I'm currently building startups in Chicago during the day. I bring years of Internet/network engineering experience, complimented with over a decade of POSIX based operating systems engineering background. I cover the full spectrum of network and systems administration as well as the DevOps side of the spectrum as I presently am taking on the SaaS industry. As a result of being in IT almost half of my life, I deliver Enterprise-class network and systems availability with a software overhead of $0. I'm adaptable to any environment and profoundly invaluable to any organization seeking leadership and discipline within their technical environments. I specialize in designing, implementing, and maintaining high-availability of every layer responsible for the integrity and availability of infrastructure as well as dev and production servers using a variety of modern cluster stacks such as OpenStack and Red Hat Cluster Suites for Layer 4 and 7 load balancing / reverse proxy, redundant block-level replicated NAS clusters, MySQL clusters and standalone replication, and KVM and XEN hypervisor clusters for virtualization either with DRBD based block level replication or iSCSI backed targets. Using a battalion of custom written tools and freely available open source software like Nagios and check-mk I can provide comprehensive yet intuitive distributed monitoring systems for all aspects of site reliability, keeping your workstations, database servers, web servers, application servers, and other various services and servers running with high availability and data resiliency. With my expertise, application deployments and provisioning are turn-key with the implementation of configuration management and orchestration tools such as SaltStack and Puppet. My network engineering experience covers the fundamental necessities to keep your network safe and resilient, from carving out guaranteed firewall ACLs via iptables, to scaling out self-mending infrastructure utilizing dynamic routing protocols like OSPF and BGP.