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Time isn't everything when it comes to experience; it is all about exposure. With my diverse job and educational experiences I have worked in just about every discipline there is in the digital arena. From independent contracting as a Web developer and designer, to network security at one of the countries largest data centers, and even running a compute cluster on a plane over Antarctica. I've been around the block a few times in several different capacities.
April 2017 - Current
Provide small team management and individual contributions for mobile, Web, and embedded applications using VueJS, Python/Django, Swift, Kotlin, Arduino/C, and Java. Worked under extremely tight deadlines while partnering with IDEO and our internal team to produce native iOS and Android applications for launching a brand new physical product centered social network LOOKS. Created several mobile and embedded applications for advanced fabric prototype. Provided technical management and review of external contracting team for mobile development. Created Agile/Scrum process and DevOps culture for rapid software development and responsive operations.
August 2015 - May 2017
Built, tested, released, and provied operational support for multiple public Web, Mobile, manufacturing, and embedded applications across multiple teams consisting of over 10 developers. Managed all of IT for company including all networking, storage, server, software, desktop support, policy, and security for 40+ person startup with multiple sites, local datacenter and Amazon Web Services infrastructure. Provided architecture, design and significant development of high throughput API backend for high data rate mobile application. Security, auditing, and remediation of issues from in-house developed applications.
August 2013 - August 2015
Managed small DevOps team. Automated provisioning and configuration of ~100 systems across many environments. Release management for several internal and open source applications. Several enhancement, bug fixes and feature contributions to the open source applications that make up the edX platform. Created, design, and maintain several full stack applications in Flask and Django. Developed AWS VPC module for Ansible along with several enhancements to other AWS and OpenStack modules. Monitoring and performance tuning for apps scaling from teams, to campus sized, to worldwide
August 2011 - August 2013
Management of five person IT department including hiring, purchasing, contract negotiation, budgeting, planning, and supervision. Design, management, and acquisition of a petabyte scale SAN environment including backup, network sharing, and replication utilizing HDS HNAS/BlueArc, EMC Networker, Brocade FC switches, and Linux file serving. Maintain, update, and monitor high performance computing clusters (TORQUE and MatLab). Provide traditional IT office support including routing, switching, firewall, desktop, e-mail, DNS, DHCP, print, authentication and Web services. Provide remote and in field IT support for Antarctic and Greenland based science missions for NASA and the NSF. Logistics, planning, and design for creating reliable data backup and collections systems for hundreds of terabytes in extreme environments.
Designed, purchased, and implemented a VMWare VSphere cluster to replace over a dozen aging and out of warranty systems. Upgraded HPC cluster from CentOS 4 to Red Hat EL 6. Upgraded network infrastructure to 10/40gbps core and 10gbps Internet for high volume data sharing and processing. Researched, architected, and acquired new cluster based multi tier hierarchical file system. Negotiated secure off-site storage for tape library. Assisted in design and implementation of a 1GB/s in flight data acquisition and processing system. Implemented regular maintenance schedule to increase reliability and ensure up to date software.
April 2008 - August 2011
Software design, development and maintenance of several Python/Django based Web applications. Web design overhaul of all departmental Web sites. Web server systems administration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.
Backend support for over 500 Windows, Linux, and Mac desktop clients including shared computer labs and staff workstations utilizing Windows and Linux servers, managed switches, SANs, and perimeter firewalls. Maintain and develop VMWare machine level and shared storage backups for disaster recovery. Designed and implemented a Linux thin client solution for maximizing the performance of older hardware in a lab environment. Assisted in implementing and maintaining server virtualization project utilizing VMWare ESX and VSphere to maximize server hardware efficiency. Designed and assisted with a complete redesign of the School of Engineering network to utilize modern security and best practices such as VLAN segregation, perimeter firewall, RFC 1918 private addressing, wake on LAN, and PXE network booting. Assisted in designing, implementing and maintaining the DCHP and DNS infrastructure for the school using ISC products. Assisted in implementation and maintenance of iSCSI and fiber channel SANs.
May 2006 – April 2008
Highly available firewall and routing design, administration, monitoring, and deployment using Check Point and Juniper firewalls for large scale data center hosting environments. Remote Access VPN design, implementation, and maintenance using Checkpoint SecuRemote/SecureClient and Juniper Secure Access SSL VPN. System administration for over fifty Linux, BSD, and Windows servers. Vulnerability assessment using ISS Internet Scanner, Tenable Nessus, and eEye Retina. KVM over IP using Raritan Dominion, Paragon, and IP-Reach. Authentication server administration and management using RADIUS, Cisco Secure ACS, Active Directory, and LDAP. Host, wired, and wireless network intrusion detection using Cisco CSA, AirDefense, and Enterasys Dragon. Technical documentation and diagramming for FISMA compliance and audit requests.
July 2005 - May 2006
Responsible for implementing secure virtual operating system environment on embedded systems utilizing the LynxOS-178 real time operating system, for flight control systems. Developed a XML network content filter. Created and managed a linux driven honeynet for researching computer attacks and attackers modus operandi.
Dec. 2000 – Aug. 2002
Worked as contractor developing Web applications for a variety of clients. Developed a human resource management Web application using classic ASP, PHP MySQL, SQL Server, and VBScript. Included Linux and Windows server administration. Other applications included retail Web applications, calendering and event applications, and Cisco VoIP phone applications. Technical documentation including user guides, software design, and database design documentation.
Dec. 2000 – Aug. 2002
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, minor in Mathematics. Graduated Summa cum laude, with a GPA of 3.94. Federal Cyber Corps Scholarship student. Notable projects while attending included developing a Web based project management application, designing and developing a GPS plotting application, and writing a full compiler for a custom programming language.
2000
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer plus Internet. Coursework included Windows Server, TCP/IP, Internet Information Server, and Enterprise implementation and support.