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Cloud

Demonstrated compentence with the three major Cloud Providers

AWS

years of DevOPS Experience at Apple, Induit, HP, Walmart Labs

Azure

Currently a professional Splunk Engineer at a large secure financial company

Google Cloud Platform

Active in the Kubernetes community and implementing POC at current assignment

Technology

Some of my recent Cloud centric tech

Puppet

Cloud Provisioning

Chef

Cloud Provisioning

Terraform

Cloud Infrastructure Automation

Splunk

Cloud and Infrastructure Monitoring

Microservices

Application Refactoring

Kubernetes

Assure 99.9% services uptime

About

Career in Software Development, Storage, Pre-Sales and recently Devops and Cloud and full stack web

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    University of Pittsburgh B.S.C.S

    Computer Science Degree University of PIttsburgh, Pittsburgh PA

  • 1997-2000 Sony Broadcast Division

    Software Interface engineer

    Particpated in broadcast equipment integration at AskyB in Mesa AZ a Rupert Murdock property. Interfaced Sony Broadcast equipment to station standards. Various programming roles in C, C++ and scripting languages

  • 2000 - 2001 HP

    Device Drivers HPUX Enginer

    Maintain SCSI Device Drivers in HPUX c720 driver. Managed BIOS IODC transition

  • 2001 - 2002

    Big Sur Communications iSCSI Startup

    Wrote Fibre Channel foundation code for translation to iSCSI on ASIC by Electircal Engineers

  • 2002 - 2002 Fujitsu 

    Storage Engineer

    Managed GR Series Array Problem resolution between Sunnyvale office and Japan

  • 2003 - 2004 Texas Dept. of Health and Human Services

    Storage SAN engineer

    Upgrade all HP FC switches. Stress test SAN for storage loading and performance. Certify SAN for production usage.

  • 2004 - 2007 Sun Microsystems

    Midrange Storage Sales Engineer

    Performance Testing in Sun Microsystems Lab Newark CA. Travel to customer sites with sales team to deliver presentaitons. Solve difficult customer problems world wide. Liason between LSI OEM and Sun Product teams.

  • 2007 - 2008 i365 data protection company

    iSCSI systems array engineer

    Built CAPD 4 PB array from iSCSI chassis and Sun Microsystems ZFS servers creating a large CIFS filer with SAMBA

  • 2008 - 2009 Lawrence Livermore National Labs

    National Ignition Facility

    Technology support and monitoring of NIF infrastructure using Splunk. Extensive storag management of 3Par iSCSI and Netapp. Break / fix Dell Lab servers.

  • 2009 - 2010 Citrix Online Santa Barbara

    Storage Engineer

    Refresh of Citrix SAN involving installation of Brocade director and retirment of all edge SAN switches. Storage Provisioning and Storage Reports as requeste on Hitachi USP/V arrays

  • 2010 - 2010 T-Mobile Factoria WA

    Storage Administrator

    Support of Oracle RAC on EMC Symmetrix arrays. Database Deadlock detection. Storage performance and multipath remediation.

  • 2010 - 2011 ATT Redmond WA

    Web Performance Engineer

    Use Jmeter to test ATT address book performance using various load testing scenarios

  • 2011 - 2011

    Stanford Health - EMC Avamar Engineer

    Worked for Accenture for consolidation of 7 Stanford Health Data Centers into two COLO datacenters. Responsible for bringing up complete Avamar backup disaster recovery on all 1,200 servers.

  • 2011 - 2011 St Joseph's Health Orange CA

    Storage RFP 

    Assisting in Evaluation of consolidation of St Joseph's Health Data Centers storage requrements with popular storage vendors of 2011 including Hitachi and EMC

  • 2011 - 2012 Dell Computers Seattle WA

    Dell Storage Presales engineer

    Wrote RFP's for storage sizing and recommentations. in support of ongoing sales engagemenets.

  • 2012 - 2012 Netapp Boulder CO

    Lab Storage prototyping and performance testing

    Set up new SAN lab environment. Ran storage performance tests using fio and vdbench to determine storage performace on different configurations. Graphed all configs for management. Wrote Perl automated testig harness with output to GNU Plot

  • 2012 - 2014

    Websense - software and build environment

    Modified DLP code for new feature enhancements. Reverse engineered Docker based build server. Wrote automated build scripts to build and test entire DLP product and deploy to Q/A testing.

  • 2014 - 2015 Intuit San Diego

    Splunk Engineer Monitoring

    Assisted in rendering Splunk Deployment to Production state. Wrote alerts for F5 switch malfunctions and networking errors. Monitored Vmware compute infrastructure.

  • 2015 - 2016 Armada Group at Apple Computer

    Break / Fix for Apple Maps

    Monitoring Apple Maps infrastrusture.. New server builds. Patching and hardening existing servers. Network outage remediation. Storage provisioning.

  • 2016 US-Tech-solutions at Walmart Labs

    Infrastructure build out

    Tasked with onboarding new HP servers. Wrote Ansible scripts to automate BIOS and netowrking configuration to match configs from networking team. Puppet agents installed and servers provisioned.

  • 2016 - 2017 Codesmart at Expeditors Seattle WA

    DevOPS Chef Engineer

    Onboard legacy applications - Tomcat and JVM based into Jenkins based CI/CD build and deployment systems to support Customs and logistics.

  • 2017 Radients at SAP Success Factors San Francisco CA

    Splunk engineer Dynatrace

    Wrote Python code to download Dynatrace SAP Success factore website performance metrics into Splunk. Wrote Splunk custom app to display Dynatrace performance metrics in stacked graph which looked liked stacked graphs in Excel

  • 2017 Prokarma at Veritas EV Cloud

    DevOPS Puppet Engineer

    Transition EV Cloud from physical servers to AWS using Terraform and Puppet. Wrote custom code to transition legacy Symantic DLP security software

  • 2017 - 2018 Ryzen at Apple Computer Apps team

    Chef Engineer security hardening

    Modified Chef scripts to harden Linux and MacOS servers per Apple requirements usng YubiKeys. Audit security on Apple Pods and Kubernetes systems.

  • 2018 - 2019 Apex @Amica Insurance, Lincoln RI

    DevOPS Splunk Automation Engineer

    Splunk Support for custom reports and Dashboards. AUTOMATION: Python Daemon to accept webhooks from Splunk creating Remedy Incidents and  kicking off uDeploy jobs to correct issue then close Remedy ticket as resolved.

  • 2020 - 8/2023 Experis @remote

    CI/CD Automation Engineer

    Produced front end and back end Python / Flask driven CI/CD VM creation app. VM's delivered in 15 minutes with working IP address  Produced Python security code BASH to Ansible Playbooks. Improved internal VMware VM delivery from 30 days to 10 days through automation.  2nd assignment: IAM provisioning. 3rd assignment: Flask app verification and release. 4th Assignment: Security patching on world wide VM's owned by Kyndryl and customers.

  • 2019

Jeffrey Fall 

Cloud / Devops

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