Vlad Ghinea
Profile
Skilled DevOps Consultant with a strong background in Linux server administration, and over 15 years of IT experience supporting, automating and optimizing deployments in the Cloud or On-Premise. My spare time is spent learning and improving. As an educator I am driven to inspire students to pursue academic and personal excellence.
Experience
Self-Employed
New Orleans, LA
DevOps Consultant
July 2009 - Present
- Significant experience building Fault-Tolerant and High Availability applications using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and with the configuration of various Amazon products
- Infrastructure orchestration using AWS Cloudformation, Terraform and Packer
- Use Ansible as a configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage change.
- Extensive experience developing and maintaining custom Ansible collections and roles, including testing (using Molecule)
- Determine and implement AWS IAM roles and policies to adhere to least privilege principle
- Provision and secure regional and multi-regional encrypted AWS storage (S3, EFS) and internal networking using VPC's and subnets
- Create cloud functions to automate event driven tasks (using the Serverless Framework)
- Infrastructure monitoring using Grafana, Prometheus, AWS Cloudwatch, AWS SNS (notifications)
- Configure Version Control using Git (including Github) with GnuPG encryption and signatures
- Container orchestration using Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm and Amazon ECS
- CI/CD using Github Actions, Travis CI or Circle CI pipelines
- Ability to build deployment, build scripts and automated solutions using shell scripting (BASH) Python or Ruby
- Extensive experience developing and maintaining virtualization environments (using Proxmox or VMware ESXi)
- Design and implement network infrastructures using pfSense (VLANs, WireGuard or OpenVPN, HAProxy or Traefik load balancing, DNS resolving, SSL certificates)
- Experience in all phases of the software development life cycle with specific focus on the build and release of quality software
- AWS
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Python
- BASH
- Git
- HTML
- CSS
Tulane University - Theatre Department
New Orleans, LA
Senior Professor of Practice
Jan 2020 - Present
- Teach graduate and undergraduate level classes (including CAD, Advanced Technical Problems, Technical Directing, Project Management)
- Supervise and mentor graduate students to fulfil their degree
- Technical Director and Lighting Designer, with a portfolio of over 50 realized main stage productions
- Track internal/external deadlines, workflow, project costs, coordinating logistics and managing departmental tasks, staff planning & cost analysis
- Collaborate with Producers, Directors, and Design Teams to ensure the timely construction of all productions
- Manage and oversee the day-to-day operations and all aspects of event logistics/planning for main stage productions
- Represent the university and the department, recruit graduate students at USITT conferences (2012-present)
- OEHS Departmental Safety Representative (Jan 2019 - Present)
- Master’s Thesis Committee Member
- Program Review Committee Member (Dec 2021)
Professor of Practice
July 2013 - July 2019
Visiting Assistant Professor
July 2012 - July 2013
- Academic
- Project Management
- Design
- Production
Loyola University - Theatre Department
New Orleans, LA
Adjunct Professor
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
- Taught CAD software (VectorWorks)
- CAD
Unlock Consumer Data
Bucharest, Romania
IT Manager
May 2008 - May 2009
- Installed, configured and operated networking systems, maintained the company's security systems
- Administered telecom infrastructure (Asterisk IP PBX systems)
- Ensured high system availability in a mixed server environment, including Windows and Linux
- Contributed to existing projects and initiatives recommending changes in the methods and procedures of existing business processes
- Maintained all the UNIX, Linux and Windows environments
- Monitoring and capacity analysis using Monit and Nagios.
- Linux
- Network
- Data Processing
- Infrastructure
OgilvyOne
Bucharest, Romania
Desktop Publisher
Jan 2007 - Dec 2007
- Creating and formatting various commercial prints, fliers, adds and catalogues
- Ensured the required printing standards
- Design
Connect Promotion
Bucharest, Romania
IT Manager
Jan 2006 - Dec 2006
- Created internal frameworks to structure IT-related activities and the interactions of IT technical personnel with business customers and users
- Asset Management (Printers, Workstations, Routers, Switches, and Servers)
- Linux
- Network
- Data Processing
- Infrastructure
Education
Master of Fine Arts (2012)
Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Project Management and Technical Direction
Master of Business Information Systems (2009)
Romanian-American University, Bucharest, Romania
Managerial Information Systems
Bachelor of Business Information Systems (2007)
Romanian-American University Bucharest, Romania
Managerial Information Systems
- +1 (504) 909-1432
- vlad@ghn.me
- ghn.me
- New Orleans, LA
Skills
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Team
- Project Management
- Event Planning
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Cloud
- AWS
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Programming
- Python
- Ruby
- BASH
- HTML
- CSS
- Jinja
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IaC
- Terraform
- Packer
- Cloudformation
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Configuration Management
- Ansible
- Puppet
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Developer Tools
- Git
- Github
- Github Actions
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Containers and Orchestration
- Docker
- Docker Swarm
- Docker Compose
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Monitoring
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Cloudwatch
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Virtualization
- Proxmox
- VMware ESXi
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Personal
- Calm under pressure
- Excellent communication skills
- Great team player
- Always looking to work collaboratively
- Ability to adapt quickly and effectively
Languages
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RomanianNative
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EnglishC2
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FrenchB1
Diplomas
- Master of Business Information Systems (2009)
- Master of Fine Arts (2012)
Interests
- Science
- Technology
- Education
- Smart Home
- Nature
- Travel