Cloud Platform Google

Skills & Knowledge

Certifications

Red Hat Certified Engineer 6

VMWare Certified Professional

Senior-Level Linux Virtualization Professional (LPIC-3+4),

Dell Certified Server Expert

ITIL Foundations V3

Cloud

Google Cloud Platform

RedHat OpenShift

AWS

Azure

Virtualization

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

VMWare ESX/ESXi, vRealize

vCloud Suite (Director, SRM, Ops) KVM, RHEV 3

DRS/HA

DevOps Stack

GitLab CI+ / GitHub

ServiceNow!

Docker Compose

npm

Visual Studio Code

New Relic

Vagrant

Vault

Grafana

PHP/Perl/Python

Composer

PostgreSQL / MySQL / NoSQL

Rails

S3

EC2

Redis

Memcached

Varnish Cache

Puppet Enterprise

Terraform

Babel

Zabbix

RequireJS

Sidekiq

Heroku

Angular/CSS/Node.JS

Pingdom

Twilio

Agile Central

Nginx/Apache

CRM:

SugarCRM

SuiteCRM

Salesforce

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Skills Summary

With over 20 years of Linux server and a primary focus of automation of platform infrastructure -- I have been a part of, built, or led highly efficient teams that design and implement cloud-native architectures for applications while following best agile practices in cloud technologies (e.g., devops, containers, microservices, serverless). I possess strong hands-on experience with monolithic architectures to hyperconverged and cloud technologies. I possess Azure, Linux, Openshift, and Cloud Certifications that are backed my experience of delivering successful results.

Congruex

DevOps/Infrastructure Architect Nov. 2021 – Feb. 2024

Responsible for engineering of new capabilities to the OpenGIS Platform running on migrated containers and delivering those capabilities in a fully automated serverless environment using docker to drive the Stack on PostgreSQL.

oImplemented ESRI ArcGIS feature services and advised for best configuration for better performance on-premises and on-cloud platforms.

oIntegrated Azure AD single-sign-on using SAML to many applications.

oDeveloped and delivered integrated build/test/deployment workflows for ci/cd pipelines in Azure and AWS to automate infrastructure-as-a-code using Puppet, Terraform, Cloudformations.

oInstalled and managed OpenShift platform, controlled access to resources, configured network components and pod scheduling.

oEnsure availability of multi-cloud applications which delivered customer facing solutions

Cognizant Technology Solutions/FiServ Columbus, OH Oct 2019 – Sep. 2021

QA Enterprise Lead

World Pay, Lead team of 30+ business applications toward successful datacenter migration and QA (Quality & Assurance) integration/regression/release testing back into production.

oEnsured compliance between business strategies, enterprise transformation activities, and technology directions, setting strategies, policies, standards, and practices.

oManaged the entire program and as the face for the program including updates to Senior Leadership and multiple stakeholders.

oWork with the BU CIO team and PMO (Project Management Orchestration) to help estimation/proposal development, intake, portfolio prioritization, project choice and approval.

oHelped to Document migration processes, architectural decisions, and troubleshooting steps.

oQuickly digested business architecture and Conceptual Solution Architecture, to own the delivery of Logical and Physical Solution Architecture and support feature team through product delivery.

oIntegrated products and features into existing processes, with an eye towards

oautomation of the process

oProvided subject-matter-expertise with proficiency on multiple core technologies in the private cloud environments, including Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes & Openshift) Develop and implement plans for and supply operational support and life-cycle management of the services and infrastructure that exist in the cloud provider accounts.

oFound any inter-dependence between various stakeholder groups to ensure all are aligned and risks found, mitigated and communicated.

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pleasanton, CA Oct 2018 – Sept 2019

Sr. Delivery Manager/Puppet Developer

Kaiser Permanente, click-2-cloud/ServiceNow puppet/vCA portal automation architect

oCreate, modify, and support vRealize Automation (vRA and vRO) workflows within our on-premises VMWare Stack including the provisioning, decommissioning, and tasks in between for Windows Server and Linux Server using puppet to orchestrate the tasks automatically between entities.

oRefactor and optimize code to align with cloud-native principles, scalability, and performance requirements.

oHigh degree of collaboration with infrastructure, development, and PMO teams to ensure tactical and strategic deliverables are met:

oProvided subject matter expertise with proficiency on multiple core technologies in the private cloud environments, including Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) Windows and Linux operating systems, Configuration Management technologies (SALT, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Scripting Languages (Python, Node, PowerShell, Java), Infrastructure-As-Code Development (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Packer), Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure the health and performance of migrated application for Cloud / Infrastructure components, Cloud specific networking / software defined networking (SDN) and security components and services as necessary for applications to pass blue/green testing designed and developed by my migration QA program which was calibrated and calculated on a weekly basis with various teams and communicated daily in standup calls with PMO’s

oCollaborate with cross-functional teams across the organization following agile methodologies.

TEKsystems Global Services, Austin, TX Dec 2015 – Sept 2017 Automation Solutions Architect

oCoordinated technical kick-off sessions by supplying detailed product architecture overviews and deciding the customer’s design, integration, and development plans.

oWorked with project managers to coordinate review meetings with senior technical resources. These meetings provide customers with status updates on product roadmaps, release schedules, and specific product features that are relevant to their applications.

oWorked on ESX and VM storage issues and coordinated with the storage admin team.

oResearch and resolved installation, configuration, deployment, and upgrade issues; acted as an advocate for customer and liaison the engineering, product management, and support organization areas.

oAided with architecture, design, development, integration, performance tuning, rollout, support, and optimization of customer’s choice of technologies such as Chef Automate, Puppet Enterprise, Ansible and patch management solutions.

oMentor customer staff members in the use of given technologies and best practices of monitoring, build/release, agile transformation, and software development life cycles.

oInstalled and Implemented VMware ESXI 5.0 host server with vSphere client. Configured HBAs and ISCSI San storage.

oCoordinate delivery of any onsite consulting / training services that customer has bought.

oUpdated VMware ESX/ESXi hosts using VMware update manager and installed patches and updates on Virtual Machines.

oDevelop sample applications proving the use of product advanced functionality and APIs using cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS, vCloud.

oFound and developed internally and externally facing best practices.

oParticipated in the onboarding and mentoring of other architects.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Austin, TX Dec 2015 – Feb. 2016

DevOps Engineer

oHelping to implement largest GitHub enterprise to date.

oRe-factored Chef cookbooks from version 10 to 12 implementing custom libraries for commonly used functions with functional and unit tests performed in chef-kitchen.

oIntegrated ServiceNow with Chef Automate and templates to supply self-provisioning development servers.

oPerformed interviews for 3rd party technology companies for a team to rapidly transfer staff migration and sunset projects to AWS.

oStrategizing with other teams’ version control workflows to foster agile transformation and singularity to GitHub enterprise.

oConfigured, deployed, and actively involved in troubleshooting of VMs, ESX/ESXi servers, vCenter server, and vSphere as well as Monitoring and managing performance of vSphere, ESXi servers and Virtual Machines.

oResponsible for SSO and SAML authentication and coordination of user migrations.

oResearch the use of Chef, Puppet, Ansible, to deploy codified microservices codified on virtual/physical on-premises nodes and AWS cloud nodes in a pipeline orchestrated by Jenkins, GitHub Enterprise, and chat bots with manual approval gates between deliveries.

oEnjoy working with large-scale enterprise apps extended to other configuration items using API Calls XML/JSON/SOAP while fine-tuning multi-hundred server workloads both physical/ and AWS technologies: Have DevOps AWS Skillset: Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloud Formation, Cloud Front, EC2, RDS, S3, Route53, SNS, SQS, Redshift, EBS and Cloud Trail.

Master Mineral Holdings, Norman, OK Aug. 2014 – Sept. 2015

Sr. Unix Consultant, CRM Developer

oTo increase my ability and stay abreast of upcoming technologies, I invested time into studying Puppet, chef, and automating real estate businesses.

oImplemented JavaScript/node.JS methods into one-of-a-kind real estate CRM, active leader in SuiteCRM Real Estate community.

oPerformed physical server migration from KC NAP to AWS, then to OKC with zero-downtime, setting KC as a recovery POP as critical infrastructure for platforms that support CRMs for Oil & Gas companies.

oPuppetized server stand up to migration of Debian/RHEL flavors with Apache, nginx, LDAP and MySQL modules.

oSupplied critical Linux recovery for large insurance company in OKC

oPart time consultant for IBM client headquartered in OKC. Help to deploy dynamic automation and supply on-site hardware recovery/migration of redundant datacenters for Hertz via IBM.

DuPont, Wilmington, DE Sept. 2014 – Jan. 2015

Primary Focal Architect

oDirected the design, development and deployment of servers being migrated from client’s datacenter to supplier owned datacenters.

oWorked directly with executive-level clients as a broker to ensure budget and timelines remained on schedule by ensuring necessary architecture and resources were available and negotiating Service Level Agreements with external vendors. Designed and helped to implement and support complex systems such as: disaster recovery, automation, high-availability database configurations and backup/recovery strategies.

Puppet Labs, Portland, OR Aug. 2014 – Nov. 2014

Puppet Consultant

oTraveled domestic and internationally to help Puppet Labs’ customers succeed through training, consulting, and custom development engagements.

oAided with pre-sales consulting and support including sales and marketing, developing, and publishing Puppet modules and promoting integration and tooling around Puppet.

oExcelled in the use of extensive logic and reasoning as an individual and as part of a team to find the pros and cons of practical options professionally as alternative solutions to unique customer configurations and concerns.

Kaplan University, La Crosse, MI Apr. 2014 – Jul 2014

Senior-Level Linux Engineer / Release Engineer

oDocumented and defined system and infrastructure standards.

oInstituted git code-repository system using gitorious

oAided with planning deployment of Puppet for configuration management and automation.

oWorked with other SME’s such as SQL DBA’s and application owners to tune and tweak system services for best performance.

Manheim Technology, Atlanta, GA Dec. 2013 – Mar. 2014

Senior-Level Linux Engineer / Migrations

oHelped to complete migration of physical and virtual servers to new virtual platforms and operating systems using vBlock and Cisco UCS blades.

oWorked with application owners and developers to understand complex details about how their applications worked to ensure minimal downtime during migrations.

oPerformed, documented, and automated the audit of lower-tier server environments, and helped to ensure consistency of configuration files going forward using Puppet based on many factors.

oHelped to automate deployment and testing processes using platforms such as Jenkins/Maven

American Express, Phoenix, AZ Dec. 2012 – Nov. 2013

VMWare Architect / Linux Engineer

oAided with completion of the largest data center migration in North America with a successful migration of over 3,000 virtual machines to new datacenter in Greensboro, NC.

oAided with architecting and implementing DR strategies using Site Recovery Manager.

oHelped with the upgrade of physical ESX hosts, conversion, and migration of VM’s according to best practices while adhering to stringent compliance and audit standards.

oCreated custom PowerShell/Wintel (Linux) scripts to perform repetitive tasks such as the adding/removal of data stores to ensure best health in vCops.

Dell, Oklahoma City, OK July 2010 – Sept 2012

Senior Solutions Architect

oConsistently led rankings of the Enterprise Solutions Organization in OKC.

oSpearheaded launch of Cloud Edge servers and provided Fortune 500 companies with early-adoption and deployment of supporting Hadoop/OpenStack clusters using crowbar.

oRemotely setup and configured new VMWare/Linux installations using SAN and local storage from different vendors.

oTroubleshot client software and hardware of many different platforms to find problems then replaced or repaired according to documented procedures.

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