Experience

Hologram Inc.

• Advertising Services

• Staff DevOps Engineer III

  • Sep 2017 - Present



Isobar

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Systems Engineer

  • May 2016 - Aug 2017

  - Configure and manage development, QA, and staging and production environments hosted in various cloud environments (Azure, Amazon) or client hosting centers- Manage the promotion of code between environments using current techniques and tooling for infrastructure, deployment and test automation- Collaborate with client and internal development teams to plan and support upcoming releases, and implement operational enhancements to improve reliability and scalability- Anticipate operational issues before code reaches production, including advising and supporting development teams with product enhancements and design changes, as well as specifying and implementing new tools and processes prior to production launches- Monitor production system performance, uptime and daily operations, ranging from traditional system measures to business-specific transactional monitoring for nightly jobs and ad-hoc review of logs- Develop capacity plans for future infrastructure needs and scale server environments to implement those plans- Identify and implement opportunities for automating existing processes in order to streamline operations and support functions- Stay current of trends and innovations in the virtual hosting and management space, bringing opportunities for improvement to the technical teams and leading their implementation- Ensure deliverables are client‐ready, high quality and can easily be turned into templates and standards for other engagements- Work in lock‐step with the application team to get priorities in order, clearing bottlenecks and automating behind the scenes



Slalom Consulting

• Advertising Services

• Solution Architect

  • Sep 2015 - May 2016



Red Hat

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Jun 2015 - Sep 2015

  - Architect OpenStack cloud solutions in both new and existing environments- Mentoring and knowledge transfer on OpenStack cloud solutions to clients- Architect and implement auxiliary services to improve cloud functionality- Contribute to technical documentation about solutions and environments - Architect OpenStack cloud solutions in both new and existing environments- Mentoring and knowledge transfer on OpenStack cloud solutions to clients- Architect and implement auxiliary services to improve cloud functionality- Contribute to technical documentation about solutions and environments



Wellspring Worldwide

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Systems Engineer

  • Oct 2014 - May 2015

  - Development of automated systems and infrastructure using Puppet and other custom-built tools- Administration and deployment of hosting infrastructure located across 3 continents- Redundant LAMP stack setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting- Deployment and maintenance of configuration management infrastructure- Created and maintained technical procedures and documentation- Responded to and resolution of service issues- Maintained existing PHP based knowledge - Development of automated systems and infrastructure using Puppet and other custom-built tools- Administration and deployment of hosting infrastructure located across 3 continents- Redundant LAMP stack setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting- Deployment and maintenance of configuration management infrastructure- Created and maintained technical procedures and documentation- Responded to and resolution of service issues- Maintained existing PHP based knowledge



lyonscg

• Design Services

• Senior Systems Engineer

  • Feb 2011 - Sep 2014

  - Architected, and implemented, migration plan from a public cloud only infrastructure to a physical datacenter.- Networking planning and architecting- VMware virtualization infrastructure architecting and implementation- Responsible for overseeing and management of 400+ servers, both physical and virtual- Architected, and implemented supporting infrastructure (Spacewalk, Nagios, identity management, and more)- Managed team of engineers charged with operations support on a 24/7 schedule- Architected an OpenStack solution to augment the physical and virtual core servers to allow for surge capabilities within a private cloud infrastructure



FlightAware

• United States
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Systems Architect

  • Mar 2010 - Feb 2011

  - Oversaw and designed server and network infrastructure- Researched and implemented new technologies to address pain points in the infrastructure and increase performance where needed- Implemented system monitoring and alert system from the ground up to ensure quick response to issues and be able to pinpoint bottlenecks in the infrastructure- Implemented Asterisk PBX phone system and wrote custom integrations with monitoring to contact team during emergency situations- Worked heavily with ZFS for overall system performance on multiple tiers of the application



Shared Marketing Services, Inc.

• Senior Linux Administrator

  • Jun 2009 - Dec 2009

  - Maintained approximately 50 Red Hat Linux servers- Performance tuning, maintenance, and upkeep on systems and infrastructure- Maintained VMware clustered virtual infrastructure- Oversaw and reviewed purchase and installation of servers to supplement existing network infrastructure.- Implemented monitoring and server management systems for Red Hat servers (Spacewalk) - Maintained approximately 50 Red Hat Linux servers- Performance tuning, maintenance, and upkeep on systems and infrastructure- Maintained VMware clustered virtual infrastructure- Oversaw and reviewed purchase and installation of servers to supplement existing network infrastructure.- Implemented monitoring and server management systems for Red Hat servers (Spacewalk)



Server Central

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Datacenter Technician

  • Aug 2008 - Jun 2009

  - Troubleshot servers on a hardware level- Provisioned servers and installation of base systems- Responded to customer-facing trouble tickets- Network wiring and installation- Configured varying RAID levels for installed systems - Troubleshot servers on a hardware level- Provisioned servers and installation of base systems- Responded to customer-facing trouble tickets- Network wiring and installation- Configured varying RAID levels for installed systems