Manager of Systems Engineer team supporting medical device software as a service. Automated infrastructure provisioning and developed platform for web services, database, and HPC Clusters. DevOps role for development and test teams. Automated deployment across bare metal as well as KVM based virtual machines. Defined and created software packages for software deployment to 100+ RPM based systems. Early adopter and contributor to saltstack configuration management and remote execution… Show more Manager of Systems Engineer team supporting medical device software as a service. Automated infrastructure provisioning and developed platform for web services, database, and HPC Clusters. DevOps role for development and test teams. Automated deployment across bare metal as well as KVM based virtual machines. Defined and created software packages for software deployment to 100+ RPM based systems. Early adopter and contributor to saltstack configuration management and remote execution framework. Created live OS images and a small API for rapidly switching between versions of software based on demand while running on bare metal (no virtualization) due to performance requirements. Show less

Lead innovator on systems engineering team that researched new technologies, created, developed, implemented solutions based on these technologies for a platform that supported a healthcare imaging SaaS.

Deploy and design Windows Server Platform for the iSite (iPACs software) product line.

* Architected/Developed/Deployed and provide continuing support for an enterprise class server deployment application that provided an end-to-end server fulfillment solution (ASP/ASP.NET/VB/C#/SQL)* Designed and developed many scripted/automated deployments of server based applications (i.e. McAfee, Netbackup, SMS Client, MS Cluster, IIS6, Veritas Storage Foundations, etc.)* Architected/Developed a virtual machine deployment process that allowed rapid deployment of virtual… Show more * Architected/Developed/Deployed and provide continuing support for an enterprise class server deployment application that provided an end-to-end server fulfillment solution (ASP/ASP.NET/VB/C#/SQL)* Designed and developed many scripted/automated deployments of server based applications (i.e. McAfee, Netbackup, SMS Client, MS Cluster, IIS6, Veritas Storage Foundations, etc.)* Architected/Developed a virtual machine deployment process that allowed rapid deployment of virtual servers with different virtual hardware configurations* Architected a migration plan for 7000+ home directories/shares and hundreds of team shares from several dissimilar servers to a NAS infrastructure that allowed the storage team to implement a “charge-back” system for teams/users that used more storage than what was allocated.* Participated in a variety of project meetings to provide Windows infrastructure solutions (This includes capacity planning, performance analysis, and design work)* Automated ways to deploy latest hardware support packs and firmware updates for the thousands of HP Servers at Allstate* Provisioned HP servers for projects that deploy Linux for “appliance-like” functionality (i.e. network monitoring, performance monitoring collection)* Interacted with many other areas of Allstate technology (Storage/SAN Team, Network Infrastructure Team, Technology Executives, Help-Desk, Hands-On Team)* Managed a small 30+ server lab and the infrastructure that provides a sandbox for new development and researching new products* Acquired an abundance of hands-on experience in the latest server hardware and software for evaluation of its usefulness for Allstate Show less

Contracted to work at Allstate Insurance Company

* Lead Architect on Active Directory / Windows Share & NTFS automation tool (this greatly simplified central management in a very complex Active Directory and file server hierarchy)* Designed and developed COM+ Security package deployment application (this allowed a secure deployment of COM+ packages onto a large-scale IIS 5.0 web farm)* Participated on Active Directory Design team for initial AD deployment (One of the largest in the US at the time) * Designed NT 4 to Windows 2000… Show more * Lead Architect on Active Directory / Windows Share & NTFS automation tool (this greatly simplified central management in a very complex Active Directory and file server hierarchy)* Designed and developed COM+ Security package deployment application (this allowed a secure deployment of COM+ packages onto a large-scale IIS 5.0 web farm)* Participated on Active Directory Design team for initial AD deployment (One of the largest in the US at the time) * Designed NT 4 to Windows 2000 domain collapse and consolidation 75+ NT domains to 3 AD Domains * Architected migration strategy for 1000+ servers from Novell Netware to Windows NT in 1999 (as well as 8000+ Windows 95 workstations to NT 4.0)* Architected migration strategy for same 1000+ servers, 8000+ workstations from Windows NT to Windows 2000 in 2002* Designed and developed migration strategy for 300+ Netscape websites to IIS and scripted the security migration from Netscape LDAP to Active Directory and secured all IIS websites* Designed many automated solutions for Group membership and file/folder ACL reporting Show less