Senior Computer Scientist/Systems Engineer with over 20 years of IT experience.
I enjoy working with a team of like minded people that love innovation, to challenge the unknown, and solve the impossible, computing that makes the world a more enjoyable place!
DoD - Clearance.
20+ years Enterprise Experience and Engineering Support.
- IT Security/ DoD IT Security - Unix, Linux, and DataCenters. Monitoring and penetration testing.
- Contributor for Center for Internet Security. https://cisecurity.org/
- 18 Years of Linux (SUSE, RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc...)
- 20 Years of Unix (Solaris 6,7,8,9, 10 and 11, FreeBSD)
- 18 Years of High Performance Computing (HPC)
- 18 Years High Scalability Computing
- CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Shell scripting and Python Programming
- Python scientific tools & libraries: IPython, Matplotlib, Numpy, and Scipy
- Intel, PGI, and MPI Message Passing Interface
- Security Plans and Hardening, NIST, and CIS Security.
- Microsoft Windows Server Support since 1990's
Enterprise Cloud/Virtualization Experience
- Over 20 Years System Engineering and still learning.
- 13 years of VMWare experience
- 13 years of OpenSource Virtualization.
- 14 years Storage Administration (NetApp, SUN, EMC, DELL, and 3PAR environments)
Specialties: NIST, CIS, Linux, UNIX, HPC, HTC, OpenSource, Python, Designing, Securing and Implementing Datacenters in a Secure DoD Environment. System Engineering and Architecture.
Sr. System Engineer, DEV/OPS in the Cloud Services Architect/Managed Private Cloud Support Team @ After 4 months of services in the Public Cloud for Helion OpenStack as a Senior System Engineer, I was asked to help the Cloud Services Architecture/MPC Support Team. The Architecture/Managed Private Cloud Support (MPCS) team is charged with the architecture, DEV/OPS and support of Helion OpenStack and Eucalyptus Private Clouds which are hosted and supported out of the Converged Cloud business unit. This includes the management of the OPS data centers, Eucalyptus, and Helion Open Stack environments, including IaaS and PaaS services.
Currently managing architecture and implementation of the Helion OpenStaack 1.1, 1.1.1 and preparing the 2.0 environments in the operation model that support teams will be managing at HPE Helion. From June 2015 to Present (5 months) Greater Seattle AreaSr. System Engineer, DEV/OPS - Cloud Services @ Serving as a Sr. System Engineer at HP Helion in Cloud Services. Supporting the Openstack infrastructure in public cloud. Expertise in HPC's, Infiniband, SAN and NAS, EMC VNX series, 3PAR, Netapp and Sun NAS Storage technology's, GIT, Chef, (learning Ruby), Python, BASH, VMware, Amazon AWS, Linux, Unix Operating Systems, Disaster Recovery Sites, Architectural and System Engineering.
Currently developing OpenStack-on-Openstack operational clusters for undercloud services and management utilizing Baremetal Nova / Ironic provisioning for zero to cloud deployments. From February 2015 to Present (9 months) Greater Seattle AreaSenior Linux/UNIX, HPC, Storage Systems Administrator @ Serving as Senior Computer Scientist at NASA Supporting and leading the High Performance Computing environment and NASA Dryden Python User Group. Designing, Securing and Implementation of a scalable, high performance, redundant engineering environment in support of the NASA Linux HPC, CFD and Cloud Production environment at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Supporting multiple Projects I am generally involved with everything from the initial concept and design, python programming, to installation and integration from Linux, Supercomputing to HPC Systems, Cloud, Sun NAS, and EMC VNX SAN storage arrays. Tasking also included documenting and implementing DoD security measures for secuirty audits using NIST, CIS and security measures used by the agency. Tool's Automation, and Python programming. The contract ended with Arcata. The same position moved over to new contractor with ASRC Federal / InuTeq. From November 2014 to February 2015 (4 months) NASA Armstrong Flight Research CenterSenior Linux/UNIX, HPC, Storage Systems Administrator @ Serving as Senior Computer Scientist at NASA Supporting and leading the High Performance Computing environment and NASA Dryden Python User Group. Designing, Securing and Implementation of a scalable, high performance, redundant engineering environment in support of the NASA Linux HPC, CFD and Cloud Production environment at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. Supporting multiple Projects I am generally involved with everything from the initial concept and design, python programming, to installation and integration from Linux, Supercomputing to HPC Systems, Cloud, Sun NAS, and EMC VNX SAN storage arrays. Tasking also included documenting and implementing DoD security measures for secuirty audits using NIST, CIS and security measures used by the agency. Tool's Automation, and Python programming. From November 2010 to October 2014 (4 years) NASA Armstrong Flight Research CenterIT Lead/Senior Linux/Virtualization Architect @ IT Lead/Senior Linux/Virtualization Architect- Engineering Support JIEDDO Model and Simulation
As a Sr. Engineer/Analyst, provides enterprise architecture, design, and engineering support to the NAWCWD Counter Improvised Explosive Devise organization within the Integrated Battle Space Arena. Tasking includes design and implementation of the system for the overall Joint Improvised Explosive Devise Defeat Organization. While providing project management for the Engineering Support team supporting environments across the engineering and science environment.Tasking also included documenting and implementing DoD security measures for secuirty audits using NIST, CIS and security measures used by the Department of Defense. Tool Automation, and Python programming. From January 2010 to November 2010 (11 months) NRC LTD., Ridgecrest, CaTask Lead/Senior Linux/Virtualization Architect @ Enterprise Architect/729000D Task Leader - Jacobs Naval Systems Group (DoD Contractor) VMWare/Solaris/Linux/Windows Architect/Sr. Systems Administrator Designed and began to implement Phase 1 of the VMWare Cloud within the IT/IM environment for the Consolidated Computer Facility China lake. Including researching the current and future customer requirements within the next 3 years and building a project plans from the ground floor up. During this time I was promoted to Task Leader of Task order 729000D. Leading 14 individuals assigned to over 7 different billed projects. Holding daily meetings, weekly and monthly status reports. Learning and implementing the hardening process for Solaris, VMWare ESX, Virtual Infrastructure Center, MS SQL, Windows, Web applications IIS, Apache, and Tomcat according to the NAVAIRWAR Security Policies through DISA.mil. Tasking also included documenting and implementing DoD security measures for secuirty audits using NIST, CIS and security measures used by the Department of Defense to receive our ATO. Tool's Automation, and Python programming. From July 2009 to January 2010 (7 months) Jacobs TechnologyOwner @ From February 1990 to 2010 (20 years) San Diego, CaSenior Linux/Unix, Virtualization Engineer @ Supported Engineering and Test Environment on the Engineering Support team. I was the Sr. Linux/UNIX Lead at the end of my tenure. I co-designed, implemented and supported the VMware virtualization infrastructure and Physical Unix/Linux environment through Security, Authentication, Development systems, Mainframe Linux, in a high performance, highly evolving complex enterprise environment. Tool automation programming in Python.. From January 2005 to January 2009 (4 years 1 month) San Diego, CaSoftware Developer/Engineering Tools Team @ I was pulled from my Team Lead Position and Placed into the Engineering Tools Team to Brainstorm, Develop and Support the Automation of Testing, and Development in the Parallel Test Environment (PTE) for Teradata. This was a UNIX/Linux environment. On the Brainstorming Team I Co-developed a Code Coverage and Code Complexity Utility into the Parallel Testing Environment (PTE) web utility that would allow testers and developers of Teradata Database (1.6 Million Lines of code) to see every line of code that was tested during there Tests and Development phases. This eventually led to a saving the company money based on fixing problems and understanding the complexity of the code before fixing and causing other issues that arise during such a complex development cycle. This was just the beginning of the money saved in the automation of these utilities and other projects during my tenor. From January 2002 to January 2005 (3 years 1 month) San Diego, caCEO/Consultant @ From January 1997 to May 2002 (5 years 5 months) San Diego, caTeam Leader Engineering Lab Support Team/Senior Linux/UNIX administrator @ Supporting, designing, implementing the 100's of high performance Linux/UNIX Teradata database's in 6 computer labs. This involved highly scalable, high performance, large systems at 1024 nodes making one system. In a agile environment with quick turn arounds on rebuilding test and development environments. From May 2000 to January 2002 (1 year 9 months) San Diego, CaSystems Engineer @ From January 1995 to 2000 (5 years) San Diego, CaOperation Specialist - OS3 - USS Truxtun CGN 35 @ As Veteran I served in a couple Operations during my Tour.
- Operation Praying Mantis
- Operation Desert Storm
- Team Spirit with U.S. Navy Seals and South Korea.
- Operation Earnest Will and several Counter-Narcotic Operations. From February 1989 to February 1993 (4 years 1 month) Greater San Diego Area and Bremerton, Washington
Chef Fundamentals, Computer Software Engineering, Certificate of AWESOME @ Chef Fundamentals From 2015 to 2015 Chef Automation @ Chef Intermediate From 2015 to 2015 SuperComputing and Overflow CFD Structured code @ NASA Ames Research and Engineering Teams From 2013 to 2013 PYTHON Development, Computer Science @ PYCON 2013 From 2013 to 2013 Python Development @ PYCON 2012 - Python Development, Scientific Computing From 2012 to 2012 RedHat 6 Trained, Linux @ RedHat 6 Engineering Courses From 2011 to 2011 Cloud and Virtualization @ VMWorld 2010 and 2011 From 2010 to 2011 EMC VNX 7500 Storage @ EMC VNX UniversitySplunk-Fu, Troublshooting, Automation, Splunking @ Splunk Universityvmware Craig Sayler is skilled in: Unix, Linux, Virtualization, Solaris, Security, Cloud Computing, VMware, Red Hat Linux, Python, Testing, Integration, Apache, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Data Center, Systems Engineering, Software Development, Storage Area Networks, Shell Scripting, Networking, SaaS, Network Security, Windows Server, Bash, Disaster Recovery, HPC, Infiniband, CFD, SAN, Unix Shell Scripting, NAS, TCP/IP, NIST, Supercomputing, High Availability, High Performance..., openStack, KVM, Unix Secuirty, VIrtualization Security, Linux Security, MPI, Virtual, Xen, Clustering, vSphere, Scripting, EMC, icinga, OpenS