TECHNICAL SKILLS

• 20+ years of experience with Linux, Solaris, Unix, DNS, Web Hosting, E-mail, TCP/IP, Network troubleshooting, Solaris Performance Tuning, Shell Scripting (sh, ksh, tcsh, csh, bash), and Perl.
• 10+ years of MySQL, Oracle Databases, and Unix security experience.
• 8+ years of experience in a VOIP environment.
• 10+ years of experience in web hosting.

EXPERIENCE

Telestar International Corporation, Encino, CA
01/2020 - Current

Senior Lead Engineer

• Architected various systems for customers to solve their technical and business challenges.
• Manage entire technical engineering strategy both internally and externally.
• Oversee all technical aspects internally to specify best practices to solve complex business needs for government agency clients.
• Maintain and manage technical relations for Value-Added Reseller of IT office equipment working with vendors such as Samsung, HP, APC, Microsoft, Cisco, Citrix, etc.
• Maintain advanced knowledge and currency to allow the company to resell technical products and design appropriate solutions.
• Oversaw four junior engineers and project managers.

NetFortris/Fonality, Inc., Culver City, CA
11/2010 - 09/2019

Senior Systems Architect

• Designed backbone of new company products.
• Designed the highly available, mission critical, global data replication architecture and data schema for the next generation phone product (NextFon), using a combination of Redis, MySQL, Couchbase, HDFS, and NFS.
• Redesigned major customer facing systems that prevented customer churn and turnover.
• Architected various systems to scale cleanly, reduce failure issues for ease of management.
• Created deployment, systems and systems architecture in order to achieve high performance, scalability, reliability, and ease of maintenance.
• Collaborated with operations team to resolve critical systems issues to solve critical issues.
• Created the design of the next generation of customer facing systems in order to avoid performance, scalability, reliability, and consistency issues.
• Oversaw the databases and database infrastructure and performed the DBA role for production, development, and quality-assurance environments. Resolved replication, data-integrity, and performance issues.
• Managed vendor roles with production teams.

Mediatemple, Inc., Culver City, CA
9/2007 - 11/2010

Senior Systems Engineer

• Designed high performance, highly available storage systems for distributed web hosting clusters with thousands of customers, with over 16 PB of data. Wrote tools to reveal and resolve performance, abuse and reliability information to manage the systems. The Grid Storage v2 and v3 was the backbone of the primary product of the company.
• Ensured knowledge transfer and maintainability of systems with the rest of the Operations team.
• Designed, wrote, and implemented a multi-threaded backup system for over 16 PB of customer data, giving us the ability to perform site or shard specific recovery of both databases and data on a per customer or customer segment basis. This system protected against customer mishaps, hardware failure, and adversarial events and was vital to the company's success.

Amp'd Mobile, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
1/2006 - 8/2007

Senior Manager, Network Services

• Built a staging environment in a box (using Solaris Zones), that saved Amp'd over $60,000 a month.
• Collaborated with the development teams, helped to make products scalable, supportable, and manageable.
• Ensured that new systems were successfully transitioned to vendors.
• Managed a team of staff that performed Systems Administration tasks for our internal development teams.

Filmcomposer.com, Inc., Los Angeles, CA>
5/2004 - 2/2008

Chief Information Officer

• Created and designed policies and procedures for how the company maintains and processes information and electronic resources.
• Defined, procured, and implemented the Information Technology structure for film composing.

Earthlink Networks, Los Angeles, CA & Atlanta, GA
7/2002 - 3/2004

Senior System Administrator

• Provided systems administration expertise to the development groups working on the portal products.
• Created documentation and knowledge transfer for the transition from development to production of critical new product lines.
• Served as a final point of escalation and in-depth technical expertise and troubleshooting for production issues.
• Evaluated different server platforms for use for our products, taking into consideration costs, power requirements, cooling needs and maintainability.
• Specified hardware requirements for new products, regularly handled capacity requirement changes for current production systems, and resolved with procurement team ensuring system performance would exceed requirements and deadlines.
• Ensured that products in development were stable, scalable, and would be manageable in production for over 5 million customers/users.

EDUCATION