James S.

• Working with OpenStack on baremetal deployments • Operational Assessment of deployment failure and recommending changes to fix. • Learn and use a variety of in-house tools to asses failure and develop root cause • On call in a NOC style on call • Working with OpenStack on baremetal deployments • Operational Assessment of deployment failure and recommending changes to fix. • Learn and use a variety of in-house tools to asses failure and develop root cause • On call in a NOC style on call • Develop a variety of tools for self use to eliminate the need to memorize long command strings. • Worked with Github in an on prem deployment. • Worked in Grafana and Prometheus making recommendations for elimination of certain monitoring tools for the purpose of simplifying the monitoring environment. • Began working with Cursor and AI for programming and program improvement.

Founder and Developer Creating tools to enable the on demand creation of micro containers Tool to work from withing Windows and leverage WSL environents

Consultant to head up a number of projects in a rapidly consolidating environment. 1) Evaluate and recommend product for consolidation of Source control. Using data driven methods 2) Develop tools need to grab repos from multiple sources (Git SVN and TFS) to insert into a single git product. 3) Build out the infrastructure for an in house git service. 4) Create plan for migration 5) document 6) Run the migration 7) Deploy tools to assist end users in migration of their existing code. 8) Integrate multiple tools into the product. 9) Create Container based environments for build infrastructure. 10) Design and build out k8s and VM based environments for the CI/CD development team to work with and develop on 11) Assist in building out a container repo inside Google 12) Working with GKE GCS and numerous other Google cloud products.

As a newly minted CSE I'm working with * Learning Harness suite of products * Working with the team to automate where possible our functions and processes. * More to come as I learn it all The products are in the CI/CD realm, with a full suite of services to take away the drudgery of pipline creation and enable a shift left without having to build a new team on your left.

Assigned to PwC • Wrote tools to include one to manage securely kubeconfig files for access to various products • Worked with managers to create an SRE and Ops team from the ground up • Worked in Azure AWS and GCP clouds • Worked with AKS GKE and EKS • Wrote documentation using Confluence, PowerPoint and Google Docs • Mentored a number of Jr Admins • Developed the SRE software stack, then wrote the needed documents on how to deploy this stack into both Windows and MAC laptops. • Worked with wide variety of teams, from multiple companies • Worked the test and acceptance of DataDog and stood up most of the initial Alerts and Dashboards that later formed the basis of my clients Monitoring and Alerting network. • Wrote Synthetic and Static tests for systems. • Served as oncall on a rotating basis

AeroTek Inc Hanover MD Jul 2020 - Oct 2020 DevOps – Assigned to HMI Inc • Provided Mentorship and assistance to team members • Converted 2 proprietary and unique servers into both containers and WSL enabled file systems • Wrote installers and uninstallers for the two environments • Developed process for updating and modifying the above systems • Wrote extensive documentation so that knowledge I had did not get lost • Created method for Vanilla CentOS 7/8 and Fedora33 for WSL • Began working on creating Puppet/Terraform code to recreate the systems from scratch • Worked heavily in VDI testing for the company

Worked in multiple roles, in and out of Security Operations * SecOps Team Lead * Salt Master - Redesigned the entire system. Deployed, and wrote code for the Salt management system for 4500+ servers * Took salt from v2015 to current in under one month * Worked closely with Engineering, System Operations, and InfoSec to improve Security and stabilize our Data Centers * Ran regular co-ordination meetings between InfoSec, SecOps and TechOps manager to facilitate team goals. * Vendor Relations - Worked with a number of Vendors to find a viable FIM product for LC * Product testing. - Created testing procedures and code to allow LC to be able to test for a data driven decision on a FIM product * Designed and Deployed the FIM network for LC * Served as the Liason between All operations teams and InfoSec to ensure complaince. * Trained Jr Admins and others on Salt, Linux, and other tools/products as needed. * Managed the monthly SecOps InfoSec all hands. * Created and implemented new process where needed for efficiency in operation. * Lead on redesign of the process for Upgrade manament. * Managed a FIM product for 4500+ servers

• DevOps Team Member • Built configurations for and designed Prometheus based federated Monitoring system • Worked on and developed ways to monitor LTE radio equipment with Prometheus • Built installation media for company product • Created documentation in a step by step format for the team to be able to re-create all of the products and processes I built. • Deploying Helm modules Modifying to fit needs • Writing Helm modules for unique apps and company needs • Working with and in GKE/Kubernetes • Worked with GitLab/Git/and Gitlab CI/CD • Designing and building out a full Prometheus monitoring Environment • Working with Docker Env, and integration of Docker and Kubernetes. • Testing and verification of all code checked into Git

SRE for Mixed Env of Azure VMs combined with Kubernetes Application Deployment Creating Policy and procedures for a new Environment and product. Testing deployment procedures etc using Terraform, Ansible and make scripts. Worked with Azure Environments, command line (azure-cli) and portal Assisted in the design and then did the deployment of Prometheus monitoring. Wrote Grafana Dashboards Worked in Jira, Confluence and Gitlab Wrote and utilized bash scripts to automate the deployment of Prometheus Configs and exporters.

• Designed, deployed, and maintained puppet system • Wrote, tested , and deployed, necessary puppet modules • Designed, deployed, and maintained Check_MK monitoring system (Nagios) along with puppet module for deployment of agent • Worked extensively with AWS EC2, Redshift, Route53, VPC etc. • Built and deployed Docker Containers • Built dev network • Assisted team, where ever possible, in developing a News, CMS • Built DNS system • Built out, in house VMWare system • Built Docker Registry for in house use • Worked with Github • Built ELK stack and Puppet module for deployment of agent • Documentation of all systems deployed into Jira Confluence. • Worked with Jira