Site Reliability Engineer

• Oct 2020 - Present

Building, scaling, running, automating, tuning, tweaking, and learning about a massive video streaming social media platform. Building, scaling, running, automating, tuning, tweaking, and learning about a massive video streaming social media platform.

Senior Architect

• Aug 2020 - Oct 2020

Guide and implement product and platform vision across multiple technology stacks

Devops Team Lead

• Apr 2020 - Aug 2020

Design, implement, build, mentor, and guide a boutique services team towards a consistent devops approach.

Senior Systems Engineer

• Feb 2019 - May 2020

Senior Systems Engineer

• Aug 2015 - May 2020

At Blispay I worked with an incredible team to help build an incredible payment product. At Blispay I worked with an incredible team to help build an incredible payment product.

Senior Devops Engineer

• Sep 2014 - Aug 2015

Provide highly available computing resources and scalable cloud environments to an agile software development team. Provide highly available computing resources and scalable cloud environments to an agile software development team.

Senior Systems Administrator

• Mar 2012 - Sep 2014

Manage large-scale, clustered, fault-tolerant 3-tier web application server systems that run on a VMWare-based Virtualization platform. Develop scripts, programs, tools to facilitate management of those systems. Monitor network, database server processes, OS processes, web server processes, and related system components to help provide 5-nines uptime and achieve a high level of performance and responsiveness. Manage multiple code releases for various clients. Work with team members to achieve all of these results. Team members include developers, sysadmins, marketing and sales staff, and customer support staff, all of whom I was required to work with closely. Operating Systems, server applications, and services have included Solaris and Linux server OSes, Apache web server, Bundled app severs (e.g. JIRA and Confluence), JSCAPE SFTP server, Subversion, MySQL, and many others. Additionally, I have had to manage and create patches, plugins, and tools to integrate with Moodle, which is a PHP web application. Thus a high degree of expertise with PHP/LAMP development has been required. Finally, I have had to interface directly with clients to provide fixes, help and expertise/consulting regarding their Moodle system. Moodlerooms' high volume, high performance, high-end environment has honed my sysadmin, LAMP development, and general geek-of-all-trades skills to a razor edge. Show less

Senior Systems Administrator

• Mar 2008 - Mar 2012

Manage large-scale, clustered, fault-tolerant 3-tier web application server systems that run on a VMWare-based Virtualization platform. Develop scripts, programs, tools to facilitate management of those systems. Monitor network, database server processes, OS processes, web server processes, and related system components to help provide 5-nines uptime and achieve a high level of performance and responsiveness. Manage multiple code releases for various clients. Work with team members to achieve all of these results. Team members include developers, sysadmins, marketing and sales staff, and customer support staff, all of whom I was required to work with closely. Operating Systems, server applications, and services have included Solaris and Linux server OSes, Apache web server, Bundled app severs (e.g. JIRA and Confluence), JSCAPE SFTP server, Subversion, MySQL, and many others. Additionally, I have had to manage and create patches, plugins, and tools to integrate with Moodle, which is a PHP web application. Thus a high degree of expertise with PHP/LAMP development has been required. Finally, I have had to interface directly with clients to provide fixes, help and expertise/consulting regarding their Moodle system. Moodlerooms' high volume, high performance, high-end environment has honed my sysadmin, LAMP development, and general geek-of-all-trades skills to a razor edge. THIS IS THE SAME POSITION AS MY BLACKBOARD POSITON. BLACKBOARD BOUGHT MOODLEROOMS AND I CONTINUED IN THIS ROLE. Show less

Senior Software Developer

• Jun 2006 - Feb 2008

In order to create fully on-line degree programs for the JHU Engineering School, I helped develop tools, processes, and Web Applications that were used by the On-line Programs. These tools included administrative applications, teaching objects, and Web based utilities. I had the opportunity to improve my AJAX, PHP, and HTML skills, as well as Linux system administration and web server administration. I was also called upon to provide strategic insight and ideas with respect to implementation of technologies. Specific projects included: develop from scratch a student and course database management tool used by faculty and staff; develop a web based, interactive “learning object” to help demonstrate systems engineering; provide application support for existing web applications; provide application support for commercial (well, “off-the-shelf” if not “commercial”) systems including Confluence, JIRA, WebCT, and Moodle. I was also responsible for a certain amount of System Administration on Linux (Debian) machines including software installation, backups, updates, and general troubleshooting, and a small amount of Mac OS X support. Show less

Web Software Developer

• Aug 1999 - May 2006

Duties were split between System Administration and Software Development. System Administration duties at this job included: Manage a mix of Red Hat Linux servers, Red Hat Linux Workstations, and Windows (98 and XP) workstations. Install and upgrade server hardware and software. Perform and verify nightly tape backups of server. Perform routine security analysis of server systems to prevent unauthorized server access. Add and maintain user accounts on servers, and configure servers to allow authorized access. Configure Web server, administer user accounts and administer database server. Review, purchase, and deploy commercial software and hardware products. Provide advice for office IT purchases. Software Development duties at this job included: Develop dynamic Web-based applications for internal use by WSE faculty and staff. Develop external Web-based applications and Websites. Develop relational databases for use by internal and external Websites. Provide continuous application and user support for Web applications. Projects have included: WSE Research Directory Database and Web interface; Web-based administrative and content management systems; troubleshooting of Web applications and problems brought up by web users; integration of commercial software products; documentation of completed software projects. Show less