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Travis Vonderscher

System Engineer
Frisco,TX

Summary

Skilled Cloud Integration Engineer with 5+ years of experience in planning, automating, deploying and maintaining Openstack cloud environments. Skilled in Ansible/Puppet as configuration tools for automating repetitive tasks, quickly deploy applications, and manage configuration changes.

Accomplished Telecommunications Engineer with 20+ years in the industry. Extensive background in the installation, configuration, testing and maintenance of various communication networks. Effective team player with excellent logical and analytical abilities. Passion for learning new technologies.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

System Engineer

Ericsson
Plano, TX
08.2009 - 02.2023
  • Deployment Engineer for AT&T Integrated Cloud (AIC) program, deploying, upgrading and patching 100+ Data Centers for AT&Ts business applications.
  • ·Deployed and maintained 100+ Data Centers using OpenStack Cloud Computing platform.
  • Automated deployments using Ansible, Mirantis Fuel and Puppet to provision Openstack instances, enabling continuous deployments.
  • Developed Ansible playbooks for automating repetitive tasks related to Deployments, Upgrades, and Hotfixes.
  • Deployed and configured Nagios server/agent for Data Center infrastructure monitoring.
  • Created MOPs, in Markdown and Word, for technical production environment tasks.
  • Worked with customer developing health checks/monitoring documentation and tools.

Integration Engineer

Nortel Networks
Richards, TX
01.1999 - 07.2009
  • Responsible for Installing, commissioning, upgrading, and migrating wireless telecommunication systems (e.g., GSM, CDMA and EVDO) for large wireless providers.
  • Developed and integrated new wireless telecommunication systems to increase efficiency, security, quality, and decrease expenses.
  • Maintained, troubleshoot, and repaired wireless telecommunications equipment both locally and remotely.
  • Involved in Software Test Engineering, Integration and System Engineering
  • Maintained working knowledge of current wireless communication technologies, specifically GSM, CDMA, UMTS, EV-DO, and 4G LTE systems.
  • Established and implemented policies, procedures and technologies to support system integrity

Education

Bachelor of Science - Microbiology

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN

Skills

  • Linux, Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, Debian
  • High availability database and app clustering experience; MySQL, PostgresSQL, and replication/scaling technologies
  • Comprehensive knowledge of scripting languages like BASH and Python
  • Experience with Web/App servers such as Tomcat, Apache webserver, NGINX, HAproxy, Squid
  • Host, application, and network based security; knowledge of tools like Openssl, Tripwire, GnuPG, SELINUX
  • Virtualization experience with OpenStack, KVM, Mirantis Fuel, Azure
  • Proficient in Automation tools like Ansible and Puppet
  • Cloud experience with Openstack (private cloud) and Azure (public cloud)
  • Familiar with DevOps (Git, Jenkins) and Agile methodologies (Jira)

Certification

Azure Administrator - AZ-104

Azure Fundamentals - AZ-900

Timeline

System Engineer

Ericsson
08.2009 - 02.2023

Integration Engineer

Nortel Networks
01.1999 - 07.2009

Bachelor of Science - Microbiology

Indiana University

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