For over 15 years I have worked professionally in an administrative role with many different server and network technologies in a diverse range of business settings. Often finding myself in a role of a technical Swiss army knife, I have found a certain level of zen with picking up new technologies and gaining productive proficiency within a short period of time. I have come to crave the challenge and love bringing to life a new technology no matter how poor version 1.0 of the documentation happens to be.

XVELA - DevOps Engineer

Sole DevOps Engineer on micro-service based collaborative app used by some of the world's biggest shipping companies for stowage planning and related services. Deployed and managed all hosting and developer services.

  • 2015-2019
  • Oakland, CA
  • Deployed and maintained full cloud based CI/CD pipeline with associated services for 30+ Agile developers in 4 countries.
  • Deployed and maintained secure, highly available, self-healing, and auto-scaling clusters of over 50 application servers on AWS and Docker/Kubernetes with 100% uptime (not 99.99995%. 100%!).
  • Utilized Rancher 2.0/Kubernetes to provide developers with self-managed deployments along with streamlined management and insights.
  • Used Terraform for expedited deployment management and replication.

eveo, Inc. - DevOps Engineer & Systems Administrator

Hired as sole administrator for internal Windows/Linux servers and network infrastructure. With company restructuring also took on role of web operations administering 30+ live client applications along with deploying 2-4 new projects a month. Provided backup helpdesk end-user support when needed.

  • 2012-2015
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Planned, coordinated and executed migration of all client apps from legacy bare-metal hosting to Amazon Web Services and Heroku.
  • Moved the development and QA teams away from ad-hoc processes to full DevOps with new GIT server, continuous integration and adoption of a standardized development to deployment process plan. Resulted in measurable increase in productivity and decrease in client-visible application bugs and downtime.
  • Rewrote IT governance documentation, performed self-audit, implemented new controls like key management, and hardened systems to conform to HIPPA compliance. Worked with third-party auditors as required by clients.
  • Designed and built out new internal data center with office move.

Mojo Information Technologies - IT & Systems Consultant

Self-owned entity providing in-home/office IT services. Projects included end-user support, system and network administration, office infrastructure builds and web operations.

  • 2002-2012
  • Berkeley, CA
  • Highest rated IT provider on Yelp & Berkeley Parents Network.
  • Designed and deployed hardened firewall and VPN solution for National Center for Science Education after previous security issues.
  • Worked as part of three person graphic artist/developer/system administrator team to develop, deploy and host client web sites and applications.
  • Implemented specialized computer systems for disabled individuals.

ABN-Amro Sage Co. - System & Network Administrator

Worked on three person team providing administration of Windows/AIX/Solaris/Linux systems and network infrastructure in high-availability, mission critical secure environment.

  • 1998-2002
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Administered firewall and routers handling over 100 outside vendor and client connections.
  • Worked with Cisco technicians to deploy early VPN system with RSA SecurID for 200+ active users.
  • Part of configuration team for new IBM RS/6000 mainframe running AIX.
  • Deployed first Linux servers in company for specialized tasks.