Austin TX / Raleigh NC / Remote
+CDK Global| Senior System Engineer | July 2024 - October 2024 - +Security Compliance : worked with risk management/audit to remediate +insecure configurations - Created Alma9 Packer image from scratch
+Apple Computer| Senior System Administrator | March 2024 - July 2024 +- Day to day server operations scheduling downtime etc
+SHEIN.com| Staff SIte Reliability Engineer | December 2022 - August +2023 - Streamlined engineer onboarding by documenting and overhauling +the process, consolidating disparate guides into a comprehensive modular +set of documents. - Established a taxonomy for team documentation in the +wiki, implementing Confluence best practices for a proper knowledge base. +- Served as the SRE Liaison for cybersecurity functions, ensuring +compliance with data locality/partition requirements and pending federal +data privacy legislation. - Focused on fostering a culture of automation +and skill development within the SRE team, emphasizing code review, +infrastructure as code, versioning, testing, and effective ticket +management. - Contributed to Linux server administration both internally +and externally, aiding colleagues with scripting/automation and +assisting in the migration from AWS to Azure with zero customer-facing +system impact. Additionally, provided day-to-day support for AWS and +Azure activities and troubleshooting.
+3M| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | March 2020 November 2022 - +Supported Vendavo on RedHat Linux, managed releases, and provided +day-to-day developer support. - Created a homegrown YAML conflguration +management system, utilizing bash scripting and YAML templates with a +CSV-based key/value store to eThciently manage and regenerate +environment-speciflc variables for a line-of-business application across +multiple development, testing, staging, and production environments.
+Dell Residency| Resident System/Network Expert | October 2019 March +2020 - Rolled out centralized Active Directory authentication, deployed +Dell OpenManage, and upgraded network equipment. - Deployed password +vault, Active Directory PKI, and implemented a ground-up network +redesign. - Designed VmWare NSX network.
+TippingPoint| Staff System/network Architect | March 2012 - June 2019 +• Conducted code and design reviews for internal/external team projects +and actively participated in broad enterprise collaboration, focusing on +large-scale fleet management. • Managed user account administration, +manual/semi-automated server provisioning, trouble tickets, security +vulnerability remediation, and system/network auditing. • Led various +projects, including migrating fleet systems from Centos 6 to Centos 7, +implementing LXC/ LXD container versions for increased system +utilization, and creating an on-premise deployment system (GUMPS) for +automated provisioning. • Deployed network monitoring systems (Zenoss, +observium/librenms), utilized librenms as a Conflguration Management +Database (CMDB), and implemented a fleet orchestration system (Rundeck). +• Executed extensive vulnerability remediation, OS/application/kernel +patching, NIC customization/ optimization, and data migrations while +developing and maintaining custom scripts for tasks such as LDAP +management and SSL scenarios. Automated processes like re-imaging and +ensured continuous distribution of a 40GB dataset of packet captures +across a global fleet.
+HostGator.com| Automation and Escalation Engineer | March 2011 - May +2012 - Provided senior-level Linux and web application support globally. +- Developed standardized reply language and scripts, reducing errors in +Level I Linux administrator department.
+RippleTV| Systems Engineer | October 2008 - Jaunary 2010 - Provided +system engineering expertise for customer-facing advertising platform +(AdSpot) and internal fleet management tool (CPanel). - Utilized Nginx, +Mongrel, Thin, Rails, Merb, Rack, MySQL, memcached, and F5 LTM.
+Walt Disney Internet Group| Site Reliability Engineer | August 2006 - +September 2007 - Engaged in dynamic work environment focusing on popular +web/ecommerce sites, including disneyworld.com and disneyland.com. - +Provided design, architecture, and day-to-day administration for Disney +park property sites generating $2 billion annually. - Offered system +engineering and PCI compliance expertise for Disneyland.com, +Disneyworld.com, DisneyCruiseLines.com, and 23 related properties. - +Utilized Jboss instances on RHEL3/4 for business logic and employed +Windows 2003 with Tomcat/IIS for frontend application serving. - +Automated routine system administration tasks through the creation of +batch and VBScript programs for Windows administration. - Led an Active +Directory project for WDIG, designing and implementing a nationwide, +highly available system across 3 data centers. - Managed the migration +from Windows NT to Windows 2003 Active Directory domain controllers, +including experience with Windows 2008, Centrify, and +Samba/Winbind/LDAP/Kerberos.
+Electronic Clearing House| Senior Linux System Administrator | April +2005 - July 2006 - Linux systems engineer in a 24x7 transaction +processing/ecommerce/flnancial services environment, collaborating with +network administration and infrastructure design teams. - Ensured +continuous uptime for high-impact environments, including a 1TB MySQL +database, 300TB Oracle database, 1.5TB Oracle Data Warehouse, and a +4,000-store LAMP-based ecommerce system (MerchantAmerica.com). - +Successfully deployed an enterprise-wide Linux backup system, featuring +encrypted backups stored on a central server with ISCSI attached network +storage, utilizing GNUPG and tar over SSH. Regular backups and restores +were tested weekly. - Led the deployment of Oracle database +infrastructure, implementing two Oracle RAC clusters with Dell 6850 +servers, Qual Dual Core Xeon processors, and 32GB of RAM each. The +clusters ran on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 64bit edition, serving Data +Warehouse, Transaction Processing Software, and Credit Card Clearing +applications.
+GSI Commerce| HPUX/Windows/Linux System Administrator | March 2002 - +February 2005 - Contributed to disaster recovery from an Informix +Database failure. - Streamlined FTP server conflguration and deployed +open-source remote control software. - Upgraded network infrastructure +from hubs to managed switches. Education ———
High School Graduate