Experience

Envoy

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 200 - 300 Employee

• DevOps

  • Oct 2016 - Apr 2019

  Responsible for; DevOps, IT, Compliance, Onboarding. As part of a growing startup, I wore lots of hats; including filling in until a new owner can be found, being a shepherd for the unattended, and of course gracefully handing off responsibilities as new people are hired. I worked on IT, Compliance, Security, DevOps, Site Reliability, Site Speed, Cloud Management, and high fiving people when stuff gets done! Bootstrapped and delivered SOC2 Security certification. Managed Heroku… Show more Responsible for; DevOps, IT, Compliance, Onboarding. As part of a growing startup, I wore lots of hats; including filling in until a new owner can be found, being a shepherd for the unattended, and of course gracefully handing off responsibilities as new people are hired. I worked on IT, Compliance, Security, DevOps, Site Reliability, Site Speed, Cloud Management, and high fiving people when stuff gets done! Bootstrapped and delivered SOC2 Security certification. Managed Heroku and participated in database migration from heroku to AWS. Added monitoring to services that were previously otherwise unobserved. Integrated OKTA and MFA auth into IT infrastructure and production infrastructure. Closed security & process vulnerabilities in IT and Production infrastructure. Helped move from a bespoke, hand crafted infrastructure to a code defined infrastructure deployed with cloudformation and terraform. Show less Responsible for; DevOps, IT, Compliance, Onboarding. As part of a growing startup, I wore lots of hats; including filling in until a new owner can be found, being a shepherd for the unattended, and of course gracefully handing off responsibilities as new people are hired. I worked on IT, Compliance, Security, DevOps, Site Reliability, Site Speed, Cloud Management, and high fiving people when stuff gets done! Bootstrapped and delivered SOC2 Security certification. Managed Heroku… Show more Responsible for; DevOps, IT, Compliance, Onboarding. As part of a growing startup, I wore lots of hats; including filling in until a new owner can be found, being a shepherd for the unattended, and of course gracefully handing off responsibilities as new people are hired. I worked on IT, Compliance, Security, DevOps, Site Reliability, Site Speed, Cloud Management, and high fiving people when stuff gets done! Bootstrapped and delivered SOC2 Security certification. Managed Heroku and participated in database migration from heroku to AWS. Added monitoring to services that were previously otherwise unobserved. Integrated OKTA and MFA auth into IT infrastructure and production infrastructure. Closed security & process vulnerabilities in IT and Production infrastructure. Helped move from a bespoke, hand crafted infrastructure to a code defined infrastructure deployed with cloudformation and terraform. Show less



Square

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Intrastructure

  • Oct 2013 - Sep 2016

  I worked in Systems, Infrastructure, Junior DBA, High Five Applicator, and System Events Actions Coordinating Expert. Began committing on internal ruby projects towards the end of my tenure, proud bearer of the #devops princess sash - watch out boys that sash is cotton candy pink! Champion of all Production Engineering services starting with the letter S and slowly taking all B letter services. "John Lewis is the glue that holds this company together."​ -Jack Dorsey - Town Hall… Show more I worked in Systems, Infrastructure, Junior DBA, High Five Applicator, and System Events Actions Coordinating Expert. Began committing on internal ruby projects towards the end of my tenure, proud bearer of the #devops princess sash - watch out boys that sash is cotton candy pink! Champion of all Production Engineering services starting with the letter S and slowly taking all B letter services. "John Lewis is the glue that holds this company together."​ -Jack Dorsey - Town Hall July 2016 "I saw his emails every day and I just decided to give it a shot and this has been my best week at Square"​ -Anish Bhatt "Who decided to buy all these canteens? That was a huge mistake? Tents great idea, canteens? WTF?"​ -Every person that heard about the canteens. "Isn't he the guy with the wizard costume? Who hired him?"​ -John's hiring manager Ergonomics master and Herman Miller chair adjustment specialist. Tested and deployed nearly half a dozen bespoke artisanal monitor stands made from the finest organic fair trade materials. Bartender and budding mixologist.

• Production Engineering Operations

  • May 2013 - Oct 2013

  I identify the unknown and attempt to make it known. With so many unknowns its a very large job.

• SRO

  • Jan 2013 - May 2013

  Making changes, monitoring things, validating requests. The mission that I chose to except is a simple one to keep production stable and productive through work and process.



Ingenuity Web Apps

• United States
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Engineer

  • Apr 2012 - Dec 2012

  Poking computers and twisting knobs. Managed ESXI virtualization and production host imaging. Used AWS for static asset hosting. Software deployment to production systems. Poking computers and twisting knobs. Managed ESXI virtualization and production host imaging. Used AWS for static asset hosting. Software deployment to production systems.



Trapit, Inc

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

• Operations Engineer

  • Mar 2011 - Apr 2012

  Infrastructure, capacity planning, monitoring, and other systems related responsibilities. Cassandra operations Nginx load scaling JMX performance tracking Nagios configuration Infrastructure, capacity planning, monitoring, and other systems related responsibilities. Cassandra operations Nginx load scaling JMX performance tracking Nagios configuration



XO Communications

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Engineer

  • Jan 2007 - Mar 2011

  I deployed and maintained infrastructure services delivering a long list of hosted services for the hosting and managed services team at XO communications. Ranging from IIS, MSSQL to Solaris with custom in house web services packages and data repositories leveraging Network Appliance Filers, Infortrend SAN and ZFS backed NFS servers. I deployed and maintained infrastructure services delivering a long list of hosted services for the hosting and managed services team at XO communications. Ranging from IIS, MSSQL to Solaris with custom in house web services packages and data repositories leveraging Network Appliance Filers, Infortrend SAN and ZFS backed NFS servers.



Computers and Structures, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Network and Systems Administrator

  • Apr 2001 - Jan 2007

  I deployed and maintained public facing infrastructure servers using FreeBSD, IIS, MSSQL and Cisco networking equipment along with providing technical support for a number of products developed in house. I deployed and maintained public facing infrastructure servers using FreeBSD, IIS, MSSQL and Cisco networking equipment along with providing technical support for a number of products developed in house.



Rebis

• Systems Administrator

  • 1996 - 1998

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