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Lawrence Walton [email protected] (206) 225-0154 P ROFESSIONAL S UMMARY Personal Aptitude Leveraging technology, leadership, and project management skills with 20+ years of experience creating solutions for the enterprise. W ORK E XPERIENCE Sweetlabs Seattle, WA SweetLabs helps developers reach millions of new users, and enables device manufacturers to better monetize and differentiate their products through app install services. As Sr. Systems Engineer : Wrote code and worked with developers, engineers and administrators to improve deployment process. Lead initiatives focused on improving both production and non-production environments, with automation. Centralized and integrated authentication and identity management. Centralized logging, and log monitoring. Intrusion detection and prevention. Automating application release, and deployment Identity, authentication and access management DNS, certificate management Configuration management Software inventory, auditing, configuration management Intrusion detection AWS automation Comprehensive monitoring Backup and disaster recovery F5 Network Seattle, WA F5 specializes in Application Delivery Networking (ADN) technology that optimizes the delivery of network-based applications and the security, performance, availability of servers, data storage devices. As Sr. Systems Engineer : Lead initiatives focusing on improving internal services performance and reliability. Worked with developers and testers to design, implement, and deploy new services. Worked to improve and augment existing monitoring, Page 1 of 2 2013– 2015 –

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Lawrence [email protected]

(206) 225-0154

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Personal Aptitude Leveraging technology, leadership, and project management skills with 20+ years of experience creating solutions for the enterprise. 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sweetlabs Seattle, WA SweetLabs helps developers reach millions of new users, and enables device manufacturers to better monetize and differentiate their products through app install services.

As Sr. Systems Engineer : Wrote code and worked with developers, engineers and administrators to improve deployment process. Lead initiatives focused on improving both production and non-production environments, with automation. Centralized and integrated authentication and identity management. Centralized logging, and log monitoring. Intrusion detection and prevention.

Automating application release, and deployment Identity, authentication and access management DNS, certificate management Configuration management Software inventory, auditing, configuration management Intrusion detection AWS automation Comprehensive monitoring Backup and disaster recovery

F5 Network Seattle, WAF5 specializes in Application Delivery Networking (ADN) technology that optimizes the delivery of network-based applications and the security, performance, availability of servers, data storage devices.

As Sr. Systems Engineer : Lead initiatives focusing on improving internal services performance and reliability. Worked with developers and testers to design, implement, and deploy new services. Worked to improve and augment existing monitoring, provisioning and configuration management. Designed and implemented storage solutions.

Test network design Monitoring Network and system provisioning, and configuration management SAN and object based storage Database design and implementation Backup and disaster recovery, for internal services and data

RealNetworks / GameHouse Seattle, WARealNetworks is the creator of RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, and Helix.

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2013– 2015

2015 – 2016

2006 – 2013

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GameHouse a division of is a casual game developer, publisher, digital video game distributor, and portal.

As Systems Engineer and Systems Administrator: Improved performance, reliability, increased efficiencies, decreased costs by opening GameHouse and RealArcade data centers, decreasing reliance on RealNetworks internal corporate services, migrating and consolidating acquired companies data center services and assets. Lead virtualization initiative that migrated existing services, and deployed new ones in a virtual environment.

Virtualization design configuration and management Data center design, management SAN design, implementation Design, profiling and load testing services and systems Engineered web, network, and database services Support for both production and non-production Gamehouse, RealArcade services Develop and maintained installations and configurations Contributed to and maintained standards Monitoring, reporting and alerting for servers, networks, applications and services Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions Performed daily backup operations

Otak Inc. - Kirkland, WAOtak is firm of architects, civil engineers, urban designers, surveyors and planners.

As Network Manager: Helped grow Otak from two disparate and offices with less than 100 employees, to a company that was capable of collaborating internationally. Lead a project to improve collaboration by improving internal infrastructure, implementing WANs, video conferencing, VoIP, and other applications.

Lead technology initiatives, helped created corporate objectives and budgets Worked with corporate and office managers for resources allocation, and capacity planning Primary technical resource for Linux, Novell, and Windows 2003 servers Designed & Administered an enterprise-wide networks including LANs and WANs in diverse locations Employed management tools for monitoring, alerting, and IDS Responsible for file and print services, collaboration tools and SMTP services combining both Linux and

exchange Designed, documented, and implemented disaster recovery plans, procedures and systems throughout the

enterprise Created and maintained inventory, help-desk, and knowledge based systems

Virtual i-O - Seattle, WAVirtual i-O was virtual reality Head Mounted Display startup.

As Systems Administrator: Responsible for maintaining Novell, Windows, and SGI servers Responsible for all administrative aspects of internal and external networks

As Technical Support Manager: Took responsibility for all external technical support issues for Virtual i-O Mandated, created, and implemented the company's technical support database

EDUCATIONSeattle Central Community College - Seattle, WA Roosevelt High School - Seattle, WA – Diploma - 1984

* References available upon request

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1996 – 2006

1995 -1996