Steven R.

Steven R.

Senior Software Engineer

Arizona, United States of America
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About Me

I am a seasoned IT professional with 12+ years of industry know-how in the latest DevOps technologies, networking, server management, and programming environments for the completion of projects in an ever-changing IT landscape. I am an avid learner of new tech stacks and a strong troubleshooter with an eye for identifying and fixing problems for the delivery of comprehensive software solutions for clients.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
DevOps Engineer
2017 - Present (7 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

Intel
Intel
DevOps/Seniorr Software Engineer, Cloud Orchestration Systems
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
Arizona, United States
  • Provided technical expertise and ownership in the maintenance of the AIM Suite; providing support for the LAMP application made up of key 4 environments.

  • Efficiently maintained the development, pre-production and production environment spread across 1 3 XEN Servers hosting high availability Ubuntu and Windows Server Virtual Machines ensuring 100% uptime.

  • Developed custom applications/scripts for generating reports or providing new solutions and utilized technical superiority in the creation and maintenance of Ansible scripts.

Get Found Enterprises
Senior Developer / System Administrator
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Arizona, United States
  • Efficiently configured and maintained LAMP Servers based on CentOS and Debian Operating Systems in Linode and AWS for Get Found Enterprises.

  • Worked on the development of custom integration scripts for remote party APIs for data transmission and communications.

  • Successfully managed the DNS for multiple domains and clients, and created custom Ansible and BASH scripts for server management tasks on the Linux Servers.

Pueblo Mechanical and Controls
Pueblo Mechanical and Controls
Senior Controls Technician
2014 - 2016 (2 years)
  • Offered guidance and technical leadership on all troubleshooting initiatives and resolved issues with the HVAC/R control systems.

  • Effectively identified and resolved all programming issues with the PLCs including the Control Basic, Visual (Block) and Java (Tridium).

  • Efficiently handled all communications on tasks to be completed to other field staff, and performed unit start ups for the controls and HVAC equipment.

Social Hub (Contract)
Social Hub (Contract)
Developer
2013 - 2015 (2 years)
Arizona, United States
  • Worked with the owner to document and develop a social media site to compete with Facebook; with specific security and privacy consideration and protocols at the forefront of the project.

  • Efficiently managed all system operation and administration tasks.

  • Worked on both frontend and backend tasks on the entire project.

Symplicity Technologies
Symplicity Technologies
DevOps/System Admin
2013 - Present (11 years)
Arizona, United States
  • Successfully engineered custom scripts for Network Security Monitoring, Terraform/Ansible libraries for managing KVMs (Kernel VM) and a Docker Swarm for monitoring network security.

  • Efficiently designed the systems using RancherOS to manage the Docker Containers and supervised the operations of the private Git Server.

  • Devised a solution to automate the processes for application delivery and server configuration using BASH scripts and Ansible for Symplicity.

Bill Weaver (Contract)
Developer
2010 - 2012 (2 years)
Arkansas, United States
  • Efficiently worked on the development of multiple websites using CodeIgniter 1.x and 2.x for the client.

  • Offered guidance and expertise for the development and maintenance of all the hosting environments for the websites.

  • Engineered a custom solution to meet the customer's unique market needs.

Li'l Red Fox
Developer/System Admin
2003 - 2012 (9 years)
Arizona, United States
  • Successfully managed the Linux Server configurations including SAN/NAS for the company.

  • Offered support and guidance on all server administration projects/tasks within Li'l Red Fox.

  • Devised CLI PHP/Perl scripts needed for sever administration tasks and developed new custom websites with integrated custom shopping carts for the client.

Michael Gardener (Contract)
Developer/System Admin
2003 - 2003
Washington, United States
  • Built a custom application that guided both clients and staff through a complex 30 step legal process.

  • Created reminders of actions on the process to be completed and deadlines to be met for the client.

  • Developed a comprehensive custom reporting engine and generated documents for the application from custom form templates ranging from 1 to 50 pages on demand from a MySQL database.

United Computer Systems
Owner / Field Service Specialist
1994 - 2002 (8 years)
North Carolina, United States
  • Provided technical expertise for the efficient operation of desktop user systems (DOS, Windows 3/95/NT/XP) LANs and WANs including Windows and Netware.

  • Offered specialized support for applications specific to the legal industry.

  • Efficiently designed, built and serviced different servers and workstations for clients.

Portfolio

Developer and System Admin - Affinity Home Search
Developer and System Admin - Affinity Home Search

Affinity Homes delivers real estate brokerage that focuses on residential properties, and currently operates multiple locations in the Arizona area. This is one of many dynamic and responsive real estate web sites designed for the client to pull information from a custom CMS for display on the website.

PHP Developer and System Admin - Ship Right Now
PHP Developer and System Admin - Ship Right Now

Developed and managed this system which allows transporters to bid to move items for people in a Reverse Bid format.

Developer ans System Admin - Symply Fun
Developer ans System Admin - Symply Fun

Worked on a responsive design for the application, developed a custom shopping cart and provided support for the client's site.

Education

Education
Completed a broad range of technology courses.
High Tech Institute Arizona
1989 - 1990 (1 year)