Architect ◇ Mentor ◇ Problem Solver ◇ Developer ◇
Patents
- US 12,238,166 - PROVIDING MANAGED SERVICES IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT
- US 11,856,055 - PROVIDING MANAGED SERVICES IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT
Certifications
Training
- Tivoli Frameworks, April 2000
- MySQL by NuSphere, September 2001
- RH401 RedHat Enterprise Deployment and System Management by RedHat, October 2004
- PeopleSoft PeopleTools by Oracle, December 2005
Skills
- Cloud Environments
- Digital Ocean
- Linode
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic
- Configuration Management
- Ansible / AWX / Oracle Linux Automation Manager
- Chef
- Puppet
- OpenTofu / Terraform
- Operating Systems
- IBM AIX
- Linux (Alma, Alpine, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Oracle, RedHat, Rocky, Ubuntu)
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Oracle/Sun Solaris
- Networking Equipment
- Arista
- Cisco
- Juniper
- TrendNET
- Applications & Middleware
- Asterisk PBX
- Apache httpd
- Docker
- ISC BIND DNS, DHCP
- FreeIPA
- Microsoft ActiveDirectory, IIS
- Oracle E-Business Suite Online
- Oracle PeopleSoft
- Oracle WebLogic
- podman
- Databases
- MySQL / MariaDB
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server
- Programming / Scripting / Web Languages
- C/C++
- HTML/XHTML/XML
- Perl
- PHP
- PowerShell
- Python
- Ruby
- Shell (Bourne, Bourne Again, Korn)
Professional Experience
- Oracle Corporation
Austin, TX
Senior Principal Site Reliability Developer
December 2005 - Current
- Part of Engineering Community:
- Guide teams in org through architecture creation, review, and release management processes.
- Review architecture for other orgs, provide suggestions.
- Lead architecture reviews, and sign off on architecture when a blocking issues are resolved.
- OCI Compute Operations:
- Worked with manufacturing vendors to design and implement a multi vendor secure remote access system with built in full CI/CD capabilities. Features included FreeIPA for identity, Oracle Linux Automation Manager (Oracle Branded Ansible AWX) for configuration enforcement, Forgejo for Git and various artifacts, and plugin ability for different test platforms to validate the newly manufactured servers.
- Run weekly office hours and org wide design forum so that everyone can bring change through the OCI Compute Org Architecture Reviews and OCI Engineering Community Architecture Reviews.
- Escalation point for DISA IL5 team and consult for DISA IL6 teams.
- OCI VMware Service:
- Provided support for VMware on OCI in all regions and realms with a team around the world. Includes process creation and improvement for new hire experience, training, on call scheduling, ticket handling, and customer problem diagnostic, troubleshooting, and repair.
- OCI Multicloud Service:
- Worked with team to enable multi-region functionality to enable general availability.
- OCI Region Build:
- Provide daily operation support and actionable reporting on region build labs with goal to improve speed, reliability, and correctness of the OCI region build process.
- OCI Compute Image Orchestration:
- Updated chef for internal images to conform to STIG, FedRAMP, and other standards.
- Updated configuration for OpenSCAP to enable continuous enforcement.
- Oracle Managed Cloud Services:
- Deisgned with team multiple blueprints for cloud deployment that enable enterprise application deployment within cloud environments with different connectivity and/or compliance requirements.
- Designed and build Ansible based DevOps auotmation platform that is capable of managing the infrastructure and application deployment to multiple cloud providers around the world.
- Work with a team to document, automate, and deploy new data center deployment around the world, train and hand off to local staff.
- Worked with team to migrate all customers from NetApp to Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance.
- Create and maintain common architecture design patterns to enable deployment of bespoke hardware solutions for customers such as IBM Power servers, IBM AIX OS, Oracle/Sun/StorageTek/Pillar SAN, Sun/Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, and other 3rd party products while enabling the sale of these developed solutions to multiple other customers.
- Create and maintain documentation for tooling and global architecture to enable bespoke configuration deployment while maintaintain various regulatory compliance.
- Created processes and documentation to enable efficient usage of data center space, enable hardware life cycle replacements, and conversion of enviornments from physical to virtual machine deployments.
- Perform post incident response problem analysis and create corrective actions to prevent recurance. Changes included updating cross customer architecture and development and deployment of automation to ensure uptake of these changes.
- Updated data ingress and egress processes to enable customer to migrate into managed services with near zero downtime and increase reliability of the data transfer process.
- Created processes and documentation to operate Oracle PeopleSoft as a managed service provider through full life cycle including installation, backup/restore, scaling, reliability, and refresh/cloning.
- Created process and documentation to enable PeopleSoft application cloning, including automation to reduce the time to average under 2 hours.
- Performed environment cloning for e-Business Suite Online and other Oracle applications.
- Worked with a team to provide on site hardware and operating system support for internal and external customers.
- TEKsystems
Austin, TX
UNIX System Administrator
July 2005 - December 2005
Assignment, Oracle Corporation
- Worked with a team to provide hardware and operating system support for internal systems running Linux, Windows, and Solaris.
- Worked with a team to provide hardware and operating system support for external customers as a managed service provider.
- Clear Channel Worldwide
San Antonio, TX
Senior System Engineer
November 2000 - May 2005
- Led team of administrators to perform daily maintenance tasks for PeopleSoft systems.
- Worked with team on converting PeopleSoft Financials 8.4 from Oracle to MS SQL Server.
- Worked with team on implementing and maintaining PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3 and Financials 8.4.
- Worked with team on maintaining over 100 separate critical business systems.
- Led development group in PHP based web site management for over 1200 radio and television web sites.
- Administrated over 300 RedHat Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, and Windows machines.
- Administrated cluster of 35+ RedHat Linux Apache servers hosting over 1200 radio and television web sites and over 4000 auxiliary non-traditional revenue web sites.
- Administrated cluster of 10+ RedHat Linux MySQL servers hosting the databases for over 1200 radio and television web sites.
- Administrated Cisco based network of Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Cache Engines, and Load Balancers.
- Administrated Fiber SAN based on EMC Symmetrix 3000 Series, Clarion CX600, and Celerra NAS solutions.
- Act as a knowledge base for team of System Administrators, Database Administrators, Network Administrators, and Developers.
- CompuNet Systems, Inc.
Austin, TX
Service Bureau Manager
January 2000 - September 2000
- Administrated Apache, DHCP, DNS, Samba, and Sendmail services running on RedHat Linux.
- Administrated Microsoft Exchange running on Windows NT.
- Administrated VPN using PPTP and L2TP running on Windows 2000 for clients.
- Administrated VPN using IPsec running on Cisco and Compatible Systems dedicated hardware.
- Converted corporate website from static HTML running on Microsoft IIS to template based PHP running on Apache and RedHat Linux.
- Managed Cisco and Nortel based LAN/WAN infrastructure for CompuNet and clients.
- Managed Compaq Proliant, IBM Netfinity, and IBM RS/6000 based servers for CompuNet and clients.
- 1stBuy.com, Inc.
Austin, TX
Network Manager
April 1999 - December 1999
- Led team of developers and administrators in management of the web site content, software development, and database administration.
- Administrated Apache, DHCP, DNS, MySQL, Samba, Sendmail, and SNMP services on RedHat Linux.
- Administrated Cisco based LAN/WAN infrastructure.
- Converted various flavors of Linux servers into consistently configured RedHat Linux servers.
- Converted desktops to standardized hardware and software to reduce costs and increase productivity.
- Developed gift certificate system for existing Perl based web site and shopping cart system.
- Provided guidance to web development group in usability, design, and layout of web sites.
- Implemented a disaster recovery system.
- Implemented network monitoring solution via Perl & SNMP capable of fixing common problems automatically.
- ClearCommerce Corporation
Austin, TX
Unix System Administrator
August 1998 - February 1999
- Administrated Sendmail, Linux Firewall, DHCP, DNS, Samba, WINS, and Apache on RedHat Linux.
- Administrated MySQL, Solid, and iPlanet Enterprise Server on RedHat Linux, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris and Windows NT.
- Administrated Microsoft SQL Server and HP OpenView running on Windows NT.
- Administrated Cisco based LAN/WAN infrastructure. Developed and implemented PHP & MySQL web based applications for IS/IT problem tracking and resolution.
- Business Partner Solutions
San Antonio, TX
Web Developer
June 1996 - August 1998
- Administrated Lotus Notes E-mail, Web, and Application servers running on Windows NT, IBM OS/400, and IBM AIX.
- Administrated Microsoft IIS Web servers running Allaire ColdFusion.
- Administrated Microsoft SQL Server running on Windows NT.
- Administrated Sendmail and BIND DNS running on IBM AIX.
- Developed data exchange applications using Borland C++Builder and Microsoft VisualBasic.
- Developed web based applications using Allaire ColdFusion, Lotus Domino, and iFactory Site Magic Extensions for internal work flow management and sales enablement software.