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Russ Mittler

Diverse Lead DevOps Engineer/Architect

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Russ Mittler

Manager, Cloud Engineering

Welcome to a little bit about me professionally. If you have any questions, or want to know more, please don’t hesitate to contact me any time.

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Education

Florida Atlantic University

Political Science

09.2001 - 06.2003

Employment

ABB Optical Group

Lead DevOps Engineer/SQL DBA

2014 - Present

Sr. Manager, Infrastructure Ops/DevOps

Manage team of 16 infrastructure engineers of a $2BN+ enterprise with over 900 servers; including Exchange clusters, SQL clusters, VMWare clusters, Web/API farms and various other servers to run the enterprise. Led 2 DevOps Engineers and 4 developers. Refined the SDLC process and developed processes to ensure successful continuous deployments using TFS/Jenkins/Octopus Deploy/Nuget. Designed and implemented multiple complex environments for Dev, QA, UAT and various project environments. Acting DBA, managing multiple SQL server clusters encompassing 2008-2016. Designed, implemented and migrated all 2008 SQL physical SQL servers onto virtual 2016 SQL servers using AlwaysOn Availability with over 200 databases.

Managed/Led conversion 2008 SQL Cluster to SQL 2016 AlwaysOn for entire enterprise.
Led team to successful large-scale Oracle upgrade
Act as architect on complex projects following standard frameworks, TOGAF.
Manage multiple engineers (16+) responsible for 900+ servers on VMWare and Azure Cloud Arch
Manage clustered Citrix NetScaler load balancers.
Designed and Wrote PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts for automation of tasks.
Manage Azure DevOps, SVN, GIT, Jenkins & Octopus Deploy/Nuget for CI/CD, SDLC process.