Productivity:Microsoft Office/Visio, Adobe Photoshop/Flash/Flex

SAN:Dell EqualLogic, OpenFiler

Cloud Platforms:Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure

SEIM:SolarWinds Log and Event Manager

Monitoring: SolarWinds Orion, Nagios, Splunk CloudWatch, SpiceWorks, OpenVas

Continuous Integration:Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Online, CruiseControl

Version Control:TFS/TFVC, Git, SVN, CVS

Infrastructure Management:MS SCVMM, MS SCCM

Telephony:Asterisk, Cisco and Snom

Virtualization:Hyper-V, VMWare, Citrix XenServer

Professional Experience:

Media Adventures LLC (Previously Global Marketing Resources Inc), Dunedin, FL2010 – Present

Solutions and Infrastructure Architect

·   Architected, Designed and Built the AWS based infrastructure for the StarChat platform.  Connecting two Virtual Private Clouds via redundant VPN tunnels using OpenSWAN which reroute traffic through available paths in the event of failure.  Currently implemented in Virginia and Oregon.

·   Deployed multiple MySQL instances in VPCs connecting them together for regional NDB clusters in local availability zones that also replicate cross region through VPN tunnels.

·   Web traffic for StarChat platform and WebAPI is distributed across multiple instances using ELB, and across multiple regions using Route 53.  Health checks are utilized to prevent traffic from routing to systems experiencing issues.

·   Designed a process that deploys new web server instances when a new build of the application is ready, new instances fetch the application from S3 and add themselves to ELB while removing members containing prior builds allowing for a phased deployment.  This process also monitors CloudWatch by polling the API and will spin up new instances to handle increased load or spin down instances for below average load.

·   Co-Architected and implemented a telephony control system on top of Asterisk to allow our dating website users to make phone calls to other site users without sharing phone numbers.

·   Architected and constructed a 16 server Postfix farm to handle notifications, advertising and business email processes for our international dating sites.  Masking a Microsoft Exchange Cluster core behind multiple Postfix Servers delivered over multiple public subnets to separate each site and company.

·   Streamlined the build and deployment process leveraging custom build work flows in TFS 2012 that reduced actualization time from 2 hours to 4 minutes.

·   Developed numerous Bash and Powershell scripts along with utility applications written in C# to automate backup and disaster recovery of critical systems.  Nightly backups to S3 buckets with periodic archiving to Glacier for long term storage.  

·   Responsible for ensuring secure coding practices and PCI Compliance for all ECommerce web applications.

·   Serve as Product Owner and Architect for StarChat Mobile, managing in-house and remote development teams creating native iOS and Android applications for the StarChat platform.

·   Orchestrated and participate in a 24/7/365 Monitoring and Operations schedule to ensure the maximum possible uptime.  Monitoring of internal services and servers using SolarWinds and Splunk with notifications sent via Twilio.  AWS monitoring using CloudWatch with notifications sent through SNS and SES.

·   Serve as a conduit between other C-Level Executives, VPs and Managers to and from the Software and Networking teams.  Delivering the needs and concerns of both in a language each would understand.

·   Converted corporate email infrastructure from single IceWarp to redundant Microsoft Exchange 2010 infrastructure.  Migrated to Exchange 2013 in 2014, moved into hybrid configuration with Exchange Online in 2015.

·   Created testing environments to assist with Development and QA inside of Microsoft Azure.

·   Manage, Guide and Mentor Software and Network Engineering teams to increase their productivity and work quality.

·   Architected a restructuring of the network and server infrastructure increasing the uptime to 99.94%, this was instrumental in increasing sales by $2.7M from $14.4M in 2010 to $17.2M in 2011.

·   Control a $1M annual resource budget, with responsibility for over $3M hardware and software assets.

·   Performed project management over multiple new business ventures being executed by outsourced development group.

·   Spearheaded migrating 3 Software Development projects in various stages of maturity from Waterfall to Agile.  Focusing on delivering production ready software every sprint, decreasing time to market.

·   Reduced licensing costs by $240K by consolidating load across underutilized systems and migrating similar processes to Linux from Windows based machines.

·   Reduced operational overhead by $150K annually through renegotiating longstanding contracts and relocating outsourced services in-house.

Global Marketing Resources Inc

Senior .Net Developer2007 - 2010

§     Architected a geosynchronous database cluster infrastructure running on multiple Microsoft SQL 2005/2008 nodes.  This removed the requirement of investing in a proposed Oracle based database infrastructure, estimated at $350K in cost, to accomplish a multi-write database environment.

§     Designed and implemented a clustered Video Encoding Service that used FFMpeg at its core to accept multiple input formats and output videos encoded with h264 in multiple bandwidths.  Reducing storage requirements while still providing exceptional quality.

§     Mentored 4 junior .Net Developers and 2 Flash Developers growing their skills and increasing their production quality.

§     Migrated several Microsoft SQL Server backed applications to MySQL, reducing the companies licensing requirements.

In.vision, Saint Petersburg, FL2007

Developer

·   Created a plugin for Visual Studio 2005 using C# that generated and localized resource files for all supported languages.  This plugin reduced the cost of 3^rd party translation services by 18% by automatically retrieving common terms from a WebAPI service.

·   Overhauled the software build processes by automating custom builds based on customer provided criteria using WiX, a previously manual operation this saved over 40 developer man hours a month.

CourseMax (formerly Intelligix), Saint Petersburg, FL/Herndon, VA 2005 -2007

Senior Developer

·   Co-Architected and Developed CourseMax, a Technical Training Scheduling system that was marketed to certification trainers and large corporations with in-house training courses.

·   Integrated CourseMax into Microsoft CRM (Now known as Microsoft Dynamics) using SQL Service Broker to synchronize data.

·   While working at CourseMax mentored two junior developers.  

Intelligix, Saint Petersburg, FL / Herndon, VA 2004

Developer

·   Developed a web application in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine.

Benjamin Biomedical, Saint Petersburg, FL 1999 - 2007

Software Engineer and Systems Administrator

·   Architected, Developed and Maintained Big Ben, an application that tracks all aspects of day-to-day business.  Inventory Tracking, Shipping and Receiving, Profit and Loss, and Production Parts Management.

Education:

Associates of Science Degree, Computer Networking Systems Technology, 2001, Cum Laude, ITT – Tampa, Florida