I am uniquely qualified for many Dev/SecOps and similar roles. This is due to my extensive experience in DevOps, Software Engineering and Team Management. During my time at AOL, Verizon (MapQuest) and FDCServers.
I was successful with projects and tasks to which I was assigned. As a very quick learner, hard worker, and highly motivated individual, I excel at technological skills, interpersonal employee/vendor relations.
A significant career accomplishment of mine was when I founded, operated and sold a successful streaming media business, mediacast1.com, at its peak in 2005.
During my tenure at Verizon, I was the Lead DevSecOps for the MapQuest consumer project and was part of the team that assisted in migrating the entire bare metal infrastructure off AOL data centers to AWS/EC2 with terraform and CloudFormation.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE IN CODING AND DEVSECOPS TOOLSMITHING
AWS Enterprise Cloud Engineering
- Buddy.io, Jenkins tooling for CI/CD
- Nginx Web Proxy enhancements to internal ECS cluster to accommodate high capacity.
- Load testing APM(Industry tooling with dynatrace) to troubleshoot bottleneck areas to improve performance.
- In my first week, I Contributed a solution(web proxy enhancements) to a major problem with a vendor, working solution = happy client = project saved.- AWS Enterprise Cloud Engineering - Buddy.io, Jenkins tooling for CI/CD - Nginx Web Proxy enhancements to internal ECS cluster to accommodate high capacity. - Load testing APM(Industry tooling with dynatrace) to troubleshoot bottleneck areas to improve performance. - In my first week, I Contributed a solution(web proxy enhancements) to a major problem with a vendor, working solution = happy client = project saved.
Skills: Microservices · Gitlab · AWS CloudFormation · Kubernetes · Agile Methodologies · Terraform · Python (Programming Language) · Ansible · Amazon S3 · Jenkins · JavaScript
. Planting the roots of a new SaaS Business Unit at FDCServers.NET!
. New Business development to form technology partnerships with vendors.
. Strategic planning of system architecture/software projects including vision, design, cost estimation, budget management and implementation of hybrid cloud systems in order to support FDCServers diverse business model.
. Day-to-day multi project team management, scope management, issue and risk management, as well as regular status reporting to the CEO.
. Contract negotiations and management with 3rd party service providers and agencies.
. Coach and Mentor Networking engineers, System admins, DevOps, Software Engineering teams responsible for daily operations and support.
. Network abuse, security and compliance auditing management .
. Guide engineers and contractors in disciplines inclusive of data processing, quality assurance, application development, analytics, machine learning, algorithms, customer experience and data warehousing.
. Ensure optimal engineering and resource management in order to meet product development and consumer requirements.
. Enhance and Optimize existing system resources and internal tooling to meet customer demands.
. Microsoft Azure to Bare-Metal on prem integration and hybridization of services and hyper-v.
. SSO/SAML International Id Compliance Management.
. Full Slack implementation across organization to enhance collaboration and team productivity.
. Agile foundation with Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence rollout to support engineering platform
. International Continuous delivery platform orchestration with JenkinsCI, Artifactory Pro, Chef Server/Ansible Salt Stack, via DIY Cloud Solutions
. GEO platform rollout to support diverse endpoints across the globe enhancing bare metal MEC
. Creating a Best in Class Ping! Power! & Pipe! Revolution at FDCServers.NET!
- General DevOps Security and Compliance
- Managed relationship with the Paranoid security team at Verizon Media
- Incident response team for security and compliance violations
- Continuous security integration
- Continuous performance training
- DevOps Guild - Helped grow the devops culture in our business unit by contributing to weekly conversations and side projects to enhance and improve Verizon location Tech infrastructure.
- Quarterly Leadership management training
- Culture hack day co chair to foster positive & fun work place.
• Security and Compliance Management
• Chef cookbook development and management.
• Jenkins CI development and management.
• Build and Release Frequent MapQuest updates.
• Agile/Scrum environment, standups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retro’s, demo’s.
• XenServer to AWS EC2 Server rebuilds and migrations.
• AWS Tooling: CloudFormation, Route53,ECS,SES,ES,EFS,EBS,RDS, ELB,ALB,ASG, S3, IAM,Glacier, Elasticache, EC2,Lamda
• Packer/Vagrant CI AMI Development.
• Graylog/ELK Centralized Log management, logstash, syslog-ng,rsyslog
• Ruby Cloudformation CI stack deployments.
• Apache/Varnish Cloudformation stack builds, CI and Production deployments.
• Varnish/Nginx caching proxy + Amazon elastic file-system(efs) + s3 for custom cdn via Cloudformation
• Apache/Tomcat Cloudformation stack builds, CI and Production deployments.
• Nginx/ NodeJS Cloudformation CI stack builds and deployments
• Bash/Ruby/Perl/Python Script maintenance
• New Relic, Datadog monitoring platform integrations
• Repeatable build apps for tomcat, ruby on rails, NodeJS, AWS ami’s via Packer and Jenkins CI
• PostgreSQL, MySQL & MSSQL development/dr/migrations/administration, XenServer to RDS
• On call rotation, after hours support and development.
• Security and Compliance Management
• Chef cookbook development and management.
• Jenkins CI development and management.
• Build and Release Frequent MapQuest updates.
• Agile/Scrum environment, standups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retro’s, demo’s.
• XenServer to AWS EC2 Server rebuilds and migrations.
• AWS Tooling: CloudFormation, Route53,ECS,SES,ES,EFS,EBS,RDS, ELB,ALB,ASG, S3, IAM,Glacier, Elasticache, EC2,Lamda
• Packer/Vagrant CI AMI Development.
• Graylog/ELK Centralized Log management, logstash, syslog-ng,rsyslog
• Ruby Cloudformation CI stack deployments.
• Apache/Varnish Cloudformation stack builds, CI and Production deployments.
• Varnish/Nginx caching proxy + Amazon elastic file-system(efs) + s3 for custom cdn via Cloudformation
• Apache/Tomcat Cloudformation stack builds, CI and Production deployments.
• Nginx/ NodeJS Cloudformation CI stack builds and deployments
• Bash/Ruby/Perl/Python Script maintenance
• New Relic, Datadog monitoring platform integrations
• Repeatable build apps for tomcat, ruby on rails, NodeJS, AWS ami’s via Packer and Jenkins CI
• PostgreSQL, MySQL & MSSQL development/dr/migrations/administration, XenServer to RDS
• On call rotation, after hours support and development.
•Nagios plugin development, ipsec monitor by tunnel name (check_ipsec_tunnel).
•VPN/IPSEC/Openswan/Libreswan Deployments
•Mirth Connect Administration
•Jenkins + Maven + Selenium Java Framework + Browserstack QA Lifecycle management and development.
•Custom Vagrant builds and deployments
•Implemented and manage nagios and munin monitoring for enterprise
•Amazon Cloud development and administration for enterprise, Route53, EC2, Elasticache, Glacier, S3
•Implemented Percona XtraDB MySQL Cluster for high availability
•Troubleshoot and manage network infrastructure across the Amazon cloud and Client networks.
•Maintain HIPAA, SOC 2 Compliance standards across organization.
•Implemented disaster recovery solution using glacier and s3 cloud storage.
•Administrate all bitbucket server/git SCM across enterprise
•Support team members when faced with challenging bugs and issues.
•Provide technical leadership to Senior management
- Huron acquired MyRounding in December of 2015
•Nagios plugin development, ipsec monitor by tunnel name (check_ipsec_tunnel).
•VPN/IPSEC/Openswan/Libreswan Deployments
•Mirth Connect Administration
•Jenkins + Maven + Selenium Java Framework + Browserstack QA Lifecycle management and development.
•Custom Vagrant builds and deployments
•Implemented and manage nagios and munin monitoring for enterprise
•Amazon Cloud development and administration for enterprise, Route53, EC2, Elasticache, Glacier, S3
•Implemented Percona XtraDB MySQL Cluster for high availability
•Troubleshoot and manage network infrastructure across the Amazon cloud and Client networks.
•Maintain HIPAA, SOC 2 Compliance standards across organization.
•Implemented disaster recovery solution using glacier and s3 cloud storage.
•Administrate all bitbucket server/git SCM across enterprise
•Support team members when faced with challenging bugs and issues.
•Provide technical leadership to Senior management
Contractor converted to FTE
•Full product (WifiLinx) life cycle management and ownership, from creation, to deployment, to maintenance.
•Developed and Successfully Deployed WifiLinx wifi hotspot system to over 60+ Hyatt Hotels across the United States and Abroad during a 3rd party vendor shutdown (disaster recovery).
•Greylog2 and Rsyslog administration for central logging and log analytics monitoring.
•Puppet configuration management for development and production citrix virtual farm.
•Deploy weekly updates in a fast paced agile/scrum environment.
•Custom P.M.S (Property Management System) development for Micros Opera.
•JQuery mobile development for portal landing pages at high speed internet properties.
•JQuery framework integration for session server, redesigned entire UI experience to accommodate support staff.
•Developed custom support tools for support staff in a cross platform environments.
•Implemented full nagios monitoring for all property server stacks at each hotel, Hyatt etc…
•Implemented full mrtg visualization for tracking bandwidth and resource usage trends.
•Custom Radius server integration for authentication, accounting and billing.
•Full LAMP Stack optimization and tuning to handle 4million hits a day at each property server stack.
•Munin integration for tracking Linux, Apache, MySQL resource usage when optimizing the lamp stack.
•Custom centralized git system via Bitbucket to distribute code updates across the entire enterprise within minutes of a release, verses waiting days or even weeks to get working software to the customer, agile process's respected.
•Collaborated, developed and released testing methods for new HSIA/iTv property installs prior to release/turn up/activation.
•Continuous support to team members on a daily basis when needed to solve complex technical issues that need immediate resolve.
•Translate complex technology process’s to senior management in an easy to understand business format.
• Citrix Xen Server: Experience in deploying various cloud vps/services.
• Cross platform active directory authentication development.
• Custom Quickbase data exporter solution.
• RPM Package Maintainer: Maintained Packages for Echo server deployments.
• Subversion Administration: Deployed multiple subversion servers for source code control.
• Audiorealm YP: Designed, Developed and Deployed the Audiorealm YP infrastructure, including the install of MySql 5 cluster, Keepalived, VRRP protocol for high availability.
• LAMP Stack: Deployed latest LAMP stack for 100+ servers.
• MPM – Media Point Manager – Developed complete Windows Media Services XML API, for publishing point statistics and administration.
• NOCmin: Developed backend network solution for asset management and monitoring.
• RPM Package Maintainer: Developed custom operating system based off the Red Hat open source solution, maintaining all rpm packages through yum repositories, and rpm package management.
• StreamAds: Deployed cluster solution based off same technologies used for Audiorealm YP.
• Subversion Administration: Deployed multiple subversion servers for soucre code control.
• VPN Administrator: Deployed vpn solution based off the open source version open VPN.
• XEN/EC2: Developed custom EC2 images for cloud services, deployed multiple steam hosting servers on Xen 3, architected custom solution for in house development, benchmark testing.• Audiorealm YP: Designed, Developed and Deployed the Audiorealm YP infrastructure, including the install of MySql 5 cluster, Keepalived, VRRP protocol for high availability. • LAMP Stack: Deployed latest LAMP stack for 100+ servers. • MPM – Media Point Manager – Developed complete Windows Media Services XML API, for publishing point statistics and administration. • NOCmin: Developed backend network solution for asset management and monitoring. • RPM Package Maintainer: Developed custom operating system based off the Red Hat open source solution, maintaining all rpm packages through yum repositories, and rpm package management. • StreamAds: Deployed cluster solution based off same technologies used for Audiorealm YP. • Subversion Administration: Deployed multiple subversion servers for soucre code control. • VPN Administrator: Deployed vpn solution based off the open source version open VPN. • XEN/EC2: Developed custom EC2 images for cloud services, deployed multiple steam hosting servers on Xen 3, architected custom solution for in house development, benchmark testing.