Summary of Professional Experience

DevOps Engineer

Updated Jenkins server with Cucumber, Selenium, and Chrome Headless driver resulting in faster test execution.
Identified and patched security vulnerabilities resulting in greater PCI and HIPPA compliance.
Updated Nagios and CloudWatch monitoring, resulting in greater visibility of application health and status.
Redesigned AWS VPN resulting in greater performance for developers.

Senior ClusterStor Test Engineer

Performed test qualification of ClusterStor G200 Spectrum Scale HPC resulting in product to market.
Performed test qualification of ClusterStor 9000 Lustre HPC resulting in a higher quality product.
Implemented in-house python automated tests to reduce test time, improve efficiency, and increase product stability.

DevOps Engineer

Designed autoscaling AWS infrastructure for Django application using OpsWorks, reducing operational costs.
Implemented version control using Git resulting in shorter deployment efforts to production.
Redesigned entire office network with WAN fail-over, and VoIP traffic shaping, decreasing downtime.

Senior Linux Administrator

Designed and built redundant VMware vCloud for remote virtual training.
Led deployment of paperless training utilizing 400 iPads globally, reducing printing operations by 65 percent.
Developed a course scheduling system using Ruby on Rails, resulting in a 75% reduction in scheduling errors.
Redesigned hardware inventory control utilizing Zenoss SNMP discovery mechanism, reducing operational difficulties.

Senior Linux Administrator

Developed public virtualization offering utilizing KVM, and ZFS.
Lead the implementation of security audits using OpenVAS and IDS using Snort.
Enhanced system environment monitoring using SNMP, Nagios, and Cacti reducing response time to failures.
Developed and supported custom iptables firewalls.

Service Technician II

Directly involved in the Digital Transition Safety Act of 2005 facilitating the transition from analog to digital television for hundreds of customers.
Delivered emergency restoration services through Hurricane Charley Restoration Team.

Technical Skills

Operating Systems: Debian, Redhat based systems, Windows, OSX.
Virtualization/Clustering/Cloud: AWS, Openstack / Libvirt, KVM, Pacemaker
System monitoring: Prometheus, Zenoss, Cacti, statsd, Nagios (SNMP)
Control panels, and frameworks (plesk, cpanel, etc)
Networking: DNS, NFS, SSL, SNMP, DNS, Cisco IOS, OSI TCP/IP Networking CIDR/VLSM Subnetting
Programming Languages: Python, Ruby, bash/shell, markup languages including LaTeX, R, Markdown, HTML and CSS.
Security: RBAC,NIST,CIS/STIG
Apps: tmux, ssh, RStudio, GIMP, pandoc, Jupyter

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana