My key strengths are my personality and my ability to learn quickly. I am driven to learn about new technologies, tools, techniques, and ideas that can be implemented to make workflows more fun and efficient. I have had the tremendous opportunity to learn about and use some of the most exciting technologies in DevOps today, and hope to continue to stay on the cutting edge.
Jr. DevOps Engineer @ Automate and oversee multiple HA environments for hundreds of major websites including motortrend.com (CentOS Linux, Rightscale/Chef, Ruby, Git, Atlassian Stash/Confluence, HAProxy/F5, Elasticsearch, Varnish, Apache, Cloudstack)
Continue administration of legacy environments (Windows Server, IIS, Postgres)
Canage centralized logging systems (Elasticsearch / Kibana)
Administrate separate environments for development, testing, staging and production to facilitate agile developer workflow and continuous deployment (Atlassian Jira)
Configure and respond to urgent alerts (Nagios, Rigor, Dotcom-monitor)
Research and implement infrastructure solutions (Docker, Rancher, Consul)
Diagnose existing and potential problems and find resolutions for them From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) SysAdmin / I.T. Support @ Manage several Linux servers (mostly CentOS, some Ubuntu)
Find sustainable and money-saving solutions to problems (migrate from AWS to self-hosted VMWare)
Respond to emergency alerts regarding internal and client-facing tools and sites (mostly Bash and Perl scripts with sendmail)
Maintain network infrastructure (Cisco Security Appliance, small-office network)
Troubleshoot server and workstation technical issues (Microsoft Outlook, Windows XP/Vista/7, Microsoft Office, tailing dmsg and syslogs)
Parse Akamai generated logs and generate reports consolidating metrics for streaming video stats (Akamai, Sawmill, custom Bash scripts)
Improve tools, systems and processes to promote productivity office-wide From June 2013 to September 2014 (1 year 4 months) Delivery Manager @ Independently find creative, reactive methods for delivering campaign emails
Manage resources required (IP addresses, domains, landing pages, creative content for campaigns)
Analyze individual campaign performance (A/B testing, etc) to improve revenue
Work closely with sysadmins and developers to find and resolve issues with delivery and test new methods (delivery testing tools, IP range route management) From July 2012 to June 2013 (1 year) Sign Artist @ Arts and crafts all day, sprinkled with "WOW" customer service. From March 2006 to July 2012 (6 years 5 months)
Chemical Engineering @ University of California, Riverside William Kray is skilled in: Ubuntu, Linux System Administration, SSH, Apache, Microsoft Office, MySQL, Servers, CentOS, Bash, VirtualBox, Windows 7, VMware, Arch Linux, RedHat, Photoshop