Engineer Manager
Resume:
Allen Sanabria
Doral, FL, 33178
*************@*****.***
Strong Business Competencies
Professional executive Human Capital Management
Workforce Planning
Diversified background New Business Development Sales
forecasting
Linux Engineering/Monitoring Client Relationships
Design and development
System Automation and Integration Market Analysis
Engineering and monitoring
Technologies
Languages: Python, Go, Perl, Bash, Ruby, C
Python Frameworks and Modules: Tornado, Twisted, SqlAlchemy, Redis,
Rethinkdb
Operating Systems: RedHat/Centos Linux, Debian/Ubuntu Linux
DataBases: RethinkDB, Redis, MySQL
SAN Devices: Tegile, 3Par, Isilon
Networking Devices: Cisco 2900's and above, Citrix Netscaler 9000's
Host Devices: SuperMicro Balde systems, HP 380 and 385 series, 580 and 585
series, Dell Power Edge Class Servers, SGI
Monitoring: Zenoss, Splunk, Nagios, Solar Winds
Load Balancer: Nginx, Citrix Netscaler
Configuration Management: Cfengine, Puppet, Blade Logic
Backup Software: Netback Enterprise 5.5 to 6.5, HP Data Protector 6
Generic Software: ActiveBatch, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, MySQL, CryptoCard
Professional Experience
TopPatch, 7/2012 to Current
Director of Product Engineering
Livestream, 12/2011 to 9/2012
NOC Manager of our Bangalore team
(Live in Miami
Florida)
Livestream, 04/2011 to 12/2011
DevOps
Engineer
The Ladders, 12/2009 to 04/2011
Systems
Engineer
The New School A University, 2/2009 to 12/2009
Systems Engineer
Linux Engineering Group
Sr Systems Engineer
Lehman Brothers Inc (New York, NY), 4/2008 to 9/2008
Assistant Vice President
Community Connect Inc (New York, NY), 10/2007 to 4/ 2008
Systems Architect
CBS Interactive Group (New York, NY), 1/2007 to 10/2007
Sr. Systems Administrator
Community Connect Inc (New York, NY), 12/2004 to 12/2006
Systems Administrator
Seven World Wide Inc (New York, NY), 07/2004 to 12/2004
Senior MS Exchange Administrator
Real Time Systems (New York, NY), 11/2003 to 06/2004
Application Support
Assent LLC / Subsidary of Sungard Data Systems
Network Administrator (New York, NY), 04/2001 to 11/2003
Accomplishments
Designed and developed the TopPatch RemediationVault Cross Platform Patch
and Systems Management Product from its inception.
Facilitated all human capital acquisitions as related to the necessity of
the technology departments at TopPatch.
Managed the following areas within TopPatch.. (Customer Support, Sales
Engineer, Customer Demos, Customer Evals,
Data Center build out as well as monitoring all of our SaaS Customers,
Reporting back to the CEO /Investors of the current status of features and
bugs.
Managing all the needs of the development team and making sure all parties
involved are exultant.
Handled procurement for all departments associated with the code server
aspect of our Product in Python.
Conducted morale building conferences to ensure positivity and excellence
was fore most on my team.
Headed a team project to create a wiki with a share knowledge base of all
processes the team had to manage/monitor.
Conducted and implemented the change from an email based reporting (html
format in email) to using the fresh desk ticketing system. To ensure
tracking the NOC activities was more efficient and concise.
Initiated the NOC integration of our monitoring systems with the ticketing
system. To ensure better insight and monitoring of the amount of alerts the
team was getting and how long it took to rectify the issues at hand.
Created various Python tools to automate many of the repeatable tasks in
our environment as well to use with Nagios and Zenoss for monitoring and
trending.
Handled training of the NOC in the Python scripting languages. To ensure
the advancement of the technical skills for the company.
Director of Product Engineering
TopPatch, 7/2012 to Current
. I designed and developed the TopPatch RemediationVault Cross Platform
Patch and Systems Management Product from its inception.
. In charge of the hiring process as related to technology at TopPatch.
I was able to hire 3 developers within my 1st month working at
TopPatch. With those 3 developers and including myself, we were able
to build the 1st Alpha or our product within 3 months. Within 6
months and 2 additional developers we were able to deliver the Beta
release of our product. Within less than 1 year and a total of 7
developers we were able to deliver a production release of our
product. 2 Server Engineers, 3 Agent Engineers, and 3 Web UI
Developers.
. Responsible for the following areas within TopPatch.
o Customer Support
o Sales Engineer
o Customer Demos
o Customer Evaluations,
o Data Center build out as well as monitoring all of our SaaS
Customers
o Reporting back to the CEO /Investors of the current status of
features and bugs.
o Managing all the needs of the development team and making sure
all parties involved are happy.
. In charge of equipment purchasing, also in between all of the above, I
also code the Server aspect of our Product in Python using the Tornado
Framework.
NOC Manager of our Bangalore team ( Live in Miami Florida ).
Livestream, 12/2011 to 09/2012
. Took a team of 8 individuals with a low perception of the company and
turned it completely around within 2 months.
. Since the company did not have any documentation as well as little to
no knowledge sharing, I had the team create a wiki, with a shared
knowledge base of all the processes the team had to manage and
monitor.
. Went from an email based reporting ( html format in email ) to using
the fresh desk ticketing system. This made tracking the NOC activities
a breeze.
. Had the NOC integrate our monitoring systems with the ticketing
system. This allowed me to have better insight into the amount of
alerts the team was getting and how long it took to rectify the issues
at hand.
. Begun to train the NOC in the Python scripting languages. So this can
further their technical skills for the company as well as for there
future endeavors.
. Manage the team schedules.
. In charge of reviewing the each member of the team.
DevOps Engineer
Livestream, 04/2011 to 12/2011
. In the process of replacing Nagios with Zenoss.
. Created various Python tools to automate many of the repeatable tasks
in our environment as well to use with Nagios and Zenoss for
monitoring and trending.
. Manage the puppet and FAI automated PXE environment as well as
consistently updating the puppet manifests using GIT.
. Assisted in the migration from Apache to Nginx. This allowed us to
serve more traffic and faster. Since Nginx has a smaller footprint
than Apache.
. Monitored and managed our environment of over 400 systems in our data
center as well as our servers in the cloud ( Amazon ).
Systems Engineer
The Ladders, 12/2009 to 04/2011
. Replaced Syslog-Ng with Splunk Enterprise. This allowed our developers
as well as the operations team to find issues that we were not aware
of before.
. Deployed Active Batch v7 into Production. We replaced all of our cron
jobs with ActiveBatch. This allowed us to monitor all of our batch
jobs using email and snmp.
. Redesigned our Zenoss Enterprise monitoring environment. I was able to
bring down our 100+ email/alerts a day to about less than 10 a day. I
added more out of the box monitoring by creating various Python
scripts.
. I integrated Splunk and Active Batch alerts into Zenoss. Now we do not
have 3 different systems alerting, just Zenoss.
. Managed our systems completely with VMware ESX 3.5 and Virtual Center.
. Configure, Monitor, and Manage our 3par SAN Arrays.
. Remote HP host management, using the HP ILO.
Systems Engineer
The New School University, 2/2009 to 12/2009
. Created various Python/Perl Monitoring/Management Scripts for VMware
ESX 3.5
. Redesigned current SAN infrastructure. The hardware involved in this
design includes the following... Cisco MDS 9124 Fiber Switches,
Compellant SAN, and a HP EML Library.
. Currently trying to enhance our monitoring infrastructure, using Orion
by Solar Winds.
. Replaced our NFS solution that hosted the content for our Black Board
Applications Web Servers with the GFS2 file system. I was able to
design this new infrastructure using VMware and GFS2 with Clustering.
. Managing our current Backup infrastructure using Data protector 6.0.
I'm currently in the process of redesigning our Data Protector
solution. I will be migrating our Cell Manager from Windows to Linux
and upgrading to 6.1.
Sr Systems Engineer/ Assistant Vice President of the Linux Engineering
Group
Lehman Brothers Inc (New York, NY), 4/2008 to 9/2008
. Created various Perl Scripts to manage our Vmware ESX 3.+ environment
using the Perl Vmware SDK.
. Managed and maintained our RedHat Enterprise Infrastructure.
. Maintained the current Kickstart process.
. Created various Python/Perl scripts for management.
. Was in the process of testing Cfengine and Cobbler/Koan for the new
proposed Kickstart process.
. Tested various RedHat/VMware releases/kernels in the lab, using the
Lehman Kickstart process.
. Business case development based on performance benchmarking on various
hardware vendors.
Systems Architect,
Community Connect Inc (New York, NY), 10/2007 to 4/2008
. Completely redesigned how all of our systems were managed.
. Designed our Cfengine implementation and deployed it to all of our
RHE4/5 systems.
. Managed our entire RedHat infrastructure and our PXE KickStarts using
RedHat Satellite Server
. Designed a custom Configuration Management Database for our
environment. This database contains every device we have on our
network, as well as specifics of each device.
. Created custom python scripts to hook our Cfengine implementation and
CMDB, which allowed use of Cfengine in a more dynamic fashion.
. Created a custom command in python for our CMDB, which allowed
commands to be run against any of our servers based on
cluster/device/site/project. In this command, I implemented threading,
which allowed the running of a command in 1 to 2 seconds flat against
150 to 200 servers.
. Using TurboGears I created a front end to our CMDB. This front end
allowed add/search/delete/edit devices from our CMDB.
. Redesigned our monitoring using Zenoss.
. Created custom python scripts to sync out Zenoss from our Netscalers
and our CMDB
. Managed and Maintained our SAN/NAS infrastructure which consisted of
Fiber connected 3PAR's and Onstor NAS gateways.
. Installed, configured, monitored and maintained over 250 Linux servers
utilized as web/mail/dns/database servers.
Sr. Systems Administrator
CBS Interactive Group (New York, NY), 1/2007 to 10/2007
. Maintained and cleaned current CVS/Cfengine setup.
. Implemented Zenoss, which replaced MON/CACTI/MRTG/ and Ganglia.
. Managed our entire Fedora/CentOS infrastructure and our PXE KickStarts
using cfengine and custom built CMDB.
. Maintained and managed our NetApps FAS940 for NFS on the Linux servers
and CIFS on the Windows servers.
. Created a Zenoss_mysql.py Python script that consistently keeps our
Zenoss/IDB always in sync with each other, as well as created other
scripts for zenoss to monitor specific parts of our infrastructure.
. Assisted in creating multiple type of reporting features in Zenoss
that makes monitoring Graphs and reports easier and more flexible.
. Upgraded Tomcat4/5 environment to use Tomcat6 in conjunction with
mod_jk to enable load balancing of our tomcat instances and session
clustering.
. Implemented Dell OMA software on all of our DELL boxes that support
IPMI so that we can get in depth information on hardware through SNMP
calls and SNMP traps.
Systems Administrator
Community Connect Inc (New York, NY), 12/2004 to 12/2006
. Installed, configured, monitored and maintained over 250 Linux servers
utilized as web/mail/dns/database servers.
. Planned and implemented the use of Samhain file system integrity
checker and CryptoCard token authentication (via SSH) to meet the
requirements of VISA's security metrics requirements.
. Implemented MultiMaster ring replication using MYSQL 5 in conjunction
with CryptoCard, which is not supported by CryptoCard.
. Instrumental in executing the roll out of CCI's new NAS/SAN solution
utilizing EMC and 3PAR storage devices, establishing fiber channel
multipathing solutions, as well as configuring to ensure it met all
performance benchmark and requirements when actively utilized by
databases (Sun/Oracle &RHE/MySQL).
. Configured and optimized both DRDB and IPFail to enable replication
and clustering of the central administrative server, which at the time
was a single standalone server.
. Consistently created various Perl/Shell scripts to automate processes,
as well as created multiple RPM's to aid in the automation of various
time consuming tasks.
. Deployed hundreds of servers using RHE kickstart and the RedHat
Satellite Server.
. While on-call, used Nagios to monitor the entire Network
infrastructure and when necessary, created perl scripts for companies
own Nagios checks.
. Assisted in redesigning our Netbackup infrastructure from using ADIC
library and Netbackup 5.1 to Netbackup 6.0, using the FalconStor VTL
solution, NEXSAN ATABEAST, 3PAR, EMC, and McData Fiber SAN swiches.
This increased backup time drastically, from 5mb per sec to 20mb per
sec.
. Directly responsible for our SAN/NAS environment in our QA
environment. At that environment, I placed Onstor 2200 Gateways, which
translate Disks into NFS export shares and the disk arrays that the
Onstor is using are the Hitachi Thunderer 9200 and ATABEAST.
. Designed and implemented Netbackup 6.0MP3 at our new data center to
use Iscsi with IPSTOR VTL solution instead of fiber connected disks.
. Planned and implemented the installation and configuration of
Illuminator which allows the Netbackup admin to get detailed
statistics on Rman backups, data integrity, time backups took, how
much bandwidth was used throughout the day/week/month, and most
importantly if backups are 100% recoverable.
. Recommended and implemented Falconstor IPSTOR for data center
migration. Was able to migrate over 10 terabytes worth of data within
2 weeks while also keeping downtime to a minimum.
. In the process of replacing our Nagios monitoring system and Cacti
graphing system with Zenoss.
. Minimized our monitoring systems into one monitoring system.
Senior MS Exchange Administrator, Consultant
Seven World Wide Inc (New York, NY), 07/2004 to 12/2004
. Worked in a team of three to design the company's corporate Exchange
2003 infrastructure.
. Responsible for the coordinated migration of over 3000 users from
Exchange 2000 to 2003, as well as troubleshooting any issues in both
versions.
Application Support
Real Time Systems (New York, NY), 11/2003 to 06/2004
. Supported the RTS exchange trading platform under Linux, Solaris and
Windows environment.
. Debug various bugs/issues within the application, of which many times
required the creation of patches written in C++.
Network Administrator
Assent LLC / Subsidary of Sungard Data Systems (New York, NY), 04/2001 to
11/2003
. Managed the Windows 2000 Active Domain directory, which as a result
was responsible for maintaining the DNS, DHCP and DFS servers, user
(over 200 traders)/profile/quota creation, monitoring of log files,
mapped networked drives and securing the datacenter.
. Configured, maintained and monitor the use of local Cisco 2900 series
switches and 3600 series routers.
. Administer and maintained numerous corporate Sun servers and arrays
(Fire4800, E3500, StorEdge A1000) and enterprise backup servers using
Veritas Volume Manager Datacenter and Netbackup
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