- Uncasville,
- Connecticut,
- United States of America
Visionary Cloud-smith, Architect,Strategist, Engineer, Integrator, Consultant, Analyst, Project Manager. Copywriter.
More bio〈 Managed XenDesktop, XenApp and Microsoft RDS services farms for approximately three thousand users.
〈 Worked extensively to migrate applications to hybrid and public cloud: AWS, Google App Engine and Digital Ocean.
〈 Worked with Boutique and independent developers to implement numerous cloud ETL and and API transformations.
〈 Configured and deployed Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager to evaluate compliance baselines for HIPAA, ISO 13485, FIPS.
〈 Used continuous integration tool sets like Jenkins and Maven.
〈 Extensive experience with Docker and the Hashicorp application set.
〈 Utilized Bash and Powershell scripting to perform automation scripting.
〈 Utilized and configured Solar Winds Network Performance Manager and various other Solar Winds products to increase visibility of systems, evaluate performance, and manage AWS, Azure and Google App Engine.
〈 Utilized Splunk in conjunction with Librato, Solar Winds, and System Center Configuration manager to verify security baselines, program automated actions.
〈 Worked extensively with Linux to deploy applications.
〈 Became proficient with Kubernetes, Chef, Docker.
〈 Worked extensively in the legal vertical market developing expertise.
〈 Git and Mercurial expert.
〈 Used various Mac prototyping tools.
〈 Created Python scripts to automate Linux Servers using Salt, Chef and Puppet.
〈 Integrated client apps with RESTful API services.
〈 Worked with OpenStack private cloud and on site.
Created my own technical consulting business – Fully active (fulltime) from 2014 through 2017.
〈 Entered the SMB technology solutions arena in less than six weeks while maintaining analytical and print revenues.
〈 Created meaningful partnerships with top vendors.
〈 Retained nearly 80% of gross revenue via carefully structured relationships with hardware and software vendors.
A technologist by blood, I'm personable, client facing, strong in sales, logical, unafraid to speak my mind, decisive, and produce my best work under pressure. I am curious about everything and pragmatic to a fault. Once I start something, I always finish it.
Most recently I've:
〈 Worked extensively with VMware vSphere 5.5, 6, 6.5 and 7 on diverse projects including consolidation, automation, hybrid cloud.
〈 Served thousands of applications seemlessly using XenApp and MS RDS, securely and reliably.
〈 Planned, architected and migrated numerous application migrations using AWS, Google App Engine, RancherOS, CoreOS, structured them with Salt, Kubernetes, Docker, Openstack, Redis and Lambda
〈 Utilized all of the Hashicorp suite, especially Nomad, Consul, Terraform and Vault together with Kubernetes or Salt to implement scalable, self-healing application systems.
〈 Automated data flows, generated alerts, reacted to errors with scripting composed in Perl, Shell Python, Powershell, Chef, Salt, Go & Hack.
〈 Designed, architected and implemented custom Linux based solutions on all major distributions.
〈 Worked extensively in financial, legal, health, manufacturing, construction, law enforcement.
〈 Built numerous application integrations leveraging RESTFUL API services.
〈 Deployed numerous OpenStack environments, integrated many with VMware, HyperV and OpenVZ.
〈 Forged careful alliances with the best vendors, enabling me to provide my customers with exclusive "best of breed solutions."
〈 Closed over $120,000 in new business in 2014 alone.
〈 Aggressively handled client projects, managing vendors, materials, due dates and deliverables in such a way that I generally realize at least a 30% savings if not closer to 55%.
〈 Continued working with my core compentencies of Windows Server System 2000-2016 ALL PRODUCTS. Citrix (All products). VMware (All products version 2.0 and up.) and All manner of public, private, hybrid and semi-hybrid cloud including PAAS, IAAS, SAAS.
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