Achievements

• Architected and installed the first large scale Exchange 2007 installation outside of Microsoft
• Developing new virtual server system using Linux kvm tools
• Setting up mixed Windows / Linux environments using Exchange, Evolution and Openoffice
• Automated system controls
• Designed one of the earliest know server proxies to protect IIS from exploits
• Newest project is spam protection and dedicated port firewalling
• Built and implemented voice mail alert text system to cell phones
• Worked on the idea of blade servers years before they came to market
• Developed Web email 2 years before Hotmail
• Ran one of the first know Weblogs
• Built a database backed searchable class schedule for The U of M while most schools still used gopher
• Thought up the idea for the tower cased PC years before they came to market

Hardware & Software Skills

• Hardware: HP Proliant, Dell Desktop/Servers, Sun, IBM, Apple
• Networking: Cisco, HP Procurve, Nortel, F5 BigIp, FastIron
• Operating Systems: Windows 2008/2003/2000, Windows 7, Unix, Mac OSX, Linux, Redhat, Suse, Ubuntu, AIX
• Databases: MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Filemaker
• Applications: Exchange 2010/2007/2003/2000/5.5, Lotus Notes, Apache, Tomcat, PHP
• Backup: Netbackup, BackupExec, ARCserve, Lagato

Work Experience

Senior Network and Cloud Engineer - Skylo Technologies - Mountain View, CA - Feb 12, 2024 - Present
Networking infrastructure as code

Sr. Devops Engineer - Revance - Plesanton, CA - November 30, 2020 - Sep 20, 2023
Infrastructure as code

Infrastructure Engineer - Wiser Solutions - San Mateo, CA - March 2019 - November 2020
Infrastructure as code

Senior Systems Engineer - Agilone - Sunnyvale, CA - Aug 2018 - Feb 2019
Devops Tools

Working with Alibaba Cloud, Google GCP, Amazon AWS, Jenkins, Terraform and Ansible.

Senior Systems Engineer - EY - San Jose, CA - May 2017 - Aug 2018
Devops Tools

Senior Systems Engineer - Insight Global / Easterseals bay area esba - Dublin, CA - April 2017 - May 2017
Monitoring Windows and Linux

Sr. Systems Engineer 2 - Shutterfly - Sunnyvale, CA - Nov 4 2013 - March 2017
Linux, Centos, LAMP

Systems Administrator - YesVideo - Santa Clara, CA - Jan 2 2013 - Nov 1 2013
Windows, Linux, Solaris administration in the area of video streaming and video transfer services

Operations System Administrator - DymoEndicia - Palo Alto, CA - Apr 30 2012 - Dec 28 2012
Windows administration in the area of postage services. iRule creation on f5 big ip load balancers. La Poste .net and ColdFusion software deployment for the french postage system.

System Administrator - Harland Financial Solutions - Memphis, TN - Aug 10 2011 - April 25 2012
Linux and Windows administration for the banking industry

IT Contractor - CRI Advantage - Boise, ID - Jan 3 2011 - June 17 2011
Work government contracts - Windows based IT work

Systems Administrator II - The University of Memphis - ITD - ISST - Memphis, TN - November 13 2006 - December 19 2010
Worked in the Windows and UNIX infrastructure team. Was responsible for the Windows 2003R2 AD, Exchange 2003/2007 system, BES servers, MS-SQL servers, Sharepoint servers, VMware ESX servers and Linux SMTP gateway servers. Architected and Built out the new email system for student, staff and faculty. It was one of the first Universities to have Exchange 2007 with over 40,000 mailboxes. Maintained a BES 5 server with backup server. Lead the email team and mentored support staff. Upgraded and redesigned the Windows 2000 AD to Windows 2003 R2 AD. Tested Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 for use in Exchange 2007 SP3 and Exchange 2010. Maintained a data center of HP, Dell, Sun and IBM servers. Implemented a new anti-spam system that performs five times better than the industry standard solutions. Designed a 20 watt low power desktop solution. Worked with the network department on better ACE load balancing configurations. Worked with the SSST team to build luns on the HP EVA SAN for the exchange backend servers. Built Windows 2003 R2 Servers for infrastructure services. Worked with Avaya on the Unified voicemail system that brought voice to text features to the email system.

Sr. Network Administrator - Renew Data Corp Austin, TX - July 27 2005 - November 10 2006
Worked in the IT group. Was responsible for Corporate and Datacenter Network, Windows 2003 AD and Exchange 2003 system. Managed and supported the production datacenter network. Monitored and troubleshoot networks. Managed a Windows 2003 AD and Exchange 2003 system. Worked with the SAN team that maintained an EMC SAN. Maintained a BES server. Worked with T-Mobile on a building micro cell installation. Built out a high speed network for a 150+ computer cluster. Using Cisco 6500 series switches, Cisco routers, Cisco ASA firewalls, F5 BigIp load balancing and HP procurve switches. Upgraded desktops to GigE connections. Worked in a high security shielded data center. Dealt with both network and physical security.

System Administrator - MessageOne Austin, TX - August, 2004 - July 25 2005
Maintain the internal servers and desktops. Maintain the co-location servers and applications in three regional and one international location. Working with Xen and Vmware for QA and development. Designed a PXE network booting installation system. Built a Linux based iscsi san with Microsoft SQL 2000 clustered on two servers. Working with Dell, HP and Sun servers, blade servers, desktops and laptops. Administering the Exchange 2003 and Windows servers, Perforce server, Redhat and Centos servers.

Network/Security Administrator - Traq Wireless Austin, TX - April 2, 2001 - Aug 2004
Maintain the company servers, network and the Exodus Co-location Cage. Cisco and 3Com gear consisting of 4000 Series Cisco Switches, 7000 series routers, 520 Cisco PIX firewalls, and Local Directors. Maintain the Linux, NT, Windows 2000 Servers and Sun servers(4500,420,250,220). Maintain Apache (1.3 & 2.0), IIS, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Postfix, Exchange and other services. Programmed a custom monitoring system that provides information about the network and servers via the web, email and sms. Built and maintained IDS systems on multiple networks. Built a custom server proxy to hide our IIS servers from the Internet and to off-load SSL connections. I have one server that has over 500 days of uptime with many others with over 200 days of uptime. Worked with Marketing on new product development. Designed and wrote the code for the VMA product that competes with Sprint and other carriers. Saved the company money many times by using Linux and open source software and writing scripts in python instead of purchasing expensive software and hardware. Reused many old desktops for use as dns servers and mail gateways to save the company money. Built my own custom distribution of Linux to handle special services around the company.

Systems Engineer - AgileIS Austin, TX - September 25, 2000 - April 9, 2001
Developing the prototype for our automated server installation engine. The engine installs Windows 2000, Linux and applications without any media and without any user intervention. Building python scripts and unattended setup files for server installation automation. Installed the Cisco Router and Cisco Switch at the Exodus co-location facility.

Production Support Administrator - Kurion Austin, TX - June 28, 2000 - September 20, 2000
Maintained the co-location web servers for Kurion. Interfaced with the developers to move applications to the co-location facility at Exodus.

LAN/WAN Analyst III - Dell Austin, TX - September 1999 - June 27, 2000
Part of the Americas messaging team supporting the Exchange email system for Dell. I helped handle 100+ exchange servers and fax servers. Supporting Outlook 98 and 2000 clients. Internet mail and CCmail and X.400 connectors are supported. The network is a very large LAN and WAN with over 20,000 users.

Network Engineer - Storage USA, Inc. Memphis, TN - December 1998 - August 1999
As Network Engineer I maintained many NT servers, four Server Exchange servers, three SQL server, one Terminal server, one Winframe server, three IIS servers, two MS-proxy servers and other NT file servers.

PC Support - TekSystems contracted to CSI Memphis, TN - May 1998 - Dec 1998
I was brought into CSI as an NT expert and the corporate office changed their strategies and went with Novell instead. I upgraded the network from token ring to Ethernet. I handled the upgrade from Windows to Windows 95.

Network Support Specialist - Wang's International, Inc. Memphis, TN - Feb. 1996 - May 1998
Handled everything from desktop support to building a new network with NT servers. Worked with a Mac network and installed an ATM 3Com Corebuilder switched network. Handled the email and Internet services.

Novell and Microsoft NT Network Manager - Enrollment Services, The U of M Memphis, TN - 1993-1996
Managed two Novell 3.X Servers with 50 users, a Microsoft NT server with 85 users, three web servers, one Linux server, a Microsoft NT RAS server and Appleshare servers. Handled all cable network needs, new PC hardware and software installs.

Computer Technician - Computer Systems Engineering, Memphis State University, 1986-1987,1988-1992
Handled installation and repair of mainframe terminals (Sperry, VAX) and microcomputers (Zenith, Macintosh, Apple, PCs compatibles). I did software and hardware consultation with departments campus-wide. Worked with Novell 68k servers, Novell 2.x servers and Appleshare servers.

Education:

B.A. Memphis State University 1992 Major: Theatre and Communication Arts
Cisco Router training at Athena in June 1999
Windows 2000 server Training November 1999

Certifications

MCSE certification started in May 18, 1998 achieved July 3, 1998
NT Server 4.0, NT Workstation 4.0, NT Server 4.0 in the Enterprise, Networking Essentials, TCP/IP on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Proxy Server 2.0