DevOPs Architect and Engineer specialized in Automation, Cloud (Chef, Amazon AWS, RDS, EC2, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud) and Virtualization with 10 years of experience and passion for designing, building, deploying, and supporting Windows, Citrix, VMware Apache, Websphere products.
DevOPs Engineer @ Help customers solve technical problems using the latest cloud computing technologies. Own the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects. Build SimpleJMS applications using ActiveMQ, including all components of the Broker, consumer and producers. Develop automation and configuration management implementation using Chef, integrating open source monitoring framework in a brand new datacenter with a new private cloud. Automate software deployments and templates with Chef. Develop a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform. Designed PowerShell Desired State Configuration, Implementation for server farm. Including DSC Resources, and MOF configurations for deployment. Automated 80 scheduled jobs with PowerShell version 4 and v5Preview. Design, Development and implement Java applications with JQuery, JSP, MSSQL, MySQL and Tomcat (vfabric tc server and Apache Tomcat). Deploying data warehouse cluster. (Leader node and compute nodes in AWS.) From October 2013 to Present (2 years 3 months) Lead Cloud Engineer & Project Manager @ Branchburg and Vineland, NJ Burberry Site
Job Description: +15,000 Windows Server environment including operating systems of Windows Server 2012, 2008R2, 2008, 2003 R2, and AWS. Amazon utilization of RDS, S3, CloudFormation, Route53, DynamoDB. Create Windows product roadmap and strategy. Working on turn key projects, this role encompasses full ownership of the architecture and implementation of Windows 2008 and 2012. Developed RabbitMQ design for scheduling message delivery. Architect and implement a Private Cloud for Burberry as a customer. Consolidate and migrate servers in +5 countries (America, Europe, Asia and Middle East) in a single global design. Design the virtualization layer based on VMware vSphere 5.0. Team leader of Windows 2012 AD design. Create and maintain the Windows Standard images for Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 R2. Create and write automation tools for Windows, Active Directory, Splunk and Citrix servers. From February 2012 to September 2013 (1 year 8 months) Network Infrastructure Architect @ Job Description: +8,000 Server IT Infrastructure environment. Cisco Nexus 7k implementation, and data center migration. ITIL v3 service level management and delivery. London Oliver’s Yard Data Center Project. Troubleshoot and configure vlan routing, BGP, OSPF and circuit delivery between Oliver’s Yard and London Stock Exchange. Test, develop and deliver into Production complex network architecture. Implemented next generation switching with 7k and 5k NX-OS and VDC’s. Migration helped with the relocation of 125 employees from Fleet Place to CQ. From October 2011 to February 2012 (5 months) Deployment Engineer/Consultant @ Developed deployment strategy for server infrastructure of 10,000 servers. Developed and tested automated builds for Microsoft Windows Server environment From 2011 to 2012 (1 year) Team Lead / Senior Systems Engineer Dresher Pa @ Job Description: +8,000 Server Infrastructure. Incident and problem resolution related to Active Directory and SharePoint. Office 365 service configuration and troubleshooting if customers have issues connecting to Office 365 Services using Windows/MS Office clients. PKI administration. Developed application using JQuery, Java, Spring and Python. Certificates management. Server 2008 R2 HPC build for Annuities Division, Add 310 servers to a pool to be managed with Windows HPC package. IIS, and Apache, Cisco UCS blade systems. HP C class blades, Tivoli Monitoring and VMware Infrastructure servers (ESX Server, Virtual Center, HA, VMotion, P2V, etc.), MS SMS 2003, MS ISA Server 2000/2004/2006. Full understanding of SCCM 2007 Hierarchy including setup/troubleshooting. Understanding of all standard operating systems Windows server 2012R2, Linux RHEL6, and FreeBSD. From May 2011 to October 2011 (6 months) DevOps Engineer @ Java servlet development, with JDK, Spring and JavaScript. Completed project to consolidate numerous Active Directory forests into two AD authentication forests while resolving schema and data conflicts to support applications. Additional requirements to upgrade Active Directory and core network support services for DNS, DHCP and WINS were identified and implemented. Microsoft RRAS VPN. Deploy servers in p2v and Citrix Xenapp Farms. VMware VCenter Server 5.0, 5.1. V2V migration and Troubleshoot DHCP, WINS, IIS and DNS servers. VBA code development. VMware, vSphere, F5, Checkpoint, NOKIA From January 2011 to April 2011 (4 months)
Bachelor of Science, Engineering Mechanics @ The Johns Hopkins University From 1998 to 2002 National Science Foundation Scholar, Mechanical Engineering @ University of Nevada-Las Vegas From 2000 to 2000 Derek Coleman is skilled in: Data Center, Cloud Computing, Software Development, Java, Network Infrastructure Architecture, Agile Methodologies, Python, DevOps, R, SQL, PL/SQL, Data Analysis, Tomcat, ActiveMQ, Virtualization, SDLC