Resume

Michael W. Bogucki
**** ****** Ave. Home: 847-***-****
Skokie, Illinois. 60076 Cell: 847-***-****
mwbogucki_AT_gmail_DOT_com
 		http://niihamashi.no-ip.org

Work History

Yello Co. 2017 - Present
Sr Devops Engineer
  • Part of infrastructure-team support AWS environments both in commerical and government spaces.
  • Support and deploy systems and environments, using Chef, Terraform and Ansible.
  • Developed various python-based tools to aid in supporting various environments.
  • Provided systems support to various ElasticSearch-Clusters, in environments ranging from Production to dev.
  • Developed python tool to synchronize and migrate elasticsearch clusters from 2.x to 5.x.
  • Part of team responsible for Yello becoming Fedramp Approved, as well as gaining access to GovCloud AWS.
Hyatt Hotels Corp. 2015 - 2017
Sr. Operations and Systems Engineer
  • Part of team responsible for migrating from AT&T-data-centers to private-based data-center.
  • Responsible for reverse engineering various servers, architectures, scripts as part of data-center migration.
  • Coded various ansible-playbooks, to provision and deploy both Apache and CQ-based servers, from bare-metal.
  • Implemented and supported various AWS/Cloud based applications and projects.
  • Coded python-based provisioner to replace commercial Automic-application, used in deploying AWS/HyCam.
  • Developed python-based backupd/scheduler-utility to streamline AMI-snapshots in AWS.
  • Regular user of command-line ansible for day-to-day administration tasks.
ZoroTools Inc 2011 - 2015
Sr Linux / Cloud Administrator
  • Joined start-up as a team of two systems adminstrators. Co-developed infrastructure to present standing.
  • Implemented Nagios to moinitor entire infrastucture; later extened with python to automate additon of instances.
  • Developed various cloud-based utilities, in python and boto, to allow for easierutilizaton of cloud intrastructure.
  • Wrote python-based parsers to handle data-transactions between invoices and MySQL-databases.
  • Saved company $18K with the development of a Linux/Samba based file-server and batch-processing system.
  • Coded a backup-solution through a combination of python, duplicity, and the AWS/S3 services.
  • As of 2014, sole-systems-adminstrator of infrastructure.
General Board of Pensions and Health Benefits 2008 - 2011
HP/UX Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst
  • Provided HP-UX installation, maintenance, upgrade, security, and disastor recovery.
  • Develop and document custom tools and software, in Perl, Sed, Awk, and shell.
  • Provided back-end application support to RedHat Linux, MySQL, and Lawson Financial applicatons.
  • Primary administrator for application,system and mailbox restoration, using HP Data Protector.
  • Coordinated move and relocation of Unix and Backup hardware to new headquarters.
Chicago Board of Trade 2000 - 2007
Solaris Systems Administrator
  • Involved in day-to-day operation of 300+ corporate systems, running Solaris 8 through 10.
  • Installation and support of applications, such as QStar, VistaPlus, Solstice DiskSuite, Reuters DACS.
  • Secondary support to a wide variety of internal infrastructure applications (Apache, NIS, NFS, NTP, Samba).
  • Selected to team responsible for decomissioning of obsolete data center servers.
  • Monitored and scheduled backups via Veritas Netbackup Application.
  • Planned, designed and implemented Lantronix Lightwave Console Server Infrastructure.
Electronic Visualization Laboratory 1997 - 2000
Engineering Researcher / Assistant
  • Developed Linux device driver, in C, for the Ascension SpacePad Tracking System on the Linux OS.
  • Co-Developed Duo-View Visualization System and protoyped Immersa-Desk III Stereo Sync Driver.
  • Co-Designed and prototyped ImmersaDeskIII Stereo Sync Driver
  • Provided Unix administration support and maintanence to a variety of SGI and Linux systems
  • Maintained hardware suach as the CAVE, the ImmersaDesks(I,II,III), and various spatial tracking systems.
  • Primary Red Hat Linux support specialist; in development and deployment of prototype Access Grid Node.
CCS (Cooperative Computer Services) 1996 - 1999
Computer Operator / Technical Support
  • Performed various duties related to Unix Systems administration on Sequent and Sun Solaris 7 servers.
  • Conducted daily backups, compilations, and report generation for NSLS Patron Database.
  • Routinely relocated generated reports to remote site for distribution through the NSLS network.
  • Provided technical support for NSLS (North Suburban Library Systems) customers.
Oakton Community College. 1992 - 1995
Manufacturing Lab Aid and Technician
  • Part of team that developed a robotics work-cell prototype. Developed code for robotics cell integration.
  • Repaired, maintained, and upgraded computer systems, robotic system, and PLC trainers.
  • Co-Lectured programming fundamentals for "Introduction to Robotics" course.

Consulting Experience

Rush University Medical Center 2014 - Present
Engineering/Prototyping Consultant
  • Designed and fabricated an electromechnical prototype that tests the effects of time-delays, on food choices, in the contect of vending-machine snacks.
  • Developed an inexpensive IR-Beam-Break sensor, using a hamming-pattern to reduce blind-sports and false trips.
  • Fabricated unique magnetic-mounting-method for attaching said prototype to a variety of vending-machines.
VRCO 2001 - 2009
Engineering Consultant
  • Designed and prototyped a medical device for an experimental treatment of Amblyopia. A pic-microcontrollercontrolled the optical state of a custom-built liquid-crystal headset.
  • Devloped low-level device-drivers, in C and Python, to control this prototype system.
Murray Consulting 1999 - 2010
Engineering Consultant
  • Provided engineering, manufacturing and servicing of a human-computer-interface device, commercially known as "Wanda".
  • Re-engineered "WandBox" technology, to take advantage of less noiser operational amplifiers.
  • Converted wirewrapped "WandBox" design to circuit board layout/design.
  • Provided manufacturing and repair services to both WandBox and Wanda units.

Computer Skills

  • Programming Languages:
    • GCC/++, CCS PICC, HTML, Ksh, Bash, Sed, Awk, Python, Ansible, Terraform, Ruby.
  • Operating Systems:
    • Windows-XP, Linux (Redhat, Slackware, Ubuntu, CentOS), Solaris 8,9,10., HP/UX 11.11i., MacOSX
  • Cloud Computing Services:
    • Amazon EC2 (Virtual servers), Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront (CDN), AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management), Amazon CloudWatch (monitoring), Amazon Route 53 (DNS management), Amazon S3 (storage), Amazon EBS (persistent disk storage), Amazon RDS (MySQL), Amazon SES (bulk email), Amazon ElastiCache/Redis.
  • Applications (in no particular order)
    • Veritas Netbackup, HP Data Protector, HP Ignite, Solstice DiskSuite, Duplicity/S3.
    • MySQL, MySQL-client, MySQL-workbench, PostgreSQL.
    • Nagios, Sensu, New Relic, VirtualBox, Vagrant, Chef
    • Eagle Schematic/Circuit-board Layout, (P)spice, Altera MAX+PLUS, MatLab, Derive.
    • LibreCad, AC3D.
    • OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Microsoft Office.
  • Libraries / API(s)
    • Basic TCP/IP Sockets, Shared Memory IPC, MPI, OpenGL/Mesa, CaveLib, MySQLdb, boto, redis, psycopg..
  • Hardware and Platforms:
    • Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Intel/AMD hardware, HP PA/RISC, Apple Hardware.
    • Tape Libraries and devices: LT0/DLT (manufactured by HP, StorageTek, and others).
  • Specialized Hardware Experience:
    • CAVE (Cave.Automatic.Virtual.Environment.), ImmersaDeskI,II,III.
    • Ascension SpacePad, Ascension PcBird, Ascension Flock of Birds, Polhemus Fastrak.
    • Wanda (Murray Consulting), Wandbox Interface.
    • StereoGraphics CrystalEyes Shutter Glasses. VR4 Head Mounted Display.

Notable Skills

  • Machine shop skills: Vacuum Forming, MIG Welding, Metal Lathe, Vertical Mill.
  • Test Equipment:: Oscilloscope, Function Generator, Frequency Counter, Multimeter, Logic-probe.
  • Prototyping: Bread-Boarding, Wire-wrapping, PCB layout/etching, Soldering (Thru-Hole, SMT).
  • Micro-Controllers: MicroChip Pic (16f84, 16f873, 16f876, 16f877), AVR ATTiny-85, Arduino.

Publications

  • Appelhans, Bradley, Elizabeth Avery-Mamer, Michael Bogucki, Simone French, Imke Janssen, Tamara Olinger, and Lisa Powell. "Leveraging delay discounting for health: can time delays influence food choice?", Appetite, 126:16–25, July 2018.

  • DeFanti, Tom, Dan Sandin, Maxine Brown, Dave Pape, Josephine Anstey, Mike Bogucki, Greg Dawe, Andy Johnson, Thomas S. Huang. "Technologies for Virtual Reality/Tele-Immersion Applications: Issues of Research in Image Display and Global Networking", EC/NSF Workshop on Research Frontiers in Virtual Environments and Human-Centered Computing. Chateau de Bonas, France, 1 - 4 June 1999.

  • Pape, Dave, Josephine Anstey, Mike Bogucki, Greg Dawe, Tom DeFanti, Andy Johnson, Dan Sandin. " The ImmersaDesk3 - Experiences With A Flat Panel Display for Virtual Reality", 3rd International Immersive Projection Technology Workshop. Stuttgart, Germany, 10 - 11 May 1999.

Education History


Devry University, Chicago. B.S. in Computer Engineering, July 2005. GPA 3.9/4.00.
University of Illinois, at Chicago. Computer Engineering.
Oakton Community College, Des Plaines. Pre-Engineering Program.