Large scale systems design, control, and support in complex DevOps environments involving high-availability in multiple worldwide Data Centers with failover, redundancy, disaster recovery and heavy automation.

Technical Operations Systems Engineer @ OpenStack, Amazon Web Services including Elastic-Compute Cloud / CloudFront / S3 / Elastic Map-Reduce, Chef, Collectd, Graphite, InfluxDB, Grafana, Nagios/Icinga, PagerDuty, Pingdom, Fogbugz/Wiki, Couchbase, Elastic Search, Mercurial, GIT, Ubuntu in a heavily automated environment, using Chef 12, Ubuntu 14, Ruby, Python, Perl, BASH. From March 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) Senior Developer / Principal Analyst Infrastructure @ o Create and scale a percentage-uptime solution for clients. o Install and maintain Trac, Svn, Git, Postgres and related repository support. o Create necessary Visio project diagrams and Google docs for SAN/Golden-Image deployment. o Provide local repositories and maintenance thereof for RHEL5/6 and Oracle UEK for cloud maintenance. o Hardware and software support for Infrastructure in DevOps supporting end-customers and internal engineers in a large completely self-hosted Red Hat Linux cloud in multiple national data centers. o Deploy servers and write automation in Python, Perl, and scripts to do full end-to-end deployments via SAN golden image and hands-off bare-metal Red Hat installation methodologies. o Modify and maintain Storage Area Network and write automation for allocation and setup o Maintain monitoring of Big Brother. o Work with Netbackup backups. o Maintain and enhance MediaWiki and write extensive documentation o Deploy Puppet including Puppet Master, Agents, original Puppet Patterns o Security-related activities in Sudo, Chroot, etc. o Create and enhance automation for large cloud arbitrary ad-hoc surveys and modifications o Train and assist junior staff on Linux. From May 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 9 months) Senior Support Engineer (Infrastructure/DevOPS) @ o Hardware and software support for Infrastructure in DevOps Build Engineering organization including deployments of hundreds of servers in multiple data centers. o Participate in 7x24 oncall rotation, resolve issues, modify and maintain servers. o Maintain Wiki, DNS, and automate the Build Engineering cloud to ensure consistency in round-the-clock reporting and automatic restarting of failed tasks and automatic system resets for software builds of all Apple products. o Write original Perl, Ruby, Bash to maintain and enhance DevOps including DNS namespace maintenance automation and software engineering build cloud hands-off-automation. From January 2011 to March 2012 (1 year 3 months) Senior Linux System Administrator (Production Support) @ Working in large I.T. team involving extensive collaboration including writing all the original software for deployments of the Credit Revue credit-granting software for the national enterprise. Server and co-lead systems administrator in production support for a $1B+ business in the top revenue-producing wings of the national firm. o Develop numerous processes, procedures, policies and documents. o Increased automation for company in disaster-recovery / failover. o Supported multi-site/multi-state corporate data center (multiple environment) for Fortune 100 company, running AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, and GNU/Linux, in complex Production, Q/A, and Development Environments. o Brought large enterprise-ready Linux systems into production, trained staff, ensured systems documented, setup roles and responsibilities, project manager for Linux project. o Architected, created, and the entire development-to-QA-to- production process including scripts and documentation in collaboration. o Security hardening of company database application software. o Address outages, review post-mortem, determine root-cause, include fixes and document. o Support production Linux/Unix primary or secondary 7x24x365, involving extensive oncall including failover/failbacks/debriefing/conference and bridge calls, systems design, etc. o Disaster recovery team member for California/Texas DR/failover services. From May 2008 to January 2011 (2 years 9 months) System Administrator / Software Architect (Technical Services) @ o Supported national 400 server corporate data centers running Red Hat Linux Enterprise AS servers, SUN Solaris servers, IBM AIX servers, and HP-UX servers in Irvine, Ohio, New York. o Applied patches and upgrades and maintained/installed/deployed Red Hat, SUN, AIX, HP-UX. o Capacity management (TeamQuest data/graphs.) o Utilize Storage Area Network and large-scale Hitachi and EMC arrays. o Monitoring and measurement. o Automation, surveys, inventory, security. o Supported call center comprising 1000 client stations, served by 25 servers, SUN Solaris. Patched clients and servers. Maintained high-volume ticket queue. o Supported RF Engineering comprising 100 engineers, 100 SUN engineering stations and servers) including support of backups and scripts for engineers. From January 1996 to January 2008 (12 years 1 month)

B.S. Mathematical Sciences (partial), Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Probability/Statistics @ Stanford University From 1976 to 1978 B.A., Behavioral Sciences @ National University From 1982 to 1984 Stuart Cracraft is skilled in: Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenStack, Red Hat Linux, Linux, Chef, Puppet, Open Source, Ruby, Python, Perl, Servers, Deployment, Solaris, DNS