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Experience |
DevOps Director, ONEUNI, Inc.
September 2016 - October 2016
Brought on board to stand up the mobile learning platform from Empowered Careers, now known as the Open Innovation platform. Aforementioned included production, stage and development environments all running on AWS. Assisted developers with debugging and other production issues. The platform was up in time for the first day of classes. Unfortunately, the startup's runway ran out, so management was forced to shut down operations.
Technologies used in deployment:
- Chef Server
- Sensu (including Influxdb and Grafana)
- Internal REST based service for ops
- AWS (RDS, SES, SNS, SQS, S3, Elasticache, IAM, EC2, ELB, Route53)
- MongoDB, Postgresql, Mysql
Staff QLearn DevOps Engineer, Qualcomm Education
July 2014 - September 2016
Responsible for systems that power mission-critical services supporting the QLearn App and QLearn K-12 App. Including system management tools, configuration management using Opscode Chef, and system support for developers.
- Deployed and Maintained QLearn Service on AWS
- Developed and Maintained Chef Cookbooks to manage our Service
- Switched from Scount.App to Sensu for Service Monitoring
- Deployed RunDeck to manage service.
- Wrote and Deployed internal AWS inventory service (Ruby on Rails) to assist Developers and DevOps
Sr. Systems Engineer, EmpoweredU (Formerly: Empowered & EncoreCI)
June 2011 - July 2014
Built and maintained mission-critical backend services running on AWS that powered the mobile learning app. Including a staging and development environments for developers. Developed internal tools for our Ops Teams and Developers. Wrote nearly all of our Chef cookbooks for deploying our code.
Sr. Systems Administrator, Danger, Microsoft subsidiary (TAOS)
June 2010 - June 2011
Member of Operations team providing support for the "Danger Service" that powered the T-mobile Sidekick phone. Including on-call support, custom scripts, and server management of a large datacenter environment. Developed scripts and procedures to help with security remediation of over 4000 servers in a timely manner, limiting service disruption.
Network Administrator, La Sierra University
July 2008 - April 2010
Lead in the areas of System Administration (Solaris, Linux, Windows), Networking, Wiring and Telecommunications. Responsible for evaluating the effects new regulations and laws may have on these areas. Lead integration specialist entrusted with the research, development, support and implementation of new services to meet growing campus requirements.
Interim Director of IT, La Sierra University
October 2009 - January 2010
Plan, coordinate, direct, and design all operational activities of the IT department, as well as provide direction and support for IT solutions that enhance mission-critical business operations. Oversee options of technical support, infrastructure (network, phones, servers) and database support.
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Interim Director of IT, La Sierra University
July 2008 - August 2008
Plan, coordinate, direct, and design all operational activities of the IT department, as well as provide direction and support for IT solutions that enhance mission-critical business operations. Oversee operations of technical support, infrastructure (network, phones, servers) and database support.
Systems Administrator, La Sierra University
September 2007 - July 2008
Managed production servers running Solaris, Linux and Windows, and VMware. Provided services: web, mail, and hosting, LDAP, Active Directory, File storage, MySql. Upgraded servers and services as appropriate, applied patches, implemented new technologies to meet demands. Setup and Deployed Active Directory.
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Strengths |
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Linux, Ubuntu CentOS
- Mysql, Postgresql, Mongodb, Sqlite
- PHP, Ruby, Bash, git
- Apache, Nginx, HA Proxy, passenger
- Bind, ISC Dhcp, pfsense, pxe, squid, postfix, openldap
- AWS, Chef and cookbook authoring, jenkins
- Sensu, nagios, cloudwatch
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