Experience

Seattle Central College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Curriculum Developer & Adjunct Faculty

  • Sep 2015 - Present

  • Recruited to develop and teach the Linux, administration, automation, cloud, git, intro to devops, monitoring and trending portions of the BAS in Networking program. • I teach Linux and cloud automation including automation of Nagios, Cacti, LDAP, Postgres, NFS, OpenVPN, and Django server startup scripts. I teach students to write scripts that use the google cloud API to spin up self-installing machines from the command line. We also do a hands-on intro unit on Chef, Ansible, and Terraform (NTI-300, 310 & 320) • I teach Linux administration and scripting in python & bash and database design in MSSQL & MySQL as well as an intro to MongoDB. (NTI-310 & ITC-220) • I teach application monitoring and trending, including custom Nagios script creation, configuration management, and custom RPM compilation. (NTI-320) • The final for the full year of classes is for students to create a single script, that when run, spins up a properly configured interdependent network of machines (LDAP, NFS, Django, Postgres, Apache, Rsyslog, Nagios, Cacti, and two Ubuntu clients, with front and back-ends connected) under monitoring and trending on the cloud in under 20 minutes. Show less



Fred Hutch

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• • May 2011 - Aug 2014

  • Administration, management and augmentation of mission critical services running the majority of our HIV/AIDS studies• Automation, workflow programming and scripting in python and bash• Developed and deployed algorithm scripts modifying Datafax functionality that were later translated into Java and maintained by our applications team• Worked closely with stakeholders from multiple teams throughout SCHARP to generate and implement projects and application augmentation. • Close work with management to complete EDC rollout and increase system stability Show less

• • Sep 2008 - May 2011

  • Automation of daily tasks in bash & python• Scripted custom SuSE desktop and server configuration via AutoYast and change management (also worked Solaris/Jumpstart, and Fedora/Kickstart)• VM management via Xen and Solaris Zones• BigIP network shaping scripts• Custom compilation of services and custom RPM creation• Documentation• I was hired as a Junior Admin and quickly promoted to full Systems Admin status. I left this team to become a part-time Datafax Administrator while completing my MFA in creative writing. Show less



Disney Experiences

• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Administrator

  • 2006 - 2008

  • Development of Standard Operating Procedures and on-boarding documentation • First point of contact for issues in the production environment for 1000+ live systems • Scripting small tools to automate complex or repetitive tasks on windows, Red Hat, and Unix servers • Development of Standard Operating Procedures and on-boarding documentation • First point of contact for issues in the production environment for 1000+ live systems • Scripting small tools to automate complex or repetitive tasks on windows, Red Hat, and Unix servers