Keywords

Generalist, IaaS, Cloud Computing, MOM, SOA, EAI, Network Security, System Administration

Skills

• UNIX System Administration
• IaaS
• EC2
• Enterprise Application Integration
• B2B Architecture
• Service Oriented Architecture
• IT Infrastructure Architecture
• Network and Host security configuration, administration, and auditing
• Configuration and administration of encrypted virtual private networks
• Programming in Ruby, Java, Perl, C, shell scripts
• Installation, configuration, and administration of WWW and various network services
• WWW authoring and CGI programming
• Operating systems: Linux, Solaris, Windows
• Teaching

Training

• Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics, Rutgers University, 1993.
• B.A. cum laude in Physics, Harvard University, 1984.

Projects

• Architecture for integration of corporate subsidiaries
• B2B RosettaNet gateway architecture
• AS2 gateway architecture
• Tibco based Java Messaging Service (JMS) infrastructure supporting over 200 IT applications
• Cisco internal IT X.509 certificate authority
• JMS load-distribution using LDAP

Systems Engineer
Amazon.com
Seattle, WA
May, 2012 to Present

• EC2 Server Provisioning team, documenting processes, identifying and driving opportunities to increase automation, and reduce operational overhead.
• Working in the EC2 Operations Engineering team, I provided on-call support to address operational issues from specific customer issues to large scale events, troubleshooting software, system and network issues.
• Developed and maintain the playbook used by the Developer Support organization to support customers experiencing EC2 issues. 

IT Architect
Cisco Systems
San Jose, CA
2006 to 2012

• Domain Architect: I reviewed cross enterprise B2B projects to assure compliance with enterprise B2B standards and assist teams in achieving that compliance.
• Enterprise Architecture: I guided project teams through Cisco's Architecture Governance Process, reviewing project architectures, and assuring that projects comply with relevant architectural standards.
• Supply Chain B2B Architect: I worked with Cisco's Supply Chain IT organization to develop integration with external supply chain partners.
• Acquisition Integration Architect: I consulted with functional teams within Cisco and the corresponding IT and business teams in Cisco's subsidiaries to choose an architecture and implementation plan for the technical aspects of integrating with Cisco's business processes. The long term deliverable was a scalable, repeatable architecture for integrating subsidiaries and trading partners.
• B2B Gateway Architect: I was responsible for the architecture of RosettaNet, AS2, and EDI gateways, as well as other business-to-business automated interactions. I advised the business on the most effective technical approaches to satisfy business requirements. I provided the technical requirements and integration architecture for several outsourced and internally hosted gateways, and integration with back-end systems. I advised cross-functional teams on their options for meeting their B2B requirements, including dimensions such as cost and consistency with Cisco's existing architecture. I consulted on EAI projects that were evaluating state of the art technologies, and I provided the technical requirements that Cisco has for B2B architecture, and I co-developed proof-of-concept architectures.

IT Engineer
Cisco Systems
San Jose, CA
2000 to 2006

• Technical Lead for fault-tolerant Java Messaging Service Infrastructure. I led the gathering of requirements from IT stakeholders; drove the vendor selection process, including evaluation of proof-of-concept projects; designed, built, documented, and supported the infrastructure; and developed tools in Java, C, and Perl to monitor and administer the messaging server. I developed training materials and other documentation for support staff and clients. I assisted client IT teams in making effective use of the messaging infrastructure on a technical level. I was called upon to resolve issues in critical production applications when the normal channels of support could not address them. This infrastructure is used by over 200 IT applications, most of which are customer facing, and is used to transport over 1TB of data per quarter. I also designed the next two generations of architecture for Cisco's JMS infrastructure for greater scalability.
• Technical Lead for Cisco's Integration Infrastructure, including Tibco business process automation tools (BusinessWorks), and adapters for packaged applications. I assisted client teams in designing their applications to make the most effective possible use of the products in Cisco's environment, assisted in troubleshooting issues, and drove resolution of product issues with the vendor.
• For both the above technical lead roles, I defined and implemented processes for client engagement and security approvals.
• Liaison between the IT application infrastructure team and the Information Security team.
• Security Subject Matter Expert for IT application infrastructure team.
• Technical Lead for securing inter-application, cross firewall network transport.
• Technical Lead in vendor selection for Web Services Management products.
• Technical Lead in vendor selection for Web Services Security products.
• Designed and implemented a Certificate Authority for internal application.

Systems Engineer
PDC Solutions
Livermore, CA
1995 to 1999

• Design, installation, and configuration of encrypted virtual private networks.
• Installation, configuration, testing, and maintenance of Internet Firewalls
• Network security audits.
• System administration, network security, and network backup consulting.
• Provide training in network backups and network security.
• UNIX Network Backup solutions.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory,
Livermore, CA
1993 to 1995

• System administration for network of Sun and Solbourne systems.
• Software development for analysis of large experimental data sets (programmed in C and Fortran).
• Research in experimental nuclear physics in an international collaboration.
• Presentation of research results at international conferences, and publication of research results in refereed journals.

Graduate Assistant
Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ
1987 to 1993

• Research in experimental nuclear physics, including experiments at international laboratories, and analysis and interpretation of collected data.
• Presentation of research results at international physics conferences.
• Software development for modeling and analysis of physical processes.

Assistant Physicist
Pitney-Bowes, Inc.,
Stamford, CT
1984 to 1987

• Design of experiments to characterize prototype ink-jet printhead devices.
• Analysis and interpretation of experimental data.
• Demonstrations and maintenance of prototype devices.
• Development of relational database for tracking experimental data.