• Over 18 years Unix and Linux system administration and technical leadership experience • Experienced project, budget, vendor, change, and inventory management • Knowledgeable in Amazon Cloud services, Amazon RDS, Amazon snapshots, S3, Glacier, Amazon OpsWorks, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Amazon Route 53 (DNS), and CloudWatch • Agile-Scrum software development methodologies using JIRA • Continuous integration testing using Bamboo, JIRA, and Confluence for documentation • Chef configuration management for system administration of very large IT environments • NASA certified UNIX System Administrator • NASA certified IT Security Administrator • 2009 NASA Group Achievement Award for Flight Network Test-bed Implementation • CompTIA IT Healthcare Technician Certified • IT system and security auditing following NASA OIG and NIST standards • System hardening, performance tuning, and load testing using Nessus, Nmap, J-Meter, Tsung, and Selenium Grid • Experience deploying Solaris servers using Solaris jumpstart and RedHat kickstart server • Design, install, troubleshoot, configure, repair, and support multiple Linux and Solaris production, QA, test, and development environments • Vast and diversified educational and work background, strong work ethic, very detail-oriented, excellent written and verbal skills

Senior DevOps Cloud Architect @ • Part of a globally located team that supports NeroKwik and Nero BackItUp using Amazon Cloud services and infrastructure in a LAMP/LEMP environment (Linux (CentOS and Fedora), Apache/Nginx, NodeJS, PHP, MongoDB, MySQL Amazon RDS) • Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), CloudWatch, Route 53 (DNS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) • Agile-Scrum software development methodology using JIRA for bug tracking, issue tracking and project management • Reduced Amazon operating costs by consolidating and reducing the number of Amazon EC2 instances to realize an 82% annual operating cost reduction • Docker deployment for self-contained individual development environments using boot2docker and VirtualBox. • Chef configuration management for administration of numerous Linux EC2 instances • System hardening, performance tuning, and load testing using Nessus, Nmap, J-Meter, Tsung, and Selenium Grid • IT Security and system auditing • Backups using Amazon snapshots, S3, and Glacier • MongoDB high availability configuration, installation, and maintenance • System monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch, LogStash, and Nagios/Check_MK/OMD • Policy and procedure documentation From November 2011 to Present (4 years) Glendale, CA

TESL/TEFL - Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language Certificate, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor @ UCLA Extension From 2011 to 2012 Graduate Certificate, Radioactive Waste Management @ University of Massachusetts at Lowell From 1995 to 1996 BS, Radiological Health Physics @ University of Massachusetts Lowell From 1989 to 1994 Stephen T. is skilled in: Amazon Web Services..., Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, Docker, Team Building, Technical Leadership, Budget Management, Solaris, Linux, System Administration, Apache, Security, Servers, VMware, Integration, Red Hat Linux, Firewalls, Data Center, Sendmail, Disaster Recovery, Network Security, Networking, SSH, Vendor Management, Management, Computer Security, Postfix, Team Leadership, RSA SecurID, HL7, Nmap, Nessus, Snort, Technical Writing, Help Desk Support, Websphere, WebObjects, HIPAA, EMR, EHR, IT Audit, IT Security Assessments, Customer Retention, Operating Systems