My passion is systems and cloud computing. I have expertise in Linux/Unix, virtualization, big data, and cloud computing in highly complex and geographically diverse environments. I have a wide variety of sysadmin/devops and engineering experience as well as scripting, automation, and web development experience. Specialties: OS: Linux (Novell, Red Hat, CentOS, Amazon Linux, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu), Solaris, HP-UX, and FreeBSD Cloud: Amazon AWS including EC2, CloudWatch, Autoscaling, ELB, RDS, Route53, OpsWorks, S3, EMR, SNS, SQS, VPC, Glacier, IAM, DynamoDB, and ElastiCache SAN: AoE, EMC, and iSCSI DB: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB Virtualization: Docker, Xen, VMWare ESX and ESXi, KVM, Vagrant, Eucalyptus, and Virtual Box App stacks: Apache, nginx, Terracotta, Tomcat, JBoss, Smartfox, Magento, Joomla, Maven, Jenkins/Hudson, PHP, jQuery, CSS, and Java Toolsets: Nagios, Chef, ruby, Cacti, Splunk, pnp4nagios, AppDynamics, Jira, Sensu, New Relic, git, subversion, Python, and bash/sh

Manager of Devops @ -Full AWS stack, including EC2, EC2 Container Service, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, Glacier, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, VPC, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Config, IAM, EMR, Kinesis, SNS, Elastic Transcoder, SES, and SQS -Working with with Logstash, Elastic Search, Marvel, Kibana -Improving continuous deployment and integration using git, rpm packaging, and Bamboo. -Security audits and improvements of infrastructure. From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) DevOps Engineer @ -Deep on call support of multi-tiered, multi-colo, multi-provider infrastructure for 120 million active users. -Implemented Docker, Graphite, and Sensu infrastructure projects. -Worked directly with devs to architect, code, build, deploy, debug, and automate new projects. -Added Puppet, Redis, SQS, EMR, RabbitMQ, and gearman experience to my skillset. From May 2014 to December 2014 (8 months) Senior Systems Engineer @ -Primary systems architect and devops engineer for Nickelodeon Games Group. -Primary architect and deployment specialist of a top five MMO (Monkey Quest). -Successfully launched and scaled two #1 iOS Games on AWS (SpongeBob Moves In, TMNT Rooftop Runner) -Extensive experience with Chef, Nagios, Python, Bash, AWS, Apache, git, svn, Jboss, Splunk, and Jenkins. -Automated configuration management and deployment within Nickelodeon Games. From April 2010 to May 2014 (4 years 2 months) Linux Engineer @ -As a contractor, support of a complex set of 450+ servers. -Work with EMC storage through VMWare and directly within Red Hat operating systems. -Experience with JBoss and Oracle RAC systems. -Experience with CommVault backup solutions. -Bash and Perl scripting and automation. From January 2010 to April 2010 (4 months) Senior Systems Administrator @ -Support of a complex set of frontend and backend servers which sustained 1 million views per month. -Provide 24/7 support for 150+ servers over four geographically disparate data centers. -Technical lead for all Linux systems and secondary lead for Solaris and Windows systems. -Configure and tune advanced web solutions utilizing PostgreSQL, Apache, and Tomcat clusters. -Skilled in virtualization methods such as VMWare ESX, Xen, and QEMU/KVM. -Technical lead for cloud computing projects on Amazon EC2 (including S3). -Highly skilled in Magento, Nagios, Splunk, Hyperic, EMC Networker, Tridion, and MySQL. From October 2008 to January 2010 (1 year 4 months) Systems Engineer @ -Provide SAN solutions using AoE technologies to worldwide customer base. -Provide technical writing for driver installation, best practices, SAN performance and tuning, and NAS storage. -Help customers integrate SAN and NAS storage into overall system and storage needs. From July 2008 to October 2008 (4 months) Techical Support Engineer II @ -Provided technical solutions to customers in large enterprise environments. -Troubleshot Novell SLES, SLED, Netware, NFS, Xen, and networking issues. -Researched new solutions and authored unique technical solutions for customers. -Led team of twenty in total calls taken and closed over a six-month period. From April 2007 to July 2008 (1 year 4 months) Systems Administrator @ -Maintained 98.5% total client node network uptime. -Managed the system administration of an 8,300-user wired and wireless MAN. -Led with the company’s five technicians and communicated directly with technicians and clients. -Programmed with PHP, C++, Perl, sh, bash, C, xml and utilized Squid, squidguard, iptables. From March 2005 to April 2007 (2 years 2 months) Techical Support Specialist @ -Specialized in hardware and software troubleshooting. -Provided virus and spyware eradication and data recovery for Windows 95/98, 2000, XP and Mac OS X. From March 2004 to January 2005 (11 months)

Bachelors of Science in Computer Information Technology, Computer Information Technology, Spanish, Economics @ Brigham Young University - Idaho From 2004 to 2008 John Schmidt is skilled in: Apache, Ubuntu, CentOS, Nagios, Solaris, Fedora, FreeBSD, Debian, Xen, Perl, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Python, PHP