Jose O'Farrill

Riptide Software

AWS Solutions Architect • March 2015 — Present

Riptide Software is an AWS Consulting Partner. During my time at Riptide I obtained my Solutions Architect Professional and DevOps Professional certifications.

AWS systems architecture design for highly available and highly scalable web clusters.
Solutions consultation for custom application deployment in AWS as per client use case.
Participated in Cloud Readiness Study commissioned by the State of Florida.
Evaluated and identified potential applications and services that could move to AWS for the State of Florida.
Automation design and scripting using Ansible.
Replicated Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk within GovCloud using Ansible.
Infrastructure design and deployment of a video asset management system within AWS GovCloud.

GotChosen, Inc

Senior Systems Engineer • June 2014 — March 2015

GotChosen was a Social Media Startup. I was the sole Systems Engineer with a development staff of about 30.

Designed and implemented highly available highly scalable (HA/HS) clusters using AWS.
Moved local server infrastructure into AWS. Including test and development environments.
Managed server cluster configuration with Ansible configuration manager.
Implemented capacity scaling for production servers.
Designed Web layer to be highly redundant using NGINX, S3, and CloudFront.
Designed Application layer with EC2, RDS, and Elastic Cache.
Deployed Splunk to manage our log infrastructure.
Managed deployments with Github and custom bootstrap scripts with Ansible.
Designed multi-regional deployments with CloudFormaion.
Monitored system health with CloudWatch and Splunk custom alerts.
Automation design and Scripting using Ansible.

University of Central Florida

IT Manager (Center for Distributed Learning) • Sept 2013 — June 2014

IT manager for the Center of Distributed Learning department at UCF.

Designed and implemented Amazon Web Services infrastructure move.
Automated deployment template design with Amazon CloudFormation.
Designed a highly available AWS implementation plan.
Initiated continuous integration program with Chef, Git and Jenkins CI.
Migrated legacy systems from Debian to RedHat Enterprise Linux.
Maintained and managed 23 virtual servers that supported internal operations.
Managed the infrastructure team that consisted of a senior systems specialist and a technician.
Implemented password management system (Secret Server).
Deployed Splunk to manage our log infrastructure.
Systems monitoring with Zabbix.

University of Central Florida WUCF-PBS

Senior Systems Engineer • Nov 2011 — Sept 2013

I supported two UCF departments: (SMCA Communications and Marketing) and WUCF Public Broadcasting Station.

Administered Mac OS based network including Desktops, Laptops and Servers.
Configured and maintained local XSAN implementation.
Created, monitored and optimized the SAN LUN’s and NFS shares.
Created and maintained automated workflows within Final Cut Server (Digital Asset Manager).
Optimized Ruby scripts from a legacy system that interfaced with Final Cut Server and Telestream’s Episode Engine (media transcoder).
Maintained the local LDAP instance on OSX Server 10.6.8
Supported 20+ Mac based users including, software/OS updates, software instillation and Remote support.
Managed automated backups to tape via Atempo.
Supported the infrastructure that included upgrades and troubleshooting network connectivity issues.
Monitored and maintained Qlogic Fabric, including the replacement of fiber switches and cables.
Negotiated vendor contracts to plan future expansion of storage and tape backup systems.
Purchased desktops, laptops, servers and software licenses.
Developed network infrastructure upgrade plan.
Installed and configured SAN 144TB expansion.

International Media Ventures

Manager of IT Systems • Dec 2008 — Feb 2010

IMV was a civilian contractor working with the Military. I managed the IT department which included three engineers and an R&D department.

Supervised all IT operations, including hiring of engineers and infrastructure redesign.
Designed systems for the customer to include integration of COTS products with proprietary systems, non-classified to classified systems, and Open Source solutions to homegrown products.
Purchased equipment for company operations and project-based solutions.
Maintained a mixed environment that included Apple OS X, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian), Microsoft Server, Active Directory, Exchange 2003/2007, Cisco switches, and a virtual environment (VMware) running multiple web servers with Linux/Apache/PHP/MySQL.
Configured Pfsense, an open source software-based firewall, to provide security for the company network.
Developed IT security and usage polices that conformed to the Defense Security Service standards.
Negotiated vendor contracts, which included software vendors, hosting locations, “Software as a Service” (SaaS) providers, and co-location providers.
Designed and built an internal data center as well as contracted an off-site hot-site at Qwest communications data center in Tampa.
Designed a backup solution that included using Amazon's S3 (Cloud Storage).
Maintained Windows Server 2003 and 2008 environment.
Configured and maintained Exchange 2007.

U-Turn Media Group

Systems Engineer • Aug 2007 — Dec 2008

U-Turn Meida Group was a Mobile Startup pre-iPhone era. Their man focus was on SymbianOS based in Central Europe. I was tasked with starting the US branch.

Built custom web servers for internal and external customers using Ubuntu with a LAMP stack.
Maintained source code in SVN repositories that were hosted on a development Ubuntu server.
Designed and implemented a Trans-Atlantic video capturing and dissemination IPTV solution. Captured satellite broadcasts from Central Europe and redistributed them at a location in Tampa, FL via a point-point connection.
Designed video distribution platforms. This included trans-coding video formats to meet bandwidth requirements with distribution to mobile phones, televisions, and standard desktops.
Experience in MPEG-4 video manipulation, as well as MPEG-2. Codecs include Xvid, Divx, H.264, variations of MPEG-4 parts 2 and 10.
Designed mobile phone video distribution middle-ware using Darwin Streaming Server, and Real Networks streaming server.
Designed and built network infrastructure for office re-location to support 30+ users.
Purchased workstations, laptops and mobile phones for all employees.
Maintained and designed office network.
Setup and maintained configuration of Debian file and mail servers (Postfix).
Provided pre and post-sales engineering.

CHEP Equipment Pooling

Systems Analyst • Aug 2000 — Aug 2007

Analyzed network trends in order to identify possible points of failure.
Tracked and reported service level metrics to enable the organization to focus on delivering services that met or exceeded Service Level Agreements (SLA) on time and within budget.
Identified, analyzed, and resolved or escalated system problems including root cause analysis in a 'post-mortem' report.
Analyzed system performance on more than 100 servers with multiple platforms including UNIX (SUN Microsystems) and Intel based systems.
Provided performance tuning recommendations and runtime improvement opportunities.
Designed and implemented new training initiatives for projects “in-progress”.
Coordinated development time line in order to meet completions goals.
Performed QA smoke tests on web based applications.