Tyler Viars
Pine Grove,PA
Summary
Operations Engineer with strong expertise in Linux administration and application troubleshooting. Maintains high availability systems and achieves contractual SLAs. Drives team collaboration and operational efficiency through effective problem-solving and communication. Conducts disaster recovery testing and trains staff.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Operations Engineer
AFS
01.2023 - Current
- Diagnosed, troubleshot, and resolved AFSVision infrastructure issues in a distributed systems environment.
- Collaborated with Operations Management to deploy secure, high-availability production Linux infrastructure for AFSVision application.
- Supported batch processing and interface deliveries for AFSVision application, maintaining contractual SLAs and deliverables.
- Conducted annual disaster recovery tests to ensure system resilience.
Video Game Coder
Self Employed
01.2016 - Current
- Developed applications using LUA and GLUA for over 7 years
- Applied JAVA programming skills for 5 years in various projects
- Created web pages using HTML for 3 years
Undercover Detective, Loss Prevention
Boscov's
01.2023 - 09.2023
- Follow and confront a potential person of interest who is suspected of shoplifting.
- Identified potential thieves among customers and staff to prevent theft.
- Monitored public areas to detect unusual activity and potential threats.
- Monitor security systems like alarms and closed-circuit cameras.
- Reduced company asset losses while ensuring safety of employees and customers on store property.
Process Tech, Thermoforming
Supply One Inc.
08.2022 - 01.2023
- Designed equipment and machinery layouts, planned workflows to optimize processes, and analyzed production cost data for informed decision-making.
- Partnered with industrial engineers to develop and implement effective design solutions that addressed operational challenges.
- Operated machinery for production of packaging materials.
- Monitored quality control processes during production runs.
- Assisted in troubleshooting equipment malfunctions and repairs.
Education
High School -
Pottsville Area High School
Pottsville, PA06-2019
Degree - Criminal Justice
Schuylkill Technology Center, South Campus
Marlin, PA05-2019
Skills
- Incident management
- Application support
- Application deployment
- Web services integration
- Automation tools
- Scripting languages
- Linux administration
- Datacenter experience
- Jira
- Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Process optimization
- problem solving
- effective communication
- Training development
References
- Austin Wentzel, (610) 780-5577
- Sean Hornberger, (484) 955-2482
- Michael Kohlbrenner, (484) 802-7800
Timeline
Operations Engineer
AFS
01.2023 - Current
Undercover Detective, Loss Prevention
Boscov's
01.2023 - 09.2023
Process Tech, Thermoforming
Supply One Inc.
08.2022 - 01.2023
Video Game Coder
Self Employed
01.2016 - Current
High School -
Pottsville Area High School
Degree - Criminal Justice
Schuylkill Technology Center, South Campus