Amped!

AMPED (AMPT ADJECTIVE)
• EXCITED AND FULL OF ENERGY
• MADE LARGER OR MORE IMPRESSIVE

AM·PLI·FY (AMPLƏˌFĪ VERB)
• ENLARGE UPON OR ADD DETAIL TO
• CAUSE TO BECOME MORE MARKED OR INTENSE

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About

Skills and Competencies

Software Development

Automation Scripting

REST API

	• Python • Perl
• Primary language is Python • Many years of Perl, C, and shell-scripting • Diverse experience writing custom applications Examples of software I've written

	• Yes, I can script that! • Automation magician
• Peers gave me title of "automation magician" • HTTP requests, urllib • Beautiful Soup • Pexpect Automation scripting examples

	• REST API expertise • JSON • Flask
• Experience coding REST to access data • Write custom APIs in Python/Flask

Linux Sys Admin

SAN Enterprise Storage

AWS & GCP Cloud

	• 20+ years of Linux • Solaris and AIX experience • Cisco UCS + VMWare
• First Linux: RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.0 ca 2000 • Linux SME in large environments • Managed 5,000+ RH/CentOS VMs • Cisco UCS 5108 x 14 domains, 575 blades • Taught Linux: Hennepin Technical College,MN

	• EMCSA SAN Certified • Large-scale data migrations • NetApp, Dell/EMC VMAX
• EMC Corporation on-site storage "resident" • EMC Storage Architect • Brocade fabric zoning • Write scripts to automate migrations • Lead engineer for data migrations

• Admin and monitoring
• AWS boto3 scripting

Experience with GCP and AWS Cloud

AWS boto3 samples

Grafana

DevOps

Technical Documentation

	• Custom dashboards • Graphite • MariaDB, mySQL
• Awesome data visualization tool • Fast and easy to use and deploy • Started using Grafana 2-3 years ago as a replacement for Kibana (ELK)

	• DevOps experience • Jenkins, Jira • Nagios, Chef • git, Docker
• Work experience as DevOps engineer • Jenkins installation and management • git for software dev/source control • Skilled in Docker

	• Wiki & markup languages • Confluence • Apple Pages, MS Word
Someone told me "You are the full package: you can code and* write documentation"*☺ Technical documentation samples

NetBox

Raspberry Pi

Languages and Hobbies

	• NetBox deployment • Automation (REST/Python)
• Experience installing and deploying NetBox across global datacenters

	• Enthusiast/hobbyist • Circuits, sensors • Home automation
Electronics tinkering, RPis, Arduinos, PIC microcontrollers. Background in assembler. My home automation RPi code samples

	• Fluent: English, Spanish • Beginner: Italian, Russian
• I enjoy learning natural languages • Pencil drawing & juggling (not simultaneously) ☺ • PADI certified SCUBA Rescue & Ice Diver • Evolution, anthropology, astronomy • Hiking in the mountains of Colorado Personal website