• Responsible for all operations and budgeting of the company IT department
• Wrote and maintained the company website utilizing Ruby on Rails
• Developed and maintained the in-house REST API for our legacy ERP system
• I've written several Ruby based programs to interface with our legacy business systems
• Implemented cloud based online access for website and help desk
• Designed and Implemented Site-To-Site VPN connections for all remote locations throughout the SouthEast

• Technology administration and back-line support for back-end Linux platforms supporting mission critical customer applications
• Admin VMware server clusters
• Day to Day care and feeding of the CentOS servers
• Build and configuration of those same CentOS servers
• System CLI development in Perl & Ruby to automate and collaborate with asterisk and to generally help get things done
• Collaborate with the rest of the teams to keep the gears in motion and well oiled

TechSafari is a small software development and consulting company specializing in advanced consumer credit data analysis.

• Responsible for the 24x7 management of our primary customer's mission critical technology needs
• Technical lead for all IT audits with major credit data suppliers
• Maintained multiple highly available and secure data center facilities
• Managed multiple data sources containing billions of highly sensitive consumer credit data records
• Authored and implemented corporate security and disaster recovery policies and procedures
• Developed and implemented an online monitoring system (using Nagios) to maintain high availability across all servers including custom written monitoring applications for specialized processes.
• Implemented a robust helpdesk system designed to efficiently manage customer requests reducing task turnaround time and increasing productivity
• Helped design and implement several custom 24TB high performance SATA array systems for production environments

MSLI was a supplemental health insurance startup founded in 2004 and backed by AIG, Inc. I was part of the initial start-up management team responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and managing all aspects of the corporation's information technology infrastructure from the ground up including all enterprise servers, network backbone, and the data center construction which included redundant environmental control and power backup systems. I was part of a small team which assessed the ability of enrollment firms to work with MSLI as a business partner. This involved traveling to the enrollment companies, interviewing their management team, and evaluating their technology infrastructure.

• Evaluated, engineered, and managed the complete corporate technology infrastructure
• Designed and managed all operations of the corporate data center facilities
• Designed, implemented and managed the corporate internet web site
• Managed the building access security system for our suite
• Technical evaluation of outside enrollment firms business practices

MSLI closed for good in February 2006 due to lack of funding

Formerly known as "Suntory Water Group, Inc."; re-branded after a major aquisition.

I lead a team of System Administrators and was personally responsible for researching, recommending and purchasing all enterprise hardware in conjuncture with a company-wide migration to Oracle ERP 11i, which included high availability clustering, three tier web technology, a complete storage area network implementation, and high capacity disk array subsystem. In addition, my team maintained the centralized data center facilities including environmental controls and redundant power sources, internet mail bridge, web and ftp proxy services using squid, and DNS services for the company's internet domain "water.com".

Personally responsible for:

• Managing a team of 14 System Administrators responsible for all aspects of the corporate Unix, Windows, database and computer operations environments
• Accountable for a multi-million dollar capital and expense budget
• Hire/Fire decisions and annual employee appraisals

Lead a team responsible for the installation and conversion of several major software applications. These included Unix on NCR, HP, and Sun systems and the conversion of existing database structures to new platforms.

I was also responsible for upgrading HP-UX 9.04 to HP-UX 10.20 on many of the company enterprise systems.

• Provided 24 by 7 support for mission critical applications running on HP-UX
• Responsible for the administration of 60+ networked Unix systems
• Developed custom software in C and Perl to monitor system functionality
• Administration of Novel NetWare 3.12 network
• Developed custom HTML documents for in-house departmental homepage (writing HTML before HTML was cool)

I'm working towards my private pilots license (PPL) and currently have ~60 hours of recorded flight training, both instructed and solo. I still intend to complete my training in the near future.

Sadly, I had to put this training on-hold due to the change in my occupational status and then the COVID-19 pandemic.