Experience

Memre

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

• Infrastructure Engineer

  • Feb 2022 - Present



Cerego

• United States
• E-learning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Infrastructure Engineer

  • Mar 2019 - Feb 2022

  All things Infrastructure via AWS, Chef, Terraform, Docker, etc. All things Security via AWS Best Practices and OWASP Best Practices All things DevOps, supporting the Product team and company goals while keeping control of Infrastructure, Sprawl, Performance, Scale, and Costs. All things Infrastructure via AWS, Chef, Terraform, Docker, etc. All things Security via AWS Best Practices and OWASP Best Practices All things DevOps, supporting the Product team and company goals while keeping control of Infrastructure, Sprawl, Performance, Scale, and Costs.



POPin

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• DevOps Engineer

  • Feb 2016 - Mar 2019

  * Handling all AWS Infrastructure, Monitoring, DevOps, Security, and Compliance management for a product that assists companies in sourcing the truth from their teams, whether it’s in small meetings, all hands, or conferences. It’s how future corporations will evolve to be inclusive, source insight, and grow effectively. * Handling all AWS Infrastructure, Monitoring, DevOps, Security, and Compliance management for a product that assists companies in sourcing the truth from their teams, whether it’s in small meetings, all hands, or conferences. It’s how future corporations will evolve to be inclusive, source insight, and grow effectively.



Krux Digital

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

• DevOps Engineer

  • Jul 2015 - Jan 2016

  Obscene amounts of data and traffic going in and out of one of the biggest AWS footprints * Auditing of Monitoring systems and assisted in Modernization * Security and Vulnerability testing infrastructure-wide * Load testing with infrastructure migration between Ubuntu LTS releases Obscene amounts of data and traffic going in and out of one of the biggest AWS footprints * Auditing of Monitoring systems and assisted in Modernization * Security and Vulnerability testing infrastructure-wide * Load testing with infrastructure migration between Ubuntu LTS releases



Home

• Home

• Stay-at-home Dad

  • Oct 2013 - Jun 2015

  In October 2013, I left Live Nation Labs, after hiring and training my replacement, to be a Stay@HomeDad for my first child. My son is now 2 years old, running and singing his ABCs and 123s, and having fun at preschool. However exhausting and draining the last 22+ months have been, its been fulfilling and absolutely wonderful seeing his progression from infant to toddler. In October 2013, I left Live Nation Labs, after hiring and training my replacement, to be a Stay@HomeDad for my first child. My son is now 2 years old, running and singing his ABCs and 123s, and having fun at preschool. However exhausting and draining the last 22+ months have been, its been fulfilling and absolutely wonderful seeing his progression from infant to toddler.



Live Nation Entertainment

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Operations Engineer

  • Jun 2012 - Sep 2013

  * I was responsible for the buildout and automation of the Cloud Infrastructure and Devops workflow for the new Livenation.com and LiveNation iOS app. * It was a mix of Ruby/Rails, Sinatra, Python apps with Postgres, Redis, and heavy Elasticsearch * I was the sole Devops/Operations team member and worked with LiveNation corporate to have our Live Nation Labs team take over the primary portal, Livenation.com. I interfaced with many systems engineers and product personnel at corporate to facilitate a smooth migration from their service providers to ours, while handling all legacy links, redirects, entry points, affiliate relationships, etc. * I managed and maintained all app infrastructure, Akamai config, DNS, monitoring, and escalation systems for Livenation.com * I developed an agile/continuous deployment workflow that allowed the software engineers to easily move their code for multiple apps to multiple envs while verifying: the quality of their code, their test coverage, that their tests pass, that performance is up to par, and that app security is up to par. This included automated deployments to DEV and QA envs, with eventual automated deployments to Production, if so desired. Show less



Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Systems Engineer

  • Jul 2011 - Jun 2012

  * I was responsible for the entire cloud-based systems stack for all applications for Project Matterhorn, which started with the launch of the new video.disney.com and eventually lead to the new Disney.com. We used Chef for dynamic configuration of all software, services, and APIs. * It was heavy Ruby/Rails w/ Mongodb and Redis. Java was used for the Search API, on top of Solr clusters. * Created and implemented a dynamic and scalable cloud-based and SOA-based design, using Chef and the automatic configurations of Varnish and HAProxy, in order to allow us to stand up and shutdown whole clusters that were fully functional, without dealing with external DNS or load balancer VIP configuration and communication dependencies. * This allowed us to save time in creating new environments for demo’s, user testing, QA, staging, etc. It made it very simple for the multi-layer API applications to talk to each other without having to be configured with unique service URIs. * Worked with software engineers to automate the deployment of code using Capistrano and Chef and tie that into Jenkins to allow for simple, automated, and one click deploys to the numerous applications and environments that we had. Show less



JibJab

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Manager of Systems

  • Mar 2008 - Jul 2011

  * Built and managed an environment that peaked at over 40M uniques/month to JibJab.com for 3 years straight. I was responsible for the entire systems architecture design, from data-center provider, cage layout, to network and server equipment purchases and setup, to evaluating and building the core storage and database clusters. * The Systems architecture consisted of Terabit capable switches with 20Gbps backbones, 10Gbps upstream bandwidth, hundreds of Terabytes of NFS-based Clustered Storage and Server Blades powering a Ruby on Ubuntu, disk-less web tier, and Large Database servers powering PostgreSQL on Solaris 10 and ZFS. I built this initial environment with one other Systems Administrator within 3 months time at the end of 2008. * We scaled the environment each year, with an ever optimizing Ruby/Rails software stack. * I worked with the DBA to optimize PostgreSQL performance and took advantage of SSDs in the L2ARC within our ZFS configuration. This allowed the database to cache an even larger working set during our peak traffic days. * In Quantcast’s Top 100 sites, Elfyourself.com reached a rank of 69, 49, 46 from 2008-2010 Show less



Rent.com

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Manager, Systems Administration

  • Apr 2007 - Mar 2008

  * Managed, Coordinated, and took part in all aspects of Systems Administration of the production and development, Unix and Linux environment. The core infrastructure for the web application that powers Rent.com, was based on Apache, mod_perl, and Linux on the front-end and Oracle on top of Solaris on the back-end. * Along with the Manager of the Database team, I scheduled purchasing, installation, licensing, testing, and implementation of Oracle 10g RAC, on the latest UltraSPARC systems, as the primary OLTP and data-warehousing databases for Rent.com. * Planned, budgeted, purchased, and set up a new Netapp Storage Cluster for the Production environment. I designed the aggregate and volume configuration so that it was flexible enough for production performance demands, along with all batch jobs, logging, and acting as the Near-line storage for the entire backend. Show less



Evite

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

• Manager of Operations

  • Sep 2005 - Oct 2006

  Managed and was responsible for all aspects of the production and development environments for Evite.com. I lead a team of two Systems Administrators and two Database Administrators. Our primary goal was to grow and optimize the technical environment in order to sustain yearly double-digit traffic growth.

• Senior Systems Administrator

  • Jan 2005 - Aug 2005

  Managed and Maintained all critical systems, including frontend webservers, mail servers, and database servers. All hardware consisted of IBM xSeries servers, Sun V880’s running Solaris 9, Cisco Switches, Netapp Storage Appliances, and F5 load balancers. Was responsible for troubleshooting all critical issues related to the systems. Worked directly with the DBA’s for purposes of maintenances, database changes, data migrations, etc. Managed and Supervised all hardware and network equipment at the datacenter and relationships with vendors and service providers. Show less

• Junior Systems Administrator

  • Apr 2004 - Dec 2004

  Responsible for all adds/moves/changes at the Evite datacenter. Configure Networking devices including Cisco switches and Alteon Load balancers. Document Critical Network and Systems Information. Maintain and submit support tickets for failed hardware/software. Work with NOC on monitoring and escalation issues. Troubleshoot Network issues and Set up Network traffic tracking tools.