Education University of Colorado Boulder, CO B.S. Computer Science Senior Project: Perl-based Scheduling System for CWA 2008 ITL Design Expo Best in Section Award Bioinformatics Project: Discovery of HuR binding sites using a machine learning approach 2008 Larry Fosdick Award Nomination Experience Amazon Web Services Broomfield, CO Systems Development Engineer Oracle Corporation Broomfield, CO Principal Software Engineer Integral member of a team of system engineers tasked to map out bleeding edge and large-scale use cases advanced by customers of the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Led sales proof-of-concepts across the United States in addition to Sweden, Mexico, and New Zealand, bringing in over $8 million in revenue Authored 3 whitepapers, support documentation, and created a web blog to assist the sales and service teams Architected test plans and led multiple software releases for the quality assurance organization, covering features such as replication, deduplication, and ZFS Analytics Built a deployment API for Oracle VM to serve hundreds of virtual machines for QA Presented at Oracle OpenWorld from 2012 -> 2016 on topics including ZFS Analytics, ZFS RESTful API, Oracle Database 12c (dNFS / HCC / RMAN), and MySQL Oracle Corporation Broomfield, CO Senior Software Engineer Primary test lead for the integration of the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance with the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle SuperCluster Engaged in storage ecosystem testing encompassing Oracle Database 11g/12c, Oracle VM, and the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance Qualified the Xsigo I/O Fabric Director (now Oracle Fabric Interconnect) with the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Led training sessions for customers, sales consultants, quality assurance engineers, and partners in Florida, California, New York, Hungary, India, Japan, and Israel Sun Microsystems, Inc. Broomfield, CO Software Engineer Provided development support for device drivers on Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris for more than 100 different independent hardware vendors (IHV) Conducted interoperability testing of IHV products resulting in over 60 completed projects Re-evaluated hardware testing strategies by rewriting 7 test plans covering USB, KVM, storage, printing, audio, graphics, and network connectivity Administered a cluster of 18 SPARC and x64-based Sun servers used in the testing and certification of third party hardware products UNAVCO, Inc. Boulder, CO Systems Administrator Maintained an environment of Solaris servers involving installs, upgrades, and patching Constructed a Perl-based framework to automate satellite communication and gather weather telemetry data in Greenland and Antarctica Built a custom Windows MSI package manager alongside Ghost imaging to fully automate new machine installations Deployed an OpenLDAP directory system to manage employee authentication University of Colorado Broomfield, CO Technical Support Analyst Certifications Oracle Certified Solaris 10 System Administrator (SCSA) Oracle Certified Solaris 10 Network Administrator (SCNA) Oracle Certified Solaris 10 Security Administrator (SCSECA) Expertise Systems AWS, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris, Windows Languages Bash, C, C++, Perl, Python, SQL Protocols TCP/IP, NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand Tools BIND, DTrace, Git, Mercurial, MySQL, OpenLDAP, Oracle Database, Subversion, vi