Category: Skills

  • Amazon EC2

    At Exebridge and WANdisco, I worked extensively with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This includes building and maintaining production virtual compute environments in support of Microsoft SQL, Active Directory, SharePoint, as well as lab environments running RHEL and Ubuntu Linux. I attained the Amazon Technical Professional and Amazon Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Certifications in…

  • Cloud Storage Software

    At WANdisco, I worked extensively with Cloud storage software to support massive Hadoop HDFS data migrations into Azure (ADLSg2), Amazon (S3), Google (GCS), and Oracle (OCS).

  • Operational Support

    As System Support Engineer at Sun Microsystems, I provided operational support to many large-scale customer environments. Activities included providing technical assistance, managing incidents, and providing timely information around Reliability, Availability, and Support. I also managed an extensive compute lab comprised of hundreds of Unix systems in support of a software development group at Sun Microsystems.

  • Process Automation

    At WANdisco, I used process automation technologies, such as RedHat Ansible, to automate repetitive and manual tasks such as lab deployments, and systems maintenance. I developed several detailed Ansible scripts to automate and maintain deployments into Azure, AWS, and GCP.

  • Technical Architecture

    I have worked as a Technical Architect for much of my career. At Sun Microsystems, I held the positions of Systems Architect, and Enterprise Architect. At Sigma Solutions, I held the positions of Solution Architect and Principal Architect. At Exebridge, I held the positions of Principal Architect. At WANdisco, I held the position of Solution…

  • Field Services

    At Sun Microsystems, as System Support Engineer IV, I was a senior Field Services technician. For ten years I participated in an on-call rotation, supporting advanced Unix systems installations for customers throughout the state of Texas.

  • Hadoop

    While at WANdisco, I installed hundreds of small Hadoop lab environments including implementations such as Cloudera Data Platform, HortonWorks Data Platform, Azure HDInsight, Google Big Query, Snowflake, Databricks, and Oracle Big Data Service. I have worked directly with customers in deploying WANdisco software into massive production Hadoop environments. My primary interaction with Hadoop was with…

  • Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

    While at WANdisco, I worked extensively with HDFS, helping customers to migrate their HDFS data to various Cloud platforms, such as Azure, AWS, GCP, and Oracle Cloud. Data was stored in Parquet, Avro, ORC, TXT, and other table formats.

  • Ansible

    I developed several extensive Ansible scripts to quickly deploy lab environments into Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform. I also used Ansible to maintain and update installed software stacks in these lab environments.

  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

    While at WANdisco, I frequently deployed lab environments into GCP, utilizing virtual networking, compute, data catalog and Google Cloud Storage.