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•	Added and decommissioned more than 100 datanodes to important production clusters.•	Maintained security across eighteen Hadoop clusters (two of which were over 100 nodes)—this involved establishing automation and user support for Kerberos and LDAP as well as Linux owners and groups.•	Upgraded AT&T’s largest production cluster, this effort involved scripting, and coordination with all ETL development teams.•	Deployed an analytics platform for data scientists to run distributed queries in python or R and then to index them in Apache Solr.•	Created a process for admins to easily download R packages from CRAN and install them across several nodes in parallel.•	Acted as main liaison between the Hadoop vendor and AT&T to seek optimizations and improvements for our clusters.•	Enabled high availability for the namenode, resource manager, and hive metastore, this eliminated the singlepoint of failure of services, and made our clusters more readily available.•	Created automation packaging for several different big data components these packages contained configuration management for components like Ant, Python, R, Java, HBase, Nginx, Redis, and Solr.•	Maintained documentation and process for all JDBC/ODBC connections to Hive/HDFS from various SQL applications.•	Upgraded Hadoop clusters using automation and bash scripting to install new versions of software.•	Used Nagios and Ganglia to monitor cluster health and give reports to management.
    
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Big Data Software Engineer/Hadoop Administrator at AT&T Wireless

AT&T Wireless

Big Data Software Engineer/Hadoop Administrator

Brigham Young University

Management Information Systems, General

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

University of Utah

Information Systems

Master of Science (MS)