Jason A. Dour

Louisville, KY · ofni.-remove-keegddo@nosaj

Skills

General
  • Experienced multi-disciplinary IT architect with extensive experience in global enterprises.
  • Broad ranging technology experience on-premises and in cloud.
  • Excel at cross-disciplinary interaction and disaster recovery / business continuity practice.
  • Strong trouble-shooting, problem-solving, and procedure review and design skills.
  • Excellent writing skills, with ability to document methods and practices.
Architecture
  • Business Continuity
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Automation
  • Availability Engineering
  • Data Protection (Backups, Replication, etc.)
  • Systems Administration
  • Network Administration
  • Storage Networking
  • Storage Administration
  • Netscout
Languages & Tools
  • Markdown
  • Python
  • Go
  • Javascript
  • NodeJS
  • Github
  • Github Actions
  • Terraform
  • Packer
  • Vault
  • Rust
  • hugo
  • Mermaid
  • PanDoc
  • Graphviz
  • git
  • VS Code
  • html5
  • css3
  • shell
  • bash
  • R
  • Ruby
  • Perl
  • tcl
  • tk
  • expect
  • visual basic
  • C
  • php
  • bootstrap
  • atom
Google Cloud Platform
  • Cloud Functions
  • Load Balancing
  • Cloud Storage
  • Container OS
  • Cloud CDN
  • Secret Manager
  • Compute Engine
  • Cloud Identity
  • gcloud SDK
  • VPC
  • Firewall
Amazon Web Services
  • Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • Route 53
  • S3
  • EC2
  • ECR
  • ECS
  • ALB/NLB/ELB
  • CloudFront
  • IAM
  • ACM
  • CodeCommit
  • CodeBuild
  • CodePipeline
  • CloudWatch
  • CloudFormation
  • Athena
  • Secrets Manager
  • Directory Service
Microsoft Azure
  • Basic administration.
Operating Systems
  • Linux
  • UNIX (HP/UX, Solaris, others)
  • VMware
  • Windows
  • MacOS
Other
  • Auth0
  • Github Administration
  • Github Enterprise
  • OpenDNS
  • Infoblox
  • Apache
  • Docker
  • NGINX
  • PostgresQL
  • SQLite
  • MySQL
  • Storage (EMC, Hitachi, NetApp)
  • Avamar
  • Data Domain
  • NetWorker
  • Data Protector
  • CTERA

Experience

Principal IT Enterprise Architect; Business Continuity Coordinator

GE Appliances, a Haier Company; Louisville, KY

  • Serving as part of the Enterprise Architecture team.
  • Providing cross-disciplinary architectural guidance across multiple teams and disciplines, including: business continuity, architecture repository, availability and resiliency architectures, and technical debt rationalization.
  • Serving as Business Continuity Coordinator, responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the cloud-hosted BC portal, process-authoring guidelines, editorial oversight of portal contents, tracking application compliance with BC documentation and testing requirements, and working with application owners and the IT Risk Management team to ensure all applications are recoverable, documented, and compliant.
  • Advancing a Reference Architecture initiative, defining standards for how to document best practice standards, maintain ongoing architectural design records, and create a collaborative group of solution architects with ongoing dialogue and reference library.
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining metrics to advance elimination of technical debt, and identifying the most critical debt reduction with most impact to business operation’s availability and success.
  • Key member of data center build project, responsible for the design and build of the first Tier-III LEED Platinum Data Center in Kentucky.
  • During tenure have served as: UNIX Systems Administrator, Storage Architect, Data Protection Architect, Solutions Architect, and more.

9/2004 – Present

UNIX Systems Administrator

CompuCom; Louisville, KY

  • Staff-Augmentation Contract; see summary above for GE Appliances.

4/2005 – 9/2006

UNIX Systems Administrator

Manpower Professional; Louisville, KY

  • Staff-Augmentation Contract; see summary above for GE Appliances.

9/2004 – 4/2005

UNIX Systems Administrator

Mercer Human Resource Consulting; Louisville, KY

  • Served on global UNIX Team, responsible for HP/UX, Solaris, and Linux.
  • Lead tech on DNS Engineering Team. Administered global DNS servers.
  • Developed and deployed automated BIND management and configuration distribution.
  • Co-designed ESX and VirtualCenter infrastructure, deployment, and training.
  • Developed and deployed SAN-mirror backup system.

9/2001 – 6/2004
Prior Experience

UNIX Systems Administrator; Lightyear Communications; Louisville, KY

5/2001 – 9/2001

Systems/Network Administrator; FKI Logistex Inc; Louisville, KY

5/2000 – 5/2001

Installation Support Analyst; Vencor Inc; Louisville, KY

9/1998 – 5/2000

Founder & Executive Producer; PJ Harvey Online

9/1996 – 2/2002

Programmer Analyst II; Department of Radiation Oncology; University of Louisville; Louisville, KY

4/1996 - 9/1998

IT Consultant; Self-Employed

2/1996 - 4/1996

Programmer III; IT – Database Administration; University of Louisville; Louisville, KY

9/1993 - 2/1996

Assistant Systems Programmer; IT – Data Center Services; University of Louisville; Louisville, KY

9/1993 - 2/1996

Consultant Supervisor; IT – Resource Centers; University of Louisville; Louisville, KY

9/1993 - 2/1996

Program Director & Disc Jockey; WLCV 570AM; University of Louisville; Louisville, KY

8/1993 – 10/1995

UofL University Club; ICS Inc.; Gateway Interior Dist.; Louisville, KY;

12/1990 – 3/1993

Computer Lab Consultant; Saint Xavier High School; Louisville, KY

12/1990 – 3/1993

Clerk; Business Computers & Software; Louisville, KY

8/1989 – 1/1992

Projects

Summary of some of the more interesting projects I’ve been involved with throughout my career. Unique, educational…whatever the reason, they’ve stuck with me.

Cloud Automation

Reducing manual effort and human error through automated processes.

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    Business Continuity Portal

    I developed a BC portal for all documentation of BC standards and practices. With an automated, revision-controlled publishing engine garnering multiple glowing reviews from external auditors.

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      Class A Exit

      You've had the same addresses for decades...time to switch!

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        Kentucky's First LEED Platinum Data Center

        During my time at GE Appliances, I helped design and build a world-class Tier-III LEED Platinum data center; and after eight years it still is unique and ahead of time in several ways.

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          Dice Probability

          A little bit game theory and design; a little bit math-as-recreation. Playing with understanding the mechanics of dice.

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            Code

            A collection of various code I’ve written in the form of scripts, libraries/modules, programs, et cetera.

            Action Setup Gomplate

            Gomplate; in Actions.

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              fetchtotum

              Secrets retrieved!

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                diceprob

                My dice probabilities golang module. Perform stats calcs for complex dice notations.

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                  hugo-aws-lambda-layer

                  AWS Lambda Layer for Hugo Static Site Generator.

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                    amazonlinux-gcc-devel

                    Amazon Linux GCC Development Docker Image.

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                      codebuild-hugo

                      AWS CodeBuild Docker image of Hugo.

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                        Miscellaneous Quick Hacks

                        A variety of quick hacks and micro utilities I've written through the years.

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                          Games::Dice::Probability

                          My dice probabilities perl module. Perform stats calcs for complex dice notations.

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                            Education

                            University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)

                            Bachelor of Arts, English
                            1991 – 1998

                            Bellarmine College (Louisville, KY)

                            AP College Credit
                            1989 - 1991

                            Saint Xavier High School (Louisville, KY)

                            1987 - 1991