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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States

London, England, United Kingdom

Worked across several engineering teams to formulate multi-functional designs that provide an array of benefits with the least amount of effort and the highest level of quality over time.

North Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Designed and provisioned cloud infrastructure. Introduced infrastructure automation tooling, and built a Terraform module code-base to ease infrastructure deployment for many disparate projects.

Sherwood, AR

• Provided 24/7 support, maintenance, and configuration for a wide variety of top-tier enterprise hardware and software solutions. This includes Oracle Exadata and ZS4-4, EMC VNX and XtremIO, and Cisco UCS.
• Analyzed current IT methodologies and infrastructure compared to the needs of the business. Created an initiative to implement a Hybrid Cloud based on Red Hat Cloud Suite to greatly decrease TCO and increase.
• Rebuilt relationships and resolved long… Show more
• Rebuilt relationships and resolved long standing disparities between IT and Software Development. Achieved consensus of all parties on the direction of future IT infrastructure.
• Introduced and promoted the concepts of cloud computing, containerization, configuration management, and automation in an environment based largely on older monolithic enterprise solutions.
• Designed, wrote, and maintained Service Now to VMWare automatic discovery and correlation module in Python, including full relationship correlation between all layers of the VMWare stack. Show less

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

• Managed a team of two engineers.
• Introduced and implemented a number of cutting edge technologies, including SaltStack configuration management, VMWare vCloud Enterprise Suite, Red Hat Identity Management and Authorization Policies (IdM/IPA), and.
• Oversaw the migration of multiple high profile applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Created plans and worked with other leaders to address numerous long standing… Show more
• Created plans and worked with other leaders to address numerous long standing strategic, policy, and technical debt problems. Show less

Manchester, New Hampshire

• Provided expert level Linux support, packet level network protocol troubleshooting, and performance improvement analysis.
• Assisted in the migration from DACS configuration management system to the SaltStack configuration management system.
• Performed extensive on-site server farm maintenance in remote Data Centers.
• Implemented StatsD/Graphite real-time statistics aggregation system
• Worked remotely as a member of a geographically diverse team

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

• Provided operating system support services for RHEL 4 hosts, specializing in VMWare Virtual Machines
• Utilized kickstart to create and configure new hosts in VMWare ESX and VSphere environments while adhering to corporate build policy.
• Performed after hours maintenance tasks while adhering to strict change control guidelines

Little Rock, Arkansas Area

• Operating Systems: RHEL 2/4/5, CentOS 4/5, openSUSE 10/11, Ubuntu 8/9, Solaris 8/9/10
• Operated and maintained all website production systems, a production VMWare ESX environment, Cisco 4948, 2900 series switches, 2600 series routers, and Juniper NetScreen firewalls. Technical lead on all non-windows IT.
• Achieved Verizon Cybertrust Certification and complied with Arkansas State Legislative Audit requirements.
• Implemented and maintained the following software packages: Fedora… Show more
• Implemented and maintained the following software packages: Fedora Directory Server (LDAP), BIND9 DNS, Red Hat Spacewalk, Apache 1.3/2.0/2.2, PHP4, PHP5, MySQL 5, Samba, Winbind, DRBD, ipvsadm, various other packages.
• Implemented RedHat Spacewalk provisioning system with kickstart, templated server builds, automatic security compliance for new systems, software update tracking and management.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Handled a wide variety of support cases at Check Point’s highest level of customer support.
• Analyzed packet captures, debug output, configuration files, and various other data sources to find the root cause of customer problems.
• Built and maintained a RHEL and VMWare based lab environment for problem replication
• Managed high volume queue of critical issues.
• Provided assistance co-workers in 1st and 2nd level support teams. Contributed to technical documentation and… Show more
• Provided assistance co-workers in 1st and 2nd level support teams. Contributed to technical documentation and training materials. Show less

San Francisco Bay Area

• Designed, built, and maintained North American high speed online gaming network while adhering to corporate policy and guidelines for security.
• Infrastructure included Cisco 6500, 4500, and 2900 series switches, 7200 series routers, Aironet 1200 wireless access points, PIX firewalls, and NetScreen firewalls.
• Built and Maintained RHEL/CentOS based game service and network monitoring systems
• Designed and implemented a complete secure wireless solution.
• Provided top tier… Show more
• Provided top tier support for network and systems issues.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Consolidated existing network infrastructure to optimize for performance and manageability while limiting costs.
• Provided top tier support for network and systems issues.
• Researched a wide array of Open Source software for team use.
• Maintained instances of several monitoring packages for evaluation.
• Created various custom statistics tools in Perl, including automated game service reports for customers.
• Wrote tools for game service troubleshooting and… Show more

San Francisco Bay Area

• Designed, built, and maintained Cisco based corporate and production networks, as well as networks in remote co-location facilities.
• Provided IPSec tunnels to remote networks and to home users.
• Served as Team Lead, providing technical assistance and delegating work tasks to subordinate employees and contractors.
• Administered DNS, SMTP, POP3, Apache, IIS, and Windows desktop services. Built, optimized, and maintained Sendmail mail servers for mass emailing, in a sister… Show more
• Administered DNS, SMTP, POP3, Apache, IIS, and Windows desktop services. Built, optimized, and maintained Sendmail mail servers for mass emailing, in a sister company. Show less

San Francisco Bay Area

• Upgraded from 10-BaseT Hub and 10-Base2 network to switched, segmented 100Mb VLANs on Cisco Switches.
• Provided desktop support services
• Administered and Supported Windows NT 4.0/3.51 production and office servers.