Matthew Butch

Coatesville, PA 19320

717-314-4789

[email protected]

https://www.matthewbutch.com

Qualifications

IT Director with 10 years of leading infrastructure and automation teams for large and small enterprises in multiple sectors, including teams with leaders and managers. Experience includes leading troublesome teams to success in multiple instances, saving companies hundreds of thousands of dollars per year by implementing automation and improving processes, and implementing complex cross-functional projects to improve operating efficiency. In addition, technical knowledge and skills cover the entire technology stack, including networking engineering, server engineering, and software development.

Expertise

 

Management and Leadership Technical Proficiencies
* Vision Creation & Implementation * Server & Network Automation
* Strategic Planning & Execution * Infrastructure Engineering
* Department & Team Management * Enterprise Architecture
* Manager Coaching & Management * System Script Authoring
* Cross-functional Project Management * Continuous Improvement
* Process Efficiency Improvements * Cybersecurity Compliance
* Vendor & Cost Management * Data Center Operations
* Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
 
Technology Knowledge
* Ansible * VMware * PHP
* Linux * ServiceNow * Bash
* Windows * Pure Storage * Python
* Kubernetes * Nginx * Git/GitHub/GitLab
* Ruckus * MySQL * Azure/AWS

Experience

Director of Linux Infrastructure - Synopsys | Sunnyvale, CA (Remote)

May 2023 - present
Operating in the software simulation industry, a publicly held organization employing 30,000 people. Recently acquired Ansys, which is where this position started.

Responsibilities
  • Managing a global (US, Europe, and Asia) team of two supervisors with 13 full time and 5 contract system engineers organized in four teams, who are responsible for all aspects of 3,000+ virtual and physical Linux servers
  • Planning and implementing infrastructure and automation improvements in multiple global datacenters, allowing thousands of internal developers to request and use Linux servers matching their specifications
  • Managing and leading multiple simultaneous cross functional projects and initiatives, ensuring successful implementation
Accomplishments
  • Took troubled and long delayed project to implement Ansible Tower for automated server deployment and configuration managed and after reorganzing the project, started delivering incremental value after 6 months and full production after a year
  • Lead and managed the upgrade of over 3,000 CentOS servers using ServiceNow and Ansible Tower and ensured minimal disruption during the process, with 95% of the servers upgraded in 6 months
  • Reorganized the Linux Group from an unorganized team to to 4 equal teams, with one dedicated to Automation Architecture, two dedicated to Operations & Automation , and one to Server Deployment, increasing efficiency across the Group
  • Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, AAP, Git, ServiceNow

Manager of Infrastructure - Fastmail | Philadelphia, PA (Hybrid)

January 2021 - May 2023
Operating in the SaaS industry, a privately held organization employing 50 people.

Responsibilities
  • Managed a US/Australian team of 4 full time system engineers responsible for all aspects of the company infrastructure, including routing, switching, servers, & storage
  • Planned and implemented infrastructure and automation improvements in multiple US datacenters, while ensuring no data loss and downtime for customers
  • Managing and leading cross functional projects and initiatives, ensuring successful implementation
Accomplishments
  • Designed and implemented GitLab CI/CD for our application tests, which created a DigitalOcean cloud server, ran the tests, and reported the results back to the Merge Requests, which increased our developer efficiency and reduced bugs
  • Designed and implemented a new switch infrastructure in our primary datacenter, moving from Netgear small business switches to enterprise grade Ruckus switches with a 100G backbone and 25G server connections, which improved speeds, reliability, and management efficiency
  • Designed and lead the implementation of a new server standard, moving from ones running SATA drives to ones running NVMe across all datacenters, which provided vastly more space but also vastly more performance while incurring no downtime or data loss for our customers
  • Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, Git, NGINX, MySQL

Manager of Infrastructure - Fastmail | Philadelphia, PA (Hybrid)

January 2021 - May 2023
Operating in the SaaS industry, a privately held organization employing 50 people.

Responsibilities
  • Managed a US/Australian team of 4 full time system engineers responsible for all aspects of the company infrastructure, including routing, switching, servers, & storage
  • Planned and implemented infrastructure and automation improvements in multiple US datacenters, while ensuring no data loss and downtime for customers
  • Managing and leading cross functional projects and initiatives, ensuring successful implementation
Accomplishments
  • Designed and implemented GitLab CI/CD for our application tests, which created a DigitalOcean cloud server, ran the tests, and reported the results back to the Merge Requests, which increased our developer efficiency and reduced bugs
  • Designed and implemented a new switch infrastructure in our primary datacenter, moving from Netgear small business switches to enterprise grade Ruckus switches with a 100G backbone and 25G server connections, which improved speeds, reliability, and management efficiency
  • Designed and lead the implementation of a new server standard, moving from ones running SATA drives to ones running NVMe across all datacenters, which provided vastly more space but also vastly more performance while incurring no downtime or data loss for our customers
  • Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, Git, NGINX, MySQL

SRE Manager - Power Home Remodeling | Chester, PA (In-office)

July 2019 - January 2021
Operating in the construction industry, a privately held organization employing 2000 people.

Responsibilities
  • Managed a US/Brazilian team of 9 full time system engineers and network engineers organized into three teams, who were responsible for all aspects of the company infrastructure, including routing, switching, servers, and storage
  • Planned and implemented infrastructure and automation improvements in multiple US datacenters, while ensuring no data loss and downtime for users
  • Managing and leading cross functional projects and initiatives, ensuring successful implementation
Accomplishments
  • Designed and lead the implementation of a new application infrastructure, moving from VMware VMs to Kubernetes pods running on new Dell servers with new core & edge switches to handle the extra network ports needed, which after migrating the application lead to faster and more reliable deployments, and substantial better performance
  • Reorganized the department from a flat group of nine engineers to three teams of three engineers each (operations SRE, architectural SRE, and network/security SRE), which improved operating efficiency and team morale
  • Researched and lead the implementation of a new SAN array using Pure Storage FlashArray in our datacenters for our primary storage device, which lead to better performance and management
  • Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, Git, NGINX, MySQL, Kubernetes, VMWare, Cisco

Director of Development and Infrastructure - DTLR | Philadelphia, PA (On-site)

June 2017 - July 2019
Operating in the retail industry, a privately held organization employing 5000 people. Acquired Villa during the tenure of the Manager position, and was promoted up.

Responsibilities
  • Managed a team of software engineers, system engineers, and project managers who were responsible for all aspects of the company e-commerce site infrastructure, including development, integration, routing, switching, servers, and storage
  • Planned and implemented infrastructure and automation improvements in on-prem and cloud environments while ensuring no downtime and high performance for our e-commerce customers
  • Managing and leading cross functional projects and initiatives, ensuring successful implementation
Accomplishments
  • Planned and lead the implementation of a new hosting infrastructure (including firewalls, routing, switching, servers and storage), moving from Rackspace to an colocated datacenter with Azure for overflow, which vastly improved management and performance, while saving around $200,000 per year
  • Collaborated and lead the integration of our e-commerce site from Villa to DTLR fulfillment system, which lead to a successful integration of the companies
  • Lead the implementation of converting our e-commerce site from Magento 1 to Magento 2, including a re-write of all our custom code for the new version, which lead to a better site experience for customers and internal users
  • Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, Git, NGINX, MySQL, PHP, pfSense, Dell

Manager of System Engineering - DTLR | Philadelphia, PA (On-site)

November 2016 - June 2017
Worked under Villa until Acquired by DTLR.

Responsibilities
  • Managed a team of software engineers who were responsible for developing the company e-commerce site
  • Planned and implemented infrastructure and automation improvements in a cloud environment while ensuring no downtime and high performance for our e-commerce customers
  • Managing and leading cross functional projects and initiatives, ensuring successful implementation
Accomplishments
  • Overhauled our development process, which included a development site for testing, implementing code reviews, and automation for pushing to production, which greatly improved developer productivity and efficiency
  • Upgraded all servers to the recent version of Ubuntu, which required migrating site data, databases, and DNS entries to avoid downtime, and provided for a better and more secure base for our e-commerce site
  • Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, Git, NGINX, MySQL, PHP, Rackspace Cloud

Senior System Engineer - DTLR | Philadelphia, PA (On-site)

November 2015 - November 2016
Worked under Villa until Acquired by DTLR.

Responsibilities
  • Planned and implemented development and infrastructure improvements in a cloud environment while ensuring no downtime and high performance for our e-commerce customers
  • Automated server configurations for web, mail, database, and other services
  • Collaborated with other teams in day to day operation
Accomplishments
  • Rescued the e-commerce website as the first project, which could barely handle a few hundred users (despite having thousands trying to access) and was hand maintained, and instead used Ansible to configure, and also optimized the configuration, so that after a month the site was stable and after six months could handle the standard thousands of users, all while saving $200,000 per month on hosting costs
  • Automated the spinning up of additional servers to handle overflow, whereas before it was hand created and configured, which allowed handling of massive increases of traffic flow
  • Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, Git, NGINX, MySQL, PHP, Rackspace Cloud

Senior System Administrator - Webstaurant Store | Lititz, PA (On-site)

October 2014 - November 2015
Operating in the retail industry, a privately held organization employing 1000 people.

Responsibilities
  • Lead team of four web system administrators which was responsible for the company’s e-commerce sites in two US datacenters
  • Planned and implemented development and infrastructure improvements in a cloud environment while ensuring no downtime and high performance for our e-commerce customers
  • Automated server configurations for web, mail, database, and other services
  • Configured and maintained SANs, firewalls, switches, and routers
  • Wrote internal applications such as code deployment services
Accomplishments
  • Configured and replaced the firewall in two datacenters, one on site and one with remote hands, ensuring no downtime for our customers, which allowed higher performance for visitors
  • Planned and implemented a network recofiguration to meat PCI compliance standards, which included separating production, testing, and development networks
  • Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, Git, Apache, NGINX, VMWare, SonicWall, EqualLogic, Force10, MySQL, Windows, IIS, Active Directory, PHP, PowerShell

Senior System Administrator - Custom Computer (April 2014 - October 2014)

System Engineer - Pequea Valley School District (August 2011 - April 2014)

Technology Support Specialist - Penn Manor SD (May 2008 - Aug 2011)

Onsite Hardware Repair Technician - MacOutfitters (Aug 2005 - May 2008)

Student Desktop Technician - Millersville University (Aug 2000 - Aug 2005)

Education

  • Harrisburg University; Harrisburg, PA; M.S in Learning Technologies (2013)
  • Millersville University; Millersville, PA; B.S in Computer Science (2005)

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