John Mears
Systems Engineer Developer (Linux) at United States Department of Defense
Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Mears is a systems engineer and Linux specialist with nine years of experience designing, hardening, and operating large-scale virtual, hybrid cloud, and Big Data/HPC environments for DoD and enterprise customers. He combines hands-on administration of RHEL/CentOS, Windows, VMware/OpenStack, and SATCOM systems with automation using Puppet, Cobbler, Kickstart and Docker to deliver highly available, auditable platforms. Deep expertise in DISA STIGs, ACAS, HBSS and network device configuration has driven secure deployments across hundreds of systems and classified networks. A former Army NCO who led network operations in deployed environments, he pairs battlefield-tested troubleshooting and training skills with formal IT management and a near-perfect GPA in Network Management. Notably, he has saved organizations substantial costs through in-house fixes and built repeatable processes for complex operational systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, IT: Network Management, 3.99 GPA, BS, IT: Network Management, 3.99 GPA at Westwood College-Annandale
Github Skills (23)
puppet9
scanning9
nist7
openscap7
compliance7
pam6
data-stream6
oval6
ssh5
python-requests5
security5
gunicorn4
firewall4
hosts4
python3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mears148/puppet-module-security
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Basic AWS Puppet module for security
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
awssecuritypuppet-modulepuppet
Mears148/puppet-module-ssh
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:22 pushes in 9 days
puppet-modulesshpuppet
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