Justin Smith

Technology Architect

justins@entropytechnology.com

ABOUT

I have embraced the DevOps lifestyle. Continuos improvement in my career. Eliminate waste, work in small batches, align vision with customer needs. I have run my own technology company. I'm a network architect, engineer, and administrator with 20 years of professional experience. I'm a generalist who is comfortable with Windows/Mac/Linux as well as routers/firewalls/switches. I'm interested in all kinds of building enterprise solutions, but my major focus is on managing cloud environments. I also have skills in other fields like network security, web development, and cryptocurrencies.

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WORK

Lead DevOps
Ksana Health, Inc.

I instituted a DevOps program for Ksana and led an AWS to Azure migration. The process consisted of modernizing the application stack, implementing CI/CD, implementing Azure infrastructure, and adherance to HIPPA, SOC2, and other privacy controls. This was done in less than 4 months and led to over a 93% successful build/release rate.

Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
Most recent

Enterprise Application Manager
Deluxe Entertainment

I was a manager for multiple teams and changed the philosophy from general support tickets to reducing time to resolution and analysis of tickets. This improved the quality of our tickets, and allowed my teams to focus on site reliability instead of reacting to events. My experience in architecture and design led 3 major platform migrations to AWS by contributing to best practices and self healing through automation.

Jan 2017 - Jan 2021

DevOps Engineer
CBS Corporate

I worked cross discipline in many areas such as builds, releases, metrics, and monitoring. I led cloud migration initiatives to Google Cloud Platform, Azure, and Amazon Web Services. I built or contributed to an in house release management system done in 100% PowerShell that interfaced with many connected systems through REST APIs (such as TFS/VSTS).

May 2015 - Dec 2016

Principal
Entropy Technology, LLC

I have worked with multiple clients on network design and implementations. Payment security solutions, such as PCI compliance, vulnerability scanning and assessments, point of sale security, Cryptocurrencies (e.g. Bitcoin) were consultative work. I contributed to development of bitcoin software in NodeJS/AngularJS frameworks, which is available on Github.

May 2013 - May 2015

Senior Windows Architect
j2 Global Communications, Inc.

I engineered solutions to grow the Microsoft Windows environment during my tenure from approx 90 nodes to over 2700. In the process, I integrated 6 disparate Exchange environments from 2003/2007/2010/2012 as j2 acquired new organizations. I grew j2 Global Windows NT (Yes, NT) to Windows 2012, writing many cool PowerShell scripts in the process.

January 2011 - May 2013

Senior Network Engineer
Viceroy Hotel Group (Formerly Kor Hotel Group, The Kor Group)

I opened, closed, or transitioned technology ownership of over 40 domestic and international luxury hotels. I built advanced hotel technology with complete end-to-end IP solutions that included: Voice, Data, Video, Voice, Music, and On-Demand, Security. I designed and deployed the 4 datacenters for centralized technology. I managed all call center technology, including ACD, VoIP, and Salesforce.

October 2003- December 2010

EDUCATION

BS - Computer Engineering Technology
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts

JUNE 1999
Cum Laude

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

DevOps
CBS Corporate

Reinvented myself as a DevOps engineer which involved learning new products and business practices.

2015-2017

Business Ownership
Entropy Technology

Challenged myself to go in new business directions

2013-2015

Cloud Engineering
j2 Global, Inc.

Contributed to architecting and engineering cloud services. Was directly involved in Production, Development, and Administration systems.

2011-2012

Luxury Hospitality
Viceroy Hotels

Excellent record of international hotel openings with complete IP solutions.

2003-2010

SKILLS

Network Architecture / System Administration
95% percentile

Cloud Providers - eg AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, et al
80% percentile

Development
25% percentile

Windows
95% percentile

Programming (PowerShell)
80% percentile

Network Devices - eg Routers, Firewalls, etc
45% percentile

PORTFOLIO

NETWORK DESIGN

I provide clear road maps for strategic directions. I advise on why one technology option would be more preferable to others.

Engineering

BIG MIGRATIONS

Big projects? No problem. I have migrated cloud based and physical datacenters with virtually no downtime for end users. This project was over 2500 users, and the only calls to the help desk were "I thought I was supposed to be migrated". They were!

Big Data, Exchange

CODING

I recently started contributing to online open source projects at Github. I am a cryptocoin enthusiast developing a web based point of sale integrated wallet.

web design

CONTACT

Email
justins@entropytechnology.com

Address
1231 N Formosa Ave #3
West Hollywood, CA 90046
United States of America

Phone
+1.424.226.6398

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