PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sonata (Offshore company hired Bluestem’s engineers) 04/2023-present

Resources from BLST were transferred to this company. Duties remained the same.

Team Lead, Linux DevOps Cloud Engineer,

BLST Bluestem.com 07/2022–04/23

Migrated the on-prem VMware-based Oracle Retail system to AWS, within existing licensing constraints. This system is critical to this online retailer's business, and a tight schedule drove cloud relocation to close the data center by a hard date.

Terraformed and migrated an Oracle Financials system to AWS

Migrated Legacy systems from VMware to AWS using MGN / AWS Application Migration Service

Lead a Linux-focused DevOps team that supported a broad technology portfolio, including Docker containers, Linux, Terraform, Chef, Kubernetes, more...

Built Chef scripts to manage Linux on EC2 instances

Lead Cloud Engineer,

American Century Investments’ Enterprise Platform Engineering 04/2020–07/22

As the AWS cloud engineering for Data Science Platform Architecture team:

I installed the OpenDistro (free) EFK, wrote Fluentd filters, redirected an enterprise of Splunk loggers to EFK,

saving my annual salary in reduced Splunk licenses. I also configured Mule’s RunRimeFabric and OpenShift to ingest daily logs.

I built Ansible Tower pipelines which used Python BOTO3 to run a variety of containers in OpenShift.

I lead an offshore team, with hands on my keyboard at 5am Central time, using WEBEX. Together, we

pipelined ETL data into AWS Datalake, wrote Python to stand up working code frameworks which

pushed financial data into AWS Machine Learning tools.

Enterprise’ GOAL: Make good data-driven guesses to trade assets for profit.

●Python – Anaconda - Cloud9 - SageMaker & Jupyter notebooks

●Machine Learning

●TeamForge – CodeCommit

●Apache Jmeter to profile KAFKA performance.Docker

●OKTA – SSO

●CloudFormation

●Confluent KAFKA – Prometheus w/ PromQL – Alert manager integration to ServiceNow

●EFK - Elasticsearch / Fluentd / Kibana

●MSK - Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

●Prometheus - Monitoring for everyone

●Sagemaker - Supporting Data Scientists

●AWS SMS - AWS Server Migration Service

●EC2 - Build instances withing varied container sizes - rightsizing instances

Enterprise Architect, DevSecOps Engineer 01/2020–Layoff

As Enterprise Architect for a Data Mining IT organization featuring 'Zero legacy Infrastructure', I was responsible for growth, expansion, awareness, health, rightsizing, software delivery pipeline design and upkeep, CI/CD, and addition of new features in the AWS cloud consisting of these technology stacks.

Automation work was largely designing and Terraforming new environments in AWS for Data Science Teams.

Achieved ISO-27001 Compliance renewal in 2020.

●IaC: Terraform (with AWS provider)

●Config Management: Ansible, Puppet 5, The Foreman

●Remote Command Execution: PowerShell, Ansible

●RDBMS: PostgreSQL, MSSQL, MySQL, RDS, Aurora, Redshift

●Search: Elasticsearch 5.x, 7.x

●Queue: RabbitMQ, Kinesis

●Builds: Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy

●Containers: Docker, AWS ECR, AWS ECS Fargate

●Compute: AWS EC2, AWS Auto-Scaling, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway

●Storage: AWS S3, AWS EFS, AWS Glacier, AWS EBS

●OS: Windows Server 2012R2, 2016, 2019; CentOS 7

●Endpoint patching automation: Spacewalk

●Monitoring: Datadog, VictorOps

●Web: Wordpress hosted on WPENGINE.COM, and internally.

●IDEs: PyCharm (using Terraform 12 plugins, etc.), DataGuard (ETL, etc.)

●Mentoring junior staff

Head of DevOps Practice at OTSI 09/2019–12/30/2020

Principal Engineer, Architect of DEVOPS, Cloud, & applications.

●Respond to Requests-for-Proposal (RFPs) and provide Level-of-effort (LOEs)

●Provide Assessments for DevOps

●Represent OTSI at Conferences and Meetups

●Design and implement CI/CD Pipelines for customers

●Generate, Present, and Defend proposals for solutions

Canadian Pacific Railroad at ECCO Select 03/2019–07/2019

Principal Engineer, Architect of DEVOPS, Cloud, & applications.

IEEE Principal Engineer Program re-application completed, filed, approved.

Onboard Locomotive:

●Delivered PoC telemetry system enabling Positive Train Control to ‘phone home’ locomotive status and performance data to Fleet Control Center.

●Created SSL tunneling protocol over LTE cell modems to connect to Azure Back Office.

●Created Ansible playbooks to deploy and update virtual machines to onboard KVM/QEMU virtualization.

●Designed and delivered Python Docker modules to:

●Read UNICAST locomotive data.

●Read SNMP data (Fuel consumption, Braking, Electromotive force, onboard video, more)

●Read GPS sensors to determine locomotive position.

●Load data into InfluxDb time-series database through the TICK stacks.

●Telegraf agent to process real-time locomotive data.

●Kapacitor to filter based upon patterns in a Data Dictionary.

●Created modules to read MQTT into TICK, filter, and shovel data using RabbitMQ into Back Office.

Back Office in Azure Cloud:

●Collected RabbitMQ data, stored in MongoDB, and fed UX with Javascripts, ReactJS, and NodeJS.

●Deployed Azure’s Kubernetes-as-a-service to feed UX screens via NGINX.

●Implemented ACME protocol to rotate SSL Certificates in NGINX webapps in Kubernetes.

Terraforming:

●Created Azure Back Office (RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, MongoDB) by iterating through Terraform templates using an Infrastructure-as-Code approach.

oStart Agile Sprint

oBuild Terraform Templates.

oDeploy Back Office.

oCapture defects and bugs through automated testing.

oDestroy, then Deploy improved Infrastructure

oStart next Agile sprint. Rinse and repeat.

DEVOPS:

●Setup GitLab, configure repos and a minimal DEVOPS pipeline.

●Managed secrets / credentials using Hashicorp Vault.

Cloud

●Clouds-AWS, Azure, GCP, Triton, Rancher

●Primary Networking-AWS Transit Gateway, AVIATRIX, pfSense, AWS Transit Gateway

●AWS Skills-Deploy Aviatrix Transit Gateway

●Deploy Palo Alto Firewall

●Deploy pfSense Transit Gateway

●Deploy AWS Organizations

●Test Cross Account Stack Deployments

●Deploy EC2

●Deploy CloudWatch

●Deploy CloudFormation

●Deploy CloudTrail

●Deploy AWS Config

●Deploy Trusted Advisor

●Deploy Simple Systems Manager (SSM)

●Deploy Simple Notification Service (SNS)

●Deploy Simple Queue Service (SQS)

●Deploy IAM

●Deploy STS

●Deploy Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM)

●Deploy Key Management Service (KMS)

●Deploy Amazon Athena to query Logs (Athena)

●Deploy Inspector

●Deploy Elastic LB

●Deploy Auto Scaling Groups

●Deploy Lambda

●Deploy DB on Instance

●Deploy VPC Flow Logs

●Deploy Guard Duty

●Deploy Security Hub

●Deploy AWS Shield

●Azure-Less extensive list is available

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SOGETI 09/2018 – 03/2019

Senior Manager, DEVOPS / AWS / Azure Architecture Practices

●Delivered cutting edge DEVOPS and AWS Cloud Architectural Design Services.

●Mentored junior Cloud Architects.

●Provided Technical and Planning leadership to migrate 'on-prem' Fortune 100 Company's Cloud Migration to AWS.

●Subject Matter Expert on Aviatrix Transit Gateways ( https://www.aviatrix.com/products/aws/ )

●Standing up Azure DEVOPS, Atlassian Confluence and JIRA. Training staff to use tools to manage a large Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) migration from on-prem and under-hosted cloud resources to AWS.

●Deploying IaC to build, iteratively add features, and manage Infrastructure using Cloudformation templates and Azure-DEVOPS workflow.

●Deployed Terraform as an Infrastructure builder.

DEVOPS Contractor, Criterion Systems Inc. 07/2018 – 09/2018

USDA-OCIO-National Information Technology Center

●Container development (Docker, Kubernetes) Automated deployment into Azure-GOV and AWS-GOV using Terraform

●Architecture of USDA’s ‘GOVCloud’

●Architecture of USDA’s ‘AgCloud’

●Deployment of and into Red Hat’s ‘OpenShift’

●Tooling:

●Sharepoint / Remedy (unfortunately, no Atlassian products were used.)

●Visual Studio Code

●RancherOS (A Kubernetes management solution.)

●AWS-GOV, AZURE-GOV

●Windows 10

●Licensed Red Hat RHEL 7, Satellite server, and Ansible tower

●Results:

oConnected Openshift nodes to RH Satellite for patch automation.

oConnected Ansible Tower to Openshift nodes to automate Ansible Playbook updates from Red Hat.

oDeployed ‘Firewatch’ app in Kubernetes to monitor Twitter feeds, locating Western wildfire boundaries from tweets.

Contractor (vml.com) 12/2017 – 06/2018

VML Senior DEVOPS Engineer, TechOps

●This very successful DEVOPS experience delivered a Facebook Chatbot that connected customers to Ford Motor Company’s global sales effort.

●Project Goals:

●DEVOPS support and automation of a Facebook Chat-bot, based upon AI, Kafka, SCALA and NodeJS microservices, Cassandra Database with a SOLR core.

●Create/configure APIs to interconnect microservices with Facebook and Azure components (LUIS, more.)

●Stand up a PaaS (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) in Azure to host microservices.

●Create and Implement new pipelined Jenkins workflows using SonarQube, and other quality gates and integration testing.

●Additional (aspirational) goals:

●Stand up DataBrix and completing a technology proof-of-concept.

●Stand up Azure Cosmos DB with Azure Search for a fast-to-market ad campaign.

●Stand up a FB Chatbot using Azure Cognitive Services and Language understanding API

●Features:

●Direct, daily communication with application Developers. DEVOPS were embedded in that same cubes with developers.

●Deep integration of the Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)

●Collaborating with the BA, PM, Developers to plan and execute Agile sprints.

●Creating epics, stories, and tasks in JIRA, linked to Confluence feature requirements, storing Markdown in Bitbucket.

●Facilitating KANBAN/Agile reviews of the Agile sprint daily SCRUM standups.

●Leadership rotated, DEVOPS took turns with teammates to lead SCRUM and other Agile meetings.

●Pruning the task catalog of technical debt or unneeded features.

●Leading ‘T-shirt sizing’ of DEVOPS’ JIRA tasks.

●Prioritizing features and how best to deliver them using a CI/CD pipeline.

●Modifying CI/CD pipelines to improve velocity (parallel replaced serial in Jenkins)

●Linking JIRA APIs to Confluence to produce release notes which detailed features and bug fix summaries completed in each Sprint.

●Implementing new pipelined Jenkins workflows using SonarQube, and other quality gates and integration testing.

●Measured improvements and accomplishments:

●Agile ‘Velocity’ was greatly improved.

●DEVOPS+AGILE practice shifted from CAPEX to OPEX, paying for cloud resources on a pay-as-you-go basis.

●Above-and-beyond:

●Refactoring code away from KAFKA APIs to RabbitMQ and HTTPS webservices between microservices.

●Refactoring code away from webhooks to HTTPS microservices.

●Configuring Cassandra APIs from KAFKA to CQL over HTTPS.

●Creation of APIs and microservices to connect custom bits of automation where none existed (NodeJS and Ruby Gems were the glue.)

●Notable technology stacks:

●Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment principle IaaS platforms with Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, and NodeJS.

●PaaS solutions with Pivotal Cloud Foundry + RabbitMQ + Spring Boot

●Containers:

●Ansible @ http://galaxy.ansible.com

●Docker @ https://www.docker.com/

●Vagrant @ https://www.hashicorp.com/

●NodeJS @ https://www.npmjs.com

●Habitat @ https://www.habitat.sh via Chef @ https://www.chef.io/ Infrastructure & Configuration Management (1-Puppet, 2-Ansible, 3-Chef, in order of proficiency.)

●I have installed from scratch and managed the infrastructure tooling for these:

●Open Source Puppet Master

●Installed Ansible AWX (not Tower, which is expensive)

●Chef-Automate, Chef-Server, Chef Clients, Knife, Berks, InSpec, ChefSpec, and Kitchen.

●Cloud Architect and Admin: Mostly on Azure in this position.

Rubrik.com 06/2017 – 11/2017

Customer Success / Technical Support Engineer

●Rubrik leads the industry in Cloud Data Management products. The‘Brik’ is an evolutionary technology gateway, supported by an industry-leading software engineering and customer-requested feature delivery team.

●With continuous (CI) releases and a high feature delivery rate, Rubrik is first-to-market to connect to new features which are dropping daily from Cloud providers: AWS, Azure, Google, more.

●Rubrik delivers Customer Success through its tech support. Very Senior Cloud, Virtualization, and Infrastructure engineers and architects are staffed to ‘direct-connect’ to customers, delivering Brik features by configuring and debugging them for customers - typically Cloud and System Architects.

●Tooling:

oAtlassian JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Salesforce

oAnsible standalone engines on every Cloud Storage Manager

oVPN tunnels or WEBEX sessions with customers.

oSigned NDA in place which limits propriety technology disclosure.

●Methods of work:

oSalesforce boards to monitor progress and load-shift to other teammates.

●Projects

oDeployed Rubrik’s connector ‘on-premise’ to snapshot or ‘ingest’ Oracle RDBMS’ RMAN catalog, uploading ingested data to AWS’ S3 or Glacier, or simply migrating to cloud-based RDBMS, Cassandra, more.

oConfigured ‘on-premise’ VMware to ingest VMDK files, transforming and delivering them to AWS’ private AMI library for EC2 cloud deployment without rebuilding. Legacy immutable infrastructure was migrated to cloud by DEVOPS staff.

oConfiguring MS-SQL Live Mounts. Protected snapshots are uploaded to Cloud, and ‘real data’ is sandboxed in emerging Cloud apps.

oDeveloped and tested Ansible playbooks to automate Brik upgrades / installs / deploys.

oWrote process documents and field bulletins in Markdown for Confluence.

●Created JIRA tickets to describe bugs.

●Linked JIRA APIs to Confluence to produce release notes which detailed features and bug fix summaries.

●Reviewed code stored in Atlassian BitBucket with OpenGrok to isolate bugs within Scala code, filing JIRA tix with code snippets.

●Bug forensics in JIRA, Code tracking. Python, Scala, Cassandra, No-SQL, NodeJS.

●Provide installation product support for the Rubrik product line. Deployments.

●Linux Engineering and Administration.

●CEMPRO Certified, 2017

NIC 02/2013 – 06/2017

Senior System Administrator / Engineer

●NIC provides efficient, cost-effective online solutions for more than 4,500 federal, state, and local government agencies.

●Virtualization, Cloud, High Availability, Security, Storage, SAN, Networks, DTRACE, DEVOPS, Performance Tuning, Core File analysis, Forensics, Root Cause Analysis, and many skills and career interests.

Tooling:

●Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, GITLAB

●Puppet Enterprise

●On-prem MSP hosting, AWS-GOV, AZURE-GOV

●Solaris 10

●Centos 6 & 7, Spacewalk (patching)

●Methods of work:

●Daily Scrums for two-week sprints.

●Epic and story planning

●KANBAN boards to monitor progress and load-shift to other teammates.

●Projects:

●Built Puppet automation for SRE for NIC’s Payment Engine.

●Physical to virtual server migration. Branded Zone hosting. Patch process automation using Oracle Live Upgrade to avoid service interruptions on Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) running Oracle RDBMS 11 and 12.

●PURESTORAGE SSD Proof of Concept, Acceptance Testing, Database and VMware Block and File data Migrations.

●Rubrik Cloud Data Manager Proof of Concept, Acceptance Testing, implementation.

●Solaris Zone migration. Solaris and Linux Administration and Engineering on VMware+VSAN+ESXI+Vsphere+EMC Block and File storage. CISCO LACP bonded network debugging.

●Engineered, Tested, and Implemented Puppet Infrastructure modules. Puppet Enterprise trained in 2013.

●CentOS and OEL Linux Engineering and Administration.

●Writing bash, Python, Puppet, and Ruby scripts to automate application stack deployments.

●Network Time Protocol (NTP) coherence problem isolation and issue remediation.

●Subversion to GitLAB code / intellectual property migration.

●Installed Qualys and Nessus to perform Operating System risk assessments.

●Implemented Infrastructure-as-code techniques to remediate identified attack vectors.

●Mitigated issues for SOX, PCI, and FISMA compliance.

●Configure scans and remediate Nessus and Qualys findings within SLA.

●LDAP and Active Directory client Administration. Centrify-to-Active Directory implementation.

●OpenSSL configuration, tuning, testing. Cipher migrations from ArcFour to AES and SHA512.

●Using WireShark analysis of SSL connected Apache sessions' PCAP files to debug F5 LTM issues.

●Solarwinds Orion, Net SNMP agent monitoring.

●NIC provides efficient, cost-effective online solutions for more than 4,500 federal, state, and local government agencies

●Network Time Protocol, Unicasting, Time Coherence analysis

●Platform management (Oracle T-Series Servers on Cisco MDS SAN connected EMC, PURE, and Netapp Storage)

SMS (now Curvature) 04/2010 –01/2013

Unix Product Development Manager, Central Engineering

●SMS is a Third Party Maintenance and other services provider which partners with OEMs to deliver service and also to consult and contract many IT functions.

●Solved customers’ contracted support problems by leading a Backline Support Team (8 Direct reports, Solaris/Linux/VMware.)

●Virtualized numerous UNIX projects (VM Containers attached to SAN.)

●Software Development: delivered tools to add services to portfolio.

●Liaison to Sales Support, IT, and Executive Management.

●Customer facing technical lead, extracting root cause from UNIX core files. Candidate has strong knowledge of UNIX internals.

●Performance tuned many customer issues to extend platform lifecycle.

●OPS support: Lead and organized on-call rotations for multiple products.

●Instructor for Solaris and UNIX platforms and servers. (Developed and Taught five different syllabi / classes)

●Hands-on hardware and software support for Supercomputer class and smaller systems.

Sun Microsystems 01/2007 - 02/2010

Global Systems and Support Infrastructure Engineering - Software Engineer

●Java Developer / Architect

●Engineered, architected, supported, developed, and released critical support tools to a large customer base, internal and external to the company. SUNWexplorer, Automated System Request (ASR), System Metric Tool (SMT), more

●Products: Sun's explorer, Light Weight Availability Collector, SNEEP (Serial number into EEPROM collector), System Metrics Tool (an explorer analyzer, predictor of upcoming computer service, Services Tool Bundle.

Sun Microsystems 09/2006 - 01/2007

GPSE Developer, Situation Management Group

●Reviewed and analyzed Sun's services tools. Job mix is 50% software development / 50% analyst-architect.

●Nominated for Sun's Principal Engineering program.

●CEC 2006 Conference presenter. Topic: System Metrics Tool 3.0

●IEEE Principal Engineer Program. (completed ~4 of 5 years / program ended abruptly with Oracle merger)

Sun Microsystems 10/2005 - 09/2006

GPSE, Global Preemptive Program Office

●System Metrics Tool 2.0: Conducted process and code reviews, maintained Perl and application code, provisioned platforms and storage. Responsible for release operations, training users and service desk personnel, building DEV/TEST/PROD environments, and the Perl/CPAN/Apache/DBI substrate beneath SMT 2 and 3.

●Completed many UDA/Tool evaluations for the Global Tools Board, delivering recommendations to the Technical Infrastructure Board.

●Aligned the Business processes and Tool Rollout for the global ops GiveService program, impacting $800M in service revenue. Recognized by Director and VP for excellence.

●CEC 2005 Conference presenter. Topic: Diagnostic Boot CD / Sun Utility Environment (SUE)

Sun Microsystems 01/2004 - 10/2005

Global Preemptive System Support Engineer IV

●Joined Sun's Global Tools Board as a member of the Steering Committee, also the Core team.

●Responsible for providing support globally to the PSE III role previously held.

●Responsible for operational/tactical process implementation of Preemptive service delivery throughout Sun.

●Serving on many panels and working groups to evaluate internally developed tools, identify feature overlaps, encourage collaboration, and fund worthy development projects. Example: Global Tools Board

●Presenting tools strategy and details at industry conferences and meetings.

●Presented process and service offering details to various customer executives.

●Developed Evaluation and Implementation plan for Knowledge Engine replacement to evaluate customer systems. (Business Rules Engine Project)

Sun Microsystems 04/2003 - 01/2004

Preemptive System Support Engineer III

●Responsible for proactively taking both wide and narrow views of System Management and Operational issues within the Large Scale Computer Data Center environment, identifying threats to system uptime, and resolving those issues.

●Taught classes and conducted seminars to advance the skill sets of System Administrators.

●Installed evaluation equipment at customer sites, working with them to support the evaluation process and maximize performance of the target application on that evaluation equipment.

●Audited environmental conditions within the Data Center to isolate potential threats to system uptime.

●Trained Support Staff on Technology Updates, Processes, and Procedures to support Sun customers.

Sun Microsystems 02/2001 - 03/2003

System Support Engineer III

●Most senior SSE on staff of 12+ engineers in Kansas City area.

●Mentored five support engineers through Sun's Cornerstone Program.

●Responsible for Software and Hardware support of premier supercomputing products, also for Software and Hardware support of medium-scale computing products:

●Performance Tuning: Worked with customers to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

●Field Level core analysis: Debugging core files to the module which triggered the panic.

●Trained Support Staff on Technology Updates, Processes, and Procedures to support Sun customers.

●Project Manager on many complex System Integrations.

●Installed, Configured, and troubleshot various cluster technologies.

Sun Microsystems 02/1999 - 02/2001

System Support Engineer II

●Responsible for Software and Hardware support of medium-scale computing products:

●Sun Cluster http://wwws.sun.com/software/cluster/index.html

●Enterprise Server Family (E3500-6500, and E250-450) http://www.sun.com/servers/midrange/e6500

●Enterprise (220R, V420R)

●NEBS Servers (Netra 1150, 1405, etc.) http://www.sun.com/servers/nebs/

●Performance Tuning: Worked with customers to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

●Primary Y2K support for Kansas City as the millennium changed over.

●Installed and configured more than 200 servers and their storage, networking, and applications.

●Project Manager on many complex System Integrations.

●Installed, Configured, and troubleshot various cluster technologies.

Sprint Advanced Systems Engineering (ASE), Overland Park, KS 09/1996 - 05/1997

Senior System and Network Administrator

●Designed and implemented standalone LAN/WAN network to host an artificially intelligent system to limit fraud on calling cards.

●Software engineering in support of M.S. and Ph.D Architects and Developers (Java, C++, Booch, UML, Rational)

System Administrator, Inland paper and Packaging, Indianapolis

●Administrated an IBM RS6000 system for a large packaging material manufacturer who used it as an interface to their IBM Mainframe. I configured and managed SNA connections to their mainframe application, and managed the Sybase 11 DB which transferred tables from the application to the Mainframe DB.

●Independent contractor and performed this work on personal time.

Ameritech Telecommunications, Indianapolis 01/1996- 04/1997

System Administrator

●Provided System and Network integration support for a development/test/maintenance/production environment in a Telecommunications Systems development organization.

●Managed High Availability RS6000 Clusters running mission critical applications.

Ameritech Telecommunications, Indianapolis 03/1995- 01/1996

System Software Engineer

●Developed private line management applications for Local Service Telephony provider.

●Developed application software for T1/E1 Voice Recognition Unit.

●Developed application software for Video Conferencing over Private Line connections within Indiana Public School system.

R&D Engineering, SONY-DADC, Terre Haute, IN 01/1992- 03/1995

Systems Development Engineer

●Designed, integrated, and managed development of Modular Manufacturing System® top level automation in a CD-AUDIO and CD-ROM Production factory.

●The system automatically collected production, process, QA, and machine status data from intelligent processing equipment. Using CIMPLICITY® software, UNIX, and Databases, the system electronically transferred formatted shift reports to local Management and updated the SONY corporate Oracle Databases on Wall Street via WAN.

SONY-DADC, Terre Haute, IN 07/1991- 01/1992

Process Engineer

●Developed QA equipment to check and build data elements (Parity, CRC, Reed Solomon codes) which are added to customer data as it is placed upon a CD medium.

●Developed C-applications and UNIX device drivers in Linux and Solaris to verify and correct data integrity problems with data sources in these formats: tar, CPIO, dump, and ufsdump

Kohlman Systems Research, Lawrence, KS 06/1989 - 07/1991

Systems Engineer, Systems and Development Group

●Integrated computer and other systems to measure and record physical parameters of aircraft in flight during certification and other testing.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln 06/1985 - 05/1989

Lab Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering

●Installed donated 3B* servers, desktops, and networking equipment from AT&T, migrating laboratory data processing applications from Fortran on VAX/VMS to C on UNIX.

●Interfaced Laser and Ultra-High Vacuum equipment to data collection computers.

●Built "ellipsometers" to measure thin film coatings on optics and semiconductors. This effort spun off into a company (see http://www.jawoollam.com) which has grown by leaps and bounds since I graduated and left.

●Installed and calibrated an ellipsometer for Research Team at NASA-Lewis in Cleveland, OH.

●Taught undergraduate circuit laboratory for Electrical Engineering Department.

●President of my Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) student chapter.

●Inducted into Electrical Engineering Honorary Eta Kappa Nu.

EDUCATION, BS, EECS

●Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, multiple emphasis in CS, Optics, Solid State Devices.

●University of Nebraska-Lincoln

●Sun Solaris Certified Systems, Storage, and Networks Administrator

Training Record (Courses Completed)

●AWS MSK (2022)

●AWS OpenSearch (2022)

●AWS Refresh (2021)

●Ansible for Architects (2019)

●Python for Data Engineers (2019)

●Kubernetes Administration (2018)

●Chef Basics – Udemy / January 2018

●Chef Infrastructure - ongoing

●Chef Habitat - ongoing

●Cassandra https://academy.datastax.com/resources/ds210-datastax-enterprise-operations-apache-cassandra

●2018 Organization mandated PCI Security refresher.

●CEMPRO 2017

●Ongoing All mandated organizational training.

●Ongoing Leadership Series.

●Quarterly PCI, FISMA renewal training.

●2013: Puppet Training (Puppetlabs was onsite in Kansas.)

●2011: Support and Administration of Fujitsu Prime Power Enterprise Servers

●2006: Solaris 10 Update for Experienced System administrators.

●Dec 03: WZT-0305: Overview for Using Knowledge

●Dec 03: WZI-0310: Using Voyager to Contribute Knowledge

●Oct 03: Chalupa (Sunfire V440) Mobile Lab - IES-225

●Jun 03: IT Security Awareness training

●May 03: SUN Service Strategy Online course

●Apr 03: Sun Microsystems' Global Vision, Mission, Values

●Nov 02: Sun Fire 15K Advanced Theory and Troubleshooting

●July 02: Product Technical Services F15K Starcat Rotation (Two weeks in the Starcat Engineering Organization)

●Jan 02: Starcat 15K Support, Maintenance, and Administration

●May 01: Serengeti Support, Maintenance, and Administration

●May 01: Advanced Storedge T3 Support, Maintenance, and Administration

●Nov 01: Sun Cluster 3.0 Administration

●Nov 01: Solaris Certified

●Nov 01: Live Upgrade

●Oct 00: Storedge T3 Support, Maintenance, and Administration

●Sep 00: ERASE 101: Essentials of Enterprise Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability Engineering

●Sep 00: ERASE 300: Internals of Enterprise Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability Engineering

●Jun 00: In Depth A3500 and A3500FC: Advanced Storage Configuration and troubleshooting concepts.

●Jan 00: ISO 9001 Awareness

●Dec 99: VERITAS Firstwatch Cluster Administration

●Nov 99: System Principles & Performance Tuning

●Jun 99: Starfire Enterprise 10000 Server Support, Maintenance, and Administration

●Jun 99: IES-ST-350 Solaris Fault Analysis

●May 99: Sun Storage 1: Concepts, Configuration, and Troubleshooting

●Apr 99: Sun Cluster 2.2 Administration

●Apr 99: Sun Enterprise Network Array: A5x00 and Stortools TOI

●Jul 98: VERITAS Volume Manager (SA-345)

●Aug 97: NIS+ (SA-385)

●Mar 96: AIX, Advanced System Administration (IBM QC1116) Lead to AIX Certification.

●Jun 96: Multimedia and CD-ROM Production, UCLA Extension Program

●July 93: Designing and Configuring TCPIP Networks (Data-Tek)

●June 93: TCPIP Routed Networking Technology and Implementation (Data-Tek)

●May 92: Solaris System Administration 2 (Advanced)

●Apr 92: Solaris System Administration 1 (Introduction)

●GE Fanuc's CIMPLICITY Factory Automation Software (4 week course)

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