Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr · West Orange, New Jersey, United States · Remote

• Rebuilt an SRE organization after near-complete team turnover. Onboarded six new engineers, developed best practices documentation, mentored team members.
• Rewrote CI/CD automation (Concourse), introduced coding standards, templating, and proper testing
• Extended legacy infrastructure to support several major new product releases under extreme time pressure
• Ruby, Python, AWS, Concourse CI

Apr 2018 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Greater New York City Area · Hybrid

• Founding member of a consulting firm specializing in legacy infrastructure remediation and migration to modern platforms. Lead engineer at a major financial services client.
• Automated day-to-day operations of a global IBM MQ messaging infrastructure, replacing manual procedures
• Migrated monitoring from ITCAM to MQGem, reducing costs 10x while improving coverage
• Consolidated core messaging services onto MQ Appliance hardware, reducing overhead and legacy AIX dependencies
• Python, Perl, IBM MQ

Nov 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · New York, NY · Hybrid

• Lead architect for LIFT, a Docker container deployment and management framework replacing NAS-based application architecture. Modernized VMware orchestration tooling.
• Redesigned the core engine for proprietary VM lifecycle orchestration software
• Introduced automated testing and deployment across multiple infrastructure codebases
• Python, Perl, Docker, VMware

Sep 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · New York, NY · Hybrid

• UNIX Engineering and CTO Office. Piloted EFS as a replacement for VMS, prototyped modern reimplementation of VMS database. Contributed to next-generation distributed systems architecture standards.

Oct 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · New York, NY · Hybrid

• Hired to create a new engineering team introducing DevOps automation of core infrastructure and a more dynamic, cloud-like internal systems architecture.

Jul 2011 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · New York, NY · Hybrid

• Development and engineering lead for a Global Namespace implementation based on OpenEFS. Ported efsdeploy to Solaris/SPARC and AIX/PPC. Built cpan2efs for fully automated CPAN dependency deployment across multiple platforms.

Feb 2011 – May 2011 · 3 mos · On-site

• Designed a new Linux-based distributed computing environment for a firm with an entirely Windows-based infrastructure.

Dec 2008 – Feb 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hybrid

• Principal architect and developer of OpenEFS (openefs.org), an open-source implementation of EFSv3. Extended the Merrill Lynch EFS deployment to support Bank of America's cross-domain environment.

Oct 2005 – Dec 2008 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hybrid

• Designed and developed EFS (Enterprise File System), deployed globally across 20+ sites in 10 countries for mission-critical trading infrastructure. Founded a new team for application deployment and lifecycle management.
• Created NetApp.pm (CPAN) — OO API for NetApp filer administration, foundation for EFS v2
• Perl, NetApp, NFS

Jan 1992 – Jan 2005 · 13 yrs · Hybrid

• 13 years spanning UNIX Engineering and Application Infrastructure. Lead architect of the Aurora UNIX systems management infrastructure.
• Implemented the world's largest, most mission-critical deployment of AFS; developed VMS, the management software for AFS
• Built one of the most highly scaled and automated MQSeries infrastructures ever deployed
• Created MQSeries.pm (CPAN) — Perl API for IBM MQ, became the de facto community standard
• Perl, AFS, IBM MQ, Solaris, AIX, Linux

Aug 1988 – May 1992 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Four years in Osaka, Japan. Transitioned from researcher to network/systems administrator. Redesigned the company's network including international WAN, routing topology, and UNIX server infrastructure. Designed the predecessor to the Morgan Stanley AFS/VMS
• infrastructure.