Jason Harley's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Over my career I have built, taught, and lead world-class teams while designing and deploying scalable systems to meet the demands of the business and their customers while pushing technologies to their limits. I love technology, automation, scale and leading teams of passionate and talented technologists.VP Engineering @ During my tenure at Breqwatr, I was the technical architect and engineering lead on the team that created the OpenStack-powered Breqwatr Cloud Appliance (BCA). I led this team and project from conception through the first two major releases. BCA is a cutting-edge, hyper-converged, private cloud appliance offering a curated configuration of OpenStack. It boasts a user-friendly web interface for self-service and automation developed to let enterprises focus on the benefits of OpenStack without needing to get bogged down in deployment and configuration details. In addition to being a key member of the engineering team, my other responsibilities included customer support, technical sales, customer environment integration, and speaking to the media while also managing all engineering roadmaps, pipelines, and tooling (source control, build and delivery, documentation, et cetera). From June 2013 to August 2015 (2 years 3 months) Toronto, Canada AreaSr. DevOps Engineer @ From June 2013 to November 2014 (1 year 6 months) Toronto, Canada AreaSr. Systems Architect @ As a member of the IT Operations group, I was primarily responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of the infrastructure and operations supporting SecureKey's involvement in the revamped "Care Card" program for the Province of British Columbia. From April 2012 to June 2013 (1 year 3 months) Toronto, Canada AreaInfrastructure Architect @ Working with the Production System Operations team on the design and proof of concept of a next-generation hardware architecture. High density servers, VMWare vSphere, and low-latency iSCSI fabrics were selected to help provide increased availability, flexibility, and ease of management. From July 2011 to April 2012 (10 months) Toronto, Canada AreaTeam Lead, IT & Infrastructure @ On-going maintenance, monitoring, planning and deployments of OANDA's internal and external IT infrastructure. Managing a team of a talented individuals to meet the requirements and demands of the corporation at large. Daily interfacing with internal and external stake-holders and clients to maintain a high-level of availability, and flexibility in the fast-paced world of online Foreign Exchange Markets. From February 2006 to July 2011 (5 years 6 months) Infrastructure Systems Adminstrator @ As a member of the Infrastructure Engineering team, I worked in a heterogeneous, world-wide environment with Linux, Solaris and IRIX. n.b. Alias Systems, Inc. (formerly Alias|Wavefront) is now owned by Autodesk (ADSK). The purchase was completed January 10, 2006. From May 2004 to January 2006 (1 year 9 months) Programmer @ Working full-time summers, and part-time throughout the school year, the AITT allowed me to develop technology solutions for the University community. From May 2001 to April 2004 (3 years) Bachelor of Computer Science @ Acadia University From 2000 to 2004 Jason Harley is skilled in: OpenStack, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, System Automation, System Architecture, System Administration, Unix, Linux, Shell Scripting, VMware, Storage, Open Storage, Integration, High Availability, Scalability