I sold my house to bootstrap the electric vehicle company. So i needed a place to live. I converted my 2000 chevy ck3500 dually pickup into a 128 square foot studio apartment on wheels. I want to travel as time and resources permit. YOLO.
Entrepeneur
Self Employed
SEPT2020-JUL2023
I was one of the first people in the world to build a onewheel style electric vehicle using only open source components in my garage. I leveraged that experience into building a small online retail company to sell parts that would enable others to do similar projects to build personal electric vehicles like onewheels, scooters or e-bikes
Technology Spa, Dallas
Director of Devops
NOV2014 - JAN2023
Technology Spa is a Boutique IT services provider helping clients optimize and modernize their IT infrastructure to align with business goals.
I started in 2014 as a devops engineer. And was promoted to director of my team in april 2017
Led a DevOps team, migrating clients to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) and modernizing data center deployments.
Automated infrastructure and deployments (CI/CD) using scripting (Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash, Jenkins) for increased efficiency.
Managed production workloads for numerous clients across diverse application stacks (.Net, Java, PHP, etc.) and databases (MS SQL, MySQL, noSQL).
Full lifecycle of network infrastructure (Layer 1-4) for on-premises (Cisco, ASA, F5) and cloud environments (VPCs, subnets, VPNs)
Extensive experience in network troubleshooting, resolving issues across switches, routers, firewalls, cloud VPC’s and VPNs.
Virtualization: vmware, docker, kvm, virtualbox ##Softlayer, an IBM Company, Dallas
Manage Services /Professional Services / Linux/Windows Systems Administrator
April2006 - NOV2014
started as a data center technician (The Planet) in April 2006
promoted to Supervisor in April 2007
promoted to Professional Services Engineer (The Planet and Softlayer) March 2008
promoted to Managed Services Team (Softlayer an IBM company) in March 2011
Troubleshooted network issues across diverse equipment (Cisco, Vyatta, Fortinet) ensuring network stability.
Managed Linux environments (Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc.) for web servers, 3rd party applications, and varying levels of high availability needs. Performed OS hardening for enhanced security.
Performed manual cloud application migrations between providers, ensuring seamless transitions without downtime.
Implemented network storage solutions (SAN/NAS) using iSCSI, NFS, and SMB protocols for application needs.
Supported, installed, configured, and maintained Windows servers, including IIS web applications (.NET), and ensured high availability for SQL Server deployments (standalone and clusters).
Configured, maintained, and troubleshooted mail servers (SMTP, POP3/IMAP, webmail) utilizing linux tools or Microsoft Exchange.
Designed, implemented, managed, and troubleshooted Active Directory in complex trust and multi-tenant environments