GUY E.

MATZ
505 Court Street (917) 518-3603
Brooklyn, NY 11231 gmatz@matz.org

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
● Expertise in System administration of many Linux distributions, particularly RedHat &
Ubuntu
● Expert in Ansible & Salt configuration management, experience with Chef & Puppet
● Administration of all common UNIX services, e.g. NFS, NIS, DNS, Postfix, LDAP, etc.
● GCP, AWS & Rackspace administration
● Strong Shell, Python, & Groovy scripting
● Jenkins Administration and programming
● Artifactory administration and programming
● VMware ESX 5 administration
● NetApp 7.x administration
● Oracle administration & programming
● Hadoop administration
● Excellent practical & theoretical knowledge of Internet applications and security concerns
● Web/App Server administration & Programming of Tomcat, Apache, Rails & Flask
● Knowledge of Java, XML, SQL, PL/SQL, XML, XSLT, HTML & CSS
● LDAP, MQ Series and AutoSys design, architecture and implementation
● Administration of Sybase, MySQL & Fame database applications
● Contribution to Open Source projects
◦ Ansible
◦ Jira module for python
◦ The Foreman
◦ apt-mirror
EXPERIENCE:

Nov 2017 - Present Schrodinger, New York, NY

DevOps Engineer
● Development & maintenance of Ansible & Salt code for RHEL 7
● GCP & AWS administration via Terraform
● Automation of business workflows using StackStorm / Python
● Automation of Swarm Cluster on vmWare using Terraform, as well as
container deployment via ansible
● Automation of Docker Container builds for specific internal applications via
Jenkins
● Docker Image builds with ansible-container

June 2015 - Nov 2017 J. Crew, New York, NY

DevOps Engineer (Consulting)
● Automation of many business processes using custom workflow engine
● Development & maintenance of Ansible code in an absurdly complex
environment
● Design/Implementation of complex CI/CD
Workflow including integrations with several APIs
● Jenkins administration & automation with Groovy
● Artifactory administration, including custom User Plugins
written in Groovy
● “Best Overall Hack” for Jira-based Business-Process automation
written in Python

June 2017 - August 2017 Moxe Health, Madison, WI

DevOps Engineer (Consulting)
● AWS infrastructure management using Terraform
● Configuration management using Ansible
● Jenkins administration

Nov. 2014 - June 2015 Rent The Runway, New York, NY

DevOps Engineer
● Development & maintenance of Puppet code in a complex SOA
 environment of ~500 CentOS servers in Rackspace
● Support of general development efforts and general Systems
Administration functions
● Puppet, employing Roles/Profiles pattern. Development/deployment
lifecycle includes git, librarian-puppet, Vagrant, Jenkins and rigorous
testing
● Projects included “Towers of Hanoi” style datacenter migrations within
Rackspace Public CLoud, Private Cloud and Dedicated vCenter
● Installation & maintenance of Katello for package management and strict
lifecycle management of system packages
● Member of on-call rotation

May 2014 - Oct 2014 WeightWatchers, New York, NY

DevOps/Systems Administrator (Consulting)
● Configuration Management of new virtualized Rackspace Infrastructure
using Ansible

June 2013 – May 2014 iHeart Radio, New York, NY

DevOps/Systems Administrator
● Administration of 200+ servers using Chef
◦ Mixed environment of Metal, AWS & VMware
● SRE for Ingestion & Encoding team of developers
● Development and maintenance of Chef cookbooks
● Established process for Chef development using Chef Zero, test-kitchen
and Vagrant
● Python coding of administrative web-app using Flask
● Development of automated DNS push derived from internal asset
management database

Jan. 2013 – June 2013 Collective Media, New York, NY

DevOps/Systems Administrator
● Hadoop administration of a 60-node Ubuntu cluster
● Development of proposal for Policies & Procedures
● Foreman integration into existing puppet environment
◦ Development of Foreman/FreeIPA Proxy
● Katello installation for OS SDLC
 ● Creation of local repositories for code/package standardization
● Installation of FreeIPA for Kerberos authentication

May 2010 – Jan. 2013 MarkitServ, New York, NY

Infrastructure & Production Systems
● On rotation for all levels of support
● Assisting in datacenter migration, including over 200 Linux servers, a
number of NetApp appliances, and a large-scale VMware deployment
● Hardware consists of a number of HP BladeSystem c7000s and DL360s
● Puppet used for all server configuration
● Hadoop administration of a 30-node cluster
● Engineering and Implementation of a Continuous Integration test
environment for Puppet deployment, using Hudson
● LDAP deployment for authentication and sudo authorization
● DNS management using InfoBlox

Mar. 2004 – May 2010 Open Finance, New York, NY

Team Lead, Production Systems
● Heavy development of Financial Services Back-End System dataflow and
utilities using bash, Perl, Python, Java, XML, SQL & PL/SQL
● Development of web application for monitoring internal applications
using JSP, WebSphere & Oracle
● Development of client-facing Rails application
● Puppet used for configuration management
● Systems & network administration at co-location facility for Production,
UAT & Development systems in US and European Facilities. Managed
Systems Administrators both domestically and abroad (Switzerland &
Singapore) using Puppet for centralized administration..
RedHat/CentOS/Fedora/OracleEnterprise Linux systems are used for Oracle
databases, application servers and infrastructure servers, including firewalls,
mail servers and naming services servers
● Manager of team to implement planning, installation of Disaster
Recovery site, including fail-over procedures and recovery
● Installation and configuration of systems and network monitoring agents
● Installation & Management of a variety of hardware, including VPN &
iSCSI appliances, various RAID storage and various Intel-based servers.
 ● Email server administration – Postfix & Dovecot
● Installation of LDAP infrastructure

Oct. 2001 – Feb. 2004 Max Power Consulting, New York, NY

Computer Systems Consulting
● Systems & network administration at co-location facility for
medium-sized web development group. Systems range from Sun V120s to
4500 to Sun E6900
● Development of heavily customized mailing-list application using PHP,
Perl & MySQL
● Teaching of “Windows 2000 Professional” & “Windows 2000
Infrastructure” courses at a small technical college.
● Development and maintenance of complex printing quota management
system at Columbia University
● Windows 2000 administration for a cooperative medical facility
● Linux and Oracle administration at a co-location facility for a financial
start-up
● Database design and front-end coding for a Marketing firm
● Microsoft VPN access solution for a Law firm at “Ground Zero”
Jan. 2001 – Oct. 2001 Kinexus Corporation, New York NY
Consulting - Back-End Systems Developer
● Development of Financial Services Back-End System dataflow using
Shell, Perl, Python, Java, SQL & PL/SQL
● Heavy use of Oracle and DataJunction
● IBM MQSeries administration

Dec 1999 - Jan 2001 Opus360, New York NY

Senior UNIX Web Services Administrator
● Installation and configuration of Sparc Netra T1 105s & Enterprise 250s
& 450s
● Netscape Web-Server administration and tuning
● Responsible for securing external web-farms including setting firewall
rules, installing SSH, configuring tripwire, as well as deploying VNC as a
means to remotely administer NT Servers
● WebLogic administration, including architecture of development and
production environments
 ● Installation & configuration of Resonate, a software-based network
load-balancer
● Installation & configuration of WebMethods, a java-based application
server
● Installation & configuration of Network Services, e.g. Sendmail, DNS,
LDAP, etc.
● Oracle administration in a development environment
● Configuration of Jumpstart Server
● CGI scripting using Perl
● LDAP administration

Mar. 1998 – Jan 2000 Credit Suisse/First Boston, New York NY

Consultant – Systems Administrator - Trading Floor Support
● General trading floor support in mixed Solaris/NT environment
● Engineering and installation of Solaris on servers and workstations
ranging from Sparc IPX to E4500s
● Engineering and implementation of experimental NIS-to-LDAP
conversion
● Autosys management
● NIS/NFS administration

Feb. 1997-Mar. 1998 Deutsche Bank, New York, NY

Systems Administrator
● Production support in Trading Floor environment. Production platform
consisted almost entirely of RISC boxes running AIX versions 3.2.5 & 4.x.
● Environment made heavy use of NIS & NFS, including HA/NFS server
pairs for most non-workstation class machines and HA/CMP for specific
mission-critical application servers.
● Configured HTTP proxy servers to better serve LAN segments
● Developed web-based documentation management system
● Other duties included application roll-outs and filesystem maintenance.
May 1996-Feb. 1997 PFM Communications, New York, NY
Systems/Network Administrator
● Network consisted of various Sparc, NT & BSDI servers, T1 connections
to Sprint, MCI & UUNet for Internet connectivity and Cisco routers
● Primary responsibility was technical contact for Internet Wired, a project
 to Internet-ready commercial properties
● Managed WWW, News, Mail and other Internet services
● Configuration of client-end routers and management of Internet services
on both Solaris & NT
● Projects included design & installation of Internet solutions, i.e. routers,
CSU/DSU, Terminal Servers, etc., at client sites and the design and
implementation of company’s internal Firewall with Checkpoint’s
Firewall-1.

Apr. 1995-May 1996 Dillon, Read & Co., New York, NY

Systems Administrator/Intranet Developer/E-mail Administrator
● Network consisted of SPARC servers running both Solaris 2.4 & SunOS,
Prime mainframes, X-terminals, PCs and Macs
● Headed project team to install firm-wide E-mail at home office and
others around the country
● Developed prototypical Intranet in a mixed Solaris/NT environment.
● Site included a variety of content such as a document management
system, an expense report filer, a personnel database, as well as
department specific applications. Site made use of JavaScript on the
front-end and Perl and Oracle as back-end tools.
● Member of project team responsible for Internet connectivity. Project
included hardware configuration of Firewall with routers on the internal &
external nets and a bastion host in between, and implementation of security
software
● Responsible for naming services conversion from NIS to DNS

Jan. 1993-Apr. 1995 Horizon Data Corporation, New York, NY

Systems Administrator
● Responsible for Systems Administration of RS/6000 TCP/IP LAN/WAN,
including integration with Netware 3.12 LAN/WAN for a U.S. Government
agency
● WAN included T-1 & 56Kb bridges to satellite offices in metropolitan
area, and a dial-up SLIP connection for a sister office in San Diego
● Member of project team responsible for installation, implementation and
administration of Excalibur, a client/server document imaging system, and
Oracle 7.
● Responsible for document management architecture and implementation
 using near-line (CD Jukebox) storage
● Member of team to integrate cc:Mail & Router throughout WAN, which
included 5 offices with a total of approximately 200 nodes. Each node ran
IP on top of IPX in order to use Windows client software for the
applications running on the RS/6000

EDUCATION: 2010 - Present Brooklyn College, New York - Biology

1987 - 1992 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI – Mathematics
1983 - 1987 Bronx H.S. of Science
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Knowledge of Dutch and French