| 2015 |  |
Kimbia, Inc.
DevOps Engineer Modernized the Kimbia environment, bringing the product away from a real-steel, single-data architecture to a co-located, dynamically expandable VM-based implementation • Took over Kimbia's DevOps environment and Jenkins systems • Brought automated testing, reporting, and SonarQube analysis to the Dev process • Designed and implemented self-configuring VMs that could go from no OS to fully functional Kimbia in under ten minutes • Drove the company through PCI inspections and compliance • Managed our AlienVault environment • Brought redundancy and cluster failover capability to our MySQL backend |
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| 2013 | |
21CT
Build + DevOps Engineer Designed and implemented the build system for the Torch visual data analysis tool • Designed and implemented a continuous release system • Managed vSphere, OpenStack, Ansible, and Vagrant driven cloud stand-up and tear-down routines • Researched, analyzed, proposed, and implemented new technology solutions for 21CT's infrastructure • Made things go faster and happen more often (~7 mintues from checkin to live environment) • Automated Everything • Managed versioning and release scheduling and tracking • Hardware research and design for a custom data center • Set and implemented security policies |
| 2012 | |
IBM (DevOps)
Software Developer Integration of the GreenHat tool into the SmartCloud Continuous Delivery family • Chef recipe creation and troubleshooting • Install script maintenance • "Dog fooding" uRelease and uDeploy into IBM's DevOps story after the acquisition of UrbanCode • Implement Rational Common Licensing inside of uRelease |
| 2005 | |
IBM (Build Forge)
Software Developer Years 1-2: Top-level customer support to Fortune 500 companies for the BuildForge automation software package Years 3-5: Developed solutions in Perl, Java, PHP, and JavaScript for defects within BuildForge; implemented new features; became Release Manager for FixPacks Years 5-7: became a core developer for BuildForge; responsible for onboarding international development team |
| 2004 | |
Elevating Boats, LLC
Software Developer Co-developed a PHP front-end to a database-driven inventory system • Developed a paperless paycheck system for employees • Began and managed the roll out of a remote SAN • Managed Kronos, SQL Server, and Windows Terminal servers and clients • Rebuilt network in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; expand site's network and storage infrastructure to accommodate refugees |
| 1999 | |
California Technical
Contracting
Network and Systems Architect Research, budget, and implement hardware and software solutions for both the in-house architectural and drafting agency and other, similar companies on an outsourced basis • database-driven web development • designed, implemented, and maintained company web presence |
| 1998 | |
UGO.com
Affiliate Manager • Web Developer Develop front page and content management system for UGO.com • Acquire, sign, and manage affiliate websites • manage and implement javascript-based ad-banner serving system for affiliate and main sites |
LANGUAGES |
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| Java
Bash Perl PHP Ruby Javascript AJAX jQuery node.js Python C/C++ |
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AUTOMATION |
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| BuildForge
Ant Make Cron Bamboo Jenkins Hudson uDeploy uRelease Chef Ansible New Relic SonarQube |
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SERVER |
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| LAMP
Apache Nginx Tomcat WebSphere IIS |
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VIRTUALIZATION |
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| vSphere
OpenStack Vagrant Docker |
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METHODOLOGY |
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| SVN/GIT
Stash GitHub Agile |
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OS |
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| Linux
Windows Mac BSD Solaris AIX |
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DATA |
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| JDBC
PostgreSQL MySQL Oracle DB2 SQLServer |
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SECURITY |
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| AlienVault
PCI HIPPA OSSEC |
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LSU
(Louisiana State University)
1993-1995 Studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering |
