Michael Parson Austin, TX 512-522-7682 mparson@bl.org SUMMARY Experienced computer professional with a strong background in UNIX systems administration, Software Lifecycle, dev-ops, and build and deployment automation with expertise in many popular flavors of UNIX operating systems. I can only accept positions in Austin, Texas or surrounding areas. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Cisco Corporation, Austin, TX DevOps Operations Manager, 2019 - present Threat Grid R&D o Manage an international team of the operations side of the DevOps group supporting Cisco Threat Grid. DevOps Engineer, Threat Grid 2014 - 2019 R&D o Write saltstack state and pillar configuration management files to bring formerly individually maintained systems under a consistent structure. o Participate in release engineering calls to approve/deny releases. Operations team rotates team members who actually perform the final build and release to production. o Approve git merge requests for operations team commits. o Participate in daily operations team "stand-up calls" to quickly cover what we've done, what we're doing, what we're blocking on. o Participate in planning of build-outs of future datacenters for added capacity, geographic diversity to ensure redundancy and business continuity. IBM Corporation, Austin, TX RCS World Wide vApp Lab 2013-2014 Architect o Oversaw management of world-wide Rational Client Support (RCS) virtualization lab operations with labs in Littleton, MA (US), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Bangalore (India), and Cumberland, NSW (Australia). o Modernized the lab infrastructure which was a mix of home-grown scripts and commercial solutions to provide a self-service virtualization lab. o Wrote automation processes for the deployment of virtual and physical assets used by RCS Technical Support Engineers (TSE) to reproduce customer reported issues and if needed, hand off to development for further debugging. Team Lead, SWAT, Rational 2006-2012 Build Forge o Team lead for the Rational Build Forge Software Advisory Team (SWAT). o Managed tickets escalated from the Level 2 support team, interact with Level 2 support team to determine nature of customer reported problem and determine if the problem was with configuration or was a bug in the product. If it was a bug, find the problematic code and patch it or escalate to Level 3 (development support) for code fix. o Worked with build team to automate the building of Build Forge installation sets and all of it's pre-requisite parts using Build Forge (self-hosting) and ensuring cross-platform compatibility with archive formats for the installer. o Was responsible for management of R&D lab used for reproduction of customer environments to assist in replication and debugging of customer issues utilizing multiple operating systems and database technologies in a mix of private cloud and bare-metal systems. o Assisted members of the sales organization with the implementation and running of Build Forge Proof of Concept (PoC) and Proof of Technology (PoT) demonstrations at customer sites. o Wrote IBM Technotes on usage of Build Forge and peer- review Technotes written by other members of the team. o Helped come up with best practices documents related to running and scaling of Build Forge. Vignette Corporation, 2004 - 2006 Austin, TX UNIX Systems Administrator o Installed and configured UNIX Servers for use in Proof of Concept systems for demonstrations for potential customers. o Migrated enterprise backups from legacy Legato Networker systems to Commvault QiNetix. o Set up Solaris Jumpstart server for automated OS installs. o Managed disk space on clustered NetApps 960 and R200 filers. Club Photo, Austin, TX 2003 - 2004 Sr. Systems Administrator Manage all UNIX based systems for company. o Managed move of production systems from collocation center in San Jose, CA to Austin, TX. This included bringing up a duplicate set of systems in Austin, replicating web servers, databases, and fileservers. o Migrated Internet mail server from Sendmail to Postfix. o Setup company-wide Spamassassin SPAM filtering on corporate mail server. o Consolidated networks, accounts, and systems resulting from the merger of Club Photo and Skrudland Photo. o Set up system using ssh and perl tools which allows admin functions to be performed on multiple servers from a central point. o Optimized image caching and expiration system to maximize disk utilization on web servers. o Installed centrally managed desktop antivirus system for corporate network. Skyhorn.com, Austin, TX 2001 - 2003 Sr. Systems Administrator TManage, Inc., Austin, TX 2001 Sr. Systems Architect NowDocs, Corp., Austin, TX 1999 - 2001 Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator IXC Communications Services, 1997 - 1999 Inc., Austin, TX Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator, IXC Illuminati Online, Austin, 1995 - 1997 TX Systems Administrator University of Texas at 1993 - 1995 Brownsville Technical Services Manager, Academic Computing Texas Army National Guard 1991 - 1996 88M-10 Motor Vehicle Operator OPERATING SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE Solaris 2.x-10, SunOS 4.x, RedHat Linux (2.0->RHEL 6), HP-UX 11.x, AIX 4+, MacOS X (10.4+), NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BSD/OS, Microsoft Windows Desktop/Workstation OSes (3.1 - 8.x) and some work with the server versions (NT 4 - Windows Server 2012) VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES o VMWare Desktop, Server, and ESX(i) o Citrix Xen Server o Parallels o Oracle VirtualBox o Solaris Zones ____________________ The most recent copy of this document can be found at http://www.bl.org/~mparson/resume/