
CTO at Cade Christian
Greater Los Angeles Area

CTO at Cade Christian
Greater Los Angeles Area
Accomplished, self-motivating Systems Engineer/Architect with significant experience in web architecture, administration and enterprise environments.
• Key lead for general operation of server environment. Including performance, reliability and efficient use of network resources.
• Assessing new technologies and engineering guidance.
• Expertise in Database Design, Architecture, Performance Tuning, Replication, Fail-Over and Fault-Tolerance.
• Implementing strategies for enhancing efficiency, reliability, disaster recovery and server utilization.
• Apache HTTP/Tomcat Server
• Korn/Bash/Perl Shell Programming, including cronjobs, awk and sed.
• BEA Weblogic/JBoss/Websphere App. Server Administration/Architecture/Performance Tuning
• MySQL Administration, development and training.
• Red Hat Enterprise Server/UNIX (AIX/SUN)
• Windows 2000/2003 Server
• Excellent problem solving analysis and decision making skills
• VMWare ESX / Scalent.
• Ruby-On-Rails Runtime, Deployment and Production Architecture.
(Apparel & Fashion industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
New Website built on "Ruby on Rails", Web site traffic growth, web site UI and Online advertising.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
- Enterprise support for JBoss, Apache, Tomcat, Mongrel and MySQL.
- Built Openlogics new web infrastructure using Ruby on Rails, Apache, MySQL and Mongrel.
- Enterprise monitoring solution using Cacti,Nagios,Awstats and Syslog tools.
- Consult customers with proven methodologies and expertise in Database Design, Architecture, Performance Tuning, Replication, Fail-Over and Fault-Tolerance.
- MySQL/Tomcat/Apache class room training.
(Financial Services industry)
September 2006 — March 2007 (7 months)
Responsible for a J2EE server infrastructure of 1200+ JVM’s (65% Weblogic and Windows, 35% JBoss Linux ) running on 900 servers and 90+ F5/3DNS Loadbalancers, including troubleshooting, implementation, maintenance, support, capacity planning/reporting, performance and security audits.
• Installs, configures, administers and maintains servers in support of business operations.
• Conducts routine server audits for compliance policies
• On going documentation of all systems and applications.
• Interface with developers, architects and project managers to enhance and develop new and existing J2EE applications.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2003 — September 2006 (3 years 9 months)
- Design automated server and J2EE Server build plans.
- Preemptive monitoring, backup and automation scripts for the os.
- Built the "new" Behr infrastructure using IBM WebSphere, DB2, Cisco LoadBalancers and Redhat ES Linux.
- Built DR Web environment using VMWare ESX and Blade technology.