- Engineer - System Administration,
QVC, Inc. (June 2013 - Present)
+ Engineer - System Administration and Automation,
QVC, Inc. (June 2013 - Present)
- - Maintain physical and virtual Unix/Linux servers within the company's data centers
- - Troubleshoot problems within the company's infrastructure
- - Deploy new systems using a variety of technologies, including VMWare and NIM
- - Assist with the deployment of applications to Tomcat and WebSphere environments
- - Manage server configurations using tools such as Puppet and vCM
- - Work in a global environment with teams from all across the world
+ - Build and maintain Linux and Unix systems, both physical and virtual
+ - Manage over 1000 systems using tools such as Puppet
+ - Automate the server build and application deployment processes
+ - Provide 24x7 on-call support for mission-critical ecommerce systems
+ - Work in a global environment, with teams in many countries
- Network Admin,
Metropolitan Personnel, Inc. (June 2006 - March 2016)
+ IT Admin,
Metropolitan Personnel, Inc. (June 2006 - March 2016)
- - Maintain and update company-wide hardware and software (including servers, terminals, and networking equipment) on an as-needed basis.
+ - Maintained company networking and server infrastructure
+ - Deployed workstations and managed users and group-policy through Active Directory
+ - Provided office technical support and assistance
Unix/Linux Administration Intern,
QVC, Inc. (May 2012 - August 2012)
- - Wrote an application to automate the process of comparing server metrics (such as CPU, RAM utilization) to business metrics (such as pageviews/hour) in order to create correlation models that can be used to forecast server load.
- - Helped maintain and replace server equipment in the data centers.
+ - Wrote an application to automate the process of comparing server metrics (such as CPU, RAM utilization) to business metrics (such as pageviews/hour) in order to create correlation models that can be used to forecast server load
+ - Helped maintain and replace server equipment in the data centers
Web Development Intern,
Dataforma, Inc. (May 2011 - August 2011)
- - Developed an interactive online drawing application using HTML5 and JavaScript, designed to be used by roofing contractors for modelling their projects.
+ - Developed an interactive online drawing tool for roof modeling using HTML5 and JS
+ - Worked in a small team doing task-focused, agile development
Founder, BITS (July 2008 - August 2010)
- - Started a small business in the summer of 2008 to provide computer service to local clients and businesses.
- - Services included hardware and software upgrades, custom-built machines, virus removal, and web development.
+ - Founded BITS to provide on-site computer service to local clients
+ - Diagnosed and troubleshooted computer issues, and installed/repaired equipment
- BITS = Brad's IT Services