Christopher Vincelette's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Editor, Director, and Director of Photography @ -V Productions I moonlight as an independent filmmaker and occasionally I am available for hire. It largely depends on my available time, the client, and the concept. If your first question for me is "what are your rates?" you probably can't afford me. From 2005 to 2010 (5 years) DevOps Manager (Big Data Team) @ Roku Inc. Year 1. I helped build a big data platform from scratch in AWS that processes 4tb of data a day for the best name in home media streaming. Then I recruited a team to help us take it to the next level. We built a tool that can dynamically generate real-time visualizations of our end-to-end AWS pipeline.Year 2. My team is providing our Big Data Folks with operational dashboards, automations, and data validation tools.Worked with Druid, Kafka 10, Hadoop, OpsWorks, Redshift, Hive, and MySQL. Built complete with monitoring and alerting that can be provisioned at the push of a button.We even built a dashboard that displays our datacenter costs at the stack level.Built autoscaling multi-tenant Hadoop clusters.Year 3. Worked cross functionally with multiple departments throughout the company to set standards, craft policies and procedures, and processes to meet SOX Compliance and GDPR Requirements. San Jose, CaliforniaSr DevOps Engineer @ ShareThis I supported AWS infrastructure handling over 51 billion edge hits a month and processing more than 2 terabytes of data a day.I built Cassandra and Hadoop clusters from the ground up. As well as recovered them from failures.I helped the company grow to learn and support ITIL foundational concepts and processes for incident management.I successfully transitioned tier 1 support duties from a in-house team burdened and overwhelmed by it to an external team that lives for it.I also removed DevOps as the bottleneck for getting awesome ideas off developers machines and onto production metal.The best part is I didn't have to do it alone. I had the entire company behind me. From January 2015 to November 2015 (11 months) Palo Alto, CaliforniaDevOps Group Lead @ Robert Bosch Healthcare, Inc. Two years ago, I was a Senior Software Engineer actively engaged in designing and implementing highly process driven J2EE, wsdl, & jax-ws based cloud services to support in-home medical devices.For the last year, I've been leading the team that builds and maintains the development, production, and SQA datacenters critical to bringing those services to market on time and ready to scale.I'm building bridges between hardware, software, and SQA folks in California, Germany, India, and New York.Currently I'm working on my ITIL certification and moving the company into a new age of productivity with Service Now.Everyday development tools include Java, Bash, SQL Developer, Oracle 11g & 12c Enterprise, Puppet, Eclipse, SVN, Maven, soapUI, CentOS Linux, PowerPoint, Jira, and wiki. From November 2011 to January 2015 (3 years 3 months) Palo Alto, CaliforniaTechnical Lead @ ITT - Advanced Engineering and Sciences Worked for 9 years designing, developing, and maintaining software prototypes to demonstrate and explore various information management strategies and technologies.A variety of languages were used including: Java, C++, and C#.I started out as a Software Engineer and quickly developed into a Technical Lead/Software Architect.I've presented to groups as small as 2 and as large as 200. From "lunch and learns" for fellow co-workers to full blown technical demonstrations to four star generals and visiting VIPs. The only thing I like better than accomplishing the impossible is demonstrating it to an audience.My work included:High performance XML processing.Architecting and performance optimizing Publish-and-Subscribe based information management systems.High volume content based routing, storage, and retrieval.Design, implementation, and integration of multilevel file systems.Integration of XML firewall systems into existing web services environments.Professional Capacities included:Sr. Software EngineerTechnical leadSystem architectTechnical writerProposal writerPresenterMentor From June 2002 to November 2011 (9 years 6 months)