Greenfield Deployment of Cortex XDR: Spearheaded the end-to-end implementation of Palo Alto's Cortex XDR platform, replacing Trellix HX to modernize and enhance global endpoint security.Global Endpoint Agent Rollout: Orchestrated the deployment of Cortex XDR endpoint agents to over 100,000 systems worldwide, ensuring seamless integration across diverse environments.Strategic Planning and Execution: Developed and executed detailed deployment strategies, leveraging automation to optimize rollouts and achieve rapid adoption across international regions.Automation: Custom development in Python for SaltStack Execution Module to control agent deployments, management, tagging and reporting.

Lead and Mentor a Team of InfoSec Engineers:Spearhead and provide mentorship to a high-performing team of Information Security (InfoSec) engineers, driving excellence in security operations.Innovative Solutions Development and Integration:Led Proof of Concepts (PoC) and Proof of Value (PoV) initiatives for Crowdstrike, Tenable, and Trellix ecosystems, achieving success through custom solutions, seamless API integrations, and advanced security measure design and implementation.Strategic Global Endpoint Security Enhancements:Strategically designed and executed global endpoint security enhancements, significantly reducing the potential impact radius of failures.

Strategic SRE Process Design and Execution:Orchestrated the planning and execution of SRE processes, standardizing essential elements for enhanced operational efficiency.Python Customization for Incident Automation:Utilized Python expertise to develop custom automation scripts, seamlessly integrating with internally crafted toolsets and CI/CD pipelines to accelerate incident response and remediation.Revamped 3rd Party Security Applications:Demonstrated innovation by reverse engineering and containerizing 3rd party endpoint security applications, enhancing deployment flexibility and security posture.Versatile Incident Response Specialist:Acted as the go-to "Swiss Army Knife" for incident response, system troubleshooting, and SRE interventions, ensuring mission-critical systems' stability.Contributed to SRE Team Expansion:Played a pivotal role in the expansion of the SRE team by actively participating in recruitment and onboarding processes.Efficient Configuration Management Implementation:Implemented and fine-tuned configuration management formulas (Salt) for seamless deployment and management of endpoint security across a vast network of 40,000+ devices.Strategic Database Design Enhancements:Conducted meticulous reviews and executed updates to database designs, augmenting endpoint security coverage and fortifying data management.Elevated Grafana Dashboards for Comprehensive Reporting:Elevated Grafana's custom dashboards to facilitate comprehensive security coverage reports across all business units, ensuring actionable insights for informed decision-making.

• Personal consulting business• Enterprise Network Design, Implementation and Management.• Multinational client base for SMB I.T. Services• Law firm matter management systems, process improvements

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Ident Solutions, I led transformative initiatives to enhance our IT infrastructure and streamline operations. Highlights include:Infrastructure Migration: Orchestrated a seamless migration from VXRail to HPE + Nimble Enterprise solutions, collaborating with third-party vendors to ensure efficient upgrades and zero downtime.Release Engineering: Managed release engineering using Jenkins and custom Docker orchestration tools, optimizing software deployment processes for reliability and efficiency.SaltStack Implementation: Introduced SaltStack for configuration management and vCenter orchestration, reducing server provisioning time from days to minutes.Monitoring Solutions: Architected and deployed Zabbix and ElasticStack for comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting across our entire infrastructure, enabling proactive issue resolution.Security Compliance: Ensured compliance with CJIS/FBI requirements, implementing CentOS hardening measures and managing on-premises MFA Teleport and Radius solutions for data security.Firewall Transition: Collaborated with vendors and SecOps to plan and implement Palo Alto firewalls, replacing Cisco ASA systems and enhancing network security.Load Balancer Management: Efficiently managed F5 Big-IP Load Balancers in the virtual environment, overseeing access, rule configuration, health monitoring, and HA node management.In my role, I facilitated innovation, streamlined processes, and maintained the security and reliability of our IT infrastructure while meeting regulatory compliance standards and industry best practices.

Kubernetes Expertise: Spearheaded Kubernetes Proof of Concept (PoC) projects, both Vanilla and with Rancher2, enabling the automation of inbound traffic rules interfacing with vCenter and Palo Alto firewalls. The team later implemented Kubernetes clusters for production use.AWS AEM Initiative: Collaborated with third-party implementation engineers to establish a production-ready Kubernetes cluster for the marketing department, optimizing operations and scalability.CI/CD Pipeline Ownership: Created, maintained, and managed CI/CD pipelines utilizing Electric Flow and Python for seamless deployment and integration of Java-based and PHP-based applications.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Served as a vital liaison between Development and SysOps, NetOps, and SecOps, ensuring effective communication, planning, and implementation of application requirements.Application Migration Expert: Reverse engineered and migrated Credit.com (Java) from open-source virtualization technology to vCenter ESXi infrastructure, becoming the domain knowledge expert for its deployment, maintenance, and infrastructure management.SaltStack Certification: Achieved SaltStack Certified Engineer status at SaltConf, implementing and maintaining SaltStack for orchestration and configuration management across the entire infrastructure.Tooling Systems Innovation: Developed and maintained tooling systems that enhanced processes and automated various systems, contributing to increased efficiency.PCI Compliance: Collaborated with PCI Compliance Managers to ensure internal and third-party applications met compliance requirements, proactively addressing any PCI Compliance concerns.Team Leadership: Led a team responsible for supporting PHP applications, overseeing their performance and optimization.My tenure at Progrexion, ASG was marked by significant contributions to infrastructure, automation, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration, which drove operational excellence and innovation.

Cloud Migration Excellence: Contributed to a team that executed a successful migration from on-premises vCenter to AWS hosted solutions, implementing Blue/Green/Purple deployments with Ansible.Jenkins Management: Oversaw and maintained Jenkins for automated build and Q/A processes, utilizing Ansible for efficient creation and teardown of environments.Empowering Automation: Developed and deployed automation tools using Ansible and other technologies, empowering other teams to streamline their operations.API Integration: Seamlessly integrated with third-party APIs using Python, enhancing data flow and connectivity.Comprehensive Monitoring: Established and maintained monitoring systems and associated policies for both Development and Operations, ensuring system health and performance.Efficient System Integration: Facilitated integration with internal and external systems to automate processes for Development, Operations, and Quality Assurance, optimizing workflow efficiency.

Manage companies physical hosted platform, virtual hosted platform. Management of 100+ virtual servers running various Linux distributions and Windows Server 2008R2. Infrastructure services over 1,000 end users across the nation. - VMWare ESXi v5.5 && vSphere 5.5- Dell EqualLogic PS Series Management- Nimble Storage Array Management- Technical Project Management- Information Technology: Physical Infrastructure Management- Information Technology: Virtual Infrastructure Management- RDBMS Design & Implementation- OO Programming: PHP- Implement Graylog2 data collecting, reporting across Windows Server systems for Support teams- Implement Logstash reporting across Web Servers for internal reporting- Implement Graylog2 data collecting, reporting for real-time ESXi metrics (CPU, CPU Ready, Disk, RAM) on hosts, virtual servers

• Primary responsibilities include design and development of corporate website.• Designing database system for on-line collaboration between company and clients. • Proofing digital imaging, project reports, and various other technical publications.

• Enhance and develop ColdFusion services• Enhance and develop Flex applications

• Architected and implemented 2 data centers in Texas with automated BGP failover for High Availability and fully redundant systems (N1+1)• Implemented tertiary data center in Salt Lake City, UT for backup management, external monitoring• In charge of all Microsoft Server hardware and software in Production systems• Implemented Apache v2.2 on Windows and Linux web servers, replacing IIS as primary web server • Setting up and monitoring Microsoft Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, Apache Management & Clustering, ColdFusion Clustering and Data Center fail-over• Created and implemented Server 2008, ColdFusion and SQL 2008 clustering and virtualization• Implemented multi-site Nagios,Splunk and SpiceWorks monitoring; internal NOC for Linux and Microsoft Server based systems• Implementing and managing MySQL 5 for corporate website and internal NOC monitoring, reporting• Continued development in Coldfusion 8 and PHP 5 utilizing common OO design patterns

• In charge of systems architecture for high availability production systems• Implemented Development release process using SVN and open-source applications• Took on lead role on multiple projects, assessing requirements for new and/or updated reporting functionality and more cost-effective work flow

• Setup Enterprise hosting environment with scalable and redundant systems• Create secondary round-robin load balanced backup system to primary data center with 1-minute sync time between systems• Setup active monitoring of all systems and peripherals• Worked with Development to create and implement Release Process• Worked closely with all I.T. staff to implement training and certification study systems• Implement Zimbra E-Mail solution• Create technical solutions to handle millions of visits a day using internal and external servers• Maintain Redhat, Ubuntu, Mac and Windows servers and workstations• Configure Apache, Lighttpd, MySQL and other software for high availability

• Project Manager for SuperSalon (www.supersalon.com) with 2 multi-national clients.• Coordinate between all departments internal departments for Project Management tasks.• Use Microsoft Project Professional for Project Planning.• Perform Business Analyst tasks to gather Functional Requirements from external and internal stakeholders.• Create and enhance system-wide internal and external processes in Development, Quality Assurance, Technical Documentation, Sales, Support, and Project Management.

* Managed a small team of developers in day to day operations and large projects* Managed functional and technical requirements for all internally and externally facing web-based software* Reported directly to the CEO, worked to improve sales and business performance

• Managed and developed company-wide internal applications using PHP and the Enterprise Tenfold development platform.• Developed dynamic web-based software using PHP 5 using OOP principles.• Developed software to interface with MySQL 5, Oracle 9i/10g to support our MyHealth Manager and Outcome Track software.• Re-programmed and maintained an automated internal billing system that interfaces with Quickbooks Pro and other internal and external applications. • Through data corrections, located and helped in recovering part of over $150,000 in lost revenue.• Assisted the I.T. department in technical purchases including desktop machines, laptop machines, and internal servers.

• Created and maintained a large multi-site MySQL database for a huge collection of online multimedia videos and photos.• Created and maintained primary, partner, and secondary websites in PHP4 OOP.• Managed a small team to develop primary websites, filmdisc.com and barnafilms.com.• Built custom computer systems for multimedia use.