Japheth c. Cleaver

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Japheth c. Cleaver
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Sana | 25.09.2020 | Hajmi | 47,5 Kb. | | #11672 |
http://linkd.in/jcleaver
JAPHETH C. CLEAVER
San Diego, CA 92112-1534
Cell (858) 518-5555 • Home/Fax (619) 255-0916 cleaver@terabithia.org
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a varied and challenging system and operational engineering position requiring new and creative applications of technology to solve functional problems.
GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS
Can offer a diverse and eclectic background in Linux system administration, development, NOC management, consulting, site reliability engineering. Demonstrated proficiency in large scale Linux monitoring, operational engineering in a proactive manner, CI/build pipeline construction, mass RedHat deployments, high-availability Linux stack design, and NOC/SRE management in 24/7 service uptime environments.
EXPERIENCE
8/2018-present Sr. Linux Engineer, Helix/TAOS LLC
Linux systems engineering and PostgreSQL performance tuning for DNA sequencing and processing laboratory in mixed EL6/7 and Windows Server environments
DNS re-architecture; monitoring using PRTG, SolarWinds, and SumoLogic endpoints
RedHat Enterprise Linux OS version uplift (5/6 to 7), lifecycle and core IT monitoring functions for on-site deployments
10/2016-6/2018 DevOps Linux Engineer, Awarepoint, Inc
Lifecycle design for all AWS-hosted Linux clusters, including stateless redeployment and persistent OS stacks, and internal Linux operations and development servers
Salt integration with Amazon EC2 systems deployment
Kafka deployment for internal messaging bus with Kubernetes
Primary engineering responsibility for forward-deployed Linux servers of medical RTLS data to best practices. (OS uplift, SELinux and security auditing, monitoring, lifecycle)
Architecture of CI build systems for 3-tier java stack deployments, reimplementing existing RPM design with best practices for RHEL 6 and Apache Tomcat/Spring deploy
1/2016-10/2016 Contract/Consulting
Senior Linux Engineer (WWT, Inc) with Intuit
Lead System Engineer (VACO), with FICO
Lead Linux System Administrator (Insight Global), with HD Supply
10/2015-12/2015 Senior Systems Engineer, Everyone Counts, Inc.
Linux systems design for standard three tier web stack on site-deployed voting systems
Architectural support for third-party auditing of live voting systems
Chef config management and ELK (Elastic, LogStash, Kibana) use for CI pipeline
9/2011-9/2015 Staff Software Engineer, ServiceNow, Inc (San Diego, CA)
Architect and developer on the core Xymon monitoring platform, providing a unified raw data stream for 100K+ CI objects consumed by various downstream systems, including the Alerting, Business Intelligence, and Big Data platforms.
Platform integration work with internal and external instances of the SN application.
Drove cross-operational team collaboration on a variety of maintenance and technical initiatives, bridging SRE, OpsEng, SysEng, and Platform Development orgs.
RPM packaging, scripting, and automation for RHEL/CentOS deployment images.
Rotated/continual 24/7 on-call support
5/2011-8/2011 Unix Systems Engineer, Palantir Technologies (Palo Alto, CA)
VMware maintenance and deployment on Dell hardware
Forward-deployed Linux installs for on-site govt and financial data analysis clusters.
Performance monitoring and metrics for CI build systems.
11/2008-5/2011 Unix Systems Administrator, Sony Online Entertainment
Deployment and maintenance of Linux systems and app software in multiple clusters across eight data centers totaling approximately 4000 mostly Dell PowerEdge hosts
Took lead on several projects, including: host classification, Citrix Xen virtualization, third-party server hosting (for SCEA and other Sony entities), integration of internal build clusters on RHEL-like platforms, and RedHat automated provisioning tech (cobbler)
Architectural planning for redesigns of DNS, internal mail service, configuration change management, and build control systems for game nodes and world clusters
Evangelized cross-department coordination of monitoring systems, such as Zenoss and Xymon (and contributed code back to the latter project)
Run-of-business activities included DNS, mail, Apache, and Tomcat configuration management, RSA SecurID (ACE/Server) management, OS upgrades, and security fix deployment across installed base for Sony’s GISS compliance
10/2006-11/2008 Senior System Engineer, Airband Communications, Inc.
Stayed on after purchase of Volonet Technologies performing substantially the same duties, but with added emphasis on VoIP infrastructure support
Level-1 NOC management during transition and prior to outsourcing
8/2003-10/2006 Senior System Administrator, Volonet Technologies (dba RedWire)
Product development and administration of managed services, dedicated Linux servers, and webhosting platforms
Extensive critical support and programming for managed Linux server customers
Deployment of clustered, HA Linux systems for internal and customer use
OSS development and patching, and deployment using RPM
Implemented custom billing and provisioning software to replace legacy systems
Monitoring-system integration across Hobbit, Big Brother, WUG, Netcool, and mon
Development and support of distributed qmail/vpopmail clusters using NetApp (SAN) and custom multi-TB RAID network storage. Services were still in use eight years later in substantially the same form.
1/2000-8/2003 Chief Engineer (System Administrator), Internet Express, Inc
Provisioned and designed Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, and IIS servers
Provided direct support to collocation and advanced Linux/HA cluster customers
Planned and implemented new products and services at medium-sized regional ISP (revenue forecasting, ROI, industry-tracking, etc.)
General internal website administration, using custom CMS software built from XHTML, mod_perl, fast_cgi, and other tools
Administered MySQL/MSSQL and NT4 and Win2K servers
Perl and shell scripting for Big Brother, snmp, and RODOPI billing system integration
Provisioning of DSL lines and other L2 support
24/7 on-call support
1/1998-6/2001 Technology Coach, College of Education/SCHD, San Diego State University
AppleScript automation for Mac deployment; developed (classic) MacOS client for Big Brother monitoring system
Off-site (in-house) training for Education Technology faculty members
Oversaw 150-200 unit SCC Lab transition from ASIP to MacOS X Server (Rhapsody)
Windows NT and MacOS desktop support to students and staff
Help desk operation support; front-level support for LaTeX, HTML, Unix tools
EDUCATION
1996 San Diego High School, International Baccalaureate program
HL English/Mathematics, SL Economics/History. Graduated GSE HH, 1510 SAT
2011 San Diego State University
BA Philosophy; BA Political Science
VOLUNTEER WORK/ORGS
15-yr member, Kappa Kappa Psi/Tau Beta Sigma, National Honorary Band Service Fraternity/Sorority
- Leadership development; regional nomination, and national parliamentary revision committees
CERT/Medical Reserve Corps San Diego; ARRL (QRZ: KI6IIE); EMT-B certified
Triple Nine Society, National Association of Parliamentarians
SKILLS AND KEYWORDS
Xymon, Perl, Bash, Shell, syslog, Jenkins, Cobbler, Kickstart, SELinux, Java, Spring, VMWare, CI/CD, HyperV, Big Brother, Citrix, Xen, RPM, CPAN, CentOS, PRTG, Kafka, RedHat Enterprise Linux, RHEL, Red Hat Linux, Fedora, Yum, SumoLogic, RedHat Kickstart, Catalyst, TCP/IP, XFS, qmail, vpopmail, ELK Stack, Apache, bind, Kafka, Tomcat, Puppet, postfix, Courier-IMAP, dovecot, memcached, SNMP, Salt, DJBDNS, RabbitMQ, Hobbit, Cacti, Zenoss, CFengine, Puppet, HA Heartbeat, Ansible, Pacemaker, Subversion, GIT, MySQL
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