Located In: Seattle, WA, USA – Email: [email protected]
Objective
To find an interesting position to leverage my expertise in Linux systems, data center/cloud environments and application stack design.
Experience
Feb 2016 to Present – Wehmeyer Consulting, Seattle,
- Assisting clients with setup and planning of cloud deployments in AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud and other cloud environments.
- Automation engineering to facilitate administration and improve scalability of existing application deployments.
- Maintain and troubleshoot existing Linux/Windows systems
Feb 2018 to July 2019 – Straylight Labs, Seattle, WA
Chief Technologist
- Advise development teams on complementary technologies
- Suggest and develop new projects with team leads
Jul 2009 to Feb 2016 – Marchex, Inc., Seattle, WA
Sr. Systems Engineer, Infrastructure
- Building/maintaining east and west coast data centers to support real-time VOIP platform.
- Administering block and file based storage systems for database & private cloud deployment
- Maintain all infrastructure services like DNS, configuration management, monitoring, base AMI/system images, etc.
Mar 2007 to Dec 2008 – Treemo Labs, Seattle, WA
IT Manager/Systems Engineer
- Managing technology infrastructure for mobile social media company
- Systems/Database administrator for co-located linux servers
Dec 2004 to Dec 2006 – Big Fish Games, Seattle, WA
Linux Systems Engineer
- Maintained tools used to deploy releases to multiple environments (QA, stage, production)
- Worked with Director of Technology and web engineering team to plan future capacity
Oct 1998 to Dec 2004 – Palazzo Intercreative, Seattle, WA Systems
Administrator/Web Developer
- Managed day to day technology for tech branding firm
- Setup/maintained windows & linux web server environments
July 1996 to Sept 1998 – Simon & Schuster, EMG, Scottsdale, AZ
Researcher
- Developed infrastructure for cutting edge educational courseware
- Maintained UltraSparc/Linux servers in dev & production environments
- Developed middleware for server integration for courseware
Education
Arizona State University, 1991-1994, Studied Computer Science
Tech Summary
Operating Systems: Redhat/Centos, Debian/Ubuntu, Windows Server 2008R2
Languages: Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Golang, Java
Applications: Apache/nginx web stack, Chef server, Nagios, Sensu, Ansible,
Postfix/Sendmail, Bind, Watson Toolkit, WordPress, Confluence, Jira, Jenkins
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle
Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud
Networking: Cisco switches, Artista switches, Juniper routers & firewalls, Netscaler LBs, F5
LBs, AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Linux networking/firewall
Hardware: IBM Servers, Dell Servers, HP Servers, HP 3Par SANs, IBM V7000 Block/File
Storage, APC PDUs
Virtualization: KVM, Oracle VM, VirtualBox, VMware 4 & 5, Xen 4, Docker/Kubernetes
References available upon request