About Me
Provide support, provisioning, management and monitoring for Linux Debian and Red Hat based distributions. LAMP and LEMP provisioning on dedicated and cloud based services (Rackspace and Amazon).
Provide administration for agile environments for the LAMP and LEMP stack.
Implemented data center automation solutions with Opscode Chef, Puppet (Puppet labs).
Implemented version control and bugissue tracking for agile development environments
Implemented high-availability and load-balancing setups on several platforms including dedicated servers, visualization server pool, Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud Server
Implemented remote monitoring setups based on Nagios, OpenNMS, Zabbix, Monit, Cacti, Loggly, CloudKick, ServerDensity, CloudWatch, Icinga, GroundWork, Zenoss, Hyperic
Distributed file systems like NFS, GlusterFS
Experience with: VMWare ESX, Citrix Xen Server, Enomaly, Rackspace Cloud Server, Rackspace Cloud Files, Amazon Cloud, Amazon S3, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, MVC Frameworks, Asterisk, Photoshop, Illustrator, MySQL, MongoDB, Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, Puppet, Chef, Subversion, Git
Areas covered: New York
Skills
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Work Experience
Social Media Consultant
2009 - Present
- Used the Joomla CMS and Wordpress to maintain content for clients
- Maintain Facebook, Twitter and YouTube sites for clients
- Main responsibilities included coding the back-end of landing pages and microsites for our clientÊ’¼s digital ad campaigns. This included collecting and storing data from end-users and ensuring all campaign data was being accurately tracked.
I.T. Solution Implementer and Consultant
2009 - Present
- Evaluate cloud hosting options and migrated all client sites to the Rackspace Cloud and Amazon S3. Designed and implemented a distributed, load balanced infrastructure, develop disaster recovery within an agile environment and reduce points of failure.
Columbus Communications Limited (Flow Jamaica) // ISP Application Specialist
Kingston, Jamaica - 2006 - 2009
- Main responsibilities included management and provisioning of I.T. solutions
- Evaluated managed I.T. solutions for DNS, VPN, network monitoring, etc
- Shared responsibility of monitoring and administration mission critical systems.
- Worked closely with the marketing team to provide support and quality assurance.
- Installed and maintained LDAP authentication server
- Redesigned and implemented multi-tiered managed DNS solution
- Maintained online billing and payment gateway
Restaurants of Jamaica Limited // Systems Administrator
Kingston, Jamaica (Telecommute) - 2004 - 2006
- Fulfilled the I.T. support role for department employees
- Maintained the departmentÊ’¼s standards
- Implement backup solution
Server provisioning, monitor and management
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