Experience

FriendFinder Networks Inc.

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Solutions Architect / System Administration Manager

  • Nov 2016 - Present

  Campbell, CA Providing architectural leadership while creating robust scalable solution designs for business, operations and engineering groups in a high performance, large scale web services environment in a heavily regulated market sector. In charge of designing the next generation infrastructure to support high velocity deployment of new capabilities and optimizing/updating/refactoring legacy systems.



Mirantis

• United States
• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Team Lead

  • Jun 2016 - Nov 2016

  Sunnyvale, CA Lead for a team of 20+ Deployment Engineers dispersed over multiple continents providing deployment, migration and support services for owners of OpenStack clouds. Installation and troubleshooting of OpenStack and Fuel and migration of workloads between OpenStack clouds using CloudFerry. Day to day people mangement, scheduling, training, mentoring, technical expertise, project management. Also responsible for onboarding of new Deployment Engineers and management and direction of several interns. Show more Lead for a team of 20+ Deployment Engineers dispersed over multiple continents providing deployment, migration and support services for owners of OpenStack clouds. Installation and troubleshooting of OpenStack and Fuel and migration of workloads between OpenStack clouds using CloudFerry. Day to day people mangement, scheduling, training, mentoring, technical expertise, project management. Also responsible for onboarding of new Deployment Engineers and management and direction of several interns.

• Sr. Deployment Engineer

  • Jun 2015 - Jun 2016

  Sunnyvale, CA Providing deployment, migration and support services for owners of OpenStack clouds. Installation and troubleshooting of OpenStack and Fuel and migration of workloads between OpenStack clouds using CloudFerry. Created onboarding program for new deployment engineers and architects to shorten engineer spin-up times from 6 months to 1 month.



Taos, an IBM Company

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Staff Consultant

  • Nov 2014 - Jul 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area Staff technical consultant on UNIX Practice Team.



FriendFinder Networks Inc.

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Linux System Administrator

  • Mar 2014 - Nov 2014

  Sunnyvale, CA Management for a team of system administrators in a high volume DevOps shop. Employee management, project management, expectation management, time management. Filtering daily flow from projects, keeping tasks moving forward and providing my team the tools they need to perform beyond expectations. From a technical standpoint I also manage the overall projects for: conversion from cfengine to puppet, converting from Netapp to Oracle storage, converting from Dell to HP server hardware… Show more Management for a team of system administrators in a high volume DevOps shop. Employee management, project management, expectation management, time management. Filtering daily flow from projects, keeping tasks moving forward and providing my team the tools they need to perform beyond expectations. From a technical standpoint I also manage the overall projects for: conversion from cfengine to puppet, converting from Netapp to Oracle storage, converting from Dell to HP server hardware, converting from layer 4 load balancing to layer 7 content switching and converting from 32bit to 64bit operating systems all while maintaining near perfect availability for over 5000 servers and over 4000 web sites. Technical leadership and pre-implementation design, testing, tuning and planning for all next generation products and services delivered by the Operations team. Responsible for training, scheduling and motivating subordinates and identifying areas of need. In short, all the usual manage-y stuff as well as being the final escalation point for all Operations technical matters and liaising between Systems and Network/DBA/Tools/Engineering/CS teams.

• Sr. Systems Administrator

  • Jul 2008 - Mar 2014

  Technical team lead for a mid-size team maintaining over 3000 production servers. Rotating on-call, general systems administration, break-fix, package compilation/installation/configuration, trouble tickets, mentor junior admins, documentation, consultation with engineering/project management, identify and eliminate SPoF's, automate managing large numbers of servers using CFEngine, change control, Apache, Tomcat, Squid, etc...



Flurry Analytics

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Operations Engineer

  • Apr 2007 - Jun 2008

  1 man show for all of corporate IT, Production operations, infrastructure architecture, vendor management, facilities management, telecom and data networks and I even do a little QA when time permits.



SAP BusinessObjects

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Systems Administrator

  • Nov 2006 - Apr 2007

  Part of small transition team retained from the Nsite acquisition. I managed the transition of Nsite's corporate, production and staging environments to Business Objects preferred infrastructure locations.



Nsite

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Systems Administrator

  • Oct 2005 - Nov 2006

  Acquired by Business Objects 11/06 1 man show for all IT matters. Provided production operations/administration, production and DEV/QA/STG architecture, release management, corporate systems administration, desktop support, vendor management and project management for IT and Operations projects.



Adteractive

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Systems Administrator

  • Feb 2005 - Oct 2005

  In charge of scaling the production and development environments to match the growth of the company, general systems administration for all operating systems, telecom support, primary storage architect, project management, monitoring, security audit remediation, vendor management, etc... Member of a 3 person team that managed and supported the entire infrastructure for the company.



Zantaz, Inc.

• Production Engineer/Backup Engineer

  • Feb 2004 - Apr 2005

  Responsible for re-building 380TB+ HSM environment to maintain SEC compliance for customers, enable growth and assure customer data integrity using TSM, and Veritas NetBackup. Managed 7 backup domains with thousands of clients. Maintained several farms of Linux and Solaris machines with 99.99% availability. Applied proprietary application updates & patches, system tuning, allocating storage, database installation, and troubleshooting issues on these systems during environment… Show more Responsible for re-building 380TB+ HSM environment to maintain SEC compliance for customers, enable growth and assure customer data integrity using TSM, and Veritas NetBackup. Managed 7 backup domains with thousands of clients. Maintained several farms of Linux and Solaris machines with 99.99% availability. Applied proprietary application updates & patches, system tuning, allocating storage, database installation, and troubleshooting issues on these systems during environment construction, test and roll-out phases. Maintained proprietary application, including tuning, troubleshooting with engineering staff, bug identification, solution testing and status tracking. Managed co-location service with IBM eBHS. Remotely built co-located environment with no direct physical access available. Managed vendors, contractors, and technical staff to achieve results within specified time frames. Documented hosted location systems to enable efficient remote management of hardware and software. Show less



Adaptec is now Microsemi

• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• UNIX Systems Administrator

  • Mar 2000 - Dec 2003

  UNIX/Linux systems administrator for large scale engineering/R&D environment. Supported all coroporate UNIX/Linux infrastructure and applications at all levels. Deployed the first production Linux systems for the company and lead the charge to convert from proprietary UNIX's and their associated hardware to Linux and X86 servers. Responsible for high performance compute cluster (HPC) running Platform LSF and GLB. Initiated the drive to migrate engineers from Windows workstations to… Show more UNIX/Linux systems administrator for large scale engineering/R&D environment. Supported all coroporate UNIX/Linux infrastructure and applications at all levels. Deployed the first production Linux systems for the company and lead the charge to convert from proprietary UNIX's and their associated hardware to Linux and X86 servers. Responsible for high performance compute cluster (HPC) running Platform LSF and GLB. Initiated the drive to migrate engineers from Windows workstations to Linux to save on software and licensing costs. Show less



Napse.Global

• Argentina
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Systems Administrator

  • Apr 1999 - Mar 2000

  System Administrator for contract customers. @ Documentum : Accounts administrator. Converted complicated Sendmail groups (massive alias files) and hundreds of POP accounts to Exchange 5.5, provided general UNIX administration to Sun, HP, IBM and Linux systems. @ Tiburon, Inc. : Site Lead/Systems Administrator. Site manager for Synthesis employees (2-5) and primary point of contact for Tiburon, Inc management. In charge of organizing internal support resources, Telecom, UNIX and… Show more System Administrator for contract customers. @ Documentum : Accounts administrator. Converted complicated Sendmail groups (massive alias files) and hundreds of POP accounts to Exchange 5.5, provided general UNIX administration to Sun, HP, IBM and Linux systems. @ Tiburon, Inc. : Site Lead/Systems Administrator. Site manager for Synthesis employees (2-5) and primary point of contact for Tiburon, Inc management. In charge of organizing internal support resources, Telecom, UNIX and Windows support from desktop to Server. Managed IT related vendor relationships and support contracts. Show less



S.T.A.R.S. High-School / S.T.A.R.S Inc.

• Network Admin/Computer Lab Tech.

  • Feb 1997 - Apr 1999

  Provided initial design, construction and day-to-day support of campus data network, NT 4.0 domain, and administration of all data, office, telecom and alarm equipment. Trained Hospital and School staff and SED (Severely Emotionally Disturbed) students in the use of personal computers, office applications and general Internet use in an acute/sub-acute mental health setting.