James Weatherell

James W. Weatherell

** ****** ** ***** *********, MA 01862

Phone: 716-***-****

Email: ad4r6d@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Highly accomplished technology leader with a proven track record in strategic planning, team leadership, and solution architecture within diverse environments. Known for adeptly overseeing complex, high-stakes projects, driving innovation, and fostering collaborative environments. Specialized in Cloud Architecture, HPC, research computing and research data management.

Professional Experience

Starfish Storage Corporation

Starfish Solutions Architect

02/2023 - Current

● Oversaw largest project in company history, 40 PiB Vast data migration for a top High-Education customer.

● Collaborated with research teams to assess storage requirements and develop storage architecture and research data management plans.

● Responsible for designing storage solutions that cater to the diverse needs of researchers.

● Oversaw the installation and configuration of storage systems and software, including network-attached storage

(NAS), storage area networks (SAN), object storage, and distributed file systems.

● Provided monitoring of storage capacity and performance, along with optimization strategies for large scale research storage resources.

● Ensured compliance with data protection regulations and institutional policies.

● Developed and managed customer backup and disaster recovery plans for research data.

● Defined data lifecycle policies, including data retention, archival, and deletion strategies for Higher-Education customers.

● Collaborated with Higher-Education customers to understand their data storage needs and provide technical support and guidance.

● Developed and implemented data organization and file-naming conventions for Higher-Education customers.

● Created and maintained metadata records for datasets to improve data discoverability for Higher-Education customers.

Harvard Medical School (HMS)

Research Computing Leadership Team - Lead Research Computing Solutions Architect 01/2020 - 02/2023

● Responsible for developing the Harvard Medical School Cloud Computing strategy.

● Co-Chair of the Harvard University wide Cloud Strategy Committee.

● Responsible for FY2022 and FY2023 Capital Planning for Harvard Medical School Research Computing Department.

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● Leader on the NIH RECOVER initiative, architecting FISMA compliant, secure cloud computing architectures in AWS.

● Decision maker on the Research Computing leadership team, overseeing all aspects of Research Computing Information Technology.

● Responsible for building and managing highly functional and experienced IT DevOps, and Research IT engineering teams to support the Harvard Medical School Research Community

● Responsible for Research Lab Department outreach and relationship management

● Oversaw the Data Acquisition Transfer and Management program

● Lead Architect for the Cold Storage project, responsible for cost savings and the movement of 5P of Cold data creating substantial cost savings for the business.

● Designed the first Electronic Lab Notebook platform for our research community.

● Developed Cloud based and on-premises research applications

● Assisted in the development of HMS-IT project management policies and procedures

● Designed and deployed an AWS EKS cluster to host research applications for the HMS Community.

● Technical lead for the singularity HPC containerization project. Senior Solutions Engineer, Boston, MA

06/2015 - 01/2020

● Responsible for analyzing application portfolios, identifying dependencies & common infrastructure platform components, and assessing migration feasibility.

● Identified motivators for cloud adoption and unlocking Academia IT challenges.

● Provided Cost and Benefit modeling, created compelling business cases for migrations.

● Responsible for architecting both public cloud and on-premises solutions for technology clusters and or application infrastructures.

● Experience in the design and implementation of large-scale data center servers, storage and network environments implementing solutions for high availability and scalability.

● Responsible for Server hardware and vendor management.

● Served as the highest escalation point.

● Experience managing automated OS installation and configuration.

● management systems (Puppet, Chef, Ansible).

● Demonstrated a strong understanding of IT security principles and best practices.

● Hands-on experience with distributed resource management and virtualization technologies.

● Responsible for creation and oversight of Research IT Solutions Jr. Dev-Ops Systems Administrator (JDSA) internship program for junior level systems administrators (CSRs), Co-Ops, and Interns.

● Provided the highest level of support on technical computing issues to end users and developers.

● Experience in public speaking / audience presentations.

● Experience communicating technical issues to executive level audiences.

● Experience with HPC and parallel compute farm scheduling environments including LSF Grid Engine, torque, and maui.

● Always performs at an extremely high level of technical competence and maturity.

● Architect, deploy and support applications in Amazon Web Services.

● Expected to make decisions at the appropriate time, considering the needs of the situation, priorities, constraints and the availability of necessary information.

● Created and maintained administrative and operational procedures. 71 Boston RD Unit 2306 North Billerica, MA 01862 716-***-**** 2

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● Responsible for writing and maintaining moderately complicated scripts in shell scripting (Bash, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and/or Perl) in helping to automate and scale.

● Work closely with internal teams (Research Computing, Operations, West Quad Computing) to assist with migrations to existing centralized infrastructure solutions.

● Developed and maintained communication for stakeholder groups, acting as a single point of contact. Gathered information from the customer to understand their needs.

● 10+ years of Unix/Linux administration and experience with Windows 2008R2 / 2012

● Demonstrated experience with Enterprise systems including SAP, Oracle, MSFT and custom Java/.NET applications.

● Proficient in working with AWS services (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, CloudFormation, RDS, SQS, etc...

● Proficiency with the AWS CLI.

● Familiarity with build & release automation tools and methodologies. (Jenkins, RunDeck) AIR WorldWide

Principal Linux Engineer, Boston, MA

10/2014 - 6/2015

● Enhanced, engineer, and operated the Linux HPC computing environment

● Installation, administration, monitoring, and triage of Linux systems

● Developed and deployed new automation tools to ensure standards-based system builds

● Served as the on-site SME for Linux servers and systems

● Multi-tasked and handled multiple projects while maintaining top rate service delivery

● Provided 24/7 (on-call rotation) operational support for production servers and systems

● Created and maintained all documentation and adhered to company standards

● Worked with department managers and general IT staff to analyze and resolve problem involving Linux

● Demonstrated support and deployment of high availability Linux enterprise servers

● 8+ years of enterprise experience in multiple Linux variants (preferably RHEL5, CentOS) in a large scale 24/7 environment

● Demonstrated experience in creating and troubleshooting enterprise services that necessitate the understanding of the complex interactions between applications, server operating systems, network protocols, and client configurations

● Expertise in hardening, testing, and monitoring systems against possible security threats, with exposure to PCI and SOX standards

● Virtual systems build and management utilizing VMware

● Demonstrated communication and project planning skills, highly organized, and the ability to complete high level projects with little supervision

● Experience operating a Linux based HPC cluster, using a scheduler and resource manager

● Fluency with one or more of the following scripting languages: bash, python

● Experience with automation and configuration management: Puppet, Chef, CFengine

● Excellent package and file system management (RPM, LVM)

● Introduced OpenStack and Docker to HPC

RBM Technologies

Senior Cloud Engineer III, Cambridge, MA

06/2014 - 10/2014

● Lead AWS migration effort.

● Successfully designed and delivered secure cloud solutions using AWS

● Responsible for supporting physical Linux IT infrastructure

● Worked with software engineering team to tailor technology to meet their needs

● Maintained detailed documentation and architectural solutions in IT infrastructure. 71 Boston RD Unit 2306 North Billerica, MA 01862 716-***-**** 3

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● Mentoring junior administrators

● Architectural leadership

● Supported stress testing and scaling of services by development of testing services and infrastructure.

● Suggested tools and related implementation to engineering teams regarding cloud-based services

● Worked with vendors

● Provided expertise with automated system builds and deployment automation.

● Participated in on-call rotation

● Supported day to day IT needs of the company

Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA

Senior Linux Systems Engineer III

06/2013 – 06/2014

● Lead the HPC Linux team and provided support for an 8,000-node cluster

● Delivered an OpenStack private cloud environment

● Invited to speak on behalf of the Broad at the Red Hat Summit regarding our OpenStack implementation.

● Responsible for Server hardware and vendor management

● Served as the highest escalation point

● Provided new technology evaluations and innovation to projects

● Mentoring

● Architectural leadership

● Displayed a solid understanding of Linux and Windows operating systems and network storage technologies and protocols

● Demonstrated experience in management of automated OS installation and configuration management systems

● Demonstrated a basic understanding of IT security principles and best practices

● Hands-on experience with distributed resource management and virtualization technologies

● Provided management on large projects. This included RHEL migration, OpenStack deployment, and large infrastructure installs.

● Experience mentoring junior level systems administrators

● Provided highest level of support on technical computing issues to end users and developers

● Demonstrated public presentation skills

● Experience communicating technical issues to executive level audience

● Experience with HPC and parallel compute farm scheduling environments including LSF and Grid Engine.

Rich Products Corporation, Buffalo, NY

Senior Linux Engineer

02/2013 - 06/2013

● Responsible for maintaining an in-depth awareness of the latest technologies and trends in Linux and Storage technologies and recommends new technologies for possible business application.

● Design processes for administering, monitoring, and reporting network capacity (disk, memory, user accounts, data directories, CPU utilization, patch levels, etc.). Design and maintain documentation for server configurations, disaster recovery procedures and backup procedures.

● Provide technical consulting to the I.S. Service Desk, internal customers and other IS functional areas regarding network hardware, software, and capabilities.

● Responsible for all Linux OS server builds, both physical and Virtual. Including configuration to the SAN and managing partitions via LVM.

● Build scripts across the environment for automation purposes. (Patching, disaster recovery, system maintenance.) 71 Boston RD Unit 2306 North Billerica, MA 01862 716-***-**** 4

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● Lead small to medium size projects, generally related to O&M functions.

● Utilize and manage third party vendors in systems support and implementations when necessary.

● Provide project management skills for the development of project plans for self and others within the group, as well as aided in the development of mid and long-range planning for IS.

● Administer High Availability Oracle and SAP production environments.

● Administer and support and administration of VMware and Oracle Virtual Manager Virtual environments. Harris Corporation, Rochester, NY

Senior Red Hat Linux HPC Engineer

01/2012 – 02/2013

● Responsible for engineering application support including troubleshooting software/hardware issues, deployment of software/hardware, & trouble ticket resolution.

● Provide day to day support for Linux servers and workstations, including a High-performance computing (HPC) environment. Demonstrated a strong knowledge and expertise in supporting Linux servers and workstations (Red Hat/Ubuntu).

● Proficient in supporting Windows Servers (2003/2008) and desktops (XP/Windows 7). Experience with installing and running Linux based applications in an HPC environment (LSF, SGE, other).

● Interface with engineering teams as an IT consultant and/or analyst, gathering customer requirements ensuring consistency with organizational goals.

● Manage standard application configurations for engineering teams. Research new technologies and trends to support both IT and Engineering projects.

● Provide level II support of high-end technology issues and/or day to day operational issues.

● Responsible for all change approvals on Harris Compute Grid.

● In charge of approval process regarding user access on Harris Compute Grid

● Team leader responsible for expansion of Harris Grid. IBM Global Services, Rochester, NY

Systems Administrator / Compute Cloud Delivery (Project: IBM Compute Cloud) 05/2010 – 01/2012

● Responsible for managing a 30-member international team. (USA, India, Germany)

● Created operational and technical process documentation.

● Responsible for project delivery.

● Worked with other teams to develop infrastructure support outlines.

● Responsible for developing and teaching an international knowledge transfer training program.

● Developed support tools (wiki, support forum, documentation database)

● Project lead for my department’s role in IBM’s Compute Cloud support structure.

● 24x7 on-call escalation contact for severity 1 and severity 2 issues.

● Organized and assisted in RCA documentation

● Analyzed system logs and identified potential issues with computer systems.

● Selected as a member of an elite team that introduced new technology and created new industry standards for the enterprise. (IBM Compute Cloud, VMware, RHEL with KVM, Lotus Mobile Application.)

● Configuration and management of Terminal Services for remote users

● Administration of Linux and Wintel production environments.

● Performed Active Directory installation, configuration, and management.

● Assisted in design and testing of image rollout procedures 71 Boston RD Unit 2306 North Billerica, MA 01862 716-***-**** 5

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● Trusted with responsibility for maintaining IBM brand and site accessibility through onsite support.

● Performed backups on AIX, Wintel, and RHEL production environments.

● Applied operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes.

● Responsible for installing and configuring new hardware and software.

● Added, removed, or updated user account information, resetting, etc.

● Researched new technology and implementation costs.

● Responsible for documenting the configuration of a system. Ensured that the network infrastructure is up and running. One Communications Inc., Rochester, NY

NOC Data Technician

10/2008 – 05/2009

● Responsible for the initial evaluation and resolution of external client troubles in a fast-paced technical support environment.

● Duties included comprehensive troubleshooting of facility, service and feature based issues on a converged voice and data network.

● Exercised the ability to be team oriented, have experience in an ISP support call center environment, and able to work with internal and external contacts on behalf of our clients.

● Focused on resolution techniques for a wide range of carrier networks, ISP platform (delivery of email, Web, DNS, and Internet Security) and client premise equipment issues affecting the delivery of One Communications Business Class Data Services.

● Efficiently took inbound trouble calls troubles on inception identifying issues and providing a recommended course of action toward resolution.

PAETEC Holding Corporation, Rochester, NY

NOC Data Technician

10/2007 – 10/2008

● Provided optimized support in advanced unified communications.

● Excelled in Cisco and ADTRAN products, IP infrastructure, and VPN MPLS.

● Demonstrated working high level trouble ticket queues, providing optimal customer support, and demonstrated leadership within our team.

● Responsible for analyzing, testing, isolating, and correcting all PAETEC network issues. (Including problems with Local, Long Distance, Data, and Enhanced services.)

● Monitoring alarms (Harris system, air conditioning, fire, and door alarms) for T1's and equipment in switches throughout the company.

● Answer customer calls from customer service, sales and directly to NOC regarding trouble tickets and service issues.

● Test T-1's to make sure they are operating effectively, or to determine where a possible problem is and propose a solution / fix.

● Fraud pager monitoring responsibilities.

● Worked trouble tickets regarding service-related troubles/issues to resolution.

● Completed and managed translation changes in response to customer reported troubles.

● Provided OJT to teammates as well as outside training.

● Served as on-call for B shift, C shift and weekend shifts duties include monitoring network alarms, answering customer service lines and monitoring fraud alarms. 71 Boston RD Unit 2306 North Billerica, MA 01862 716-***-**** 6

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Adelphia/Time Warner Communications, Rochester, NY 07/2004 – 02/2006 High Speed DATA Technician

● Demonstrated the ability to follow escalation procedures to respond to out of service conditions while utilizing great analytical skills.

● Worked with local and global RDC/GNOC to resolve individual and multiple customer service problems.

● Utilized a practical working knowledge of advanced diagnostic tools.

● Analyzed, diagnosed, and corrected hardware and/or software errors associated with all HSD/voice equipment.

● Provided first class customer service over the phone, email, and chat.

● Demonstrated good verbal and written communications skills.

● Excelled in my ability to learn and understand frequently changing technical terminology.

● Demonstrated my ability to apply advanced product knowledge and problem solving/troubleshooting skills

● Required to respond to all terms of service violations in accordance with company and ISP policy.

● Worked proactively to reduce volume of terms of service violations.

● Demonstrated the ability to communicate with company legal department representatives as well as being responsible for communicating directly with local and federal law enforcement. 71 Boston RD Unit 2306 North Billerica, MA 01862 716-***-**** 7

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