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Senior WebOps Engineer – Xactware/Verisk
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August 2016 - November 2024
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- Allocate, maintain, and monitor web applications for maximum possible uptime and stability
- Develop Terraform templates to create and destroy AWS Cloud infrastructure
- Author and maintain tools in a variety of scripting languages to automate tasks
- Track progress with tasks using agile and JIRA ticketing system
- Author and implement vulnerability management processes
- Troubleshoot and solve issues involving SSL bi-directional authentication and encryption
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Senior Systems Engineer / IT Manager – Omadi
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September 2015 - July 2016
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- Architect and implement highly-available production AWS environment from scratch
- Orchestrate the tasks of IT/Helpdesk and Systems Engineers
- Design and build enterprise-level office network from the ground up
- Write Acceptable Use Policy for usage of company technology assets
- Implement strong security posture with all solutions
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Senior Systems Engineer – StorageCraft
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January 2015 - August 2015
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- Write scripts and tools as necessary to streamline and improve processes
- Administrate Ceph and OpenStack installations containing petabytes of data
- Ensure smooth execution and flow of internal tools and processes
- Write Nagios plug-ins in Bash and Python to provide deeper visibility into system status
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Security Systems Administrator – Adobe
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February 2014 – December 2014
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- Manage access to tens of thousands of servers using company policy and industry standards
- Develop and maintain a system to increase efficiency with termination process
- Create and administrate a tool for automation of physical access event audits
- Write scripts and tools as necessary to streamline and improve processes
- Troubleshoot and fix access issues experienced by other Adobe employees
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IT Department Manager / Systems Administrator – Prosper
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August 2011 – February 2014
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- Employ all available security measures to mitigate any kind of system or network compromise
- Aggressively optimize systems, processes, and policies for maximum efficiency
- Assist employer in cutting costs through re-negotiating contracts with all of our service providers
- Ensure maximum up-time for all phone and computer systems, networks, servers, and connections
- Monitor and enforce appropriate usage of company resources by employees
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IT Department Manager / Systems Administrator – No More Mortgage
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May 2009 – June 2010
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- Mastery of CentOS and OpenSUSE Linux, PHP, MySQL, Apache, and Asterisk
- Manage and delegate development and networking responsibilities to development/IT department
- Migrate many major systems to other solutions saving the company thousands of dollars monthly
- Maintain crucial credit card and order fulfillment operations of customer management system
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Owner / Systems Administrator – Moheeva
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August 2008 – August 2011
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- Administrate and configure email, web, subversion and a variety of other types of servers
- Maintain critical servers running on CentOS and OpenSUSE Linux platforms
- Create and administrate a tool for automation of physical access event audits
- Put into place fail-over system to maintain site up-time
- Implement proper security measures to ensure site integrity
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Systems Administrator - TrueNorth Academy
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July 2006 – August 2008
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- Develop industry-strength backup system using portable Bash script
- Build and maintain OpenSUSE, Gentoo, Mandriva, and Red Hat Linux desktops and servers
- Manage many live email, web, DHCP, and routing servers while keeping them secure
- Conceive, plan, develop and test enterprise-level solutions and policies for production Linux servers
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OpenSUSE Linux Community Manager – WebWise Solutions
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December 2004 – July 2006
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- Aggressively troubleshoot and research topics valuable to system administration
- Manage and coordinate multiple Linux communities for Novell customers
- Wrote over 500 in-depth user-friendly technical articles and tutorials for inexperienced Linux users
- Configure and administrate content management system used to publish articles
- Had a personal blog discussing OpenSUSE Linux which receives over 10,000 page views per week
- Extended experience in Search Engine Optimization and Web site ranking
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