SUMMARY:

•  Results - oriented professional with exceptional technical acumen and proven ability to lead high-caliber teams from multiple technology disciplines.
• Manage and lead DevOps while driving continuous improvements to optimize quality and performance.
• Formulate strategy and develop execution plan to manage a fast-paced release cycle and best practices.
• Identify and implement continuous improvements and innovation through adoption of cutting-edge technologies. Increase performance and productivity through on-going automation.
• Develop and deploy new code and functionality for physical and virtual hosting center environments serving nationwide clients.
• Implement and introduce reliable security, monitoring, threat management, data leakage prevention and recovery strategies to enable proactive performance optimization and prevent outages.
• Extensive experience with Windows and Linux hosting deployments.
• Adept in responding to and resolving escalated issues, performing end-to-end troubleshooting, diagnosis, and repair. Self-motivated to learn independently to facilitate career advancement and professional growth, specifically focused on Web development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS & RDBMS: Windows Server, Cisco IOS, Linux CentOS, Mac OS X, MS SQL Server, MySQL

Virtualization: VMWare, Parallels, Virtual Box, Xen, KVM, Proxmox

Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Python, T-SQL, PHP, Drupal

Security: RSA, LogRhythm, ForcePoint, Imperva WAF, SEPM, IBM AppScan DAST and SAST

Web/App Servers: IIS, Apache, MS Office 365, MS Visio, Nagios, SSL, Synology, Git, Mercurial, Jenkins, F5 Big-IP and Kemp, F5 3DNS, OmniGraffle, AWS, WatchGuard

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Syosset, NY

DevOps Leader / Network Engineer

• Engineer, configure, implement, administer, and manage networks, internal systems, web applications, and hardware for three physical hosting centers and AWS Cloud deployment supporting digital advertising clients; deliver 24/7 on-call support. Manage DevOps functions in fast-paced Agile environment.
• Deploy code changes, supporting developers, write automation scripts in Puppet and Jenkins, launch sites, and manage distributed version control with Mercurial and Git. Deploy LAMP environment sites developed using Drupal CMS, Symfony framework, and MySQL databases; deploy Windows 2008/2012 Server environment sites developed in PHP, C#.NET, ColdFusion, and MS SQL Server.
• Perform a range of hands-on tasks, including deploying, managing, monitoring, and optimizing LAMP and Windows Server environments; administer 150+ physical and virtual servers, databases, host DNS for 300+ domain zones, load balancers, firewalls (Netscreen and Watchguard), tape libraries, NAS, security appliances (Imperva SecureSphere WAF/ForcePoint DLP), printers and network hardware/equipment. Configure and maintain AD forest. Prepare technical documentation, diagrams, and knowledge base content in Atlassian Confluence. Develop websites in Drupal 8 CMS, extending functionality with custom HTML, JavaScript, PHP and SQL. Key Accomplishments:
• Currently developing Drupal site for pet/home sitting business, using MySQL database in LAMP environment. Writing custom PHP module in Symfony 3.1 for payment processing. Wrote custom SQL code to implement triggers in MySQL.
• Steered implementation of best-practice infrastructure performance monitoring/analysis, alerting, data leakage prevention, and syslogging processes with application security scanning/analysis, redundancy, and secure VPN.
• Led major undertaking to build High Availability (HA), redundant hosting center from the ground up, including security framework, tape/NAS backup service, Disaster Recovery (DR) plan, VLAN segregation, and monitoring procedures.
• Drove PCI compliance, leveraging BSIMM model and ISO best standards to improve software security and pass external audits for Chase.
• Managed and delivered multiple upgrades, implemented cutting-edge solutions aligned with business needs. Installed and configured routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers. Manage corporate email servers.
• Worked collaboratively to consolidate and virtualize two physical hosting centers with zero downtime.
• Upgraded of SecureSphere Imperva WAF system, implementation of full passive redundancy and alert/hacking attempt analysis processes; used VMware to virtualize Imperva WAF.
• Leveraged technical expertise to maintain 99.9%+ uptime rate for 100+ sites, seamlessly launching 30+ sites annually.
• Build Jenkins for continuous integration. Wrote Jenkins scripts for LAMP, .NET and ColdFusion Applications.
• Administered Puppet, build and deploy manifests for website deployment on CentOS Linux. Managed Mac workstations with Puppet.
• Deploy multi-tier web application on AWS Cloud

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Software Engineer

• Led on-site and remote deployment of .NET Framework application with IIS configuration, Crystal Reports engine, and Microsoft Great Planes integration.
• Skillfully employed complex queries to join and retrieve data from database for troubleshooting client issues.

Confidential, New York, NY

Technical Support Manager/Sr. Software Engineer

• Planned, configured, and implemented hardware and software for roughly 50 new systems per year.
• Optimized system performance, leveraging onsite / remote techniques, and resolved client data loss issues.
• Spearheaded analysis of production studio requirements to inform future software product improvements and enhancements; developed new reporting capabilities for major television production studio clients.
• Selected to provide final approval for quality assurance (QA) testing phase of new client-server system (Visual Max, Telemax, Java) in advance of new software release.