TOSAN LOUIS ABESON

Houston, Texas ***** 713-***-**** ad4kd3@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILES

http://linkedin.com/in/louis-tosan-15bbb4251

github.com/tosanabeson

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Possess Software programming skills in Visual basics, C++, C#, Go-Lang, Python, Fortran, VB, Java and access data base. Skilled in Landmark applications, AWS services and possess strong working experiences having worked for both service and producing Companies for the last 24+ years in both operations and information technology departments in different parts of the world. Possess AWS, Azure and GCP Cloud computing management knowledge and other Cloud engineering and Architecture skills. Demonstrated abilities in Oil and Gas Drilling and Production operations with extensive Domestic and International work experiences both in Onshore, Offshore and Deep offshore wells. Very comfortable in Oil and gas data management and deployment in on prem and cloud environment and IT application management. Versatile in Oil and gas drilling applications.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Cloud Orchestration & Automation: Ansible, Terraform and CloudFormation.

DevOps: GitHub, ECS, EKS, CI/CD, Docker, Lambda, Jenkins, Amazon CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy Programming Languages: Python, JSON, and YAML

Building Continuous Integration/Delivery pipelines: Git, GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube, Maven, Nexus, Prometheus and Grafana, Slack, Ansible, AWS Code Build, Code Pipeline, AWS CodeCommit, Codedeploy.

Networking & Content Delivery: EC2, AMI, VPC, Subnets, Direct Connect, NACL, Security Group, Route53, Auto Scaling, ELB, SNS, SQS, Cloud Watch, CloudFront and Elasticache.

Management & Governance: AWS Organizations, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, CloudFormation, AWS Config, CloudTrail, Systems Manager, Trusted Advisor, Control Tower, AWS License Manager

Networking & Content Delivery: Load Balancers, Route 53, CloudFront, Lambda, and API Gateway Service

Security, Identity, & Compliance: IAM, Cognito, GuardDuty, Amazon Macie, AWS Single Sign-On (SSO), Key Management Service (KMS), CloudHSM, CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs. Security Group, NACLs, AWS Inspector, WAF & Shield, and AWS Secrets Manager.

Migration & Transfer: AWS Migration Hub, AWS Application Migration Service, AWS Database Migration Service. Storage: EBS, EFS, S3.

Database: DynamoDB, RDS; Amazon Aurora, MySQL, Amazon Redshift.

WORK HISTORY

Cloud /DevOps Engineer, 09/2021 to Current

JJ-Tech IT Solutions – Bowie, MD

Created VPCs and attach all applicable components needed to build fault tolerance and highly available environment. Installed and configured NodeJS applications on EC2 instances and perform various software installations.

Applied Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing to create high availability and fault tolerance application.

Building CI/CD pipelines using Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube, Nexus, Prometheus, Grafana and Slack. CICD implementations utilizing AWS IAAC, TERRAFORM, Jenkins, Maven and Sonaqube, Kubernetes.

Implementing infrastructures as code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible.

Deployed static and Dynamic Website on AWS with Docker, Amazon ECR and Amazon ECS.

Deployed Containerized Application with Terraform Modules.

Designed and set up Ansible Tower environments for enterprise workflows and frameworks

AWS DevOps Engineer, 09/2020 to 09/2021

JJ-Tech IT Solutions – Bowie, MD

Provisioned Azure and GCP Landing Zones to create customized baseline of AWS accounts. Migrated data from and to different cloud providers.

IAM administration (created users, groups, roles, policies), build VPC with custom Network Access Control List and Security Groups.

Prepare Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and management of change (MOC’s), work instructions, and related supporting documents based on Quality Systems Unit guidelines

Worked with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient application running in cloud.

Deployed Dynamic websites on AWS using Terraform

Installed and configured Apache, Nginx, and WordPress on Ubuntu and Amazon Linux instances.

Assisted with Infrastructure/Data protection and Incident response tools like Amazon Detective, Amazon Shield, Guard Duty, Macie, Inspector, AWS WAF, AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and Secrets Manager.

Hardened Linux servers based on recommendations provided by our security team and best practice

Collaborated with development and operations teams to develop practical automation solutions and custom modules

Enabled access logging for Cloud Trail S3 bucket so that you can track access requests and identify potentially unauthorized or unwarranted access attempts.

Maintained server integrity by applying updates and patches per our maintenance policies Configured and Managed Firewalls

Configured and Managed Apache Web Service

Controlled access to files and directories using ACL permissions

AWS Solutions Architect /Cloud Engineer, 07/2018 to 09/2020

Saudi Aramco – Dhahran Saudi Arabia

Worked with Halliburton Energy services in Dhahran to fully provision Landmark applications with full implementation of newly deployed Landmark version 15.0 AWS Cloud base environment across EDT desk in Saudi Aramco Drilling Department.

Involved with new patch releases in Landmark applications involving feedback and new version releases In Github and run Ansible configuration to ensure new patches are reflected across board to show up in EDT formats on every Drilling Engineers desktop.

Ensure the landmark applications meets Saudi Aramco Cloud Security standards by ensuring VPC infrastructure with public and private subnets follow Aramco laid down security access control policies. Monitored VPNs setup back to on premise datacenter and Halliburton Corporate office.

Developed baseline AWS account security, implemented/integrated end point protection, vulnerability scanning and intelligent threat detection mechanisms.

Used Ansible Tower to monitor Landmark usage by Saudi Aramco DTD department in conjunction with Halliburton metrics.

Senior Drilling Engineer, 08/2014 to 07/2018

Saudi Aramco – Dhahran Saudi Arabia

Write well programs for offshore Drilling wells using ARAMCO WELLPLANET data base.

Drilled over 50 wells for Saudi Aramco as Senior Drilling Engineer.

Cloud Architect, 07/2012 to 08/2014

Halliburton Energy Services – Houston Texas

Utilized Load balancers, VPC’s, S3 buckets provisioning, Security groups and granted IAM access to relevant parties involved in the Halliburton Landmark application deployment.

Used AWS system manager to automate operational tasks across AWS resources to monitor Landmarks operations.

Created EC2 servers for Landmark drilling applications using Json format. Information technology teams had access to different parts of the software in Github, deployed servers using AWS CloudFormation.

Implemented security best practices in AWS including multi factor authentication, access key rotation, encryption using KMS, firewalls security groups and NACLs, S3 bucket policies and ACLs, mitigating DDOS attacks, etc.

Designed for high availability and business continuity fail over routing policies, using multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, auto scaling and other disaster recovery models.

Utilized Linux through GitBash and Putty applications using Keypairs to give SSH access to developers in VMs stored in AWS cloud during Decision space implementation.

Utilized AWS cloud watch to monitor EC2 utilization, set cloud watch alarms and emails notifications to 20% utilization of CPU. Connected with AWS SSH back to Linux CLI to check if alarms were triggered and if new email was sent.

Used Ansible to deploy over 100 multiple instances of Landmark Decision space 360 drilling application software updates for client server usage (VMs already created in AWS Cloud) in the different availability zones and regions across the world.

Provision VPC and subnets and NatGateway/Internet gateway using AWS CloudFormation (Using IAAC) by leveraging Visual studio code to launch VPC’s subnets, etc through AWS Console.

Comfortably navigate between Github and Gitbash and CLI prompt to push and pull files in repositories, clone files using commands.

Senior Drilling Engineering Consultant, 04/2011 – 07/ 2012

Halliburton Energy Services-Houston Texas

Applications Engineer for North American Oil and Gas clients. Carried out operations optimization with Landmark software.

Prepare Landmark models and Roadmaps for Chevron GoM RTOC. Designed wells with Landmark Drilling software for North America clients.

Senior Drilling Engineer, 08/2008 – 04/2011

Occidental Petroleum of Elk Hills Inc.-Bakersfield California

Daily well drilling monitoring operations. Drilled over 50 wells for Occidental Petroleum.

Drilled over 30 wells for Occidental Petroleum.

Developed Rig sizing tool for Drilling Department using C# and VB tools.

Senior Drilling Engineer, 01/2006– 08/2008

Coso Geothermal Operating Company -Coso California

Designed well screening tool to analyze wells as work over candidates using Visual Basics, C++ and C# software. Drilled over 40 wells with depth range of 10,000’ to 15,000’.

Rig design and evaluation. Drilling fluid hydraulics modeling. Well bore stability analysis and construction. Well design assurance (assists/reviews).

Senior Drilling Engineer/Well site Drilling Supervisor/Production Engineer, 01/1998-06/2005

Pan Ocean Oil Corp. – Lagos Nigeria.

Write End of well Drilling reports. Drilled and worked over 20 wells in the Niger Delta area. Well completions & abandonment. Well Site Drilling Supervisor, 2 Weeks on / 2 weeks Off Rotation.

SKILLS

Python Bash/Shell Scripting

Zoom Slack

Visual Studio Code Microsoft Teams

Linux YAML

JSON Java

Jira C#/C++/VB/Access/Visual Studio

Drilling/Completions Engineering AWS/AZURE/GCP Cloud experience

Data base management/SQL

EDUCATION

BEng. Engineering: Petroleum Engineering, 1996 University of Benin – Edo State Nigeria

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