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Employment

- Engineer - System Administration, QVC, Inc. (June 2013 - Present) + Engineer - System Administration and Automation, QVC, Inc. (June 2013 - Present)
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  • Maintain physical and virtual Unix/Linux servers within the company's data centers
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  • Troubleshoot problems within the company's infrastructure
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  • Deploy new systems using a variety of technologies, including VMWare and NIM
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  • Assist with the deployment of applications to Tomcat and WebSphere environments
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  • Manage server configurations using tools such as Puppet and vCM
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  • Work in a global environment with teams from all across the world
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  • Build and maintain Linux and Unix systems, both physical and virtual
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  • Manage over 1000 systems using tools such as Puppet
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  • Automate the server build and application deployment processes
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  • Provide 24x7 on-call support for mission-critical ecommerce systems
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  • 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)
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  • Maintain and update company-wide hardware and software (including servers, terminals, and networking equipment) on an as-needed basis.
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  • Maintained company networking and server infrastructure
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  • Deployed workstations and managed users and group-policy through Active Directory
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  • Provided office technical support and assistance

Unix/Linux Administration Intern, QVC, Inc. (May 2012 - August 2012)
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  • 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.
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  • Helped maintain and replace server equipment in the data centers.
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  • 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
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  • Helped maintain and replace server equipment in the data centers

Web Development Intern, Dataforma, Inc. (May 2011 - August 2011)
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  • Developed an interactive online drawing application using HTML5 and JavaScript, designed to be used by roofing contractors for modelling their projects.
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  • Developed an interactive online drawing tool for roof modeling using HTML5 and JS
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  • Worked in a small team doing task-focused, agile development

Founder, BITS (July 2008 - August 2010)
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  • Started a small business in the summer of 2008 to provide computer service to local clients and businesses.
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  • Services included hardware and software upgrades, custom-built machines, virus removal, and web development.
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  • Founded BITS to provide on-site computer service to local clients
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  • Diagnosed and troubleshooted computer issues, and installed/repaired equipment
  • BITS = Brad's IT Services
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Programming and Scripting