Resume of
Jason Rothstein

Certifications:

• RedHat Certified Engineer, RedHat Linux 7.1, August 2001
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations 2020 Certified Associate, March 2020
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Cloud Operations Certified Associate, February 2020
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Associate, February 2020

Skills:

Professional Experience:

• Oracle Corporation
  Austin, TX
  Senior Principal IT Consultant
  2015 - Current
  
  • As part of Engineering Community, helped to drive change by sponsoring 11 major architecture changes and reviewed 20 proposed architecture changes.
    • Assisted Service Test and Logging teams to support all OCI services (increase of approximately 180 services) through the entire region build process.
    • To prevent a customer loss, created an architecture that would meet the requirements of 99.99% availability, 15 minute Return To Operations, and 0 minute Recovery Point Objectives. Architecture include updated HA and DR plans with blue/green deployment capabilities and automation. Key feature is inclusion of Global Traffic Manager over Private OCI LoadBalance service with mTLS and multiple private TLS CA verification possible.
  • Provide operational support and reporting for region build lab environments to improve speed, reliability, and correctness of OCI Region Build process.
  • Discovered and promoted previously existing but not well known best practices to ensure all teams are able to validate their services are working during the region build process as well as in production. This proposal received executive endorsement and became part of an improve program for all OCI service teams. Incremental improvements are ongoing.
  • Designed with team multiple blueprints for operating a managed service provider and their customers on a cloud. Includes the ability to handle multiple regulatory environments, and is now patent pending. Work included automation via Ansible and has scaled to handle over 200 OCI Tenancy with various IaaS, and PaaS components in over 18 regions around the world.
  • Contributed projects to Oracle Quickstart on GitHub to demonstrate OCI Resource Manager One Click deployments for
    • Multiple VCN Deployments
    • Ansible AWX via Docker which includes references from OCI SDK Documentation for Ansible Collection and in collaboration with the Oracle Blog post Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Ansible Tower and AWX.
    • Deployment of a few different GIT Forge environments via Docker such as GitLab CE, Gitea, and GOGS.
• Oracle Corporation
  December 2005 - 2015
  
  • Processes consumed by or effecting the majority of Oracle Managed Cloud Services
    • Common modular architecture with bash/perl/expect based automation for deployment.
    • Data center utilization and hardware refresh process to enable efficient space and power utilization.
  • Process consumed by or effecting a small number of teams in Oracle Managed Cloud Services
    • Development of standards for deploying PeopleSoft and rapid application cloning of these instances to create reporting and like production development instances.
    • Data ingress and egress process with near zero downtime and hardware validation for data transfers to enable reliable data transfer via NAS, USB, or Internet connected devices.
• TEKsystems
  Austin, TX
  UNIX System Administrator
  July 2005 - December 2005
  Assignment, Oracle Corporation
  
  • Worked with a team to manage hardware, operating systems, and storage for internal and external customers in managed service provider context.
• Clear Channel Worldwide
  San Antonio, TX
  Senior System Engineer
  November 2000 - May 2005
  
  • Led team with management of PeopleSoft CRM, Portal, HRMS/HCM, and Financials/SCM modules. Included initial deployment repurposing existing HPUX equipment, transforming data to, and usage of Oracle Database. Later converted to Microsoft Windows and Microsoft SQL Server to enable all IT staff to assist in support.
  • Led team of developers with creation and maintenance of PHP content management system used at peak for over 1200 radio, 30 television, and 4000 mark specific non-traditional revenue websites.
• CompuNet Systems, Inc.
  Austin, TX
  Service Bureau Manager
  January 2000 - September 2000
  
  • Managed customer services and Cisco/Nortel networks in ISV/Consultant context.
• 1stBuy.com, Inc.
  Austin, TX
  Network Manager
  April 1999 - December 1999
  
  • Led team of developers in management of Perl/MySQL based e-commerce engine with major contribution being the design and implementation of electronic gift card system.
• ClearCommerce Corporation
  Austin, TX
  Unix System Administrator
  August 1998 - February 1999
  • Supported credit card processing gateways and part of on call rotation.
• Business Partner Solutions
  San Antonio, TX
  Web Developer
  June 1996 - August 1998
  
  • Wrote web applications to automate business processes in C, ColdFusion, and Lotus Notes in a managed service provider and ISV context.