Godfrey Obinchu

 PERSONAL INFORMATION OBJECTIVE To work smart, provide ethical solutions and build on the knowledge obtained to diversify my competence in order to render quality services that meet the organizational needs and demands and also keep pace with the technological changes and contribute towards idea generation. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE IT Development Operations (DevOps) Manager goFLUENT Inc (Philippines) September 2015 – Present Oversee development and maintenance of computer systems, production and development, including design and implementation of system security and data assurance. Build and develop automation processes in Jenkins, in collaboration with the development teams (any experience with Continuous Integration solution is a plus). Build and develop global apps monitoring system Manage the releases with the team in coordination with the QA and Technical Teams. Monitor over 70 Servers (Windows and Linux) and NAS, spread over 4 environments. Monitor and develop our Business Intelligence environment (Windows) and active directory. Design and support a robust build, deployment, and configuration management system for multi-tier applications. Reviewing and developing the current system; Undertaking project work, working with computer coding languages, designing, writing and testing new software programs; Developing existing systems by analyzing and identifying areas for modification; Maintaining systems by identifying and correcting software defects; Investigating new technologies; Creating technical specifications and test plans; Writing operational documentation with technical authors; working closely with staff such as project managers, graphic artists, systems analysts, marketing and sales people; Implementing new software. Sr. System Engineering/DevOps – Consultant DirectWithHotels March 2015 – September 2015 Oversee development and maintenance of computer systems, production and development, including design and implementation of system security and data assurance. Identify departmental needs and make suggestions regarding technical direction. As well as collaboration with project managers to prioritize development of capabilities Provide subject matter expertise and technical directions, including test software applications and systems before implementing in production system. Work in automation and maintaining continuous delivery platform (deployments). Lead in application monitoring, instrumentation and overall visualization efforts, specializing in open source technologies that brings about lower operational costs Work with integrating internal systems with DevOps tooling. Support and advise engineering team on common practices within a distributed system Overall responsible for delivering automation solution for installing both infrastructure (VMs, Network and Storage) and Applications (AWS and Rackspace cloud management platform). Contributes to strategic planning meetings and provides guidance and expertise on system options, risk, cost vs. benefits, and impacts on departmental processes and goals. Infrastructure Senior Manager ADEC Group of Companies December 2013 – November 2014 Operation Management Oversee all aspects of IT department operations including IT infrastructure, Service Desk, Communication (LAN, WAN, email, etc.), Security, Backup/Recovery, Regulatory Compliance Inspire, lead, manage, and develop a highly technical and talented group of infrastructure personnel chartered with building, scaling, delivering, and maintaining the servers, storage, data-center resources, IT processes, and infrastructure services for all internal business systems. Align, communicate, and plan impactful infrastructure initiatives in partnership w/ senior management, peers, and engineers while simultaneously ensuring proper alignment to wider business and technical goals. Delivery and maintenance of Information Security programs that contributing to active protection of ADEC-Group intellectual / information assets. Prepare overall status and activity metrics that documents and tracks delivery of IT services, planned and unplanned system outages, and other key IT performance metrics Ensures high availability of critical business systems hosted by ADEC-Group Owns and maintains strict controls on data/system backups and recoverability Manage staff members in their daily activities as well as supporting business projects Develop and manage relationships with vendors in support of staff augmentation and systems support Manage overall capacity utilization of Server/hardware environment ensuring it is optimized to meet business requirements Strategy & Planning Creation and execution of strategies for building, scaling and ensuring the availability, efficiency, and positive business impact of infrastructure investments making sure ADEC-Group is realizing maximum value from infrastructure investments. Develop and implement hardware and software standards for network, servers, databases, wireless technology, file & print services, etc. Develop and implement data retention standards Develop and maintain overall backup and recovery strategy (Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity) Develop, implement, and maintain processes and procedures for effective delivery of services and compliance with regulatory guidance Establish and implement 'best-practice' standards as well as departmental policies and procedures Determine, recommend and implement hardware and software upgrades for business applications, server hardware, network equipment, desktop, laptop, etc. Develop and implement BIG Data initiatives. Lead Systems Engineer PCM BPO, Inc. (Former OSRP LLC) May 2012 – December 2013 Designs, develops and/or integrate solutions to meet business requirements or enhance performance.  Performs and evaluates cost analyses and vendor comparisons for large-scale projects to ensure cost-effective and efficient operations. Measures feasibility of various approaches and makes recommendation(s). Ensures adherence to model created and overall budgetary guidelines.  Recommends systems investment(s) to management based on results of independent assessment of current and future performance, stability, and systems management/life cycle issues.  Provides escalated, highly complex technical support to customers by investigating and resolving systems-related matters of significance; provides support telephonically and/or electronically.  Plans, conducts and oversees the technical aspects of projects; coordinates the efforts of technical support staff in the performance of assigned projects.  Applies advanced methods, theories and research techniques in the investigation and solution of the complex system requirements and problems. Develops training tools and documentation; oversees implementation of same.  Reviews literature, patents and current practices to support business requirements and/or new industry technology. Prepares reports regarding new technology to communicate to appropriate personnel.  Provides technical consultation on current and proposed systems to other organizations and clients.  Provides leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel.  Develop, maintain and test operating system (Windows and Linux) used to run website application Data Mining (Big Data)/Project Manager (Special Project) PCM BPO, Inc. (Former OSRP LLC) April 2011 – December 2013 Work with the Project Manager and Requirements Analysis Team in finalizing the scope for the data integration and data mining requirements. Analyze the data structures and content of the data warehouse in relation to the data integration and data mining requirements. Design and lead the testing and enhancement of the maps created for data integration and models for the data mining. Perform Project Manager with our special projects. Tasked with implementing Search solutions for our e-Commerce sites Lead implementation of Hadoop for our analytics Direct and manage project development from beginning to end. Develop full-scale project plans and define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals. Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path. Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools. Track project milestones and deliverables. Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations. Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises Successfully deployed proposed changes to production site Linux/System Administrator PCM BPO, Inc. (Former OSRP LLC) September 2009 – March 2011 Build/Configure and administer Linux systems (RedHat ES & Fedora, SuSE, CentOS) Administer *NIX systems (HP-UX, Mac OS X, etc...) Configure and administer Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL knowledge Configuring master-slave replication of mysql servers Configuring of virtual host on apache servers and installation of ssl certificates Installation and configuration Splunk (Log correlation tool) and Nagios (System monitoring tool) Spearhead VMware/Vsphere installation, configuration and managing VM clients on VMware ESX & ESXi expert Integrator in migrating applications / infrastructure Installed/configured RHEL5 VM. Includes network configuration using bridge-bond, NIC teaming and management of Virtual Machine partitions Create Linux scripts for new projects as requested by users and development team. Scripts that calls the execution of .BAT files and .SQL files. Create proactive and interface scripts for databases and applications Create documentations for system overview, operational and troubleshooting procedures Successfully converted all our mall sites platform from Windows based to Linux environment System and Web Support Engineer PCM BPO, Inc. (Former OSRP LLC) February 2009 – September 2009 Deploy and manage all applications and third party software in our hosted environments Ensure timely installation of operating system and application upgrades Maintain all supporting components such as monitoring, alarming and performance analysis systems Conduct performance analysis on the applications Report defects found in Staging and Production to QA and Development teams Work closely with these teams to ensure timely resolution of these issues Create detailed implementation plans and Method of Procedure documentation to be followed as part of the company's change control policy Perform system administration tasks on all application platforms in the hosted Application Services Platform (ASP) Provide after hours support to issues as they arise Junior System Developer Smarternow Systems (Nairobi, Kenya). June 2005 – August 2009 Deploy and manage all applications and third party software in our hosted environments Ensure timely installation of operating system and application upgrades Maintain all supporting components such as monitoring, alarming and performance analysis systems Conduct performance analysis on the applications Report defects found in Staging and Production to QA and Development teams Work closely with these teams to ensure timely resolution of these issues EDUCATION De La Salle University, 2007 - 2015 Master of Science in Information Technology – Major in Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing Kyambogo University - Uganda,- Batchelor of Science in Information Technology and Computing Moi University – Kenya, 2000 - 2000 Electrical and Electronics Engineering TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES Programming and programming methodology (C++, C, Visual .NET, Java J2EE) – 6 years Linux OpenSource (advantage RHEL) – 7 years Virtual Machine – 7 years Apache Cloudera (Hadoop, Flume, Zookeeper, Nutch) – 3 years Apache Solr (open Source Search engine) – 3 years Linux Fail-over and Clustering – 7 years Windows (optional, additional points) – 10 years MySQL (installation, configuration and maintenance) – 5 years MySQL replication and Clustering – 5 years MySQL Database fine tuning and troubleshooting - 5 years Apache (installation, configuration and maintenance) – 6 years Apache fine tuning and troubleshooting with PHP– 6 years Apache load balancing– 6 years Apache fail-over and clustering– 6 years Web metrics and analytic analysis and reporting – 3 years Networking (installation, configuration and maintenance) – 5 years Network fail-over and clustering  (optional, additional points) – 5 years Firewall appliance (installation, configuration and maintenance) – 5 years RAID Configurations – 5 years Remote access administration – 4 years ICT Security planning, implementation and monitoring (specifically on the backend: OS, db, firewall and network) – 4 years PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES. Scott, B. Darrow Global CTO/CIO ADEC-GROUP. Makati City, Philippines --- Francis, A. Dy Senior Project Manager PCMall Inc. Ortigas City, Philippines -- Mr. Marvin Javier Senior System Analyst Accenture Philippines- Makati, Philippines Jesus D. Madrazo QA Manager ADEC Group of companies --