Experience

Zilker Technology LLC

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• System Architect

  • May 2019 - Present

  Focused on enterprise systems with Blockchain, APIs for Blockchain on Hyperledger, Messaging Infrastructure with Kafka and Hyperledger for Enterprise Blockchain Integration

• Managed Services Manager, Systems Architect - Infrastructure

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  Team Lead - Managed Services Platform Support for Nevada Energy, a division of Berkshire Hathaway.Subject Matter Expert - Ansible, Jenkins, Deployment Automation, Site Reliability Engineering, Load Balancing, New Relic Synthetics- launched and built operational processes around new NVEnergy.com- supported new features on website via integrations with third party vendors (Okta, Bidgely, client SOA services)- programmatic deployment of Infrastructure (Ansible, Jenkins)- CI/CD (Jenkins, Ansible, HP Code Scanning (Quality), Selenium)- day to day operations on traditional and containerization- Operations Engineer for Azure Migration project - Hybrid on-prem/cloud- Deployment/Management of New Relic Infrastructure and APM Agents- Data Science analysis in New Relic and KELK- Migrate applications to KELK stack to enhance logging and visibility



Forest Technologies Ltd - Enterprise DevOps Experts

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Automation Consultant

  • Dec 2013 - Mar 2015

  Implementation Specialist for Automic Automation Engine and Automic Release Automation tools. - Integrated Automic solutions for F5 BigIP Appliances - Automated deployment of Distribution Center Software Defined Network in 1000s of locations for a major US retailer. - Automated deployment of business infrastructure code for a top 5 US telecom company. - Automated deployment of Oracle E-Business Suite for the US Navy Exchange Command. - Automated deployment of 100s of Oracle Database and Hadoop Clusters for a major US for-profit educational institution as part of building out a robust on-demand online learning LMS platform. - Enabled another top 5 US telecom company to keep up with deployments that had crippled their team and resulted in high turnover. - Provide Social Networking guidance and online brand consultancy internally. - Provide Business Intelligence and reporting services internally.



Medpace

• United States
• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Engineer

  • Feb 2011 - Nov 2013

  Responsibilities: Find and exploit opportunities for automation within Medpace IT infrastructure - Automated Handling of backup tapes in Powershell, automatic upload of tape barcodes to IronMountain - Automated deployment of Clindex Electronic Data Capture for clinical trials - Deployed VirtualApp Citrix Environment for Clindex – 27 instances of the same application with managed configuration - Re-engineered Oracle database backup strategy for improved speed, better tracking of issues, and reduced storage needs by 60% - Automated reconciliation of live VMWare environment with records keeping in SharePoint - Boosted VMware vMotion speed by configuring hosts for multiple vMotion NICs and generating associated documentation and ‘HOW TO’ guides - Oracle DBA for Global Laboratory Information Management System and Oracle Argus Safety systems



Compucom

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Administrator

  • May 2010 - Jun 2011

  Responsibilities: Provide day-to-day support for clients’ windows/unix servers and infrastructure - Tuned customer manufacturing line Oracle database, realized 150-400% performance gains - Created procedural documentation to be used by other server groups - Automated client Exchange Distribution List security audit using Powershell Responsibilities: Provide day-to-day support for clients’ windows/unix servers and infrastructure - Tuned customer manufacturing line Oracle database, realized 150-400% performance gains - Created procedural documentation to be used by other server groups - Automated client Exchange Distribution List security audit using Powershell



University of Cincinnati

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• System Administrator

  • Jan 2008 - Apr 2010

  Responsibilities: Provide support and architectural/engineering guidance for all aspects of the Blackboard Server Farm, Servers, Networks, SANs, Load Balancers, Databases - Automated new customer provisioning (VMs, VLANs, load balancer, firewall, installation of software.) - Redesigned & Implemented redundant Cisco & F5 core network for 150+ Server Farm resulting in less downtime and greater performance. - Improved Oracle database performance by 80% and application performance by 50% through tuning and proactive monitoring for 12 Universities’ Blackboard LMS instances and 500,000+ Students. - Supervised the migration of 12 Universities’ Blackboard LMS Oracle databases and 17+ TB of file content,160+ Apache/Tomcat front ends to new network & EMC SAN with zero unplanned downtime



Procter & Gamble

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Administrator

  • Sep 2007 - Dec 2008

  Responsibilities: Perform one-off system integration of various scientific and analytical equipment, everything from pH meters to optical and electron microscopes. Approximately 1600 computers supported running a variety of operating systems. - Maintained systems in tightly FDA regulated and scientific clean-room environments - Backup Administrator responsible for backup of 10 TB Data using Commvault and Veritas products and LTO Libraries. Responsibilities: Perform one-off system integration of various scientific and analytical equipment, everything from pH meters to optical and electron microscopes. Approximately 1600 computers supported running a variety of operating systems. - Maintained systems in tightly FDA regulated and scientific clean-room environments - Backup Administrator responsible for backup of 10 TB Data using Commvault and Veritas products and LTO Libraries.



Penn State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• System Administrator

  • Aug 2004 - Sep 2007

  Responsibilities: Supported the IT efforts in 5 buildings on campus and all associated network and server infrastructure (from front end all the way to the backups). Provide reports on resource utilization to management. Provide tier 3 technical support to users and external customers. - Deployed 3Com Controller-based Wifi (WX4400) network in 5 buildings across campus with multiple SSIDs, a university first. - Sat on campus WLAN Advisory Board, headed university wide WLAN Administrators Discussion Group with 70+ members. - Aggregate data in Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL from multiple sources to create aggregate data feeds, Access Control Lists (user & MAC), E-mail marketing lists, one-off data manipulation/ETL for internal/external customers. - Leveraged Microsoft Virtual Server to consolidate laboratory data collection workstations and small-scale, highly focused scientific applications on terminal servers.



Brodart

• United States
• Libraries
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Webmaster

  • May 2003 - Aug 2004

  Responsibilities: Administrate MS-SQL and IIS servers, log file analysis for security/SEO purposes, administrate and integrate data into e-mail marketing system. Design/build web applications for contests, one-off surveys, metric reporting. Assist furniture plant staff with minor electronic projects/repairs (soldering, component replacement.) Designed test plan for evaluating performance of web front ends on VMWare ESXi 1.5. Responsibilities: Administrate MS-SQL and IIS servers, log file analysis for security/SEO purposes, administrate and integrate data into e-mail marketing system. Design/build web applications for contests, one-off surveys, metric reporting. Assist furniture plant staff with minor electronic projects/repairs (soldering, component replacement.) Designed test plan for evaluating performance of web front ends on VMWare ESXi 1.5.



Penn State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Generalist

  • Nov 1997 - May 2003

  Responsibilities: Assist networking staff in the maintenance of networking infrastructure (Cisco Cat 6500 series, Cisco PIX firewalls), Replace/re-run physical cabling to for migration from Token Ring to Ethernet, build/maintain images for use on staff PCs, upgrade computer labs. Designed 3 generations of the campus's primary website. Responsibilities: Assist networking staff in the maintenance of networking infrastructure (Cisco Cat 6500 series, Cisco PIX firewalls), Replace/re-run physical cabling to for migration from Token Ring to Ethernet, build/maintain images for use on staff PCs, upgrade computer labs. Designed 3 generations of the campus's primary website.