I am extremely passionate about technology, to the extent that most of my free time is either spent developing software, learning and exploring new products, or teaching others about technology. As much as I love learning, I also love to disseminate the information that I have learned to others.
As an additional side note, I love Robots #Jibo, Space Exploration #SpaceX, AI #SingularityNet, All things Metaverse, and Home Automation!
Qualifications consist of over 20 years of personal and professional experience in the field of IT, including but not limited to:
• Amazon Web Services
• Extensive Python 3.x & Bash Scripting
• 12+ years RHEL/CentOS Administration
• 10+ years Deb/Ubuntu Administration
• 10+ years Cisco Router/PIX/ASA mgmt
• FreeIPA, Active Directory Admin
• Ansible, Spacewalk config mgmt
• Django/Tornado Python Frameworks
• Windows Server 2000 - 2016
• Mac OS X 10.5 - 10.15
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 - 11
• Hardware config & management
• AWS Cloud Services Virtualization
• VMWare ESX and VCenter mgmt
• Microsoft Hyper V management
• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
• VirtualBox, Parallels
• VMWare Fusion, Workstation
• Vagrant box creation
• AWS ECS & ECR specialist
• Container Image Maintainer
• Orchestration with Docker-Compose
• Deployment with Docker-Machine
• Clustering with Docker Swarm
• Clustering with AWS ECS
• App migrations to containers
• Production Container Deployments
• Jenkins Docker CI/CD
• AWS Code* Services
• AWS CloudFormation
• Hashicorp Terraform
• Jenkins, DSL Deployment as code
• Jenkins full CI/CD configuration
• Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket mgmt
• Gitlab HA config & deployment
• CVS, SVN to GIT migrations
• Git Administration, and Git flow
Highlight of job experience through the years doing what I love to do the most. Information Technology
has never just been a job for me, it's my passion, and it's what drives me each and every day.
March 2021 - Present
• Lead complete rewrite of digital advertising fraud detection and measurement big data SAS platform, to a modernized, end to end encrypted, SOC2 compliant, autoscaling serverless architecture
• Developed customer facing tooling for customer access to data analytics and metric driven graph analysis
• Created and Implemented Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation) deployment templates for customer processing pipeline
• Oversaw development of internal tooling to increase performance and efficiency in creating ad tech deployment tags and customer pilot (service trial) dashboards
• Implementation of Change Control processes and procedures including enforcement of proper GitHub Code Review and PR modeled workflows
• Administrative tasks such as vendor and contractor management, Engineering hiring and team management
April 2019 - March 2021
• Work with enterprise companies across the US building, implementing, and supporting cloud migrations, DevOps deployment workflows, and cloud-based service solutions on Amazon Web Services
• Perform AWS cloud security and operational assessments, provide best practice recommendations, and implementation plans to deploy those recommendations to customer accounts
• Assist in application modernization including breaking down monolithic applications into cloud native microservice designed architecture
• Creating Infrastructure as Code via Terraform or CloudFormation for consistent infrastructure deployment across multiple accounts
• Work with customers to create Cloud, Container and Serverless based configurations, security, deployment, and support requirements
• Provide customers with secure IAM role / policy strategies for both single and multi-account environments.
November 2017 - April 2019
• Deliver AWS workshops and training on various AWS services
• Work with Enterprise customers across the U.S. helping them implement DevOps best practices and methodologies, as well as helping them to build and train them on, CI/CD workflows and pipelines for their new and existing applications.
• Work with customers to assist with Lift and Shift Datacenter to Cloud migrations
• Work with customers to assist in application cloud native redesign efforts
• Work with customers to understand and deliver cloud native infrastructure as code solutions by providing CloudFormation templated deployment scenarios
• Educate customers on Containerization solutions as part of the AWS Containers Area of Depth Technical Feedback Community
August 2016 - November 2017
• Work with Enterprise customers and support their journey to cloud
• Help customers troubleshoot their applications that have been migrated to AWS
• Help customers explore new AWS services that would enable them to create or change new or existing applications to be standardized in a more cloud native architecture
• Perform cloud security and best practice assessments of customer infrastructures
• Help customers design CloudFormation templates to help further automate architecture deployments
• Critical Customer Support escalations
• Work with AWS service teams on customer troubleshooting and training
• Deliver presentations and labs to customers on various AWS services
• Member of AWS Container services Area of Depth program
• Help customers with any and every AWS request from vulnerability scanning, to application performance troubleshooting, to educational training
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
• Ansible Initiative to replace half configured puppet implementation
• Deployment of Docker containers for development
• Deployment of Swarm Cluster for Jenkins build tooling
• Deployment and HA configuration of Gitlab Enterprise
• Ongoing migration of mixed CVS/SVN SCMs over to GIT
• Jenkins deployment and pipeline DSL job setup and configuration
• Automated deployments of full application stack using
Jenkins/Docker
• Manage and maintain RHEL 6 / CentOS 7 servers that run various
DevOps systems
May 2015 - present
• Architecture installation and configuration
• Adminstration of services such as Jira, Confluence, FreeIPA, Gitlab,
Nagios with CheckMK, Docker clustering, Zimbra, Yum, APT, etc..
• Dockerfiles, RPM and DEB packaging for software deployables
• Python scripting, programming
• Developed Tornado/Django based API for the backend platforms
• Jenkins, job setup, maintenance used for
build/test/compile/package/deploy pipeline
Dec 2009 - Dec 2015
• Ansible implementation to manage server and application
installation and updates, saving hours off of each update cycle
• Implementation of Docker, and various Docker orchestration tools
such as docker-compose, docker swarm, boot2docker, Quay
on-prem registry and various other management tools
• Rebuild of entire existing platform over to Docker containers. New
environment creation time reduced by over 4 hours
• Transition of entire development team over to Docker containers
• CoreOS Docker cluster setup and management
• Jenkins implementation and configuration resulting in full CI/CD to
integration environment on commit
• Conversion of many of our internal applications such as wiki,
nagios, jira and more over to Docker containers to allow
portability, ease of upgrade, and repeatable installation processes
• Strong emphasis on virtualization technologies. Prior to Docker,
over 90% of environment was virtualized via VMWare ESX
• Manage and maintain all production, staging, integration,
development, and support servers running CentOS Linux
• Apache and Nginx webserver Administration
• MySQL and PostgreSQL database server Administration
• JBoss Deployment and Trouble shooting
• Gitlab, NodeJS, Zend PHP, and other development platforms
• FreeIPA, PBIS, Spacewalk, Dogtag and other system administration
utilities
• Squid, Apache, HAProxy proxy/load balancer configuration and
maintenance
• BASH, and Python scripting for various tasks such as automated
database backups, rsync operations, and application installations
• Layer 3 Cisco Catalyst switches handling both IPV4 routing and
general switching
• PIX, 5500, 5500-X NGFW series clustered ASA firewall pair
• Site to site and remote to site VPN, and upgrade of Aironet WAP’s
to Cisco Meraki WAPs
• Manage and maintain Windows Active Directory environment
Aug 2008 - Nov 2009
• Deployment and configuration of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005,
Hyper-V and SCVMM virtualization management utilities
• Physical to virtual server migrations as well as Virtual Server 2005
to Hyper-V migrations
• Setup, implementation, troubleshooting and management of core
network services such as DHCP, DNS, WINS, IIS, and ISCSI
connectivity
• iSCSI and Fiber channel, LUN procurement via Windows iSCSI
initiator and EMC PowerPath
• Windows Server 2003, 2008 clustering technologies. New cluster
setups including cluster groups, resources, and scripts to perform
automatic cluster balancing and failover for high availability
services
• Automation of various tasks via VB and Powershell
April 2006 - August 2008
• Windows Active Directory group policy software deployments and
restrictive policy enforcement in various environments
• Support of a wide variety of hardware such as Dell PowerEdge
servers, HP Proliant Servers, IBM Blade Servers, as well as network
equipment ranging from 3COM Superstack to Cisco Catalyst
switches, Cisco routers, PIX firewalls, and ASA security appliances
• Multi district disaster recovery solutions
• Setup, implementation, troubleshooting and management
virtualization technologies via Microsoft Virtual Server, and
VMWare ESX
• Provide and support network traffic filtering and monitoring
solutions such as Microsoft ISA server and Surf Control
• Implementation, support and troubleshooting of various
applications such as Microsoft Exchange 2000-2007, Symantec AV,
Ghost, Altiris, Citrix Metaframe, Microsoft Office 2000-2008, Cacti,
Nagios, Spiceworks, and various others
• Multiple Exchange 2000 to 2003 migrations
• Novell Network and Groupwise migration to Windows Active
Directory and Exchange 2003
Jan 2001 - August 2005