Experience

Riot Games

• United States
• Computer Games
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr Systems Engineer

  • Jun 2020 - Present

• Individual Contributor

  • Sep 2016 - Jun 2020

• Engineering Manager

  • Apr 2015 - Sep 2016

• Site Reliability Engineering Manager

  • Apr 2014 - Apr 2015

  Managed up to 21 people at one time on a team comprised of three disciplines, spread globally, who directly support live production in a fast paced agile environment. Experience managing monitoring, live/production, DBA, and release/deployment teams in both a Product Owner and Engineering Manager capacity.

• Operations Manager

  • Sep 2011 - Apr 2014

  Manager: Managed up to 16 people at one time on three separate teams directly supporting live production in a fast paced agile environment.

• Systems Engineer

  • Feb 2009 - Sep 2011

  RedHat/Fedora/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu, linux-HA, active MQ, coherence, tomcat, iptables, MySQL, vpn, agile, zabbix, nagios, cacti, smokeping, LAMP environment, clustered environmentNetwork: some Cisco cli, iptables for blocking/routing, LinuxHAApps: Java (monitoring), postfix, Specialties: Linux: Debian, RedHat, CentOS, Nagios, CactiMySQL administrationiptablesLinuxHALdirectorBash



Home Exchange

• Linux/MySQL consultant (contract)

  • Nov 2009 - Dec 2013

  - Initial task was to move the MySQL database off of the web server onto it's own server and added a slave. - Built out a DR site - Expanded/moved to AWS, responsible for most of the build out of the virtualized infrastructure -- EC2, Route53, Cloudwatch, ELB, autoscaling, RDS, SES - Monitoring: Nagios, Cacti, Munin, Zabbix, New Relic - Initial task was to move the MySQL database off of the web server onto it's own server and added a slave. - Built out a DR site - Expanded/moved to AWS, responsible for most of the build out of the virtualized infrastructure -- EC2, Route53, Cloudwatch, ELB, autoscaling, RDS, SES - Monitoring: Nagios, Cacti, Munin, Zabbix, New Relic



Dota Allstars

• Systems Administrator (contract)

  • Mar 2009 - Jul 2010

  Maintain 20+ servers hosting forums and a few other projects. CentOS, MySQL, nginx, linux-HA, DNS, VPN, hobbit, mrtg.... Maintain 20+ servers hosting forums and a few other projects. CentOS, MySQL, nginx, linux-HA, DNS, VPN, hobbit, mrtg....



Popby.com

• CTO

  • May 2007 - Jul 2009



Monster Trak

• Sr. Linux Administrator

  • Aug 2008 - Apr 2009



Nowcasting International

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Debian Guru (contract)

  • Jun 2008 - Jan 2009



Netmore Internet

• Sr. Linux Administrator

  • May 2007 - Aug 2008



LRN

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Sr. Linux Administrator

  • Oct 2006 - May 2007



Classmates

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

• Linux Systems Engineer

  • Feb 2002 - Oct 2006



Tenzing Communications

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Linux Administrator

  • Feb 2001 - Oct 2001



AT&T

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Unix Systems Administrator

  • Jun 1998 - Dec 2000