Matthew Butch

Coatesville, PA 19320

717-314-4789

Qualifications

A highly accomplished and well-rounded hands-on technology leader, with a successful career managing and leading teams, creating visions, identifying opportunities, developing innovative solutions, and delivering strong revenues and profits within multiple markets. A highly skilled director in planning, building, implementing, optimizing, and expanding enterprise technologies, teams, operations, and processes. A natural, strong, and effective leader, with the proven ability to motivate teams to follow a shared goal, and to extract maximum commitment and talent from people. With knowledge and skills cover the entire technology stack, from clients to networks to servers and from engineering to development.

Skills

Managing, leading, and leveling-up mangers, leads, and individual contributors, including both high and low performers
Managing, leading, and leveling-up teams and departments, especially poor performing ones
Spearheading, planning, and implementing, large and small cross-functional technology projects
Automating large scale server and network configurations with Ansible
Configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting:
- physical and virtual servers, using Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, VMWare, Windows, and Linux
- switches, firewalls, and routers, using Dell, Cisco, Ruckus, and pfSense
- SANs such as Pure
- web sites using Apache, NGINX, MySQL, and PHP
Writing scripts and applications using PHP, Bash, Python, PowerShell, and C family
Using source control such as Git, GitHub, and GitLab
Providing top notch customer service to internal and external parties

Experience

Linux Server Manager - Ansys (May 2023-present)

Managing a global team of two supervisors with 13 system engineers and 5 contractors
Planning and implementing infrastructure improvements in multiple global datacenters
Managing cross team and department development projects and initiatives
Automating server and networking configurations
Collaborating with other teams in day to day operation
Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, AAP, Git, ServiceNow

Platform Team Manager - Fastmail (January 2021 - May 2023)

Managed a department of four system engineers, two in US & two in AU
Planned and implemented infrastructure improvements in multiple datacenters
Managed cross team and department development projects and initiatives
Automated server and networking configurations
Configured and maintained servers, firewalls, switches, and routers
Collaborated with other teams in day to day operation
Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, Git, NGINX, MySQL

Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Power Home Remodeling (July 2019 - Jan 2021)

Managed a department of nine site reliability engineers, split among three teams
Planned and implemented infrastructure improvements in multiple datacenters
Managed cross team and department development projects and initiatives
Automated server and networking configurations
Configured and maintained servers, SANs, firewalls, switches, and routers
Collaborated with other teams in day to day operation
Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, Git, NGINX, MySQL, Kubernetes, VMWare

Director of Development and Infrastructure - DTLR (June 2017 - July 2019)

Managed a team of developers, system engineers, and project managers
Planned and implemented development and infrastructure improvements
Automated server configurations for web, mail, database, and other services
Configured, scaled, and maintained servers, SANs, firewalls, switches, and routers
Managed cross team and department development projects and initiatives
Collaborated with other teams in day to day operation
Managed budget with an eye towards low cost but high value
Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, Git, NGINX, MySQL, PHP, pfSense, Dell

Manager of System Engineering - DTLR (November 2016 - June 2017)

Managed a team of developers
Planned and implemented development and infrastructure improvements
Automated server configurations for web, mail, database, and other services
Configured, scaled, and maintained physical and virtual servers
Managed cross team and department development projects and initiatives
Collaborated with other teams in day to day operation
Managed budget with an eye towards low cost but high value
Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, Git, NGINX, MySQL, PHP, Rackspace Cloud

Senior System Engineer - DTLR (November 2015 - November 2016)

Planned and implemented development and infrastructure improvements
Automated server configurations for web, mail, database, and other services
Configured, scaled, and maintained physical and virtual servers
Collaborated with other teams in day to day operation
Technologies used: Linux, Bash, Ansible, Git, NGINX, MySQL, PHP, Rackspace Cloud

Senior System Administrator - Webstaurant Store (Oct 2014 - November 2015)

Lead Web System Administrators team of four members
Automated server configurations for web, mail, database, and other services
Configured and maintained servers, SANs, firewalls, switches, and routers
Wrote internal applications such as code deployment services
Planned and implemented technology projects
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 - May 2014)

Managed bench technician
Planned and implemented technology projects
Configured and maintained servers, routers, switches, and firewalls
Technologies used: VMWare, EqualLogic, Windows, AD, Exchange, PowerShell

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

Planned and implemented technology projects
Configured and maintained servers, SANs, firewalls, switches, routers, & wireless
Instructed teachers and IT staff on technology
Technologies used: Mac, Linux, Bash, Git, Apache, PHP, VMWare, Cisco, MySQL, Windows, IIS, Active Directory, Exchange, PowerShell