• Architected an internal PaaS based on Apache Mesos with the Apache Aurora framework
• Deployed and modified aurproxy, a load balancer manager using nginx for Apache Aurora
• Tested out various other Mesos frameworks such as Marathon, Chronos, Kafka, and tested isolation
• Simplified some clustering bits using the keepalived vrrp daemon and some tricks learned previously
• Served as a senior technical resource on deploying and managing salt for configuration management
• Benchmarked docker storage and networking configurations to deduce the best production configuration
• Maintained several internal web services (hypermedia apis) written in a mix of golang and python via TDD
• Helped migrate the Systems Automation team over to using an Agile (SCRUM) development methodology
• Mentored other developers in building web services to run on elastic infrastructure such as Mesos or Kubernetes

• Helped with a P.O.C. and ended up as a core committer of graphite
• Migrated our team's largest webservice from MySQL to PostgreSQL and implemented barman
• Monoglot software maintenance of various internal software in golang / python / php / perl / ruby
• Coached other team members on software development and proper devops / automation best practices
• Wrote an out of band vendor agnostic "Lights Out" management tool supporting 3 server hardware vendors
• Primary maintainer of a largish internal REST php api which we rewrote as a Django app with full unit test coverage
• Wrote a fully automated Windows inventory system using nmap, wmic, our internal inventory api, and a bit of python
• Migrated critical internal webservices to a proper clustered and redundant setup using glusterfs, drbd, and pacemaker

• Strived for automation in everything or built tools to increase user productivity
• Tested newer versions of open source tools we use such as cobbler or salt and added features
• Reviewed upstream kernel changes and technology for achieving an ever lower network latency
• Used publish/subscribe message bus software like mcollective and salt to solve real user problems
• Tied together monitoring and configuration management of network devices with open source and internal tools
• Architected a multi-vendor network device configuration management suite using pexpect and django with a touch of jQuery

• Re-implemented the global dns/ldap setup for higher availability. Used keepalived for auto-failover
• High performance computing, benchmarking, and kernel tuning. Constant review of upstream kernel activity
• Maintenance and engineering on a from scratch Linux distribution in support of high volume electronic trading
• Authored many internal tools and django web dashboards. Used a mix of python, perl, and jQuery / Javascript
• Rolled out a completely new monitoring system based on ZenOSS. Lots of integration with xmlrpc and REST apis

• NetApp Filer Storage and NAS administration. NFS configuration and ongoing maintenance
• Perl archive encryption script supporting key rotation and key retrieval from an Ingrian Datasecure
• Initial setup of OpenLDAP to centralize network device authentication. Also looked into RSA products
• RPM package creation for Ticketmaster proprietary software. Redhat Package Manager spec file creation
• Advised on best practices and spearheaded an upgrade project from older Linux distributions to CentOS/RHEL5

Comair, Inc.
Web Administrator

• Configured and administered fault tolerant java application clusters
• Automated repetitive tasks using bourne shell scripting on HP-UX 11i, SLES9, and AIX
• Personal interview syndicated on linux.com "To Iraq and Back: Soldier Uses Linux in War and Peace"
• Assisted with and implemented a migration from Tomcat 3 -> Tomcat 4 -> Bea Weblogic Server 8.1
• Utilized open source software to meet business needs: awstats, Squid / Squidguard, Mediawiki, Bugzilla, etc.

• Proactive hardening of SLES9, Novell OES9 Linux and HP-UX 11i Unix servers
• Vulnerability scanning and network penetration testing of customer facing applications
• Re-wrote the web server standard from scratch after and existing infrastructure security review
• Customized and branded Perl open source web metrics reporting software for intranet usage statistics
• Moved internet facing IIS servers internally and fronted them with the more secure Apache using mod_proxy

• Hardening Apache webservers to NIST SP 800-44 (Guidelines on Securing Public Web Servers)
• Flight Hours: 474 total, 460 of which were during combat in a year long overseas deployment
• Wrote a 17 page technical paper detailing GCS software improvements (Solaris 7 shell scripts)

• User support in the #graphite IRC channel on Freenode
• Updated and merged external contributions for graphite-web, whisper, and carbon
• Release management and feature wrangling of the (yet to be released) 0.9.11 release

• Wrote a lot of features for salt (over 400 commits)
• Updated and merged external contributions for various subprojects
• Suggested architectural design choices / features with the salt stack team

• Setup web-based open source software such as Piwik, CiviCRM, and Drupal
• Worked on and enhanced the django application snowy for the Tomboy Online project
• Setup a mock chroot rpm build environment. Backported rpm packages from Fedora to RHEL5
• Volunteered to run the GNOME booth at the Southern California Linux Expo 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x, and 10x
• Managed systems with the puppet configuration management system and ran a > 25,000 user MoinMoin wiki

• Advanced Infiniband

• 201: Firewall Installation, Configuration, and Management

• Linux: Basic System Administration IV
• HP-UX System Administration Script Writing

• Weblogic Server 8.1 System Administration
• Weblogic Server 8.1 Advanced System Administration

• LPI LPIC-1 Linux Systems Administration
• IEEE Computer Society Member since 2005
• Comptia A+ and Network+ Computer hardware and network troubleshooting

• tcpdump, ethereal, and ngrep all covered indepth
• decoding packets manually aka from a hexdump or with vim/xxd
• Advanced usage of sniffers for network troubleshooting and optimization

• mysql, postgresql, elasticsearch
• tcpdump, ntop, ethereal / wireshark
• Apache Mesos, Apache Aurora, Zookeeper
• Linux and Unix proactive system hardening
• ISO 17799 Information Security Compliance
• Redhat, Debian, SUSE Enterprise Linux, HP-UX 11i
• Apache Web Server, Bind DNS, Fedora Directory Server

• Marathon, HDFS, Kerberos
• Nagios, ZenOSS, Icinga, and Ganglia
• Automated Web Application Stress Testing
• openldap, slurpd to syncrepl migration, ldapsearch
• nmap, snmpwalk, nessus, dnswalk, libwhisker, strace
• Tomcat 3-5 and Bea Weblogic 9 java application servers
• Python, Perl, Bourne, Bash, Posix, advanced shell scripting