James Tremblay's Email & Phone Number

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Contracted DevOps Engineer - Contract ended successfully @ AIM Consulting Contracted to Assist with the installation and configuration of the Atlassian Suite of products.Duties: - DevOps Engineer at T-Mobile coordinating the migration of a group of the company’s internal applications from a Microsoft Team Foundation Server based workflow to Atlassian’s products. - Utilize Bitbucket server, Bamboo, and Crucible integrated with Jira and Confluence. Accomplishing parity of process between the two systems before releasing to the stakeholders. - Migrated .NET 3.5 \ 4.0 and node.js applications from TFS to the Atlassian suite. - Provide training and onboarding support for the different Developer teams.Major Technologies used: Bitbucket, Bamboo, Crucible, Jira, MSBuild and Node From December 2016 to March 2017 (4 months) Greater Seattle AreaSystems / DevOps Engineer - company laid off 90% of employees. @ Atigeo Manage server and application infrastructure on the AWS platform and on-premise server infrastructure, including developing tools for configuration management, code deployment, continuous integration, automated testing and monitoring. Implementing and managing high availability, mission critical infrastructure, and a dedicated problem solver who can multi-task and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced and demanding environment. Experienced in both system engineering / administration with a focus on building back-end systems like monitoring, automation and management tools.Duties: - Build and maintain tools that help test, deploy, measure, monitor and scale applications and infrastructure.- Oversee and perform server and application deployment including release management- Help to continuously improve processes and tools to ensure the best possible experience for the users, from availability to performance and reliability- Monitor and maintain the systems, including being part of a 12x7 on-call rotation and escalation path- Collaborate with other engineers to to optimize application and infrastructure for performance, reliability, failover, and scaleMajor Technologies used: AWS, CentOS/RHEL (LAMP STACK) , Cloudera (Hadoop stack) , Postgres, Tomcat, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, S3, GITHub, Chef, Route 53, LDAP/ Kerberos, Jira, Confluence. From July 2016 to November 2016 (5 months) Bellevue WashingtonSr IT Administrator - recuited by former supervisor to join Atigeo team. @ VoiceBox Technologies A member of a team focused on building and supporting internal tools and technologies with a focus on software, also responsible for maintaining the company's IT network, server software and security systems. This position exercised my strong customer service and communication skills, both written and oral. Excellent organizational skills are a must for this fast paced, high visibility position.Essential Functions- Provide support and monitoring of the company’s internal environment.- Update network applications as required- Maintain daily backup and disaster recovery solutions- Troubleshoot and resolve all problems encountered with hardware and software. - Provide support to the Technology team- Perform routine server monitoring and performance benchmarking- Monitor and remove viruses, spyware, and other unauthorized softwareMajor Technologies used: AWS, XENServer, CentOS / RHEL, Windows Server, JIRA, Confluence, Postgres, Tomcat, Active Directory, SAMBA, LDAP / Kerberos. From December 2015 to July 2016 (8 months) Bellevue, WAContracted Systems / DevOps Engineer - company laid off over 500 employees world wide. @ RealNetworks Contracted to reverse engineer, upgrade and virtualize the two legacy systems involved in the production of the "Realplayer for Windows" and the "HelixPlayer for Linux" Duties: - Upgrade all components of a custom written compile system called "Ribosome" to use VC10 (VisualStudio) on Windows 7/8 build clients. - Deployed Jenkins to replace an internally written on demand compile and deliver system with Continuous Development / Deployment Features. - Reconfigured the build systems storage and networking components which optimized the system to deliver a complete build every 3+ hours. - Provide HA stability to the build components by recreating 100% of the components in a virtualized environment. - Lead Engineer supporting the conversion / migration of the build systems custom written QA components and testing software to newer OS's as well as virtualizing many of the systems. - Lead Engineer supporting the conversion of the companies open source project "The Helix Community" from physical to virtual while upgrading the components to the latest versions.These components include : FusionForge , Postgres, CVS, SVN , GIT, ViewVC, Doxygen, and CKeditor.Major Technologies used: CentOS, Windows Server, VMWARE, AWS, S3, LDAP, SAMBA, FusionForge, Postgres, CVS, SVN, GIT, ViewVC, Doxygen, Mailman and CKEditor. From February 2014 to December 2015 (1 year 11 months) Greater Seattle AreaNetwork Administrator / Linux Administrator - recruited to RealNetworks by former co-worker @ Charleston County School District Hired as the District e-Mail Administrator, the role quickly expanded.Duties:- Team Lead during Migration of a Novell GroupWise System to Google Apps which included: mailboxes in 16 Post offices, 19 Domains, 2 Webaccess servers, 2 GW Internet Agents - Administrator of an Arcmail e-mail Backup with Nexic discovery system including all legal discovery tasks.- Team lead upgrading CommVault backup storage for 87 sites and 300 servers from direct to tape system to a D2D2T system utilizing Robocopy to stage data on two DAS's before offloading to tape.- Team Lead Migrating VMWare VCenter 4 to VCenter 5 while upgrading 200 VM's and 20 ESXI 4 hosts to version 5.- Team Lead upgrading the Novell Access Manager installation which provides federated services with several off site vendors 12 application connections and 130 plus surveillance camera servers.- Team Lead upgrading Novell Identity Manager services so that users from 3 different data stores could log into local workstations / Google and 15 SAML Federated systems.- Managed Dell Compellent 24 tb SAN including all maintenance of the systems software and all LUNS associated with the VMWare configuration.- Maintain and Secure 4 SUSE Linux Servers which provide staging and production information for the Districts Intranet / Extra-net and Internet web and application presences.- Team Lead re-configuring and upgrading 87 Zenworks Imaging servers to provide a simple menu based system for re-imaging both Windows XP and Windows 7 using only 4 base images including Win 7 32 and 64 bit, XP desktop and laptop while overseeing the configuration of both operating systems to be able to work with over 20 versions of Dell hardware. - Team Lead Migrating 20 Data Center servers from Dell to HP hardware including installation and configuration of HP's Insight Manager and Insight Remote Support.- Administrator of network services :DNS• DHCP• LDAP• CA / Certificate Management From September 2011 to February 2014 (2 years 6 months) Charleston, South Carolina AreaNetwork Administrator / Linux Administrator - IT department downsized from three locations to one. @ SouthWind Management Corp Duties:- System Administrator for 200+ PC’s, 22 Servers in 3 states- Application deployment and desktop integration specialist during roll-out of new ERP (SPI-Orange).- Spiceworks Helpdesk Manager , Linux Email System Admin , Cell Phone Administrator- Redeployed WAN to include PCI compliant security and continued assurance using Astaro Linux appliances as both firewall and remote connectivity management.- Supported services: Active Directory · EMail · DNS · DHCP · LDAP · Printing · Certificate Management · Intranet Web Services. From January 2010 to June 2011 (1 year 6 months) Hilton Head, South CarolinaDirector of Technology @ Newmarket School District Duties:- Systems Administrator for 1300 users ,480 pc’s and 18 servers in three buildings- Developing and executing the technology plan, - Designing and Building data network infrastructure from ground up at three School buildings- Designing and Implementing Fiber Optic Network for School and Town infrastructure- Assisting the Academic Team in the area of classroom integration of instructional technology by selecting and integrating appropriate equipment and applications- Supervising of the Technology Department Staff - Designing and Managing the Districts Electronic HIPAA / FERPA / CIPA compliance plans and Electronic Security Plan- Oversee the Schools websites and other web-based communication platforms - Responsible for all technological resources supporting the educational, communications, processing and record keeping functions- Managing the Technology Training for the Faculty, Staff & Administration- Designing and Implementing, the Districts e-learning & distance learning initiatives- T Departments Public Relations Administrator- Developing and executing the technology plan- Developing and overseeing the Schools acceptable use policies, procedures and protocols for technology use - Developing and managing the IT budget - Developing State of New Hampshire approved Education Technology Plans (2002 - 2008) - Technologies used include: Novell Netware, BorderManager, ZenWorks, Groupwise, Grouplink, Windows 2003 and XP, Microsoft Office , Visio Networks 2000, OpenOffice, McAfee Enterprise Anti-Virus Suite, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop , LTSP (Linux thin client solution), Apache2, MySQL , PHP web services, Joomla, Moodle, openBiblio, openSIS, IBM Servers and Desktops, HP Procurve switches, Cisco 2600 routers and wireless access points, Netgear switches and wireless access points.- Administrator of Network Services: Novell EDirectory · DNS · DHCP · LDAP · Printing · Certificate Management · Web Services & Remote Access. From June 2001 to August 2009 (8 years 3 months) Newmarket, New HampshireNetwork Manager @ Peabody Public Schools Duties:- Systems Administrator , 7300 users, 1500 pc’s , 28 servers in 11 buildings- Designing and Building data network infrastructure from ground up at all School buildings- Administrator of Network Services: Novell EDirectory · DNS · DHCP · LDAP · Printing · Certificate Management · Web Services & Remote Access.- Assisting the academic team in the area of classroom integration of instructional technology by selecting and integrating appropriate equipment and applications- Webmaster for the district- Overseeing the school website and other web-based communication platforms- Network Projects Management- Responsible for all technological resources supporting the educational, communications, processing and record keeping functions of the school Technologies used include: Novell Netware, BorderManager, ZenWorks, Groupwise, Windows NT4 and 98, Microsoft Office , Visio, McAfee Enterprise Anti-Virus Suite, IBM Servers and Desktops, Nortel switches , routers and DOCSIS 1.0 cable modem equipment. From July 1996 to July 2001 (5 years 1 month) Peabody, MassachussetsSales and Service Engineer @ Multimedia Systems Inc Duties:- Lead product installer and implementation engineer supporting IBM software for Academic environments. Specializing in "SchoolVista"- Lead Sales Engineer charged with Design and Implementation of Novell Networks Solutions in K-12 Environments.- Administrator of Network Services: Novell EDirectory · DNS · DHCP · LDAP · Printing · Certificate Management · Web Services & Remote Access. From June 1994 to July 1996 (2 years 2 months) Exeter, New HamphsireSr. Systems Administrator @ INAP Responsible for the technical design, planning, implementation, and the highest level of performance tuning and recovery procedures for mission critical enterprise systems. Serves as a technical expert in the area of system administration for complex operating systems. Recommends the redesign and configuration of Linux/Unix and Solaris operating systems and system applications. Investigates and analyzes feasibility of system requirements and develops system specifications. Identifies methods, solutions, and provides project leadership and management in order to provide a high level of service to the customers of the department. Atlanta, GA