OBJECTIVE

Seeking a senior High Performance Computing engineering and delivery position in a Linux/Unix environment.

EDUCATION

BS. Computer Engineering, BS. Computer Science N.C. State University
Minor in Mathematics.
DevOps DASA 2.0
ITIL v3 Foundations Certified

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Slurm, Grid Engine, Gaussian, etc.; Data Management and Transport for R&D/Big Data (e.g. Databases, TsunamiUDP, GRIDftp, Aspera, iRods); Configuration Management frameworks (Puppet, Chef, AWS Config, etc.) IT Security concepts; Understanding of Agile Software Development, Scrum, DevOps

• Compilers and Interpreters: C++, Perl, C, FORTRAN, Python, Ruby, R.
• Database Languages: SQL for Oracle, Postgres and MySQL

• Unix Operating Systems: Solaris, BSD, HP-UX, Digital Unix, AIX, and IRIX.
• Linux Operating Systems: Red Hat, Debian for x86-64, i386, Itanium, Sun, Power PC.
• Software: HPC and Grid software: OpenMPI, Beowulf, Sun Grid Engine, Linux KickStart,Puppet, Cobbler, Koan, Systemimager. Nagios/Cacti system performance monitoring. Apache, Tomcat, Subversion, Bugzilla, TRAC, PolyServe, IBRIX.
• Certifications: Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Netbackup, Netapp SA

• Workstation/Server Platforms: Sun UltraSparc servers, SMP x86_64 Intel and AMD based workstations, Power PC and HP platforms.
• SAN/NAS Equipment: Brocade Silkworm switches, NetApp FAS6030, HP XP12000, HP EVA, HP x9000, Sun and EMC fiberchannel SAN.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Linux Systems for Science HPC Senior Platform Manager-Infrastructure from June 2002 to present.
HPC delivery for scientific research on Linux. Parallel Computation using Slurm, Sun Grid Engine, AWS ParallelCluster and Hadoop. Manage DevOps systems administrations teams. Storage management of Petabytes of Bioinformatics, Genomic and other data in geographically dispersed name space on NetApp and S3. Starfish classification and activity management. Docker and Singularity, Puppet and Ansible. Network management with Palo Alto and Cisco gear. Managed vendor relationships and technical direction for cloud and on-prem HPC. Skills: Troubleshooting; Performance Analysis and Reporting ; Systems and Module Handover; Customer Support; Root Cause and Solution Analysis ;Computer Science/Engineering consultancy

GlobespanVirata Inc

Unix Systems Administrator from May 2001 to April 2002.
Conducted IT suppport for engineering staff. Administered Linux and Solaris build servers in production environment. Certified to administer NetApp Data Ontap filers. Developed internal request tracker for software group. Administered internal internet services such as DNS, NIS. Administered bootp and dhcp for diskless clients. Developed inventory database (IRM) and monitoring software (Netsaint) for site.

Interadnet INC

Unix Systems Administrator from July 2000 to April 2001.
Architected deployment of Solaris and Linux systems for development, test, and production environments for serving 3rd party web middleware. International load balancing of web and application nodes. Certified in Veritas NetBackup. Administered NetApp 760 cluster. Support for development environments and systems integration of developed software for production. Systems monitoring and self response scripting. RAID subsystems deployment and management. Netscape Enterprise, LDAP, Resonate, Oracle, MySQL and in-house software integrated and deployed.

Interpath Communications, Inc.

Systems Engineer from June 1999 to July 2000.
Engineer for large scale Application Service Provider. Integration of software systems into Virtual Private Applications. Y2k Development and testing for vendor supplied packages. Solaris and Windows NT consulting resource. Cisco AS5300 RAS configuration and modem pooling. Software and hardware architecture planning. Acceptance test plan design. Custom OS installation and configuration for enterprise class Solaris and NT servers.

North Carolina State University

Systems Programmer II from August 1996 to June 1999.
Information Technologies & Engineering Computer Services
Lead programmer for large scale distributed heterogeneous environment: Administered and secured Unix and Windows NT servers and clients, developed administrative software and utilities, installed networked software, managed backup procedures, configured printers, managed network, ordered equipment, managed part and full-time help.