Cloud Infrastructure Evangelist
Austin, Texas Area
McGraw-Hill Education
Manager, Development Operations & Automation
August 2015 to Present
McGraw-Hill Education
Principal Platform Architect
March 2015 to August 2015
T-Mobile
Senior DevOps and Automation Engineer, Senior Unix Administrator
October 2014 to March 2015
Filson
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March 2014 to October 2014
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Corbis
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February 2014 to April 2014
Greater Seattle Area
Erado
Senior Applications Architect
January 2013 to February 2014
Highline Community College
Professor of Emerging Technologies
2011 to May 2013
Clearwire
Senior Zend Engineer
July 2012 to February 2013
BKWLD
Senior Applications Developer
February 2012 to September 2012
Greater Seattle Area
Smashing Ideas, Inc
Senior Drupal Developer
November 2011 to January 2012
Zumiez
Web Applications Developer
February 2006 to October 2010
OmniSistem
Senior Web Application Developer
February 2007 to June 2009
Amazon Web Services
AWS Technical Essentials (3.7) Certification Network and System Administration/Administrator
2015 to 2015
PuppetLabs
Puppet Practitioner Certification Network and System Administration/Administrator
2015 to 2015
Highline Community College
2002 to 2004
Direct report and Manager of Green Fields projects DevOps and Automation team Control of ~9 MHE products and 170 downstream employees - DLE * Engrade (CoreApps / API) * Aleks * CI/Schmetterlinge * Bento - CLO * Player * FlatIrons * Tengu * Course Assembly * Course Delivery * Course Factory / Public API Daily work load... Direct report and Manager of Green Fields projects DevOps and Automation team Control of ~9 MHE products and 170 downstream employees - DLE * Engrade (CoreApps / API) * Aleks * CI/Schmetterlinge * Bento - CLO * Player * FlatIrons * Tengu * Course Assembly * Course Delivery * Course Factory / Public API Daily work load includes - Orchestration of cloud and hybrid cloud solutions - Innovating around our global infrastructure to overcome both L10n and Region Nexus' - Train and maintain a world class operations team - Understand and improve upon our software development processes and life-cycles - Ensure compliance with our policies and appropriate use of our infrastructures - Integrate, audit and refine our CI/CD and CM processes - Plan and implement containerization strategies with OS Magnum, AWS ECC and Docker Management duties include - Mentoring in team in high growth, rapidly scaling environments - Team organization and execution for delivery of key DevOps and NOC initiatives - Leverage standard project management methodologies including as-is and to-be process models - Assume Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) responsibilities in the absence of the ISSO - Training in performance, security, redundancy and availability of systems - Work with vendors for product procurement to ensure system complianies as needs change - Create and monitor employee growth plans, 1n1 and 360 reviews - Define and prioritization of day to day operations This is a behavior driven position where my team and I must work well under pressure, meeting, completing and exceeding in multi-deadline situations. While at all times demonstrating cooperative behavior with colleagues, supervisors and directors.
What company does Jd Daniel work for?
Jd Daniel works for McGraw-Hill Education
What is Jd Daniel's role at McGraw-Hill Education?
Jd Daniel is Manager, Development Operations & Automation
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Jd Daniel works in the Higher Education industry.
Who are Jd Daniel's colleagues?
Jd Daniel's colleagues are Richard Skeete, Ivan Yurchenko, Sean Moore, Sarah Laue, Fernando Battle, Hossein J., Chris Bushman, Thomas Peeler, Keisha Howie, and Tina Stewart
📖 Summary
Quirky at the best of times.Manager, Development Operations & Automation @ Direct report and Manager of Green Fields projects DevOps and Automation team Control of ~9 MHE products and 170 downstream employees - DLE * Engrade (CoreApps / API) * Aleks * CI/Schmetterlinge * Bento - CLO * Player * FlatIrons * Tengu * Course Assembly * Course Delivery * Course Factory / Public API Daily work load includes - Orchestration of cloud and hybrid cloud solutions - Innovating around our global infrastructure to overcome both L10n and Region Nexus' - Train and maintain a world class operations team - Understand and improve upon our software development processes and life-cycles - Ensure compliance with our policies and appropriate use of our infrastructures - Integrate, audit and refine our CI/CD and CM processes - Plan and implement containerization strategies with OS Magnum, AWS ECC and Docker Management duties include - Mentoring in team in high growth, rapidly scaling environments - Team organization and execution for delivery of key DevOps and NOC initiatives - Leverage standard project management methodologies including as-is and to-be process models - Assume Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO) responsibilities in the absence of the ISSO - Training in performance, security, redundancy and availability of systems - Work with vendors for product procurement to ensure system complianies as needs change - Create and monitor employee growth plans, 1n1 and 360 reviews - Define and prioritization of day to day operations This is a behavior driven position where my team and I must work well under pressure, meeting, completing and exceeding in multi-deadline situations. While at all times demonstrating cooperative behavior with colleagues, supervisors and directors. From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Principal Platform Architect @ * Technical Lead for the Project Theta Rapid Development (R&D) Team * Technical Lead for the PaaS / Platform Integration Team * Integration contact between Engrade and Global Technology Solutions teams * Integration contact between Engrade and Assess teams Daily work load includes - Virtualization (VMWare, HVM/KVM, VirtualBox and Parallels) - Infrastructure Automation (Jenkins CI, Puppet, Ansible and Vagrant) - Build Tooling (Ant, Maven, Rake and GNU Make) - SCM Tools (Pure GIT, Github, Stash and GIT Automation) - Scripting (Shell, Ruby, Python, etc) - Application Servers and Nodes over LB (Apache HTTP Server / NGINX) Platform migration for Engrade to AWS Cloud Architecture - AMI role provisioning - EBS backed EC2's on rapid deployment cycle - Non-segregated RDS and DynamoDB datastores - SNS implementation - ElasticIP over VPC/Subnets - Other services including ElastiCache, CloudSearch, Cloud Formation and Route 53 Master of Master Puppet setup to control everything from Prod to Local devboxes Rapid development/deployment via Vagrant/Packer CI/CD via Jenkins and Puppet Enterprise (3.8.1) 3 legged encryption via KMS/IAM, OpenSSL and Privkey integrated with Puppet DynamoDB wrapper utilizing KMS authentication SES wrapper utilizing KMS authentication Statistical analysis via Dynatrace Server health monitoring via New Relic, ELB Heartbeat, Nagios etc Proof of concepts in RedHat, CentOS and Ubuntu From March 2015 to August 2015 (6 months) Senior DevOps and Automation Engineer, Senior Unix Administrator @ Creation, provisioning and maintenance of over ~100k virtual and physical servers Understanding of key concept differences and management of - Oracle Linux Server 4 to 6.11 - Solaris 5 to 7 - AIX 4 to 6.4 - HP/UX 10.24 to 11i v3 - RHEL Kernel vs Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Creation and provisioning of virtual appliances with Packer from ISO to release Management of integration points with vSphere and vCenter Custom virtual appliance provisioning with Vagrant Creation and management of mass scale Puppet management across multiple platforms Toolkit creation for managing super large datacenters and clusters Porting Paravirtualization machines (PVM) to Hardware virtualization (HVM) Cloud computing and deployment with AWS, OpenStack and Vmware vCloud Full lifecycle provisioning to deployment with Packer From October 2014 to March 2015 (6 months) Senior Software Engineer @ Magento Enterprise 1.14.1 migration and development Cloud deployment with AWS (Using EC2, SES, ElasticBeanstalk, Route53 and S3) Server configuration and deployments under both RHEL and DEB environments Enterprise resource plan integration with Microsoft Dynamics AX Development and Legacy support for existing Java (JRE6) applications Custom tool building and automation to reduce current manual workloads Remote deployment and coordination on load balanced hard servers J2EE Build, debug and E2E testing (Selenium and Karma) OWASP standards integration against common attack vectors Software and WAF firewall hardening with UFW, CSF ModSecurity and Fail2Ban Multilayered caching with Varnish, REDIS MemCache(D) and NGNIX reverse proxy HipHop Virtual Machine integration with Magento Enterprise 1.13 Deployment strategy management with Chef TCP/HTTP load balancing with HAProxy Creation of several unique database migration scripts to integrate with the Magento API(s) From March 2014 to October 2014 (8 months) Greater Seattle AreaSenior Software Engineer @ AngularJS MMC Integration with MongoDB Mongoose to Mongo ORM layering Multiformat Transcoding in shell NodeJS mitigating tier work for API consumption Yeoman generator customization Multisystem backend integration ClosedStack to OpenStack conversion Apache SOLR Integration Three legged request integration between Filemaker Server, Apache Solr and MongoDB From February 2014 to April 2014 (3 months) Greater Seattle AreaSenior Applications Architect @ RESTful API Development and integration *nix BASH/SHELL Application script automation Implementing PHP5.+ Pattern integration Socialmedia wiretapping, monitoring and message aggregation Language backporting of existing code into more manageable widespread solutions Archiving solutions for E2E communications, social media, social play, image and video Process and planning for scalable high availability solutions in Cassandra Refining existing codebase into a loosely coupled OO paradigm Implementing GIT->SVN SVN->GIT transformations for code storage Sole Developer behind several social media and website archiving/compliance applications Cross platform/server code compliance Developer for special/advanced projects From January 2013 to February 2014 (1 year 2 months) Professor of Emerging Technologies @ Teach young minds about the powers of content management systems, and new and interesting web based technologies. Wordpress development and deployment Mysql transaction rescues Application rollback Loose HTML5 couplings CMS integration with existing applications View modeling with new technologies Technology selection for peak job opportunities From 2011 to May 2013 (2 years) Senior Zend Engineer @ Programming scalable, high performance Web Applications under Zend Framework Asset tracking with use of Omniture Tracker, Adobe SiteCatalyst and Google Analytics ORM (Object-Role Modeling) Mapping layers with Zend Framework and MySQL Server Design pattern implementations such as Active Object, Facade and Observer Cross server consumption of deliverable object with SOAP Frameworks JavaScript/jQuery development for responsive user interfaces Geocode triangulation with Google Maps API From July 2012 to February 2013 (8 months) Senior Applications Developer @ EAV Database structure and reorganization. EDI integration on multiplatform eCommerce systems. Subversion to GIT migrations with History check and Users tables. Multistate projects management. From February 2012 to September 2012 (8 months) Greater Seattle AreaSenior Drupal Developer @ Creating exciting new modules for contribution with the open-source Drupal Project. From November 2011 to January 2012 (3 months) Web Applications Developer @ Multicurled asset scraper for discovering missing/corrupt images Magento Enterprise 1.10 Adobe Scene 7 SiteCataylist PHP 5.3 Block share CSS integration JQuery 0.83 XSLT/Regexp transformations From February 2006 to October 2010 (4 years 9 months) Senior Web Application Developer @ Completely redesigned existing website into a self sustaining PHP5 driven site. Automated much of the site to point and click management including product update and image cataloging procedures. Instituted a one of a kind XML backend to take place of a SQL database engine. From February 2007 to June 2009 (2 years 5 months) AWS Technical Essentials (3.7) Certification, Network and System Administration/Administrator @ Amazon Web Services From 2015 to 2015 Puppet Practitioner Certification, Network and System Administration/Administrator @ PuppetLabs From 2015 to 2015 Highline Community College From 2002 to 2004 Jd Daniel is skilled in: MySQL, Git, Subversion, PHP, SOAP, Zend Framework, REST, Design Patterns, Magento, LAMP, jQuery, CMS, Databases, Open Source, HTML 5
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