Fastly’s powerful and programmable edge cloud platform helps the world’s top brands deliver the fastest online experiences possible, while improving site performance, enhancing security, and empowering innovation at global scale.At Fastly, I serve as the Principal Systems Architect designing next generation hardware solutions for our edge systems. Our mission is to choose platforms, partners, and vendors that offer high reliability and performance while being conscious of costs. We frequently sample engineering sample hardware from multiple manufacturers to test in our lab environment before graduating samples to environments increasingly close to production.I serve as the lead hardware technical representative when interfacing with hardware manufacturers on a daily basis, which has been a critical component of Fastly's success in navigating pricing volatility, supply chain concerns, and changes to international relations. I am proud to be a member of a small but highly effective team of experts, and humbled by our ability to successfully deliver high quality work on a daily basis.

Rackspace is the largest managed cloud provider, offering expertise across the world's leading clouds. Their technical expertise and Fanatical Support allow companies to tap the power of the cloud without the pain of hiring experts in dozens of complex technologies.As a member of Rackspace's Private Cloud team, I am responsible for creating and maintaining automated Openstack deployment tooling using Ansible by contributing to the Openstack Ansible project as well as the internal Ansible tooling projects. I also offer expertise in virtual and physical networking in Rackspace datacenters as well as customer datacenters.Responsibilities:* Contribute code and reviews to upstream Openstack projects* Contribute code and reviews to the Openstack Ansible project* Contribute code and reviews to the internal Rackspace Private Cloud Ansible project* Travel to Openstack summits to interact and work with Openstack Ansible users as well as Rackspace customers* Contribute to and maintain internal lab environment management tools* Mentor and onboard new employees, and contributing to onboarding checklists for new hires.* Offer technical investigation into Openstack networking issues

Dyn is a worldwide leader in Internet performance, providing traffic management and message management solutions. Dyn provides DNS services for many of the top Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Etsy and Pandora as well as email delivery services for over 15,000 senders. Dyn manages its presence in 20 data centers distributed globally, including two new locations in China.As a member of Dyn’s Operations staff, I serve as technical and team lead for a group of extremely talented Systems Engineers. My role within the group is to provide deep technical knowledge of our platforms and services, as well as critical knowledge of Linux and the myriad of components used in daily operations.Duties/Responsibilities:* Participate in 24x7 on call shift* Participated in architecting and initial deployment of two new China POPs* Tune OS internals where necessary for multiple scenarios* Participated in design and deployment of a multi-DC Cassandra cluster* Created standardized hardware and OS configuration guidelines* Serve as technical advisor for systems engineers on many projects* Train and mentor junior level employees* Developed several Python data mining applications* Automated several operational processes

Bostonpost Technology provided property management software as a service, specializing in government subsidized low-income and elderly housing. Our software was provided as a client-side installable package accessing a hosted back-end on our production MS SQL servers.At Bostonpost, I served as head of the IT team responsible not only for managing the corporate network, but also for the production SaaS environment. During my time, I oversaw the explosive growth of our environment and customer count.Duties/Responsibilities:* Implemented Nagios and OpenNMS monitoring services* Architected and managed corporate VMware vSphere solution* Created Active Directory group policy objects to ease desktop management* Architected and managed production and corporate networks* Provide capacity planning for production SaaS environment* Architected and managed NetApp SAN solutions* Manage Cisco and Asterisk VoIP telephony system and routers at multiple locations* Responsible for establishing and maintaining Data Center, service provider, and vendor services and relationships.* Responsible for DR planning and testing* Developed several internal tools and utilities

TSG IT Resources was a IT contracting company, much like Adecco. While working for TSG, I was an operations contractor for Timberland, Co. at their world headquarters in Stratham, NH. While working in the Operations department at Timberland, I helped develop a standard method to update OS/400 and AIX environments running on AS/400 and RS/6000 systems, as well as their Windows servers. I also assisted in developing modules and procedures for their HP OpenView network monitoring systems, and developed software to manage and log administrator account activities for Sarbanes Oxley compliance. To this date, all of these procedures and software packages are still in place.Duties/Responsibilities:* Monitor HP OpenView for alerts on a global network* Developed client-side script packages to collect data for HP OpenView monitoring* Monitored nightly jobs and activities on production AS/400 and AIX Oracle systems* Acted as first-level support for Asia-Pacific and European timezone users* Assisted implementation team in modifying and adding software packages to production environment* Assisted server management team with the creation and maintenance of several test environments* Developed Windows software to enable administrator accounts in Active Directory for Sarbanes Oxley compliance* Developed reporting package to provide administrator activity logs to management teams for Sarbanes Oxley compliance

St. Mary’s Bank was the first Credit Union in the United states and has been greater Manchester area with affordable banking services for over a century. As a federally regulated bank, St’ Mary’s has several extra requirements for its network and server environments to maintain compliance with regulations.As a Network Administrator and Operations Specialist at St. Mary’s, I was responsible for managing networks in several locations, and the critical point-to-point connections between sites. I was also responsible for implementing network and email monitoring software to enforce compliance with the company Acceptable Use policy.Duties/Responsibilities:* Monitor network activity and provide usage reports to senior management* Assist several departments with equipment and network upgrades* Monitor network connectivity between several branch locations and the operations center* Provide backup communications for sites to provide business continuity in the event of an outage* Maintain Windows server environment for network file, printer, and fax services* Assisted in the maintenance of the AS/400 environment* Assisted with the upgrades and maintenance of OS/400 environment* Provided level three support for for users of the bank’s systems* Upgraded teller systems from IBM dumb terminals to Windows based systems with access to bank terminal services* Implement and maintain WatchGuard network firewall systems* Began nightly processing services after branch locations closed* Occasionally worked overnight shift, monitoring nightly processing* Developed a bank-wide system upgrade plan to roll out new desktop hardware with minimal disruption

was a hardware and software VAR and solution provider for companies primarily serving companies in Massachusetts. At Elkco I was responsible for assembling computers sold to customers ranging from school districts to Fortune 500 corporations. I was also responsible for providing consulting services to several small and medium sized businesses as well as a few municipalities.Duties/Responsibilities:Assemble desktop and server hardware for customer ordersPerformed burn-in services on all new systemsAssisted local cable company as a contractor to install cable modem internet services in homes and corporate locationsDeveloped an inventory tracking system to process RMA claims for customersWorked with several customers to develop solutions to suit their business needsProvided consulting services to municipal customersProvided network surveying and knowledge gathering for customers with turnover in their IT groupsAssisted customers with Internet connectivity solutions, including requirement estimations.

Network engineering for client sitesVPN links for multi-site clientsMaintain and repair client Windows workstations and ServersImplement and maintain client Microsoft Exchange