Seeking to champion Linux/HPC/ai/CFD/WebWork/Virtuoso/Calibre/R/Comsol/matlab 

John Eismeier
Worcester, MA  01602	508.635.7384
www.linkedin.com/in/johneismeier/	john.eismeier@yahoo.com
github.com/jeis4wpi


Professional Summary
====================

  HPC administrator with over 15 years of extensive expertise in Linux,
  HPC, and cloud technologies, adept at optimizing computational
  resources to foster academic research excellence.  Skilled in
  deploying and managing complex systems, including HPC clusters, bare
  metal, Nutanix and Proxmox infrastructures, with a proven track record
  of enhancing system performance and reliability.  Passionate about
  driving innovation in academic settings, leveraging advanced skills in
  tools like spack, podman, Apptainer, Docker and Ansible to support
  cutting-edge research initiatives.


Professional Experience
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  - **System Engineer III** - Worcester Polytechnic Institute -
      [2018-2025]
    - Teach Linux command line interface introduction supporting
      students academics.
    - Teach High Performance Computing SLURM introduction enabling
      research.
    - Enable researchers with software like gprMax, Gurobi, COMSOL,
      Fluent, SimVascular in HPC environment.
    - Deploy/Champion WebWork as needed for Placement, Calculus,
      statistics and additional course work.
    - Transform WebWork with grade passing LTI integration to canvas.
    - Offer Red Hat Academy courses self paced for students.
    - Manage Cadence/Mentor Virtuoso/Calibre ECE design and research
      infrastructure.
    - Install DNA, RNA, protein sequencing for course work and research.
    - Deploy slice constraints managing VScode CPU hogging and classic
      fork bombs.
    - Deploy research driven spack software installs in HPC SLURM
      environment.
    - Provide guidance on research approach utilizing HPC resources for
      academic goals.
    - Deploy chronyd for updated time synchronization solution for the
      campus.
    - Manage R1 HPC research cluster with 5k+ CPU/49T RAM/84 GPU and
      SLURM with PXE image boot/patch management
    - Deploy and Manage RHEL/Ubuntu Infrastructure
    - GPU trouble shooting and benchmark

  - **Scrum Master** - Dell/EMC Corporation - [2014-2017]
    - Encouraged VPLEX build team delivering
    - Introduce Jenkins/Artifactory to replace legacy product build
      system with common off the shelf tooling improving build time from
      8 hours to 2 hours reliably.
    - Matured new Jenkins/Artifactory build system so that Product
      Managers were enabled to create product releases to partners and
      customers.
    - Completed migration from legacy Cloud to next generation Cloud
      Native with near zero downtime of development and release services
      supplied.
    - Site Reliability contributor configuring Nagios for all critical
      servers/services in new Cloud Native infrastructure.
    - Improved code quality and received "Silver Award of Excellence" by
      developing automation using Coverity static analysis tools to
      block defect introduction during code commit.
    - Consumed Gitlab CE/EE as continuously delivered product by
      frequent Gitlab deployments via Puppet providing bug fixes, added
      features, i.e. squash commits.
    - Transform product defect tracking from legacy ClearQuest to JIRA
      keeping a backlog of must fix issues that were exposed to
      leadership team.  Furnished operational support/assignment
      migrating to JIRA.
    - Safeguarded project/product resources by managing access controls
      of colleagues that left by driving defect reassignments guided by
      leadership input.
    - Performed Scrum Master rituals; daily stand up, planned sprints,
      reviews, and fun retrospective; provided value to business with
      each sprint; published progress team completed, ensuring staff
      could learn, review and speed up product delivery.
    - Enabled team members to develop and contribute to product
      deliverable goals by reviewing and repairing Nagios/Puppetboard
      reported issues of infrastructure daily.
    - Certified delivery of new product was ready for release during
      every code commit by providing new end-to-end pipeline support in
      Jenkins of 30-day monitoring appliance.
    - Protected infrastructure from Ransomware and improved product by
      repairing HeartBleed, WannaCry and ShellShock issues and managing
      vulnerabilities for developers and products.
    - FOSS/Blackduck process contributor and earlier adopter socializing
      how to use; increasing legal approval time of FOSS integration
      into product.

  - **Principal Build / Release Engineer** - Dell/EMC Corp. -
      [2012-2013]
    - Proposed Tableau reporting after BI tools evaluation of TIBCO,
      Pentaho, Tableau; Built server/desktop infrastructure that
      successfully replaced spreadsheet management.
    - Developed email push automation to mobile devices on daily Tableau
      reports, keeping management informed of progress and meeting
      business objectives established each quarter.
    - Learned and mentored current home grown VPLEX build / release
      platform, keeping software products released to customers.
    - Regular security audit implementing best practice post 2011 hack
      driving patch management processes and vulnerability assessments.
    - Created WPAtools virtual appliance with KIWI build tools SuSE/SLES
      JeOS platform. Portable disposable web for NetAPP hot spots used
      in dark / secure data centers. Appliance was patched with seccheck
      and NESSUS credentialed STIG scan for security application and
      appliance hardening.
    - Ensured appliance shipment by completing legal compliance and
      patent review requirements for third-party, expanding VPLEX
      spreadsheet for legal with VMware branding.
    - "Gold Award of Excellence" for the delivery and support of the
      WPAtools appliance packaged on a thumb drive.  This appliance
      included collaboration with Mitrend.  The appliance incorporated
      XFS, PVSCSI, VMXNET3 drivers for optimization of the analysis and
      reporting.
    - Site Reliability contributor deploying and management of ESXi
      servers, Virtual Machines, security patching and hardware
      replacement.
    - Created automation for ClamAV daily product scans migrating away
      from legacy McAfee reporting deficiencies to Corporate IT and
      McAfee.
    - "Silver Award of Excellence" for GIT SCM migration proposal
      replacing legacy CVS solution.

  - **Senior Linux Engineer** - MONSTER WORLDWIDE, Maynard, MA -
      [2011-2012]
  - **Principal Release Engineer** - START UP COMPANY, Westborough, MA -
      [2010]


Education
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  - **Masters of Science (MS)** - Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI),
      Worcester, MA
  - **Bachelor of Science (BS)** - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
      (WPI), Worcester, MA


Skills
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  Python, Bash, Puppet, Ansible, YAML, Rake, Make, Cmake, Ruby, SQL,
  HTML, NodeJS, Maven, Ant, RPM,DPKG, GNU tools, Zypper, dnf, HPC/ai,
  Gitlab, VMware, Proxmox, Nutanix, Docker, Apptainer, podman
  containers, Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, SLES,Alpine, Windows, Solaris,
  HPUX, AIX, Cloud, Teach Linux CLI, Jenkins, Gitlab CE/EE, Puppet,
  Ansible, JIRA, Artifactory, Blackduck, ClamAV, DNS, SAN, NAS,
  LDAP,Github, WeBWork, Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, Xapian, MSSQL,
  SimVascular, Gitlab, Coverity, Tableau, JIRA, Nessus STIG, Sonar,
  Artifactory, Nagios, Cacti, Munin, ossec, Bro, KIWI, VMware studio,
  Bullseye, clamscan, savscan, ESET, splunk, Scrum Master for DevOps and
  LabOps team, Mentor, Security Vulnerability Management, Open Source
  Contributor