Marion A. Tagoe

11060  East Abilene Ave

Mesa, AZ 85208

Cell: 631-944-2477

Email: niiayiteybuffalo@gmail.com

 

summary:

 

Marion Tagoe is a technical consultant with TEXAS LAW SHIELD, currently filling an Aws cloud engineer role. Marion Tagoe has three years professional experience in the Information Technology industry. Marion Tagoe has experience in providing operations and maintenance support for AWS cloud resources such as launching, maintaining, and troubleshooting EC2 instances, S3 buckets, Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), Relational Database Services (RDS), Backups, OpenSource application installation, knowledge of Ansible, configuration, maintenance and monitoring using Nagios and CloudWatch.  Marion is a team player, self-motivating, reliable, quick at grasping new concepts and has a high work ethic.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

TEXAS LAW SHIELD, TX                                                                           Feb’ 2016 – Present

Role: AWS Cloud Engineer –Remote

Responsibilities:

 

·  Design AWS infrastructure for migration from Rackspace

·  Provide system administration support for instances hosted in AWS Commercial cloud

·  Provision centos EC2 instances using private AMIs and baselines

·  Perform LAMP installation and configuration on centos instances

·  Create Route 53 DNS entry for domain name resolution

·  Create and manage s3 buckets

·  Configure Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with both public and private subnets, NAT instances, and Elastic Load Balancers

·  Create AMI’s and volume snapshots

·  Maintains the integrity and security of servers and systems, by creating and managing security groups and network ACLs to ensure controlled access to instances and subnets respectively

·  Scale up instances per customer request by changing instance type

·  Implement Autoscaling for scaling out to ensure availability and scalability of customer websites and applications

·  Decommission websites and instances per customer request

·  Create, configure and ensure connection to RDS database running on Mysql engines

·  Install and configure WordPress on centos EC2 instances

·  Perform Patching of centos instances within a maintenance window using Ansible

·  Troubleshoot various customer technical problems and adhere to best practices

ACETHIA SYSTEMS, MD          Nov’ 2013 – Feb’ 2016

Client: Virginia Commonwealth University, VA

Role: Cloud System Administrator  -Remote

Responsibilities:

 

·        Provide system administration support for over 175 instances hosted in AWS Commercial cloud

·        Provision Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, Redhat and Windows EC2 instances using private AMIs and baselines

·        Perform LAMP installation and configuration on Ubuntu and Amazon Linux instances.

·        Create Route 53 DNS entry for domain name resolution

·        Create and manage s3 buckets

·        Configure Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) with both public and private subnets, NAT instances, and Elastic Load Balancers

·        Implement VPC peering to ensure communication between instances in separate VPCs

·        Detach and attach volumes on EC2 instances

·        Create AMI’s and volume snapshots

·        Maintains the integrity and security of servers and systems, by creating and managing security groups and network ACLs to ensure controlled access to instances and subnets respectively

·        Responsible for allocating, releasing, associating, and disassociating elastic IP addresses

·        Scale up instances per customer request by changing instance type

·        Implement Autoscaling for scaling out to ensure availability and scalability of customer websites and applications

·        Decommission websites and instances per customer request

·        Create, configure and ensure connection to RDS database running on Oracle and Mysql engines

·        Perform occasional Oracle and Mysql data dumps upon customer request

·        Install and configure Drupal and WordPress on both Amazon Linux and Ubuntu EC2 instances

·        Perform Patching of Linux and windows instances within a maintenance window using Ansible and occasionally perform security updates to remediate system vulnerabilities

·  Utilize Ansible Tower for scheduling playbook executions

·        Configure websites and Production instances for monitoring using Nagios and CloudWatch

·  Troubleshoot various customer technical problems and adhere to best practices

                                                                                                                                                              OCE, Inc

Feb’ 2012- Nov’ 2013 Role: Digital Service Technician

 

Responsibilities:

·  Identified and Installed security patches on windows desktops and servers

·        Performed data backup and restoration upgrades

·        Worked with vendors to create tickets and coordinate service restoration

 

 

BOLTOS Solutions           Nov’ 2010 – Dec’ 2011             

 

•Took classes in Linux, MySQL Database and AWS Cloud Solutions.

 

 

 

Korle Bu Teaching HospitalSept’ 2008 – May’ 2010                                                                                                                                                                       

Role: Registered Nurse

Responsibilities:

·        Carried out the requisite treatments and medications

·        Maintained reports of patients’ medical histories, and monitored changes in their condition

·        Maintained hygienic and safe working environment in compliance with the healthcare procedures

 

 

EDUCATION / CITIZENSHIP / SECURITY CLEARANCE

 

ü      BA, Nursing/Psychology

University Of Ghana

 

 

CITIZENSHIP:

U.S Citizen

 

SECURITY CLEARANCE:

None

 

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

 

Hardware	Dell PowerEdge Servers, VMWare,
Cloud	AWS (EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, VPC, RDS, Route53, Cloudwatch)
Networking	DNS, TCP/IP,  Route53
Software	Apache, MySQL, Nginx, Ansible, LAMP, JIRA, Confluence, Remedy
Operating System	Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Red Hat Linux, Windows XP/2007
Scripting Language	Bash
Automation	Ansible
Monitoring Tools	CloudWatch, Nagios
CMS	Drupal, Wordpress

 

§   References:  Available Upon Request

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