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Cloud Infrastructure Architect @ Reputation.com Performed Linux systems administration and programming in AWS and GCP clouds supporting a SaaS website- Managed GCP cloud environments with a $2MM annual spend.- Architected GCP Kubernetes environment- Architected and created GCP Kubernetes infrastructure so we could migrate production website from another well known cloud provider for better performance and scalability- Fully...

Cloud Infrastructure Architect @ Reputation.com Performed Linux systems administration and programming in AWS and GCP clouds supporting a SaaS website- Managed GCP cloud environments with a $2MM annual spend.- Architected GCP Kubernetes environment- Architected and created GCP Kubernetes infrastructure so we could migrate production website from another well known cloud provider for better performance and scalability- Fully automated server provisioning using Ansible allowing fast rebuild of cloud servers- Set up LDAP to allow easier management of users- Set up integrated monitoring for timely alerting (in progress)- Migrated 10 MongoDB clusters onto a single high performance cluster using an innovative approach that required minimal downtime and upgraded to MongoDB providing better performance at a reduced cost.- Architected and managed elasticsearch (ELK) clusters. Redwood City, CASystem Software Developer @ Stanford University Technical lead for DevOps and monitoring infrastructure team. Developed programs and scripts to support monitoring and automation and packaged resulting software for Debian, Red Hat, and Gentoo. Managed Smarts and Nagios monitoring systems for 2000 network devices, 1000 card access readers, 10000 VoIP phones, 1000 servers plus other subsystems. Managed Puppet infrastructure to provide configuration management for 1000 Linux servers. Participated in Agile SCRUM project teams. Mentored junior team members. Performed Linux Systems Administration for production servers.- Designed and implemented a Perl interface program that would allow subsystem engineers to tag alert emails for the monitoring system which both reduced time to implement new alerts by 90% while giving greater control on how alerts would appear.- Took initiative to re-architect Smarts monitoring system to better meet Stanford's needs which reduced false positives by 95%, cut annual renewal costs by 85%, and reduced staff support costs by 80%.- Selected by virtue of monitoring expertise to be a member of a elite security response team tasked with developing a campus wide logging and intrusion detection facility using Splunk and OSSEC in response to a major internet hacking incident.- Developed a Perl CGI script to allow campus wide self service access to a portal to register nodes in OSSEC which allowed for rapid deployment of new nodes without central IT involvement.- Developed a Next Generation Monitoring POC using Java and Javascript in a Spring MVC framework that will be the basis for the next alert aggregation portal. From August 2010 to July 2014 (4 years) Stanford, CAManager, Infrastructure Engineering / R&D Labs @ CA Technologies Managed DevOps team responsible for 1000+ systems used by the R&D. Designed R&D lab and private cloud architecture. Spec'd and purchased lab hardware and software. Mentored staff.- Digest information and learn quickly to constantly stay up to date on new technologies so as to provide R&D with a leading edge development environment, for example by creating an IPv6 network across multiple operating systems from scratch. From July 2009 to July 2010 (1 year 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Infrastructure Engineer @ CA Technologies Performed DevOps and Linux systems administration. Architected lab for new technologies.-Created a VMWare virtualization environment from scratch which grew to 600 VMs used for product development and testing.-Designed and implemented 1 Petabyte storage solution using SAN and NAS technology on EMC NS40 with Brocade fabric switches to support R&D private cloud environment.-Developed scripts to dynamically capture server information which enabled R&D to better utilize the 1000+ systems lab by finding lost and forgotten systems. From January 2008 to July 2009 (1 year 7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior IT Specialist @ IBM Provided infrastructure and DevOps support to clients for large-scale environments. Developed test scripts and managed performance test executions. Developed automation scripts to detect problems and interface with ticketing system.-Selected by the Software Division for an eight week intensive technology training to be founding member an elite new services team for IBM applications servers. From May 2006 to January 2008 (1 year 9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaInfrastructure Architect / Consultant @ Cap Gemini / Sogeti (FRANCE) Recruited by COO of the largest consulting organization in France to be a member of an elite technical team of infrastructure subject matter experts reporting to the CTO that were loaned out to the consulting practices to add technical depth to engagements. Provided DevOps consulting to clients―primarily large French banks.-Achieved a lifelong dream of living and working abroad to gain international expertise and become fluent in French . From August 2002 to October 2005 (3 years 3 months) Paris Area, FranceIT Director @ Walker/Elevon Leading Software Developer and Professional Services provider for mainframe, UNIX and Windows based ERP applications.IT Director 1997-2000Responsible for managing our domestic and offshore programming “factory” operations ensuring top quality work while controlling costs in support of high gross margins. In addition to mentoring and developing staff in technical and project management skills, also responsible for personally providing technical consulting to clients spread across the U.S., Europe and Asia; documenting and presenting findings to management.IT Manager 1995-1996Technical Services Manager 1989-1994With 8 direct reports (programmers and systems programmers and UNIX systems administrators) and 2 supervisors (one running a 4 person network and operations unit and the other leading a group of 4 PC techs) I was responsible for providing leading edge software and hardware platforms for a team of about 100 R&D developers. From March 1989 to May 2000 (11 years 3 months) San Francisco Bay Area