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San Antonio, Texas Area United States
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Principal Architect at Rackspace
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major.io/
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I'm a specialist in Linux, virtualization, OpenStack, and information security. I have experience leading highly technical people, managing budgets, and communicating with large groups. I've done DevOps before DevOps existed.
As the Chief Security Architect for Rackspace, I led critical and expansive information security projects that have impacts across the business. Much of my time was spent building strategic technical roadmaps for improving security but I also took time to research new security trends and new ways to improve the user experience.
My career started in the back of ambulances providing pre-hospital care to patients in distress as well as critical patient transport be...
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