Experience

Basis Technologies

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Manager, Production Operations - Security

  • Apr 2023 - Present

• Staff Systems Engineer

  • Sep 2022 - Apr 2023

• Senior System Engineer

  • Jun 2016 - Sep 2022



SpotHero

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Sr. DevOps Engineer

  • Sep 2015 - Jun 2016

  Lead DevOps resource in a fast-paced startup environment. Provide system administration, automation, and AWS engineering experience. Designed and implemented an Amazon Web Services environment for production and staging environments. Automated the construction and management of the AWS environment with CloudFormation and Troposphere. Migrated production environment from Rackspace Cloud to Amazon Web Services. Migration included changing from individual servers to run the front-end website to a containerized environment, utilizing Amazon ECS. Show less



Grubhub

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer

  • Aug 2013 - Aug 2015

  Systems engineering professional embedded in a cross-functional stream team, providing system administration, automation, and architectural expertise. Working in this fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment requires that I gain mastery of new technologies quickly. Converted a scripted and manual system build/configuration process to an automated process using Puppet Enterprise. Authored many custom Puppet manifests to streamline and facilitate configuration changes.Designed and developed a Python-based phone recording management program to process customer phone calls and upload them to Amazon S3. This program strengthened a process that formerly consisted of a series of loosely-coupled bash and Perl scripts, ensuring that restaurants could reliably listen to phone-based orders - an important part of a restaurant’s user experience. Created a Splunk dashboard to monitor this process’ heath from application logs.Authored several Ansible scripts and integrated them into Jenkins to expedite my team’s ability to deploy software products into pre-production and production instantly and with a high degree of reliability.Collaborated with developers in my team to plan out systems and software architectural changes to customer-facing and back-end Java applications.Facilitate post-mortems with developers and other technical resources to identify the causes of, steps to remediate / prevent, and monitor system and application issues. Show less

• Senior Systems Administrator

  • Sep 2011 - Aug 2013



ShopperTrak

• Switzerland
• Information Technology & Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Enterprise Architect

  • Jan 2008 - Sep 2011

  Unix systems engineer hired to help convert a legacy data-driven system to a modern, highly-available system.Integral project team member for the migration of large (excess of 2TB) customer-facing and back-end Oracle databases from the Windows NT platform onto Solaris 10; provided the architectural guidance and coordination of project resources to complete the project with minimal customer impact.Significantly reduced data center costs by consolidating systems onto virtual machines (Solaris 10 zones and VirtualBox).Facilitated the deployment and standardization of server configurations with the implementation of the Sun Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit (JET).Designed and implemented a standardized code release process that has been utilized in all software deployments throughout the environment.Assisted in the design and implementation of QA environments for all aspects of the production environment to ensure that all software and system changes are properly tested before they are released into the production environment.Provided systems oversight into technology projects to ensure that the functionality, consistency, and manageability of the resulting systems were in compliance with system architecture and project goals.Implemented enterprise system monitoring (Nagios) and performance reporting (Cacti).Evaluated cost/benefit of various tools and oversaw the implementation of the new monitoring tool (ProactiveNet) when there was a demand for more predictive monitoring. Show less

• Systems Administrator

  • Jan 2006 - Jan 2008



Classified Ventures

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Sr. Unix Administrator

  • 2000 - Dec 2005

  Utilized systems administration expertise in various technical lead positions for a growing internet-based publishing and e-commerce organization; team lead, mentor and technical project manager for multiple Solaris and NT administrators. Led the investigation and remediation of system performance issues; provided recommendations for system and application tunings and planned for the re-provisioning of services to systems with spare capacity. Third-tier technical resource to internal business units; analyzed system performance issues and provided required systems maintenance support to minimize system downtime. Key contributor to the evaluation of systems monitoring and capacity planning products; minimized site and system outages with the implementation of Big Brother open source monitoring system. Successfully implemented a predictive monitoring system (ProactiveNet) and an open source graphing package (Cacti). Wrote several scripts to watch for and alert on issues found in the server’s system log (syslog), increasing visibility into hardware and SAN issues. Defined and documented Solaris build standards, ensuring consistency, serviceability, and security of production, QA, and development systems. Enforced server build standards and increased system administrator productivity by introducing the automation of operating system and application software installations. Integral contributor in the design and implementation of Veritas Volume Replicator to replicate over 2TB of online transactional databases as a means of disaster recovery of the environment. Increased performance and availability of front-end websites with the implementation of Oracle WebCache on RedHat Enterprise Linux systems. Implemented a web-based DNS administration system allowing for the DNS administration function to be delegated to junior system administrators. Show less



Sprint

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Analyst

  • 1996 - 2000

  Messaging and windows desktop consultant for various companies throughout the Chicagoland area. Migrated to a Solaris systems administrator consultant over my tenure at Sprint Paranet. Provided corporate messaging support for Tribune Corporation; wrote ad-hoc monitoring scripts in Perl to ensure availability of the messaging infrastructure. Provided AIX and Windows system support for 300+ branch offices for W.W. Grainger ; wrote software distribution scripts for AutoXfer to distribute patches and system file changes. Oversaw Y2K projects for Classified Ventures including the installation of software testing lab, development and documentation of test scripts for Solaris system compliance, and the implementation and documentation of remediation steps to fix Y2K compliance issues on production systems. Show less



VictorMaxx Technologies

• Northbrook, IL

• System Administrator

  • 1993 - 1996