Brady Philip Smith, CSM

3008 Byberry Rd

Philadelphia, PA 19154

(215) 651-5458 (Cell)

Brady@Smithmind.com

 

Summary

·               Certified Scrum Master

·               AWS Certified Solutions Architect

·               Application Architecture

·   Designed and built enterprise grade systems in financial services and communications

·   Systems designed to handle thousands of concurrent users on N-tier systems, with a focus on JEE.

·               Infrastructure Architecture

·   Designed large-scale systems using NetAPP storage, Cisco UCS and F5. Design of VDI systems using the Citrix Platform (7.x) using a multi-tier Xenapp/Xendesktop architecture implemented with Netscalers

·               Process improvement

·   Work with various teams and individuals in order to facilitate smooth deployments and day-to-day operations of the application environment, supporting a user base of all sales force for Comcast

·   Routinely operationalized new processes to minimize downtime and maximize performance.

 

Technical Skills

Languages: XML, HTML, SGML, Ruby, Python, Shell Scripting

Applications: Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp, Maas360, RES Software, F5 – Big IP, Apache, IIS, Tomcat, WebLogic, SQL – MS SQL Server and MySQL, MS Visual Source Safe, Bugzilla, Adobe Photoshop, Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor and Builder

Operating Systems: UNIX, FreeBSD, Windows Server 2k3 2k8 and 2k12, Mac OS X,
Linux (various distributions)

AWS Platforms: EC2, Workspaces, RDS, Cloud front, Route 53, Direct Connect, VPC, IAM, Cloud Trail, ELB, Cloud Formation, Auto Scaling, Zocalo, Cloudwatch, boto.

 

Professional Experience

AWS Architect, The Judge Group / E-Primary, April 2015 - Present

-          Architecture and Implementation of various services at AWS for multiple clients

-          Requirements definition structuring for platform requirements

-          Architecture documentation of proposed solutions for client review

-          Standards definition for server sizing and tagging for compartmentalized chargeback to various business units

-          Implementation of change process for request of new resources in AWS footprint

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Infrastructure Architect, ditech Mortgage, Fort Washington, PA, December 2012 – April 2015

-          Migrated 180 applications from 63 different combinations of hardware and OS to Cisco UCS platform

o    Migration from EMC to NetAPP while maintaining 99.9% availability

-          Architected mobility solution for MDM to secure corporate data on mobile devices for enterprise

o    Utilized XenMobile and Maas360

-          Implement logging analytics solution using Splunk Enterprise and Loggly for applications and infrastructure

-          Implemented Ubuntu for enterprise wide thin client laptop deployment to access Citrix while moving away from Windows XP

-          Implemented Puppet to deploy and manage configuration of thin client infrastructure

-          Voting member of the Architecture Review Board for all infrastructure and application architecture changes.

-          Participated in CancerUK hackathon and utilized numerous technologies in the AWS stack to stand up production site in under 18 hours

-          Advocated for cloud conversion by building awareness within the organization including a comprehensive education and training campaign working with key stakeholders to evolve the concept of the cloud within the organization.

-          Migrated critical applications to the Amazon Workspaces product to facilitate rapid onboarding and disaster recovery

-          Architected RES Software implementation in order to stabilize application performance issues within the Citrix

 

Operations Architect, Comcast, Philadelphia, PA, September 2010 – December 2012

-          Design application operations and network architecture for commercial services applications encompassing:

o    order management

o    survey

o    location services

-          Help to define operational standards across the organization

-          Collaborate with various teams and vendors in gathering and creating overall ecosystem requirements

-          Enhanced operational processes to optimize application stability

-          Architect in house commercial application environment in order to improve process / performance

-          Manage the implementation of automated monitoring solutions and problem detection/resolution methodologies

 

Systems Engineer II, GMAC/Rescap, Fort Washington, PA, September 2006 – September 2010

-          Maintain and optimize web servers to ensure maximum uptime. Participated in architectural review process

-          Configure and maintain multiple web servers – Windows 2000/2003, HP-UX, Solaris, RedHat

-          Became team SME on several key applications including:

o    ServiceEngine

o    Tridion CMS

o    eVault.

-          Developed operational efficiencies on applications to reduce training time and lower support fatigue

-          Participate and provide leadership in architectural reviews for incoming application design

-          Performed all aspects of n-tier application delivery including middleware, dns, load balancer, storage, database

-          Setup monitoring and performance analysis solutions with SiteScope and OpenView.

-          Participated in datacenter migrations to support consolidation and acquisition

-          Virtualized and consolidated applications.

 

Dedicated Server Engineer, LNH Inc, Newark, DE, October 2005 – August 2006

-          Monitored various web servers and sites to ensure uptime

-          Configured servers for use as web / application servers

-          Installed various applications, including but not limited to ColdFusion, MySQL, SQL Server 2000 & 2005

-          Interacted with and troubleshot several various dynamic web languages

-          Troubleshot application maintenance for Windows Server 2000, 2003, RedHat and Debian

-          Coded and maintained SQL queries to optimize performance of web applications

-          Apache and IIS configuration for new web sites.

 

 

Education

DeVry University, Fort Washington, PA

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Business Information Systems, August 2008