Raymond S Brand
[email protected] http://www.RSBX.net/Resumes/Raymond_S_Brand/ Professional Summary •Results oriented, hands-on, professional with 20+ years of Unix and internet technical experience, as an architect, systems engineer,administrator and/or programmer,onLinux, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, and others; and 15+ years of Linux specific technical experience as an architect, systems engineer, administrator and/or programmer with Red Hat and Debian based Linux distributions. •Highly proficient at analyzing and determining the root cause of application, system and performance anomalies, and driving the required corrective actions. •Adept at architecting, defining, and implementing systems and servers such that the process is documented, repeatable, and maximizes the security and utility of the systems while minimizing the maintenance burden. •Extensive programming experience in C, Perl, and the various Unix scripting languages such as Korn shell, Bourne shell, AWK, Sed, for analysis, research, development and automation tasks. Experience • Site Reliability Architect, Staples Inc. October 2014 to June 2015 •Tools used: Linux (Debian, RHEL, CentOS), AIX, C, Perl, shell script, Python, AWK, sed, SSH, other common Unix/Linux commands and services. •Oracle VirtualBox •Splunk Represented the Global Site Reliability organization in all phases of the software development life cycle. Collaborated with business and technical teams to innovate and delivernew features and enhancements for the Staples E-commerce platforms. Identified project risks and worked effectively to mitigate them. Participated and collaborated in finding and fixing stability/scalability issues in very time critical and high volume E-commerce production environments. Lead or participated in event post mortem and root cause determination activities related to high volume E-commerce production environments and the activities to resolvethe identified issues.