John Cordova

Technical Architect

ad39qg@r.postjobfree.com • 202-***-****

www.linkedin.com/in/johncordova/

Tampa Florida, 33611, USA

Results-driven professional with a proven track record of successfully designing and implementing complex, distributed IT solutions. Prior secret clearances with US Department of Defense and US Department of State. Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner with experience in highly secure public and private sector computing environments. Adept at implementing DODAF and TOGAF guidelines, automation solutions and monitoring tools to streamline and improve operational efficiency. Excellent at assessing requirements, analyzing technical feasibility, and communicating solutions to optimize performance, cost-efficiency, and reliability.

Technical Proficiencies

Cloud: AWS, GCP, NTT and Azure Clouds. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

Operating Systems: Windows Server, RHEL, Rocky, gitUbuntu Linux, IBM AIX, Solaris.

Transfer: PureFTP, VSFTP, Filezilla, WinSCP, rsync, scp, IBM Connect SFTP.

Programming: JavaScript, Python, Perl, Java, C++ and Linux shell scripting.

Automation: Ansible, Terraform, Powershell, Puppet, Git.

Frameworks: TOGAF, Agile. DevOps, Atlassian, J2EE, NodeJS, React.

Security: PKI, STIG, Firewalls, WAFs, OpenVPN, API Gateways, CrowdStrike, Penetration Testing.

Monitoring: ScienceLogic EM7, Nagios, New Relic, vmstat, iostat, memstat, netstat.

Career Experience

John Cordova Consulting, Tampa, FL 03/2023 – 12/2023

IT Specialist

Work with customers to develop websites, Search Engine Optimization, branding and email marketing programs. Used CentOS 7, Apache, Drupal 9 and MariaDB to deliver customer solutions. Utilized Terraform to generate AWS VPCs, Internet Gateways, custom Routing Tables, subnets, Security Groups, network interfaces, EC2 instances and RDS databases.

Created 3D website johncordova3d.com using JavaScript, NodeJS, React, WebGL and ThreeJS. Implemented site and application monitoring with New Relic and Agile project management with Jira. Utilized TOGAF for Enterprise Architecture documentation guidance.

Contegix, Inc., Remote 10/2020 – 03/2023

Cloud Engineer

Worked directly with customers to implement infrastructures and facilitate transition of applications and data onto Contegix and AWS systems.

Experienced with installation and customization of the Atlassian Suite of J2EE applications.

Executed secure migrations of government clients into FedRAMP-compliant Highly Available cloud environments.

Utilized AWS services including VPCs, EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, Route 53 and DynamoDB to enable efficient and scalable customer solutions.

Executed Linux installations and configurations of Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, PureFTP and VSFTP, GlusterFS, HAProxy, Varnish, Solr, Redis, MySQL and PostgreSQL, enabling high-performance customer infrastructures.

DXC Technology, Remote 10/2019 – 10/2020

Technical Cloud Architect for the State of Kansas

Served as Technical Cloud Architect for Kansas Modular Medicaid System, a part of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

Served as Architecture Team ServiceNow and CMDB administrator.

Provided the State of Kansas with comprehensive monthly reports on Capacity and Performance, delivering valuable insights into system efficiency.

Managed tuning of servers making memory, CPU, storage and kernel adjustments as needed.

Delivered robust Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans for the year 2020.

Conducted network and application penetration testing to assess security vulnerabilities and remediation steps.

Managed multiple installations of Axway API Gateway and Cassandra NoSQL database clusters to enhance data management across pipelines.

Coordinated disaster recovery exercises in 2020 to ensure smooth recovery meeting RTO and RPO targets.

NTT Communications, Ashburn, VA 06/2016 – 09/2019

DevOps Engineer

Provided technical expertise for IT-as-a-Service Cloud support and various Cloud SaaS applications, including ScienceLogic EM-7.

Utilized engineering principles, procedures, and techniques and systems engineering tasks associated with the advancement and automated setup of Cloud products and their underlying systems.

Created Ansible scripts to facilitate Cloud instance upgrades and devised multiple migration tools for Operations.

Conducted interactive training sessions and created instructional videos for Operations teams.

Collaborated extensively with virtualization, networking, storage, and development specialists.

Executed Oracle Linux upgrades for the worldwide ScienceLogic EM7 SaaS monitoring platform.

Carried out installations of DRBD database clusters in support of ScienceLogic platform.

Utilized ScienceLogic API to generate Capacity and Performance reports for government customers.

Developed Cloud application to migrate customer environments between clouds using API calls.

Blackmesh, Ashburn, VA 12/2013 – 06/2016

Support Engineer

Delivered server administration and maintenance for customer environments operating on Linux and Windows systems.

Created automated migration process for websites.

Provided support for Drupal6/7, Apache, MySQL, Varnish, Memcache, PHP6/7, Redis, Solr, and HAProxy installations..

Accountable for creating and updating DNS zone files.

Installed and managed Blackmesh internal GitLab instance.

Conducted MySQL database administration tasks including upgrades, migrations and master-master cluster configurations.

Experience setting up AWS EC2, RDS, VPC and Elastic load balancers for data and application migration to AWS Cloud.

Computer Sciences Corporation, Falls Church, VA 06/2008 – 03/2013

Senior Architectural Expert

Worked within the Federal Consulting Practice to provide Architect services to a variety of government clients.

Oversaw C4ISR data center operations as CECOM Architecture Services Division Manager for the United States Army.

Provided support for 13,500 users in the USAID Google mail infrastructure within the US Department of State.

Implemented DISA STIG scripts for Linux and Windows servers and performed security assessment remediations.

Data Architect for Federal 9/11 Medical Claims Reimbursement program. Employed Java, XPath/XSLT techniques to create weekly XML reimbursement XML file with DTD validation for SFTP transfer to National Government Services.

Experience with ETL using SQL Server Stored Procedures for Data Warehousing.

Cassatt Corporation, Remote 08/2005 – 10/2007

Senior Federal Consultant

Assisted Federal Pre-sales team with the deployment and demonstration of Cassatt Collage at prospective government client locations.

Demonstrated Collage platform providing ITIL v2 compliance using automated IT datacenter management techniques that covered service and application-level availability, capacity management, and provisioning requests.

Hardware integration including HP BladeSystem, Hitachi BladeSymphony, Cisco and Dell switches, HP EVA SAN, and NetApp NAS storage configurations.

Software Integration with Redhat Linux, WebLogic, Oracle 9i/10g, and Windows 2003 Server.

Supported international customer Nippon Steel in Tokyo and Yokohama Japan.

Verisign Inc., Sterling, VA 05/2001 – 08/2005

Technical Architect

Assisted in the development of a real time rating engine for pre-pay and post-pay wireless telecommunications. Focused on multithreaded Java applications, MBean architecture, and high-performance JBoss clustering.

Managed Agile J2EE development team group for the Verisign post-pay telecom Data Rating Engine.

Responsibilities included core rating engine development, address validation process, and full deployment shell scripting with Maven and JBoss cluster.

Exposure to Java performance tuning, load testing, WebLogic application server, C-ISAM legacy database systems, and mainframe application porting to RedHat Linux 7.2.

Configuration Management Lead with StarTeam and PVCS.

Utilized IBM Innovation Center in Grapevine, Texas to optimize AIX OS kernel and memory configuration.

AIX operating system, J2EE application, and legacy COBOL code performance optimization using repeated LoadRunner tests.

Education

Master’s in Applied Biomedical Engineering - 2014

The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD

Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering - 1994

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner – Amazon Web Services

Atlassian Sales Engineer – Atlassian, Inc.

Atlassian Technical Sales Engineer – Atlassian, Inc.

Atlassian ITSM Sales Engineer – Atlassian, Inc.

ScienceLogic EM7 Certified Professional – ScienceLogic, Inc.

ScienceLogic EM7 Certified Expert – ScienceLogic, Inc.

U.S. Army CompTIA Security+ – Department of Defense

U.S. Army Information Assurance Security Officer – Department of Defense

U.S. Army Windows Network Infrastructure and Active Directory Design – Army eLearning

U.S. Army Encryption Technologies – Army eLearning

References

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