Experience

The Linux Foundation

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Manager, Release Engineering

  • Sep 2014 - Present

  * In charge of Release Engineering team* Manage CI environments for multiple large Open Source projects - Manage Jenkins - Manage Gerrit - Manage Sonatype Nexus - Manage Sonatype Nexus IQ (CLM) - Manage Sonarqube* Configure and manage OpenStack cloud resources* Manage Release Engineering support team for the following OpenSource projects - Acumos ( https://www.acumos.org ) - Akraino ( https://www.akraino.org ) - AllSeen Alliance ( https://www.allseenalliance.org ) - Automotive Grade Linux ( https://www.automotivelinux.org ) - EdgeX Foundry ( https://www.edgexfoundry.org ) - FD.io ( https://www.fd.io ) - Hyperledger ( https://www.hyperledger.org ) - IoTivity ( https://www.iotivity.org ) - ONAP ( https://www.onap.org ) - OpenDaylight ( https://www.opendaylight.org ) - Open-O ( https://www.open-o.org ) - OPNFV ( https://www.opnfv.org ) - Zephyr Project ( https://www.zephyrproject.org ) Show less

• Systems Administrator

  • Jan 2012 - Sep 2014

  * Managed migration of disparate mail and calendaring backends into Google Apps* Manage and configure systems via Puppet* Configured and integrated a 2-factor authentication system for VPN access using FreeRADIUS, Google Authenticator and totp-cgi ( https://github.com/mricon/totp-cgi )* Primary administrator for the OpenDaylight collaborative projected hosted by The Linux Foundation (http://www.opendaylight.org).* Manage Gerrit, Jenkins, Nexus, WSO2 Identity Server & Sonar systems for OpenDaylight and other Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects.* Utilize and manage OpenStack and Ganeti cloud computing infrastructures* DevOps / Release Engineering Team Lead Show less



Yapta

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Systems Engineer (Independent Contractor)

  • Aug 2011 - Jan 2012

  * Puppet configuration for a mixed FreeBSD (primary OS) and CentOS environment. * Puppet configuration for a mixed FreeBSD (primary OS) and CentOS environment.



BlackBerry

• Canada
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Engineer (Independent Contractor)

  • Feb 2011 - Nov 2011

  Linux systems engineer, architect and IT Operations lead for the Gist sub-entity. * Primary systems administrator for a hosted / cloud based architecture consisting of 70+ production and 10+ non-production CentOS systems. * Systems management and monitoring using puppet, nagios & cacti * IT Operations lead for most biweekly deployments using capistrano Linux systems engineer, architect and IT Operations lead for the Gist sub-entity. * Primary systems administrator for a hosted / cloud based architecture consisting of 70+ production and 10+ non-production CentOS systems. * Systems management and monitoring using puppet, nagios & cacti * IT Operations lead for most biweekly deployments using capistrano



Gist, Inc

• Systems Engineer (Independent Contractor)

  • Jun 2009 - Feb 2011

  Linux systems engineer, architect and IT Operations lead. * Primary systems administrator for a hosted / cloud based architecture consisting of 70+ production and 10+ non-production CentOS systems. * Systems management and monitoring using puppet, nagios & cacti * IT Operations lead for most biweekly deployments using capistrano Linux systems engineer, architect and IT Operations lead. * Primary systems administrator for a hosted / cloud based architecture consisting of 70+ production and 10+ non-production CentOS systems. * Systems management and monitoring using puppet, nagios & cacti * IT Operations lead for most biweekly deployments using capistrano



CarDomain Network

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Systems Administrator

  • Sep 2006 - May 2009

  * Technical team lead for a team of 4 administrators in supporting a production environment of 30+ nodes with 24/7 uptime requirements and a corporate environment of 40+ nodes & 70+ workstations * In charge of virtualization environments using VMWare and Xen * In charge of network security and design for corporate and production networks * Instrumental in architecting a migration from aging hardware to a more centrally managed IBM BladeCenter and DS3000 iSCSI SAN architecture supporting 10 web nodes and 4 Oracle RAC nodes with high I/O throughput requirements * Designed standards for application deployments and life cycle as well as packaging requirements using RPM * Mail administration using Postfix and MS Exchange * Managed alerting and charting systems for 24 hour monitoring using Nagios and Cacti * VPN management and administration using OpenVPN * Designed datacenter migration plan to minimize a downtime during migration * Helped architect a corporate office move including network build-out with a minimal downtime allowance Show less



City of Seattle

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Information Technology Professional

  • Oct 2004 - Sep 2006

  * Primary administrator for critical systems providing City wide services * Primary administrator for server operating system and hardware monitoring via Nagios and Cacti * Primary system architect of Citrix 4 implementation (6+ server cluster) * Primary architect and administrator of VMWare ESX 1.3 server farm (6+ ESX server cluster) * Primary IBM blade administrator (4+ blade cabinets) * Co-architect of secure web hosting platform for .NET applications * Day to day operations and maintenance (primary administrator) of 30+ MS Windows servers * Secondary administrator for 90+ MS Windows servers * Hardware / software trouble shooting, support and maintenance * User account management and domain administration * Security management and auditing * AD GPO creation and management * Primary SAN administrator for department * 2nd and 3rd tier support for servers and services Show less



Kforce Inc

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

• Systems Administrator for City of Seattle

  • Jun 2001 - Oct 2004

  Systems Administrator to City of Seattle * Primary administrator for critical systems providing City wide services * Day to day operations and maintenance (primary administrator) of 30+ MS Windows servers * Secondary administrator for 70+ MS Windows servers * Hardware / Software trouble shooting, support and maintenance * User account and domain administration * Security management and auditing * 2nd & 3rd tier support for servers and services Systems Administrator to City of Seattle * Primary administrator for critical systems providing City wide services * Day to day operations and maintenance (primary administrator) of 30+ MS Windows servers * Secondary administrator for 70+ MS Windows servers * Hardware / Software trouble shooting, support and maintenance * User account and domain administration * Security management and auditing * 2nd & 3rd tier support for servers and services



TEKsystems

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

• NT Administrator / Desktop Support for AT&T WNCC

  • Jan 2001 - Mar 2001

  * Technician support and workstation maintenance / troubleshooting * 1st and 2nd tier Windows support for 50 person 24x7 NOC * Technician support and workstation maintenance / troubleshooting * 1st and 2nd tier Windows support for 50 person 24x7 NOC



Websuite.com

• Senior Systems & Network Administrator

  • Jul 2000 - Oct 2000

  * Integrated Linux and NT servers and workstations using SAMBA and NFS* Performed, implemented and monitored daily backups of critical systems* System scripting in PERL and BASH to automate essential services on servers* Wrote and maintained mail filtering systems in PERL for Web Mail system* Wrote CGI hooks into mail system for custom mail and domain administration* Responsible for bringing in a Code Control System (CVS) and maintaining operations of the system as well as product release management with the system* Responsible for moving core mail systems onto Linux and maintaining the mail services, including writing applications to be able to interface into a custom Web Mail solution for customers* Wrote and maintained internal web applications in PHP for administrative uses as well as better customer service functions and relations Show less

• Systems & Network Administrator

  • Mar 2000 - Jul 2000

  * Integrated Linux and NT servers and workstations using SAMBA and NFS* Performed, implemented and monitored daily backups of critical systems* System scripting in PERL and BASH to automate essential services on servers* Wrote and maintained mail filtering systems in PERL for Web Mail system* Wrote CGI hooks into mail system for custom mail and domain administration* Responsible for bringing in a Code Control System (CVS) and maintaining operations of the system as well as product release management with the system* Responsible for moving core mail systems onto Linux and maintaining the mail services, including writing applications to be able to interface into a custom Web Mail solution for customers* Wrote and maintained internal web applications in PHP for administrative uses as well as better customer service functions and relations Show less



Volt

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Web Tools Developer for Microsoft

  • Sep 1999 - Feb 2000

  * Web Applications Developer for internal website dedicated to automated testing of Internet Explorer at Microsoft Corporation * DHTML and XML development for up to minute system monitoring and job status system * Web Applications Developer for internal website dedicated to automated testing of Internet Explorer at Microsoft Corporation * DHTML and XML development for up to minute system monitoring and job status system



Shadow Corp

• Programmer / Webmaster

  • Jun 1998 - May 1999

  * Circuit simulations engine programmer for CATTrax-E v1.0 (developed for Training Labs, Inc.) a training package for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning * Systems / Network Administrator for Windows 9x, NT, and Linux network * Webmaster for initial website design (Training Labs) * In charge of in house software CD duplication and mastering * Circuit simulations engine programmer for CATTrax-E v1.0 (developed for Training Labs, Inc.) a training package for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning * Systems / Network Administrator for Windows 9x, NT, and Linux network * Webmaster for initial website design (Training Labs) * In charge of in house software CD duplication and mastering