tokyo, Japan, JP

• Reenvisioned, redesigned and rebuilt an in-house VM provisioning application whichgenerated a 99% reduction in processing time and $3.5M in yearly operational savings.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to create user personas, identify pain points, prioritizefeatures and gather feedback from MVP testing.
• Led the automated provisioning of a derivatives trading environment in Microsoft Azure,resulting in a 99% reduction in provisioning time.

Tokyo, Japan, JP

• Led and mentored a team of engineers to automate, simplify and scale CI/CD processesthrough the use of DevOps tooling (Puppet, GitLab, Jenkins, Rundeck, Nexus, Packer).
• Introduced a DevOps culture and strategy where changes were small and frequent,communication was open and safe, and collaboration was highly encouraged.

Tokyo, Japan, JP

• Developed Puppet scripts to automate server provisioning and application installation andconfiguration for over 1000 Windows and Linux servers.
• Automated web deployments with Python and Powershell scripts, which achieved a 90%reduction in deployment times.

New York, NY, US

• Managed local accounts, network shares and performance for over 500 Oracle Linux servers.
• Deployed a Spacewalk server to simplify the deployment of Linux packages and patches.
• Implemented an open source Puppet server to provision NTP, DNS, MOTD and security settings.
• Integrated Linux servers into an Active Directory environment using Samba and Winbind.
• Deployed a Nessus security scanner to periodically scan the internal network for vulnerabilities.
• Managed Microsoft network infrastructure (AD, DNS).

Fairfield, CT, US

• Systems Administrator (Dec 2011 - June 2013)
• Collaborate with faculty to implement open source solutions.
• Manage Linux, Windows and Mac OS X servers.
• VMware VSphere 5.0 management.
• NetApp San management.
• Configure Red Hat Linux webservers.

New York, NY, US

• Managed clients Windows Servers (2K8 | 2K3 | 2K).
• Updated client’s websites running on Microsoft IIS.
• Deployed Windows security patches using Landesk Patch Manager.
• Monitored backup jobs using Symantec NetBackup | BackupExec.

• Implemented a Windows network infrastructure for a startup trading academy.
• Provided technical support for a group of traders trading equities and options.

New York, NY, US

• Maintained over 50 HP Proliant servers running Windows Server 2K3 | 2K | NT4.0.
• Deployed and maintained Windows servers running on VMware ESX Server.
• Maintained DNS and DHCP services running on Windows Server 2003.
• Maintained internal and public web servers running IIS 6 | 5.
• Designed and deployed Active Directory Group policies.
• Deployed Windows security patches using Windows Software Update Services.

US

• Maintained over 80 Dell |HP | IBM servers running Windows Server 2K3 | 2K | NT4.0.
• Taught a Microsoft desktop support class to level I support technicians.
• Team lead in server integration process between BMG Direct and Columbia House.
• Reduced server inventory by 15% by utilizing VMware Server.
• Deployed applications and desktop settings using Active Directory group policies.
• Maintained DNS and DHCP services on Windows Server 2003.

Pennsauken, New Jersey, US

• Managed a Windows NT 4.0 network environment of over 50 users.
• Made purchasing decisions concerning desktops, laptops, and printers.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Economics