Douglas Wilson Email & Phone Number

Mosaic - Merrifield, Fairfax VA

Mosaic - Merrifield, Fairfax VA

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Responsibilities:
• Manage entire infrastructure stack for the AARP.org domain websites. This includes everything from hardware, operating systems, databases, applications configuration, DNS, load balancing and more.
• Manage development, staging and pre-production environments. Regularly deploy code and configuration changes to production.
• Lead infrastructure automation project utilizing Opscode Chef. Design and write Chef cookbooks to automate infrastructure management.Some… Show more Responsibilities:
• Lead infrastructure automation project utilizing Opscode Chef. Design and write Chef cookbooks to automate infrastructure management.Some Accomplishments:
• Designed process and built shell scripts to bootstrap Chef client onto EC2 VPC Instances atlaunch time. Method designed to also be leveraged by Auto Scaling and CloudFormation.

• Responsibilities:
• Maintain and support application and database servers providing a minimum of 99.99% up-time for approximately 8,000 daily users.
• Administer, maintain, troubleshoot, repair, upgrade and monitor server hardware and software.
• Perform application, database and storage systems performance analysis and capacityplanning.
• Design, configure and maintain network systems, including file and print, email, VPN, WAN,servers, and storage solutions for back… Show more Responsibilities:
• Design, configure and maintain network systems, including file and print, email, VPN, WAN,servers, and storage solutions for back office infrastructure.

I manage a complex multi-platform (Linux/Solaris/FreeBSD/Windows) and multi-subnet computer network, and all computer and phone services, for over 150 employees, consultants, sub-contractors, and several independent contract teams dispersed across multiple locations in Virginia, Florida, and around the world.My team designs, builds, and supports the IT.

• Provided Information Technology consulting services to over 150 clients and performed asprimary IT support for over a dozen organizations.
• Designed, installed, and managed Windows and NetWare computer network infrastructures,and installed, configured, and repaired network operating systems, hardware, and softwareapplications.
• Trained client IT staff in network administration duties and client end users in the use ofsoftware applications.

• Maintained 1 local and 1 remote NetWare 3.11 Ethernet 10BASE-T network.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of network and PC hardware suchas hard drives, network interface cards, Cat 5 network cabling, RAM, and print servers.