Foster Parent Mentor

• Oct 2023 - Present

Paraeducator - Behavior Specialist

• Sep 2019 - Oct 2023

I served as a Paraeducator in both high school and elementary settings within low-income (Title 1) schools. In these roles, I actively contributed to lesson preparation, adeptly managed classroom dynamics, skillfully de-escalated students, and collaborated closely with fellow caregivers, including counselors, parents, psychologists, and specialists. My responsibilities also encompassed the meticulous tracking metrics on each students' academic and social-emotional goal progress. I diligently documented both behavioral and academic issues, effectively coordinating and leading individual or small groups to uplift student performance. Furthermore, I imparted essential social and emotional skills to mitigate non-prosocial behaviors. Show less

Entrepreneur

• Jul 2016 - Aug 2019

Ever wonder what might happen if you made your hobby your job and made your job your hobby? Being a classic car and hotrod enthusiast, I purchased and ran an automotive repair business. In this role I learned and used a myriad of skills including contract negotiation, entrepreneurial, staff management, project management, customer service, facilities management, workflow management, conflict resolution, network manager, vendor/partner management, marketing, sales, budgeting, K.P.I.s and sales, marketing and operations strategy. Show less

Sr. DevOps Engineer

• Oct 2014 - Jul 2016

This role was a combination of software development, systems/network management, technical writer, and team leadership. I successfully advised team and provided guidance on how to repair a broken migration from VM's to Amazon EC2. I worked with DevOps, Project Managers, and Application Engineering to stabilize configuration management on all Amazon EC2 server nodes. Built automation to bootstrap AMI based server builds, and perform all application build (CI/CD and artifact/software interdependency) and delivery process. Contributor to Agile style Scrum structured teams on many projects. I Led a project to standardize the implementations of over 2000+ AMI based servers in 10 geographic regions (including China) in Amazon EC2. Contributor to a complete rewrite of all Amazon infrastructure build automation using Python+boto. Reimplemented code pipeline to use Jenkins & s3 buckets distributing to Ubuntu Linux nodes with Ansible. I contributed to a project to update the network topology of all past and new AWS EC2 environments from EC2 Classic to multi-tiered AWS VPCs. Show less

DevOps / Network Engineer

• Aug 2012 - Oct 2014

This role was a combination of software development, systems & network management. It involved managing a hybrid Amazon environment: EC2, SNS, Route 53, RDS, Cloud Watch, production infrastructure that we integrated with a private, co-hosted (self-managed) KVM virtualized environment on Ubuntu Linux. Managed a project that Increased security by deploying and managing a host-based intrusion detection system (OSSEC). Participated in the initial deployment of Puppet configuration management system. Automated Nagios monitoring (Redhat Linux) to add and remove monitored AWS EC2 instances automatically. Designed and implemented Puppet- and Python-based automation utilizing Nagios REST API. Managed Cisco Edge firewalls and multiple IPSec VPN tunnels that interconnected our infrastructure. Managed and continued development of CI/CD pipeline. Show less

Systems & Network Manager

• Aug 2008 - Jun 2012

This role was a combination of management, project management, business system analysis, and network administration (HP Procurve) responsibilities. Responsible for all network, servers (RedHat & Ubuntu Linux), and helpdesk staff for all 20 campuses. Formed cross-organization opportunities to get siloed groups working together more frequently and effectively. Documented all processes, data flows, infrastructure, systems, and network topology. On an ongoing basis, identified and developed business needs, pitched, sold, formed, and maintained projects. Made systemic changes and developed automation tools to optimize the efficiency and reliability of all the business systems and processes. Sponsored, planned, pitched, sold, and successfully implemented a network refresh project to allow us to increase uptime, and implement VOIP which decreased annual phone costs and allowed for greater scalability and ease of management of phone systems across the district. Projected ROI of 1.5 years, plus the large added value of preparing us for deployment of WIFI in all 20 campuses. Maintained Server Infrastructure on CentOS, Fedora, and Redhat Enterprise server. Show less

Staff Consultant (Applied Materials contract)

• Oct 2004 - May 2005

Disaster recovery simulation & Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) audit remediation. Disaster recovery simulation & Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) audit remediation.

Linux Administrator (Contract)

• Jul 2003 - Jan 2004

This role was systems and network administration. Supported a custom designed geospatial network accelerator. Service was run on a custom RPM-based Linux distribution. This role was heavy on IP packet analysis. This role was systems and network administration. Supported a custom designed geospatial network accelerator. Service was run on a custom RPM-based Linux distribution. This role was heavy on IP packet analysis.

Staff Consultant (Sony Electronics contract)

• May 2000 - Jul 2003

This role was a combination of systems administration (RedHat Linux / Sun Solaris), network administration (Cisco), network storage administration (Network Appliance), business systems administration, and leadership. Improved the scalability and stability of computation farms and data storage systems. Managed all vendors. Served as project manager and business systems analyst for all major projects. Introduced the use of change management tools into the team. Was part of a pure research team developing speech recognition technology. Show less

Unix Administrator / ToolsDev Manager

• Oct 1997 - May 2000

(TRANSFER): Systems Administrator Sever (FreeBSD/Solaris), storage, software distribution, system imaging, and configuration automation. (PROMOTION): Tools Development Manager Built and managed a team that designed, built and maintained infrastructure for monitoring thousands of nodes and created executive dashboards. (TRANSFER): Systems Administrator Sever (FreeBSD/Solaris), storage, software distribution, system imaging, and configuration automation. (PROMOTION): Tools Development Manager Built and managed a team that designed, built and maintained infrastructure for monitoring thousands of nodes and created executive dashboards.

Customer Service Manager / NOC Manager

• Sep 1996 - Oct 1997

(PROMOTION): Network Operations Center Manager Managed a team and designed/wrote software for monitoring infrastructure for thousands of servers and network devices. (PROMOTION): Customer Service Manager Managed a team and designed and wrote software to allow us to scale our customer service system from thousands of customers to tens of millions. HIRED AS: Customer Service Representative Email and phone support. (PROMOTION): Network Operations Center Manager Managed a team and designed/wrote software for monitoring infrastructure for thousands of servers and network devices. (PROMOTION): Customer Service Manager Managed a team and designed and wrote software to allow us to scale our customer service system from thousands of customers to tens of millions. HIRED AS: Customer Service Representative Email and phone support.