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Skills

  • Disaster recovery testing and verification
  • Highly available, clustered Linux environments
  • Business analysis
  • Containerization using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Bash, Python, and other scripting languages
  • Network development and administration
  • CI/CD pipeline enhancement
  • Linux
  • Budgets

Work Experiences

  • Automated user provisioning on Linux servers.
  • Created policies for the entire organization to ensure consistency across multiple systems and facilities.
  • Achieved 64% reduction in incident response times.
  • Achieved 70% faster onboarding processes.
  • Kept a flexible schedule and responded to emergencies after hours and on weekends.
  • Achieved zero downtime during critical maintenance windows.
  • Accelerated deployments by 47%.
  • Automated user provisioning and access controls on Linux servers, resulting in 18% faster onboarding processes.
  • Achieved resolution in under one year.
  • Authored comprehensive documentation and technical guides, improving the onboarding process for new hires and junior Linux administrators.

Summaries

  • Proven leadership, operational excellence, and organizational development skills, as well as a thorough understanding of the procedure business.
  • Costs were consistently reduced while profits were increased.
  • Achieved a 81% increase in server response times.
  • Achieved a 73% reduction in risk exposure.
  • Achieved 48% reduction of resource outages.
  • In large-scale distributed network environments, certified in CPA and ITIL for 2 years.
  • Recognized for motivating management team members to achieve their goals and fostering innovative work environments.
  • Collaborative team player with experience partnering with cross-functional teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, reducing errors and deployment risks by 84%.
  • From single terminals to 2 networked servers, proficient at streamlining all scales of system architecture.
  • Achieved a 52% decrease in incident response times.

Accomplishments

  • Authored comprehensive system documentation for Linux server architecture, streamlining onboarding processes and reducing training time by 42%.
  • Optimized virtualization stacks using KVM and VMware, saving the organization $6 per year in hardware costs.
  • Led IT infrastructure audits, improving operational efficiency by 17% while achieving Scrum Master compliance.
  • Used advanced shell scripting to automate routine system maintenance tasks, cutting admin overhead by 52% and increasing productivity.
  • Implemented monitoring solutions, such as Nagios and Prometheus, to proactively detect performance issues, resulting in 41% fewer user complaints and reduced downtime.
  • Collaborated with the DevOps team to integrate Docker containers with Linux servers, reducing deployment times by 20% and improving service reliability.
  • Managed Linux-based web server infrastructure, implementing SSL/TLS encryption which increased traffic security and compliance by 69%.
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
  • Improved network performance by tuning NFS and network interfaces, reducing latency by 59% across key business-critical applications.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to upgrade a data center’s Linux infrastructure, resulting in 35% faster processing times and enhanced security controls.

Affiliations

  • OpenStack Community Contributor
  • Rotary International
  • Member, System Administrators Guild (SAGE)
  • Regular Contributor, Linux Journal and Linux Performance Newsletter
  • American Medical Informatics Association
  • Participant, DevOps Institute
  • Regular Participant, AWS User Group for method
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Network Member
  • Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Member

Certifications

  • Certified Cloud DevOps Engineer (GCP)
  • Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect
  • Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
  • Ansible Automation Platform Certification
  • Apple Certified Associate (ACA)
  • VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV)
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
  • Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional – AWS
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)

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