Over 6 years experience designing and implementing automated, secure and reliable systems. Strong communication and technical skills in a variety of platforms including Puppet, Ruby, Bash, Cisco, Juniper, and Linux systems.

DevOps @ The Mochi Engineering Team was acquired by Machine Zone in March 2014. At Machine Zone, I focus on code deployment automation using SaltStack (Python), MySQL backup system (Python program using Percona Xtrabackup), and system configuration management using Puppet in a Hiera driven setup. I have also created custom Git hook scripts and migrated Machine Zone from Gitolite to Gitlab for code review and version control. Data driven Puppet SaltStack for software deployment automation and remote command/module execution Automated CDN asset delivery via Ruby application From March 2014 to October 2015 (1 year 8 months) DevOps Engineer, Contractor @ Building out Puppet and other services with a goal to automate as much as possible. Migrate services from Gentoo to Ubuntu platforms. Configure monitoring using Scout and logging with SyslogNG/Papertrail integration. Configure pfSense firewall pairs and VPN services to communicate between cloud providers and data center space. Integrate a local development environment running Vagrant and Puppet for staged deployments. Puppetize and network multiple RabbitMQ clusters. Contributed to open source Puppet MongoDB module. From April 2013 to March 2014 (1 year) Greater Seattle AreaSr. Operations Engineer @ Responsible for IT operations, including budget and spending. Deploy and maintain maximum uptime of Mochi's production, staging, and development environments. I primarily use Puppet to control the deployment, maintenance, and documentation of our system deployments. Maintaing network and system security. Running a 100+ terabyte Hadoop/Hbase cluster. Maintain an Nginx web-frontend in conjunction with A10 Load Balancers. From July 2012 to March 2014 (1 year 9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSr. System Administrator, Operations @ Managing systems for GoGrid's production virtual and dedicated server environments. Many of my projects included automating deployment tasks using of Xen hypervisor systems. Administering operations and deployment systems including Cobbler, IPMI networks, Puppet, monitoring and Xen virtual systems across a global datacenter presence. From December 2011 to July 2012 (8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaKey Accounts - System Administrator @ My responsibilities included installing, configuring and troubleshooting Cisco switches, routers and ASAs. Integrate Cisco devices with Cloud computing. I deployed and supported IPsec VPN tunnels and remote access SSL VPNs into cloud computing environments. Used Bash/Python scripting and custom Nagios monitoring for troubleshooting system and network level issues. Worked with on a daily basis Fortune 500 companies and their Cloud infrastructure. Provided support and engineering solutions on both Linux and Windows server deployments. From January 2010 to December 2011 (2 years) San Francisco Bay AreaVolunteer @ I have designed and currently administer Garfield Elementary's PTO website, Facebook Fan Page, and Google Apps platform. The ability of the school and PTO to raise money within the community relies heavily on the website and social network marketing. These technologies are configured to support the implementation and communications for the school's silent actions, carnivals, book fairs, parades, and other community events. From November 2010 to September 2011 (11 months) Senior Sales Engineer @ I served as the primary technical source for a team of 9 account managers on the sales team. Provided directly sales engineering and sales lead on largest lead values ranging up to $30K monthly reoccurring revenue. Engineered complex server, load balancing and firewall topologies. Created new partnerships with Fusion-IO (SSD drives) and Zimbra email and brought to market with Liquid Web. From June 2008 to January 2010 (1 year 8 months) Lansing, Michigan AreaSystem Administrator @ Administered Apache, Exim, MySQL, DNS and IPtables configurations on CentOS/Red Hat systems. Perform system migrations of data and DNS maintenance. Supported Cisco ASAs and VPN configurations. Also, configured Nagios, Cacti, and MRTG to work with thousands of servers. From February 2007 to June 2008 (1 year 5 months)

Bachelor's Degree @ Ferris State University From 2002 to 2006 Zane Williamson is skilled in: Bash, Apache, Linux System Administration, Xen, VPN, F5 BigIP, Network Administration, Python, Data Center, Cisco IOS, Puppet, Cisco Technologies, CentOS, Hadoop, JUNOS