Experience

Lattice

• United States
• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer

  • Apr 2022 - Present



Sonatype

• United States
• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior DevOps Engineer

  • Jan 2020 - Apr 2022

  Worked as part of a "two-pizza" DevOps team, and closely collaborated with SREs to support cloud infrastructure and tooling enabling product development and a variety of customer-facing services. * Managed a wide range of AWS services * Practiced Infrastructure as Code with Ansible and Terraform * Developed web services and CLIs in Node.js and Go * Supported core infrastructure services and developer tooling * Built Jenkins Pipelines to manage CI/CD tasks Worked as part of a "two-pizza" DevOps team, and closely collaborated with SREs to support cloud infrastructure and tooling enabling product development and a variety of customer-facing services. * Managed a wide range of AWS services * Practiced Infrastructure as Code with Ansible and Terraform * Developed web services and CLIs in Node.js and Go * Supported core infrastructure services and developer tooling * Built Jenkins Pipelines to manage CI/CD tasks



Pivotal

• Remote Worker

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer

  • Jan 2018 - Jan 2020

  * Assisted Fortune 100 customers architect, deploy and scale cloud-native applications * Hands on experience deploying applications to GCP, AWS, Azure and vSphere * Codeveloped SRE curriculum for internal and customer training * Helped create and manage terraform automation and golang tooling * Daily use of CI/CD (Concourse), Docker and Kubernetes * Assisted Fortune 100 customers architect, deploy and scale cloud-native applications * Hands on experience deploying applications to GCP, AWS, Azure and vSphere * Codeveloped SRE curriculum for internal and customer training * Helped create and manage terraform automation and golang tooling * Daily use of CI/CD (Concourse), Docker and Kubernetes



Cisco

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Oct 2016 - Dec 2017

  * Helped build internal compute platform spanning thousands of cores* Helped support a Docker-based PaaS atop AWS* Helped maintain CI/CD (Drone.io) and configuration management (Puppet, Ansible)* Coordinated and cared for an amazing team of Go engineers practicing Lean/XP

• • May 2015 - Oct 2016

  * Spanned three DevOps teams building Monitoring-as-a-Service for Cisco’s cloud infrastructure* Reached across team boundaries to help deliver developer tooling and public-facing services* Evangelized DevOps culture and helped kickstart internal adoption



IronPort Systems - now a part of Cisco

• Remote Worker

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer

  • Nov 2007 - May 2015

  * Worked with product teams to help define, deploy and scale new services * Technical lead for infrastructure services supporting tens of thousands of clients * Created and maintained shell and Python automation * Worked with product teams to help define, deploy and scale new services * Technical lead for infrastructure services supporting tens of thousands of clients * Created and maintained shell and Python automation



Cisco

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• DevOps Engineer

  • Oct 2006 - Nov 2007

  * Converted ad-hoc deployments to CFEngine and evangelized Infrastructure as Code * Automated OS builds supporting thousands of FreeBSD and Linux servers * Configured load balancing and firewalls for production services * Technical lead for DNS and LDAP infrastructure * Converted ad-hoc deployments to CFEngine and evangelized Infrastructure as Code * Automated OS builds supporting thousands of FreeBSD and Linux servers * Configured load balancing and firewalls for production services * Technical lead for DNS and LDAP infrastructure



e2open

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Infrastructure Engineer

  • Mar 2004 - Oct 2006

  Technical Leader responsible for automated deployment and support of thousands of production Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. Helped administer several hundred Solaris 8/9 servers in data centers around the globe. Developed and maintained automated installation infrastructure (kickstart/jumpstart). Established and automated OS hardening procedures based upon industry standards (NIST, SANS). Helped define and automate data center bootstrap procedure. Participated in on-call rotation supporting mission-critical supply-chain applications in a hosted/ASP/cloud environment. Show less



Televoke Inc

• United States
• Software Development

• Operations Manager

  • Jan 2000 - Mar 2004

  Served dual roles as Operations Manager and Network Engineer. Managed Windows and UNIX System Administrators, DBAs and other Network Engineers. I was the first member of the technical staff to come onboard, and was responsible for recruiting and mentoring the operations team for a growing startup as well as building out the initial development, QA, staging and production data centers. Led team administering multi-platform networks (RedHat, Solaris, Windows), with an emphasis on automation to ensure a secure and robust infrastructure. Established security policies and drew up RFPs. Oversaw operating system upgrades, patch deployments, change management, VPNs, monitoring and logging, web services, network access control, routing policy and more. Show less



CenturyLink

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• UNIX Systems Engineer

  • Apr 1999 - Jan 2000

  Managed end-to-end IP networking solutions for diverse clients, including configuration and administration of large-scale LANs, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX systems. Wrote shell scripts and created in-house monitoring for network backbone and infrastructure services. Led staff in administering heterogeneous environment comprised of myriad collocation machines, triaged support tickets, helped prioritize work requests and assisted in incident response guided by stringent SLAs. Managed end-to-end IP networking solutions for diverse clients, including configuration and administration of large-scale LANs, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX systems. Wrote shell scripts and created in-house monitoring for network backbone and infrastructure services. Led staff in administering heterogeneous environment comprised of myriad collocation machines, triaged support tickets, helped prioritize work requests and assisted in incident response guided by stringent SLAs.



SEI

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Engineer / Network Engineer

  • May 1997 - Apr 1999

  Delivered comprehensive network, systems and security support for rapidly growing ISP (from ~1,000 to 10,000+ users during my tenure) providing dialup, leased lines, web hosting and internetwork services. Built a tri-state ISP/CLEC on FreeBSD, Cisco, 3Com/USR, and Nortel. IP network design, Cisco route/switch (EIGRP, OSPF), wrote shell scripts to automate routine tasks, developed company Intranet (HTML, CSS, Perl, CGI) and served as lead contact for support of UNIX infrastructure and hosted servers. Show less



CJ's PC Service

• Indiana

• Consultant

  • Jan 1994 - Dec 1996

  Worked with fellow consultants to service PCs for individuals and companies. Built numerous NT and Novell LANs for clients. Configured and repaired PC systems and periphials. Worked with fellow consultants to service PCs for individuals and companies. Built numerous NT and Novell LANs for clients. Configured and repaired PC systems and periphials.