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Contact/Resume

email: scottstefanoski@scottstefanoskigmail-com

linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottstefanoski/

Github: https://github.com/scottstef

Below is my resume. I am currently looking for a position as a data engineer or devops engineer. If you are hiring or know anyone that is, I would appreciate a shout out.

Scott Stefanoski

410.387.6918 scottstefanoski@gmail.com

Objective:  PhD student actively looking for a position that takes advantage of my leadership, technical, and managerial skills in a challenging, fast paced environment ideally in a devops or data engineering role.

Education:   

  • PhD student in Applied Computer Science at University of Maryland Eastern Shore
  • Eastern University, Master of Science in Data Science expected graduation December 2025
  • The Johns Hopkins University, Master of Science Information Technology 2005
  • University of Phoenix, Bachelor of Science Information Technology 2003

Certification: 

  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator id: 240-004-143
  • Preparing for the Red Hat Certified Engineer exam expected pass date April 2025 
  • Databricks Fundamentals from Databricks

Relavant Experience:

Skyline Technology Solutions:  Senior Engineer June 2023-Present

  • Senior engineer on the Professional Services team responsible for deploying and integrating Skyline’s video products for customers.  Responsible for entire customer engagement including technical deployment, customer handover and documentation, and support team handover and documentation.
  • Wrote Python and SQL scripts and automations to migrate data from various platforms and databases to facilitate customer migrations.  
  • Led classes and wrote support material to help improve junior team members grow technically.
  • Served as devops engineer writing Ansible playbooks, Python and bash scripts, and building Packer images.
  • Primary technologies used: Ansible, Python, SQL, Docker, VmWare, Centos, RHEL, Git.

Artisight: Senior Devops Engineer: Septemer 2022- January 2023

  • Worked on small devops teams to help deploy software to hospitals and other medical centers in a Linux/AWS environment.
  • Wrote patches and modules for our IAC to speed and ease deployment of our software to customer provided private clouds maintaining security and HIPAA requirements.
  • Tools and technologies used: AWS, Terraspace, Ansible, Docker Swarm, Git, Jira, Confluence, Python and shell programming.

Avaya: Automation Engineer: January 2022- September 2022

  • Wrote automation scripts for Palo Alto firewalls, Dell Switches, Vmware guests and hosts, Linux and windows systems.  
  • Administered the automation Jenkins and GitHub servers.
  • Designed and built network simulators using EveNG and GNS3 to create test environment.
  • Worked to create isolated customer environments within the VMware environment.  Responsible for building and deploying virtual servers, firewalls, and storage devices to a VMware environment.  Deployments were done through command line tools, API’s, and Ansible playbooks run through a CI/CD pipeline rather than through VMware vSphere.
  • Technologies used: Ansible playbooks, Palo Alto firewalls, Dell switches, Jenkins, Python, Bash, Powershell, and PowerCLI scripts.

Back In The Black:  System administrator: November 2020- January 2022

  • Managed Office 365 and Azure Cloud
  • Managed on premise and Azure based Directory Services
  • Managed service provider to make sure our SLAs were met.
  • Wrote Powershell scripts to facilitate system administration and security administration tasks.
  • Technologies used: Powershell, Azure cloud/Directory Services, onsite Active Directory Server, WSUS, Group Policies, and various mmc’s.

NASA EXPERIENCE:Senior Engineer and Technical Lead: October 2013 to September 2020

  • Worked with other engineers to select vendors/products for new private, Nutanix based, hyper-converged architecture that was sized appropriately with products that allowed for expected growth with minimal expansion effort required.
  • Designed and implemented a backup system using a Rubrik appliance.
  • Led several projects to migrate existing physical environments into virtualized environments.  These projects ranged from migration of a single mission operations center to creating a secure, shared, multi-mission virtualized environment.
  • Designed and built master Centos and Red Hat templates to provide secure, efficient systems that were able to be modified as needed.
  • Designed a new tier-two storage environment to allow redundant, self-healing white box storage cluster (CEPH) to provide increased storage capacity at a significant cost savings over a traditional NAS architecture.
  • Designed a CITRIX solution to provide last mile connectivity to the new infrastructure using WYSE clients.
  • Designed and implemented a Raspberry PI based mission pass clock to replace the existing insecure pass clock system.
  • Wrote Ansible playbooks, Shell, Perl, and Python scripts to replace the manual processes that were used for system administration and migrations.
  • Created RFPs and specifications for equipment and systems needed for IT tasks on projects.  
  • Managed network devices to provide a secure network using Juniper and Cisco switches and firewalls.  Deployed and managed PFsense firewalls and Pulse secure VPNs.
  • Designed virtualization effort, consulted on Hypervisor, storage, and resource management to map out strategy to virtualize networks and systems rather than refreshing physical ground system networks.
  • Led engineer for Atlas instrument ground system. Designed, built, deployed, and moved IT network and ground systems through the entire Integration and Test phase.  Was required to pack up and move entire air gapped network to several different geographical locations in step with the Atlas testing.  
  • Key platforms, tools and technologies: Centos/Ubuntu Linux, PfSense, Windows, Cisco, Juniper, VMware, Nutanix, operation systems.  Developed scripts/programs for Bash, Perl, Python, Powershell, and Ansible.  Other applications used were Red Hat Satellite, Git, Jira, Confluence, Rubrik backup solutions, LTSP and others.

Howard Community College- Information Assurance Lab Manager: November 2010 to October 2013

  • Performed hardware, software and network upgrades for the Information Assurance Computer Lab consisting of VMware ESX environment as well as physical Windows and Linux machines.  Migrated classrooms from physical workstations to a virtualized environment to reduce school costs while providing students access to a cloud environment.  Designed deployment processes and tools to reduce virtual classroom build time and storage needs by 75%.  
  • Provided technical and financial guidance with regards to procuring and using software and hardware as required within division.
  • Implemented and maintained system configurations of networking equipment, servers, firewalls, and virtual machines needed to conduct classes in information assurance.
  • Designed and implemented policies and procedures for tracking and maintaining technical assets in a school environment.  
  • Led effort to obtain program NSA certifications: 4013 certified, 4011 recertified, and designation as a Center of Academic Excellence.
  • Guided Faculty and IT department in the creation of lab environments for students for systems and development classes with Windows, Linux, Java, Python, C++, and mobile platform development environments.

Allegis Group-Internet Services Engineer: October 2000-March 2004  

  • Worked on a team providing internet services and support for those services.  Responsible for email, calendar, proxy, antivirus, load balancing,  and directory services. 
  • Worked with Netscape, Microsoft, Norton, F5 products.  Built and migrated services from Netscape servers to Microsoft based services.

ImageCafe- Helpdesk Technician: January 2000- September 2000- Provided support for online website customers.