About Me

Motivated self-starter seeking a position that will utilize and help advance my technology skills. I would like to bring out my work ethic, teamwork, and leadership abilities as well as show my learning potential and passion in technology and open source.

Projects

Below are some of the projects I am proud of achieving in my career.

CEPH Storage Cluster - Was tasked with architecting a cheap storage solution that would complement our EMC. After proof of concepting a few solutions, we settled on CEPH. Lead the architechture of data pool's, replication scheme across machines and racks, developed tools for finding dead drives, and monitoring the entire cluster.
Cost effective Virtualization - Lead architecture and migration of development, QA, and backoffice virtual machines to KVM / CEPH. This saved the company on having to expand EMC cluster and improved performance in production due to decreased load on the EMC.
Unattened Deployment of Poll Station Device - Developed automation to build our voiting system on a airgapped machine. After which it would be packaged within a Ubuntu install ISO. This ISO was then imaged onto a usb thumb drive. Thumb drive was then used to provision poll stations for voting. The usb would automatically install, lockdown and provision our voting software.
Migration to Chef / Salt Stack / CFEngine - Took a combination of perl, bash, and manual steps of deploying our applications and systems to a closed loop configuration management change control and merge request which trigger automatic deployments.

Experiences

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Tanzu Mission Control)

2022 — Present
vmware.com
  • Ensure Tanzu mission control platform is deployed to FEDRAMP environment.

Sr. DevOps Manager

2019 — Present
fico.com
  • On customer solution archetecture review board.
  • Managed team of 6 DevOps engineers.
  • Responsible for calculating cost of goods sold for our kubernetes based platform.
  • Program Increment planning and ensuring our new product features are cloud ready.
  • Responsible for all cloud ready validations pre-release.

Sr. DevOps Engineer

2017 — 2019
fico.com
  • Migration of customers into Fico SaaS products utilizing puppet, openshift, and continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
  • Onboarding of new products into Amazon AWS and Rackspace utilizing kubernetes and docker.

Sr. Systems Architect

2016 — 2017
emolecules.com
  • Introduced configuration management using Salt Stack. Turned a hand managed system into fully automated role based deployment via salt.
  • Used salt-cloud and terraform to proof of concept migration to Digitalocean and Amazon EC2.
  • Implemented central authentication using jumpcloud's saas LDAP, RADIUS, and single signon user managment accross gapps, jira, box, netsuite, *nix, wiki, wifi access points, openvpn, and local machines.
  • Improved development process by introducing salt and vagrant local workstation environments.
  • Set up monitoring with Zabbix and auto registration of nodes configured with salt stack.

Sr. Systems Architect

2013 — 2016
everyonecounts.com
  • Migration from VMWare to KVM/CEPH for all development, QA, and backoffice virtual machines.
  • Designed 4 data-centers in US & Canada with Cisco UCS B200 M3 blades, EMC VNX 5300, Cisco Nexus 5500, FEX 2200, ASA 5515
  • Drove migration to HAproxy load-balancers with custom configuration based on gitlab merge request hooks, which improved page load times and eased management of configuration for our team.
  • Designed and implemented monitoring system (Zenoss), central logging system (Elastic search and Kibana), directory services (Samba based ActiveDirectory), Developer tools (Jenkins, OwnCloud, Mediawiki, Jira, and gitlab).
  • Developed chef cookbooks for production deployments and post install system configurations, such as monitoring registration, ldap authentication, automatic security patching,and system lockdown settings.
  • Reverse engineered and re-architected the elect voting system deployment integration from standalone scripts to Chef roles.
  • Led effort for ongoing federal certification of voting systems to VVSG 1.1 standards with a voting systems test lab (VSTL).
  • Analyzed root cause on service impacting outages and gave technical expertise on incident reports for any customer impacting outages.

Systems Architect

2010 — 2013
activenetwork.com
  • Part of core team responsible for data-center migration to Equinix in Los Angeles.
  • CFengine architecture implemented to automate deployments to prod, stage, qa, and multiple development environments.
  • Architected and maintained Solaris zones (containers) to facilitate quick deployments and facilitate higher density on our bare metal servers.
  • Architected Xen virtualization to bring in Windows and GNU/Linux Virtualization.
  • Implemented a web API to track Linux package versions and deploy security related packages.
  • Cisco internal cloud automation integration using virtualization and web UI to maintain life-cycle of virtual servers. Features include utilization reports, idle decommissioning, and charge-back to various departments to generate critical KPIs.
  • Integrated Enterprise DNS (Infoblox) and wrote backend API for use with the Cisco internal cloud.

Systems Administrator

2006 — 2009
veoh.com
  • Part of core team responsible for data-center migration to Equinix in Los Angeles.
  • Setup of our staging data-center in AIS San Diego ranging from hardware, cabling, OS, and services.
  • Developed and deployed PXE system used to bring up new Linux hosts supporting 3 different distributions and various server roles.
  • Connected and secured 2 off-site offices and 2 data-centers via OpenVPN and iptables.
  • Implemented VMware QA cluster, with custom Linux kernel performance enhancements.
  • Implemented and administered an EMC SAN used for our data warehouse system.
  • Implemented Cacti host monitoring and expanded our Nagios host monitoring.
  • Configured and deployed a custom Linux kernel to support a diverse hardware environment.
  • Implemented streamlined version of Apache and PHP for our front end needs.
  • Setup and secured our primary and secondary mail servers.
  • Load balancer setup and management (Pound, Zeus, f5, and Netscaler).
  • Cisco switch setup, administration, and monitoring.
  • Cyclades setup, administration, and monitoring.
  • Setup and maintained various back-office services such as Subversion, MediaWiki, Bugzilla, and IRC.

Systems Administrator

2005 — 2006
SMS.ac
  • Setup and maintenance of websites memcached cluster.
  • Part of core team responsible for data-center migration to Equinix in Los Angeles.
  • Implemented server and services monitoring for our infrastructure.
  • Implementing and teaching the use of an ticket tracking system (Trac).
  • Implemented source control management system (Subversion).
  • Setup an automated build system using CruiseContro.NET and nAnt.

Systems Administrator

2005 — 2009
iPro Innovative Processing
  • Implemented network security for their document imaging infrastructure.
  • Firewall, web server, and FTP server setup and maintenance.

Systems Administrator

2003 — 2004
Arbormedia
  • Server security for this on-line entertainment business.
  • Maintained five co-located Linux servers in the US, Canada, and Europe.
  • Managed primary and secondary domain name servers which hosted more than 100 domains.
  • Managed apache virtual host configuration for all domains
  • Managed MySQL servers.
  • Provided support for web developers.
  • Worked closely with owner to improve performance and redundancy of servers and web services.
  • Researched and implemented google.com hacks/tricks to improve web site ranking.
  • Implemented web site and servers statistics via Webalizer/mrtg.

Systems Administrator / Electrical Engineer

2001 — Present
MGV Enterprises
  • Designed entire office network.
  • Configured, built, and maintained all office workstations and servers.
  • Implemented an off-site data backup strategy.
  • Designed, coded, and hosted the business web site.
  • Offer technical support for all employees.
  • Programming and installation of IntelliMold process controls into PC-104 embedded systems using Sigmatek LASAL.

Orginizations

Association for Computing Machinery

2000 — 2004
Member

Network design and administration for the associations fund raiser MPCon

Worked closely with president to organize all other aspects of the event like: building accommodations, power, and funding.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

2001 — 2004
Member

Dearborn Campus Engineers

2003 — 2004
Trustee & Member

Skills & Proficiency

3Par, BGP, BGP, Bash, CEPH, CSS, Cisco, Citriax Netscaler, DHCP, DNS, EMC, F5 BigIP, Foundry, GNU/Linux, IMAP, JSON, Juniper, KVM, MySQL, NAT, NFS, Netapp, OSPF, PHP, PXE, Perl, PostgreSQL, Python, SMTP, XEN, XHTML, XML, YAML, Zeus, apache, asterisk, awk, aws, cfengine, chef, digitalocean, docker, elasticsearch, elk, git, hadoop, haproxy, lxc, memcache, mercurial, nginx, openstack, openvpn, postfix, rcs, salt-stack, samba, sed, squid, subversion, terraform, tinc, tomcat, vagrant, varnish, zabbix, zenoss