Experience
2021 — Now
2021 — Now
Henrico, Virginia, United States
Managing and Coaching Engineers, defining OKRs and PKIs.
Designed , validated, and implemented datahall layouts for future capacity requirements including power, cooling, and space.
Breakfix and preventative administration, workflow efficiency, and "care and feeding" of the fastest and most powerful AI supercluster on the planet.
Work with cross functional teams to insure incoming cluster nodes are correct and prepare them for customer usage.
Interfaces with tooling and automation teams to insure all racks are provisioned and configured for team customer use inside of the SLA periods.
Identifying any gaps, risks, or blockers in process and procedures and working with the appropriate teams to get those mitigated and eliminated.
Working with cross functional teams to Identify what is required for new datahall turnup and set touchpoint cadence to get requirements met by provision ready date.
POC and main support person for AI GPU based systems for data modelling and trend analysis.
Deep diving in to metrics , setting up new workflows and process improvements, identifying new efficiencies.
Training new onboarding Capacity Engineers and Prod Ops engineers.
Leaning in to other datacenters, both remotely and by travelling, that are currently struggling with Capacity and ProdOps tasks to alleviate load and help them with their end goals.
Meets with fleet wide enterprise teams to inform and stay abreast of developing issues and upcoming changes.
Worked with Web developer to design, create, and implement Genrico Capacity Wiki pages and associated viable links and data.
Monthly and quarterly presentations to upper management and circle of leadership for past performance and looking forward to upcoming projects.
2017 — 2021
2017 — 2021
Richmond, Virginia Area
I am the Lead Linux Governance Associate for Anthem , responsible for Linux, AIX, Linux on Power, and Linux on Z\Mainframe technology oversight.
Manage onshore and offshore teams composed of dozens of engineers and administrators for daily support and project purposes.
Focal for all Linux (Redhat, Oracle, Ubuntu, Suse, etc…) questions, guidelines, processes, procedures, or issues.
Interface with all auditing agencies, inside and outside of the organization, to insure and provide documentation for adherance to federal, state, and business requirements such as HIPAA, PCI, and SARBOX. Manage team responsible for insuring resource adherence to these standards.
Design and review security specifications for all Linux and Unix environment to insure the integrity and security of all PHI, PII, and all data in enterprise. Manages team that mitigates and documents this.
Design all new Operating System offerings for use with new container based technologies and AI base infrastructure.
Manage and direct onshore and offshore teams to identify vulnerabilities and provide monthly patches and updates for tens of thousands of physical and virtual servers.
Point of contact for integrating the enterprise systems of multiple acquisitions in to the overall data architecture.
SME for priority outages and “SWAT Calls” when customer facing systems are unavailable and functionality needs to be restored ASAP.
Present metrics and other information to the corporate executives for baseline setting and opportunity identification and analysis.
2012 — 2017
Petersburg, Virginia
* Designed entire new data infrastructure for campus
* Engineered and installed NAS array with snapshots and failover for all systems.
* Conversation of on prem email to 365 cloud services with Azure.
* Work with team of engineers for most efficient use of existing technology and installation of new technology.
* Manage , upgrade, maintain, and implement Unix\Linux and Windows AD environment including scripting, group policies, etc...
* SDLC for all hardware and software technology
* Designed and implemented High Performace and High Availability VM center and VDI for entire campus.
* Create DR and business continuity plans along with boundary diagrams and systems priority analysis.
* Install, maintain and manage all storage technology for entire campus.
* Meet with faculty, students, staff, management, and business owners for needs assessment.
* Secure servers, applications, storage virtual machines as per cis-cat and VIT standards.
* Break fix, patch, and upgrade all data center level hardware, software, and applications for the university.
* Develop automation scripts for daily tasks.
2002 — 2012
* Design, Implement and Support world facing enterprise systems for 23 colleges in 41 locations throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.
* Provide maximum uptime for technologies used by 500,000 users.
* Designed and implemented virtualization infrastructure for enterprise including servers and desktops.
* Manage Storage and backups for virtual environment using CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and Fiberchannel.
* Main Engineer in charge of Linux environment and college wide shared resource domain.
*Main Engineer in charge of F5 load Balancing Technologies.
1995 — 1997
Education
University of Richmond
Bachelor’s Degree
2011 — 2015
Western Governors University
Master of Science - MS
2017 — 2018
John Tyler Community College
AAS
2005 — 2011
Virginia State University
Master’s Degree
2015 — Present