Mesa, Arizona, United States
Driven and self-motivated, actively looking to conquer the next big thing.
Responsible for architectural direction, engineering, and technical leader for Big Data Hadoop platform at Wells Fargo. Established and lead extensive matrixed resources, including employees, data center management (DCM), contractors, hardware vendors, software vendors, internal processes and procedures, and custom software solutions • Establish Big Data capabilities for Wells Fargo • Provide Solutions Architecture from business requirements • Technical guidance and integration vetting emerging big data solutions and technology • Establish hadoop clusters consisting of several hundred nodes across several data centers • Technical lead responsible for automated cluster deployment strategy and engineered solution
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KEY PROJECTS • American Express BigData cluster buildout • SAS Analytic Grid Storage Migration & Expansion • Teradata MPP Database Integration • Informatica Data-Quality Integration American Express BigData Cluster OVERVIEW In less than 8 weeks, 120 nodes were ordered, racked, stacked, cabled, powered, deployed and running Hadoop jobs. The American Express BigData Hadoop cluster now encompasses over 8PB+ of raw storage, 600+ nodes, 2400+ cores of compute, and over 6TB/s network throughput. This project has been highly successful, coming in incredibly fast; efficiently exceeding the aggressive target dates provided by the business. RESPONSIBILITIES • Network & Hardware Architecture to prepare for massive scale & Performance • Completely custom solutions leveraging many self-created utilities • Deployment Automation System for OS & Hadoop Software Stack • Custom Hadoop Configuration Management & Optimization Solution • Maintenance of the cluster OS & Software Stack • Hardware Configuration • Deployment of the OS & Software Stack • OS & Hadoop Configuration SAS Analytic Grid Storage Migration & Expansion OVERVIEW The project was to find a robust (minimum 4GB/s), affordable and cross-platform replacement to the existing SAN filesystem. Over the course of several months POC'ed many appliances from vendors, including Isilon, Oracale and EMC. In the end the best candidate for the job proved to be the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance. Within 8 months we had deployed and transitioned over 8PB of storage from SAN thus providing incredible savings to American Express and the ability to scale utilizing other platforms. RESPONSIBILITIES • POC Vendor Solutions: Isilon, Netapp, EMC, & Oracle ZFS Appliances • Performance test vendor solution against our use case & 4GB/s performance requirement • Create official documentation justifying the effort, expressing the finding & providing American Express' recommendation. • Order hardware, Deploy & Migrate to the new solution.
Tony Ambrozie, Debbie Page, and Tim Vaudt were the driving forces behind the success of the American Express MYCA project. I was brought in to develop software and deployment strategies to keep the project on track. Prior to my effort, the deployments on the MYCA platform would take several days of effort and hundreds and hundreds of lines of manual input from several engineers to facilitate the enterprise CMR "Change Management Record" requirements, back-out procedures and testing procedures. The size of the platform was increasing daily and without an incredibly inginuitive and precise solution, MYCA would become too big of a headache for any team, of any size to support. Through my efforts we were able to create a system which reduced a single deployment from taking 3 DAYS leveraging 5 engineers efforts, down to an automated process invoked by running a single command. The technologies involved were Netscaler & F5 Load Balancers, Websphere, Perl, Shell, and a whole lot of red bull.
Responsible for the idea and creation of enterprise automation software, largely responsible for the success of the deployments and maintenance for the large American Express Enterprise environments. IBM Global Services created a new group based out of Boulder, Colorado to facilitate support, deployment, and development of this software I wrote called “VSA”. VSA provides server automation, software deployment, data gathering, standards compliancy, and other things for UNIX and NT servers all from a central website. VSA was deployed on all IGS accounts all over the globe spanning thousands upon thousands of servers and growing on a monthly basis. Main Responsibilities & Duties: • Maintain the UNIX source code and releases for the VSA software for IGS. including (but not limited to) bugfixes and new features. • Develop (write, test, certify) the code implimenting new features and bug fixes. • Gather and scope requirements for future releases. • Work with security groups to continually certify VSA for enterprise environments and global deployment. • Assist in individual IBM Global Services Account specific requests.
Created automation and deployment strategy for American Express which enabled enterprise growth. Through this effort we were able to go from building 10 servers a week with 3 people to building 300 servers a week with the same 3 people. Over the course of several months our small team deployed 3,000+ bare metal servers. Implimented a centralized user administration tool called NIS+, several custom websites for enterprise deployments and tracking, wrote several patch management tools and utilities which kept the 4000+ servers security compliant. Responsibilities & Duties: • Wrote scripts and utilities to automate and manage the entire enterprise environment (Borne shell, ksh, Perl, C) • Implemented server deployment strategy for capacity to build hundreds of servers in a week time with a small team of engineers. • Implemented enterprise centralized authentication • Designed and created complete patch management system for our Solaris Environment • Wrote client and server utilties to automate rollouts of projects aross the environment • Wrote websites and scripts to assist with scheduling and tracking of rollouts and needed reports • Wrote website to which maintains reports for daily tape backups for all systems • Wrote website and client scripts to enable us to patch thousands of servers in a 2 day period