Note for government positions: I am a US Citizen who is registered with Selective Services.

Work Experience

2016 - 2017: IT Help Desk, SIUE, Edwardsville, IL, Part Time: 15 to 30 hours per week.

While, demonstrating expertise and professionalism I helped students, faculty, and staff by finding solutions to unique IT problems

Role: Student IT help desk and field tech employee
Actions:

Responsible for effective and rapid resolution of Help Desk Tickets
Troubleshot/resolved software and hardware related tracked concerns within established time-frames
Worked with minimal to no supervision in resolution of open ticket action items

Impact: Faculty members provided accolades to senior supervisory personnel regarding my demonstrated expertise and professionalism
Faculty Accolade: jnh.bz/faculty_acclamation.png

Summer 2015: National Science Foundation (NSF) Secure Cloud Computing Research Experience Undergraduate (REU), NSF and Missouri S&T, Rolla, MO, Full Time Research Internship.

Studied cloud computing approaches, platforms and trends in depth

Note: One of ten selected from a national pool of applicants
Role: Research Assistant
Actions:

Researched, developed and implemented ways to securely store and process private information on public cloud platforms
Devised a ranking system to prioritize Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) based on certifications and other implemented security features
Taught group members how to use Git

Impact: Provided enhanced understanding of various cloud computing platforms, the three service models (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS), and approaches to utilizing public cloud platforms in a secure manner
Presentation: jnh.bz/mst_reu_ppt.pdf
Poster: jnh.bz/mst_reu_poster.pdf

Personal Projects

Fall 2017 - Present: Automated Website Deployment.

Built an Ansible Playbook and a Terraform script to automatically deploy a WordPress website to DigitalOcean and configure DNS records on CloudFlare

IPv6 only behind CloudFlare
Redis caching
Utilized Travis CI and Docker for integration testing of Ansible Roles
Utilized Ansible Vault to protect sensitive variables
Wrote Vagrantfile that utilized custom build Vagrant box for local testing and debugging
Wrote bash scripts to automate repetative tasks
Repository: github.com/HauptJ/WordPress-CloudFlare-Terraform

Spring 2018 - Present: CentOS 7 Vagrant Box.

Built a CentOS 7 Vagrant box usign Packer

Included automatic provisioning with Ansible
Published to Vagrant Cloud
Wrote a PowerShell script to automate build and packaging processes
Repository: github.com/HauptJ/Vagrant-CentOS-7-HyperV-Gen-2

Spring 2018 - Present: Ansible, Terraform, and OpenStack CLI Docker Container.

Built a Docker container with Ansible, Terraform, and OpenStack CLI

Utilized Travis CI for integration testing
Published on Docker Hub
Repository: github.com/HauptJ/Ansible-Docker

January 2018: Python Git Hook and Integration Testing Project.

Built a simple python program that demonstrates GIT hooks and automated integration testing

Utilized Travis CI for integration testing
Wrote a separate script to run integration tests and print a report
Repository: github.com/HauptJ/Value-Cleaner

Summer 2014: TCP IP Web Utility Website.

Personal project in which I build a simple PHP website that provided TCP IP utilities such as user IP and user agent ping, traceroute, port scan, and nslookup

Configured a DigitalOcean cloud server with the LEMP stack
Configured DNS records
Originally published on Google Code
Repository: github.com/HauptJ/ip-tools

Academic Projects

2017: DevOps, SIUE, Edwardsville, IL, Group Senior Capstone Assignment.

Built a toolkit to help students gain an understanding of some of the tools used in a Unix DevOps environment

Note: Client was an employee of AT&T
Role: Linux Expert
Actions:

Wrote a Vagrantfile and an Ansible Playbook to provision a virtual development environment
Wrote Dockerfiles to provision Ubuntu Linux containers for Java, Python and C++ Socket programming
Wrote Travis CI test cases for CI testing
Wrote bash and PowerShell scripts to install Git, VirtualBox, Vagrant and Ansible

Impact: Helped create a fully functional end product that met all of the clients expectations
Repository: github.com/SIUE-DevOps

Spring 2017: Mock Email Client and Server, SIUE, Edwardsville, IL, Individual Computer Networking Project.

Build a mock Email client and server

Utilized TCP, UDP, logging, authentication and external HTTP API calls via CURL
Utilized SMTP and HTTP status codes and request commands
Created a simple PHP based HTTP API to assist with encoding and decoding passwords
Repository: github.com/HauptJ/UDT-Mail-Server

Fall 2016: LA Crime Database, SIUE, Edwardsville, IL, Group Database Project.

Built an advanced MariaDB database using crime data published by the city of Los Angeles, California

Role: Linux Server Expert
Actions:

Designed an advanced database using crime data from Los Angeles, California
Set up a MariaDB database on a CentOS 7 cloud server
Took frequent database backups
Solved configuration problems that arose with CentOS 7, MariaDB, PHP and Nginx
Created a simple web interface that utilized advanced queries
Helped a group member resolve technical problems that made impeded him from accomplishing tasks

Impact: Helped create a fully functional end product that met all graduate level specifications
Repository: github.com/HauptJ/SIUE-CS-434-Advanced-Databases-Fall-2016

Fall 2016: CS AP Test Study Web App, SIUE, Edwardsville, IL, Group Human Computer Interaction Project.

Built a PHP web application to help students study for the Computer Science AP test

Roles: Git Expert, Linux Server Expert
Actions:

Recommended web services such as Github and Office 365 to assist with collaboration
Set up an Infinoted server hosted on an AWS cloud server to enable pair programming
Created a PHP web application hosted on an OVH cloud server
Thoroughly documented design and planning after perfomring requirement analysis
Performed usability testing
Created Flow, Cultural, Sequence, Artifact, Physical, and Affinity Diagram work models
Created Low and High Fidelity prototypes
Presented the project to the class at the end of the semester
Helped a group member resolve technical problems that made impeded him from accomplishing tasks

Presentation: jnh.bz/hci_proj_ppt.pdf

Fall 2015: Animal Rescue App, SIUE, Edwardsville, IL, Group Software Engineering Project.

Built a C# desktop application to keep track of inventory at an Animal rescue organization

Roles: Git Expert, Linux Server Expert
Actions:

Recommended web services such as Office 365 to assist with collaboration
Thoroughly documented design and planning after perfomring requirement analysis
Created design diagrams such as use cases, UML, DCD, Sequence, and ER
Presented the project to the class at the end of the semester

Presentation: jnh.bz/swe_proj_ppt.pdf

Spring 2015: File Deduplication, SIUE, Edwardsville, IL, Group Research Project.

Research project involving file deduplication

Role: Research Assistant and Linux Expert
Actions:

Translated a Java library to C
Encouraged good code documentation practices
Set up an Infinoted server hosted on a DigitalOcean cloud server to enable pair programming

Impact: Helped create a functional product that met the professors expectations

Education

2018: B.S, Computer Science, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.