years of DevOPS Experience at Apple, Induit, HP, Walmart Labs
Currently a professional Splunk Engineer at a large secure financial company
Active in the Kubernetes community and implementing POC at current assignment
Computer Science Degree University of PIttsburgh, Pittsburgh PA

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

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





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

Managed GR Series Array Problem resolution between Sunnyvale office and Japan

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Assisting in Evaluation of consolidation of St Joseph's Health Data Centers storage requrements with popular storage vendors of 2011 including Hitachi and EMC
Wrote RFP's for storage sizing and recommentations. in support of ongoing sales engagemenets.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.
Cloud / Devops