paul laughlin

5/26/2018 Paul Laughlin

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Paul Laughlin3623 E Kristal Way

Phoenix, AZ 85050

PH: 6023345741

Email:[email protected]

Professional Objective:

A career with a technically progressive company, allowing me to utilize critical thinking,

rationale through difference and endeavor while welcoming Challenges which expose my

proficiency in my profession while garnering high esteem by my employer, by my colleagues ,

for myself.

Technical Ski ll s

Operating Systems Linux (CentOS), RHEL, Windows Server

2008, Solaris 10

Network Cisco Switches, Cisco FW, Cisco Balancers,

Dell Switches, A10 LBs,

Data Stores/Source Hadoop, solr, ElasticSearch

Databases MySQL, MS SQL server, Postgres, Hbase,Mongo, Oracle, DB2

Misc Subversion and GIT, Cisco Phone systems,EMC, Nagios, Ganglia, OpenVAS, Snort,

Wireshark, Nessus

Application Servers Tomcat, Jonas, IIS

Programing and Scripting C, Python, shell
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Professional Experience Timeli ne:

American Express:

Period: Current

Role:DirectorBigData ( Infrastructure, Architecture and Engineering)

Responsibilities:

- Lead and direct, architecture, design and implementation teams- Managed and designed execution environment running 800 nodes

on MapRsM5 distribution- Designed, structure consisting of more than 200 ecosystem compenents- Direction and creation of standards around appropriate stress testing and

performance testing of nodes.- Responsible for overall security assurance of the cluster- Design of infrastructural architecture of large splunk cluster- Appropriating methodologies for interaction with downstream and upstream systems

in American Express.

- Recruitment and interviewing of appropriate big data talent.- Research and development activities, around the technology stack.- Designing reference architecture around newer products and their applicability for

business.- Guiding teams for performance tuning and optimization.

Important Achievements:

- While building and testing one of the environments here at American Express,consisting 256 nodes, I guided my team towards achieving a World record feat.

we were able to break Terasort and MinuteSort records by miles. We achieved 1 TB

sort in 44 seconds and sorted 1.65 TB of data in 59 seconds. These remainunpublished owing to corporate policy at American Express.


3/5

TallWave/SyCara:

Period: May 2012 to March 2013

Role: Director of Engineering

Responsibilities:

- Implement standardized development processes- Reduce Technology related costs- Train and hire technologiests- Design and implementation of an architecture consisting LAMP, solr and Hadoop- Design systems for efficient crawl, analyse and report efficiently from the internet.

Achievements:

- Desined an highly efficient system architecture, which was able to bring down reportload time from 120 seconds to sub seconds. This also reduced the operating costs by

around two thirds of the original cost incurred.

Channel Intelligence:

Period: April 2005May 2012

Role: Director IT and Chief Security Officer

Responsibilities:

- Managing IT resources and staff- Developed, implemented and managed PCI level 2 compliance- Implemented technology portion of SAS70 compliance- Managed maintained and migrated 7 datacenters with more than 600 servers on east

and west coast as well as an Asian and European office connected by private layer 2networks.

- Personally managed linux servers and network resources.


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- Managed QA and Release Engineering to prevent unplanned production outages dueto code release.

- Managed high volume clients web sites, fulfillment processes, and advertisingintelligence for Cisco, MTV, Comedy Central, BJ's Wholesale, Target, McGraw-Hill,

Sun, GE, etc.

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Designed and implemented a 720 Core Hadoop cluster for processing data for googlemarketplace, tracking user clicks, etc.

Achievements:

- Reduced technology related costs by 50% through contract negotiations and movingto higher quality/lower cost facilities.

- Helped in transition of the technology once Google acquired CI in Feb 2013.

Period from 1992 to 2005

Period: Feb 2002 to March 2005

Role: Lead Developer/System AdministratorLinux

Responsibility: Helped in technology modernization at Ingram. Managed the development andLinux administration teams including selecting technologies to implement.

Period: 19992001

Role: Sr. Unix Administrator/ *nix Security Specialist

Responsibility: Managed daily administration of a multi-national network of HP-Unix, Linux,

Solaris, and AIX servers. Managed corporate DNS, Web Sites, Email, FTP, Automation, andSecurity. Created and maintained Unix Security Manuals for distribution to clients.


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LONESTAR INFOSYSTEMS

Period: 1997-1999

Role: Manager of Information Services

Period: 1995-1997

Role: Linux Contractor

FRANKLIN MICROSYSTEMS

Period: 1992-1995

Role:Network Tech

Certifications:

- Cloudera Hadoop Certified Administrator- Zend Certified PHP Engineer

Personal Attr ibutes:

- Provide leadership, motivation to group of people to achieve organizationalobjectives

- Strong team player who is able to gain cross communication and rapport from othermembers of the organization to provide excellence in managing goals of the company

- Taking on tasks and learning opportunities with high efficiency on my accord.

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