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"name": "John Dyer",
"label": "Manager of Platform Operations at Cisco",
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"email": "johntdyer@gmail.com",
"phone": "+1.407.474.0214",
"website": "https://johntdyer.com",
"summary": "Highly motivated and enthusiastic technical leader, with more than 15 years of proven experience in system engineering in both large and small organizations. I am looking for a long term career with an innovative company were I can use my skills and previous experience to provide value and strategic advantage to the corporation. Likewise I am looking for personal enjoyment through a workplace that challenges and promotes creative solutions to problem solving. I have a proven history of strong leadership and management of large decentralized teams to deliver quality services and innovation.",
"location": {
"address": "710 Richmond Glen Dr",
"postalCode": "GA 30004",
"city": "Milton",
"countryCode": "US",
"region": "Georgia"
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"url": "https://github.com/johntdyer"
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"url": "https://keybase.io/johntdyer"
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"network": "Reddit",
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"work": [
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"company": "Cisco",
"position": "Senior Manager of Production Visibility",
"startDate": "2015-06-30",
"highlights": [
"Identified over 10 million dollars of cloud spend waste and worked with service owners to resolve identify how best to mitigate these inefficiencies ",
"Worked with service owners during design of solutions utilizing cloud provider services to help ensure adoption of best practices",
"Lead and built large teams of systems engineers that managed diagnostics for on of the worlds largest SaaS products"
],
"summary": "Was responsible for all logging, metrics, and alerting for the WebEx service, which handled millions of concurrent users and billions of daily meeting minutes",
"website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cisco/"
},
{
"company": "Tropo, Inc",
"position": "Director of Platform Operations",
"startDate": "2012-10-31",
"endDate": "2015-06-30",
"highlights": [
"Built team of eight systems engineers from the ground up",
"Part of team handling due diligence during Cisco Acquisition"
],
"summary": "As Director of Operations I manage a team of incredible systems engineers who deploy and manage Tropo deployments on a global scale. Our team specialized in addressing internal and external customer needs through automation, process, and of course creativity.",
"website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tropo-inc/"
},
{
"company": "Voxeo",
"position": "Customer Engineer III & Lab Operations Engineer",
"startDate": "2007-04-30",
"endDate": "2013-06-30",
"highlights": [
"Introduced `Cloud Computing` in a company which traditionally managed their own data centers",
"Won highest honor, \"Voxeo Customer Obsession Award\" 2 times",
"Published several blog posts related to VoiceXML, CCXML, and CallXML for Voxeo developer blog"
],
"summary": "Started as Intern and worked my way up to customer support engineer level 3 and then onto lab engineer on internal incubator team.",
"website": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/voxeo/"
},
{
"company": "Orlando Nightclub Enterprises",
"startDate": "2002-12-31",
"endDate": "2008-12-31",
"highlights": [
"Responsible for hiring and scheduling for a staff of over 120",
"Responsible for inventory management and loss prevention",
"Co-designer of inventory management system which lead to $500,000 yearly savings"
],
"position": "Senior Manager",
"summary": "Responsible for large night club with 6 operating nights per week and a operating capacity of over 3000 patrons. Responsibilities included daily operations, inventory & loss prevention, employee scheduling, marketing and promotions.",
"website": "https://roxyorlando.com/"
}
],
"volunteer": [
{
"organization": "DevOps Days",
"position": "Volunteer",
"website": "http://devopsdays.org/",
"startDate": "2013-04-09",
"summary": "Organized five successful conferences in the Atlanta area. Grew attendance from 120 to over 500 with a budget of over $150,000 each year.",
"highlights": [
"Founding organizer - DevOPS Days Atlanta 2013",
"Head organizer - DevOPS Days Atlanta 2016",
"Head organizer - DevOPS Days Atlanta 2017",
"Head organizer - DevOPS Days Atlanta 2018",
"Head organizer - DevOPS Days Atlanta 2019",
"Head organizer - DevOPS Days Atlanta 2021"
]
},
{
"organization": "RTP DevOPS",
"position": "Volunteer",
"website": "https://cs.co/9003y3FhR",
"startDate": "2015-09-15",
"summary": "Facilitator for internal DevOPS conference at Cisco with over 500 attendees from a dozen countries",
"highlights": [
"Reviewed talk proposals",
"Facilitated break out sessions"
]
},
{
"organization": "Develop@Cisco 2019",
"position": "Organizer",
"website": "https://www.cisco.com",
"startDate": "2019-09-09",
"summary": "Facilitator for internal developer conference & Hackathon within Cisco.",
"highlights": [
"Attendance of over 1000",
"Part of core team responsible for selecting talks from over 500 submissions for 12 separate conference tracks",
"Proctored sessions for Cisco TV"
]
}
],
"education": [
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"institution": "University of Central Florida",
"area": "Management of Information Systems",
"studyType": "BS",
"startDate": "2004-08-01",
"endDate": "2007-08-01"
}
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"awards": [
{
"title": "Our People Deal Award",
"date": "2020-04-01",
"awarder": "Chuck Robbins, Cisco CEO",
"summary": "Extraordinary contributions during COVID-19 response"
},
{
"title": "CodeFest 2019 Finalist",
"date": "2019-04-01",
"awarder": "Amy Chang, SVP Cisco Collaboration",
"summary": "2nd place finalist for 'Timeline' project amongst field of over 100 teams"
},
{
"title": "Collaboration Hackathon 2017 winning team",
"date": "2017-04-01",
"awarder": "Panos Kozanian, Director of Platform Operations",
"summary": "Won Collaboration hackathon with functional pipeline for aggregating telemetry data from 35 data centers at petabyte scale."
},
{
"title": "Voxeo Customer Obsession Award",
"date": "2012",
"awarder": "Jon Taylor, Voxeo CEO",
"summary": "Extraordinary customer support"
},
{
"title": "Voxeo Customer Obsession Award",
"date": "2010",
"awarder": "Jon Taylor, Voxeo CEO",
"summary": "Extraordinary customer support"
}
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"skills": [
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"name": "Linux",
"level": "Master",
"keywords": [
"Ubuntu",
"CentOS",
"RedHat",
"Alpine",
"OSX",
"Git",
"SystemD",
"Networking",
"Strace"
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{
"name": "Monitoring",
"level": "Master",
"keywords": [
"Sensu",
"Nagios",
"CollectD",
"Telegraf",
"Graphite",
"Influx",
"Grafana",
"Loki",
"Elasticsearch"
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"name": "Infrastructure",
"level": "Master",
"keywords": [
"AWS",
"GCP",
"Azure",
"OpenStack",
"VirtualBox",
"Kafka",
"Apache",
"Nginx",
"Tomcat",
"HAProxy"
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{
"name": "Cloud Native Architecture",
"level": "Master",
"keywords": [
"Consul",
"Vault",
"EtcD",
"Docker",
"Kubernetes",
"Nomad"
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{
"name": "Configuration Management",
"level": "Master",
"keywords": [
"Chef",
"Terraform",
"Puppet",
"Packer",
"Ansible"
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},
{
"name": "Test Frameworks",
"level": "Intermediate",
"keywords": [
"RSpec",
"Test::unit",
"Go Convey",
"Go Test",
"JUnit"
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{
"name": "Front End",
"level": "Intermediate",
"keywords": [
"CSS",
"HTML",
"JQuery",
"Bootstrap",
"Handlebars"
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{
"name": "Programming",
"level": "Advanced",
"keywords": [
"Go",
"Ruby",
"Javascript",
"Shell",
"Python",
"Rust",
"Git"
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{
"name": "Network Architecture",
"level": "Advanced",
"keywords": [
"TCP/IP",
"WAN",
"DNS",
"VLAN",
"VPC",
"Direct Connect",
"BGP",
"VPN"
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{
"name": "Unified Communications",
"level": "Master",
"keywords": [
"SIP",
"Asterisk",
"ASR",
"SRGS",
"GrXML",
"TTS",
"SMS",
"SSML",
"Unified Messaging",
"VoIP",
"CTI",
"IVR"
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}
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"languages": [
{
"language": "en",
"fluency": "Native Speaker"
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"interests": [
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"name": "Mountain Biking",
"keywords": [
"Off Road",
"Downhill",
"Trail Riding"
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{
"name": "Home Automation",
"keywords": [
"Smart Home",
"MQTT",
"RS485",
"ESP8266",
"Z-wave",
"zigbee"
]
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{
"name": "Photography",
"keywords": [
"DSLR",
"Drones",
"GoPro"
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},
{
"name": "BBQ",
"keywords": [
"smoking",
"Big Green Egg"
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},
{
"name": "Water Sports",
"keywords": [
"Ski",
"Wakeboard",
"Wakesurf"
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}
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