About Me

Accomplished Systems Engineer with over 14 years of experience, specializing in Linux Administration and Infrastructure Engineering.

Core Strengths

Develop and maintain systems that are reliable, scalable, and perform well.

Advocate for SRE best practices and encourage top-notch engineering.

Define best practices for incident management, monitoring, alerting, and automation.

Objective

Leverage extensive DevOps/SRE capabilities to enhance and streamline infrastructure performance and resilience.

Experience

  • Stackpath - Senior Systems Engineer (2019-2024)
    DevOps engineering for global Content Delivery Network & Compute provider
    • Developed Ansible playbooks for VM deployment and teardown, including dynamic NIC handling, SR-IOV, and storage pool management
    • Improved VM provisioning automation using Packer, QEMU, and VMWare to enhance performance and reduce deployment time.
    • Maintained baremetal and on-prem infrastructure for thousands of servers utilizing IPMI/iDRAC/BMC to ensure system uptime.
    • Developed automation with Bash & Python for novice Linux users to manage and update production systems safely.
    • Built and deployed updated drivers and RPM packages for customized kernels and environments
    • Utilized Puppet, Git, and Bitbucket for configuration management, enhancing version control and deployment efficiency
    • Provisioned nodes, troubleshot issues, and monitored Kubernetes clusters.
    • Improved, upgraded, and maintained the Prometheus monitoring stack.
    • Developed RHEL upgrade procedures to enable in-place upgrades from CentOS 7 to Rockylinux 9
  • Kodak Alaris - Assistant Service Manager (2010-2019)
    TechOps support for a photo-imaging solution at resorts and theme parks worldwide
    • Directed a multidisciplinary team to innovate and deploy state-of-the-art photo imaging solutions across multiple theme parks.
    • Managed Windows Servers and ESXi Hypervisors to operate a proprietary application and SQL databases.
    • Promoted to team lead within 4 years; led a team of 8, enhancing work scheduling, travel planning, and training procedures, resulting in a 20% improvement in team efficiency and a 15% increase in project completion rates.
    • Assisted senior project managers with technical guidance, system and workflow design, training for installation team, and customer communication, contributing to project success.
    • Developed a new product using Raspberry Pi's that was deployed nationwide, achieving significant cost savings.

Education

  • University of Florida
    Graduated 2007
    B.S. in Business Administration/Management