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AdobeSolutions Architect
Nov. 2017Lehi, UtahResponsibilities include:
Network and datacenter automation
Management of devices via SaltStack
OpenStack architecture and vision
Conversion of current OpenStack to enterprise ready, upgradeable and featureful
Kubernetes vision and architecture
Key launch team member of Adobe communities
Cloud spend analysis and remediation
MirantisPrincipal Cloud Architect
Apr. 2014 - Sep. 2017Greater Salt Lake City AreaPrincipal Architect responsible for design and meeting customer requirements on most of our largest accounts. Responsibilities include:
*Full solution design and documentation
*Participation in regular governance activities
*Manage direct and indirect reports in project execution context as well as internal efforts
*Strategic planning and roadmap definition Summary of Activities/Accomplishments:
*Helped define and execute an Enterprise Architecture Design practice resulting in direct revenue of seven-figures yearly. Served as the principal technical architect on this team.
*Scoped and designed OpenStack Cloud solutions at large financials, telcos and other services providers including: AT&T, Saudi Telecom Company, Reliance Industries, computer hardware and HPC vendors and a few large financials.
*Leader in forming an architecture team which performed the design, scoping and governance activities listed above.
*Manage many direct and indirect reports, ~15 direct reports.
*Designed and led the team that implemented AT&T's AIC underlay provisioning software. This software took their cloud installation times from ~8 weeks, to just under 3 days. 70+ Sites were deployed in 2015 with this software.
*Designed and led the team that performed major site upgrades on large AT&T AIC clouds serving their core Mobility customers.
Bluehost.comSenior Systems Architect
Oct. 2008 - Apr. 2014My main responsibilities are making sure that our systems are responsive and available at all times. I also manage a team of system administrators and act as a mentor for other technicians in support and development. My main activities are: Infrastructure design and requirements, systems design, system integration, POC build outs and testing, trending resource consumption, monitoring, security, SELinux policies for secure hosts, DDoS control and mitigation, optimization (lots of this), maintaining custom patches and features, PowerDNS and Bind clusters, email services and supporting hardware, MySQL clusters, redundancy, disaster recovery, hardware and software upgrades. Project lead and lead architect on a large OpenStack deployment (~20,000 physical nodes).
Overcame scaling and other operational problems
Defined and implemented workflow for continual integration and delivery model
Performed valuable community outreach
Several commits to upstream project
Designed and assisted in implementation of integration of OpenStack and in-house systems
LDS ChurchAssociate Senior Engineer
May. 2006 - Oct. 2008I supported production and development environments composed of AIX, Windows and Suse Enterprise Linux systems. There were approximately five thousand nodes that composed various environments. I also supported a large range of network equipment from Foundry, Juniper and Cisco. I acted as a team lead for the operations group. Our combined production systems brought in around 5 million active users at the time. (new.familysearch.org, www.familysearch.org, familysearchindexing.org, search.labs.familysearch.org) At the time we had around 4 petabytes of data that was going through the publishing process or was already available for public consumption. All these systems were located at three different data centers: a primary production site in Ashburn, Virginia, a secondary production site in South Jordan, Utah and a development site in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Agile StudiosSystems Engineer
Jan. 2005 - Mar. 2006Worked as a JAVA developer on a reservation system for adventure companies(www.resmarksystems.com). Also worked as a web developer and system administrator on an as needed basis. Later I was integrated with sales and worked as a sales engineer.
BYU CS DepartmentSystems Administrator
Sep. 2003 - Jan. 2005I ran all of the Computer Science department's lab computers with a few other students. We supported Windows and Redhat Linux on around two hundred nodes. I was specifically responsible for network and server security, an accounting system for printer usage, content filtering, traffic inspection, backups, many tools and lots of automation including provisioning of new systems.
Net-bizz.comNetwork/Systems Administrator/Programmer
Jan. 2000 - Jun. 2008Started as a PERL programmer in the early days of the dot com boom. With two other developers wrote code for online internet store creation software. Original code was written in PERL, a later version written in PHP. As the company expanded more of my time was spent maintaining desktop computers, networking and servers that supported operations. As growth slowed and operations consolidated my responsibilities became inclusive of almost every aspect of the business.
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