resume.json

{

  "basics": {
    "name": "Dan Cash",
    "label": "Devops/Cloud Engineer",
    "picture": "",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "(913) 991-7386",
    "website": "",
    "summary": "Solutions-oriented DevOps Engineer, offering 8+ years of experience, including 5+ years practicing DevOps methodologies, and a deep technical background in Windows and UNIX/Linux systems engineering and software development infrastructure. Adds value with proven success in strategically and cost-effectively using automation and programming to optimize business operations, increase productivity and efficiency, and reduce time and effort to access information critical to decision-making. Investigative problem-solver, known for quickly diagnosing and resolving complex IT problems.", 
      "location": {
      "city": "Shawnee",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "Kansas"
    },
    "profiles": []
  },
  "work": [
    {
    "company": "WADDELL & REED FINANCIAL, INC.",
    "position": "SENIOR UNIX ADMINISTRATOR",
    "website": "https://www.waddell.com/",
    "startDate": "2019-05-13",
    "endDate": "2020-02-06",
    "summary": "Currently play a key role in a 8 member Infrastructure Team and a 2-member Cloud Initiative Team to provide strategic technical leadership and support for on-premise, Azure Cloud server infrastructure, and big data analytics projects. Work closely with software security developers and big data vendors on producing build/test/deploy solutions. Responsible for design and implementation of new W&R Azure Cloud infrastructure, utilizing Infrastructure as Code methodologies via Terraform and Azure Devops CI/CD pipelines.", 
    "highlights": [
      "Led a big data migration initiative from on-premise to Azure Cloud: Designed, implemented, and automated scalable Hadoop big data clusters via Terraform and Azure Devops Pipelines for three combined W&R projects to replace aging/end of life on-premise environment, and new Data Analytics initiative.",
      "Cut costs and closed security gaps in IT cloud footprint by applying core DevOps skills to automate build pipelines and eliminate manual provisioning.",
      "Created an on-premise Kubernetes environment, to automate deployments, efficiently manage updates, and scale security, networking, and operational resources.",
      "Deployed a monitoring stack (Elasticsearch/Logstash/Prometheus/Grafana) to centralize log management, streamline issue identification across project lifecycles, and increase visibility around actionable alerting.",
      "Ensure strict security by implemting automated CIS hardened Linux and Windows standard imaging via Packer for utilization on all cloud virtual machines"      
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "METABANK",
    "position": "SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR II (remote)",
    "website": "https://www.metabank.com/",
    "startDate": "2016-09-11",
    "endDate": "2019-05-10",
    "summary": "Recruited for a 15-member team to maintain and support the integrity of a 24/7 Cisco unified computing system, comprised of 700+ servers with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) running on Hyper-V/Failover hosts clusters. Automated processes to troubleshoot operating systems, perform maintenance, and schedule/install/test/configure software upgrades.", 
    "highlights": [
      "Automated patching and remediation processes on 350+ servers using PowerShell, eliminating 1000s of superfluous alerts and reducing staff needed to execute from 5 down to 1.",
      "Enabled alert tracking, categorizing, and assigning to IT teams for resolution and promoted due diligence by documenting issues in System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and System Center Service Manager.",
      "Became the 'go-to-mentor' for PowerShell scripting; set up an Azure DevOps instance to build a collaborative process for developing, documenting, deploying, and maintaining automation code.",
      "Increased end-user satisfaction by implementing Microsoft System Center technologies, boosting efficiency via applications and server updates in physical, virtual, distributed and mobile environments.",
      "Managed 5 Production cluster upgrades: consisting 12 hosts each, to Server 2016 and led monthly patch initiatives to ensure PCI compliance of all critical patch installations within 30 days of release.",
      "Spearheaded efforts to implement Azure Cloud infrastructure, and begin migration of business critical applications to the cloud. Utilized TFS, Jenkins, and Terraform to provision cloud infrastructure/applications via Infrastructure as Code."
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "DST SYSTEMS (acquired by SS&C Technologies)",
    "position": "SENIOR SOFTWARE APPLICATION ADMINISTRATOR",
    "website": "https://www.ssctech.com/",
    "startDate": "2013-05-28",
    "endDate": "2016-09-11",
    "summary": "Brought on board following referral from a former IT client to collaborate with a team of Linux and Database Administrators on supporting, maintaining, and optimizing hosted DST clients running AWD® applications. Managed 200+ application environments across 50 physical servers and 150 virtual machines running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Provided operational oversight and technical assistance to the Application Team and leveraged automation skills to drive process and operating improvements.", 
    "highlights": [
      "Improved security by transitioning away from multi-tenant servers to a VMware environment and decreased lead times down to 5 days after automating application administrative processes, allowing for renewed focus on product enhancement projects—a 2-year endeavor.",
      "Designed and implemented a Nagios monitoring system, using dynamic MySQL configuration, which enabled automatic system updates to take place within minutes following a change in client infrastructure.",
      "Optimized performance and project management excellence by building server dashboards to identify security incidents, accelerate and audit incident investigations, monitor server and web applications status, and increase visibility behind data models to enforce good practices.",
      "Delivered solutions for business infrastructure projects; worked with development and application teams to troubleshoot issues, monitor applications, improve code efficiency, and implement SSL security between client and web server and web server and application server."
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "LAYERED TECHNOLOGIES (acquired by Datapipe(acquired by Rackspace))",
    "position": "SENIOR SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN, Platinum Services",
    "website": "https://www.rackspace.com/en-us/datapipe",
    "startDate": "2012-03-12",
    "endDate": "2013-05-25",
    "summary": "Referred by former manager to provide operational support for top-tier clients and manage web applications. Identified and resolved Tier II/III problems on Linux (CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Solaris) and Windows server systems (2003/2008, XP, 7).", 
    "highlights": [
      "Established and linked Linux-based ticketing tool to the ERP Ticketing system to identify and track server alerts and categorize, diagnose, and resolve common database, server, and website issues.",
      "Created learning opportunities by developing help desk automation tool to help remediate issues and educate Help Desk staff on how to fix common Tier I/II issues.",
      "Built a standalone Python app to identify and enable access to encrypted server information from ERP Database in order to reduce the time needed to locate critical server information and establish secure, multi-hop connections to windows and linux servers. Still in use today."
    ]
  },
  {
    "company": "NETSOLUS CONSULTING",
    "position": "SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR",
    "website": "https://www.netsolus.com/",
    "startDate": "2011-02-10",
    "endDate": "2012-03-09",
    "summary": "Initially hired on a part-time basis to support IT deployment and infrastructure maintenance to PCs, servers, mainframe applications, and hardware and software end users. Promoted into a full-time role <2 months to manage and maintain the operational performance of all designated IT systems, applications, and auxiliary devices for clients in the Kansas City metro area.", 
    "highlights": [
      "Strengthened knowledge and capabilities in data center migration best practices and related tasks, including physical server and network troubleshooting, maintenance, storage, and deployment.",
      "Developed project management skills by working with clients on diverse IT projects including datacenter migration, VMware configuration/maintenance/monitoring/restoration/backup; acquired exposure to Nagios monitoring and remediation automation.",
      "Handled on-site visits for managed clients in the Kansas City area to provide hands on/in person support for various client needs"
    ]
  }


],
  "volunteer": [],
  "education": [
    {
    "institution": "High School",
    "area": "General Education",
    "studyType": "Diploma",
    "startDate": "2000-08-28",
    "endDate": "2004-05-21",
    "gpa": "3.0",
    "courses": []
    }
  ],
  "awards": [],
  "publications": [],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Azure Cloud",
      "level": "Proficient",
      "keywords": [
        "Azure Site Recovery",
        "VPN Gateway",
        "Virtual Machine Scale Sets",
        "Availability Groups",
        "Virtual Networks and Peering",
        "Private IP Links",
        "Storage accounts",
        "Blob Storage",
        "AZDLS Gen 2 Storage",
        "Load Balancing",
        "Function Apps",
        "Cosmos DB",
        "Azure Active Directory",
        "Security Center"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Amazon Web Services",
      "level": "Competent",
      "keywords": [
        "EC2",
        "S3",
        "Lambda",
        "RDS",
        "VPC",
        "Route 53",
        "IAC",
        "CloudWatch"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Devops",
      "level": "Proficient",
      "keywords": [
        "Continuous Integration",
        "Continuous Delivery",
        "Infrastructure as Code",
        "Terraform",
        "Packer",
        "Azure Resource Manager Templates",
        "Jenkins",
        "Azure Pipelines",
        "Github",
        "Azure Devops",
        "TFS",
        "Prometheus",
        "Grafana",
        "Logstash",
        "ElasticSearch",
        "Splunk"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Microservices",
      "level": "Competent",
      "keywords": [
        "Docker",
        "Kubernetes",
        "AWS Lambda",
        "Azure Function Apps" ,
        "Postman",
        "Redis",
        "Helm",
        "Rancher",
        "CoreOS"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Development/Scripting",
      "level": "Proficient",
      "keywords": [
        "Python",
        "Ruby",
        "Bash",
        "Powershell",
        "HTML",
        "Javascript",
        "Perl"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "languages": [{
    "language": "English",
    "fluency": "Native speaker"
  }],
  "interests": [],
  "references": []

}