Aaron Ferguson Email & Phone Number

Alexandria, VA, US

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

• Manages and coordinates all project activities.
• Overseas overall accomplishment of tasks and deliverables.
• Handles project escalations.
• Oversees all aspects of the project.
• Leads the project team.
• Analyzes new and complex project-related problems.

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

• Analyzing current configurations of RHEL and Oracle to integrate with Ansible.
• Implementing a strategy based on budget, contract requirements and team skillset derived fromone-on-one conversations.
• Developing training as needed and desired based on current and future plans that includeaccountability solutions such as Jira.
• Integrating State Department security with badge and Okta access.
• Ensuring that reporting is on the fly and available to client at any point needed.

Technical Lead for complete overhaul of production support for a leading U.S. based commercial aircraft manufacturer. Included RFID tagging and tracing of airplane components throughout the entire manufacturing process. Allowed for live monitoring and reporting concerning any stoppage with location and details of issues.Included installation of both large.

GAO Headquarters - Washington Dc

• Lead the stack standardization effort across GAO to implement new development and security guidelines & platforms in supporting current and future services covering 80+ environments and 120+ applications.
• Increased efficiency in the CI/CD process by automating build, QA, security and Git Lab based deployment through Ansible Tower and reporting through Jira.
• Manage the day-to-day needs of a DevSecOps teams and government counterparts working to implement and support the stack standardization effort.
• Maintain and improve web applications supporting the members and staffers of the U.S. Congress with 508 compliance.
• Development and direct management with PHP, RHEL, MySQL,
• Develop strategy for projects in the development pipeline, create development time-tables based on Agile Scrum sprint schedules.

Dupont Circle, Washington DC

• Manage a team of 6-10 highly talented web developers, a Software Security Lead, a Quality Assurance department, 1-2 Web Project Managers and a Scrum Master to successfully build and support 30+ website clients as well.
• Slashed administration costs 37% by restructuring messaging to clients based on hosting and security expectations and responsibilities while ensuring the continuation and enhancements of services.
• Responsible for budget, staffing and needed resources both across projects and quarterly. Involved in implementing yearly company goals and translating them into department goals through senior management planning.
• Completed the creation of a proprietary cloud-based CMS application service, built entirely on a LAMP environment. Included a fully documented developer API to allow for ongoing maintenance / enhancements. Development.
• Work across all departments to improve and maintain a culture of creativity and collaboration from highly motivated developers, designers, project managers and marketers.
• Responsible for managing day-to-day activities, priorities and resource allocation for all members of the web team. Additional responsibilities include monthly budget analysis and recommendations to senior management.

Arlington, Virginia

• Develop and manage a complete website environment including all internal and external websites, servers, ad development and design teams.
• Responsible for online publication and email marketing campaign design, management and reporting.
• Within 12 months successfully proposed, managed and implemented a project which transitioned the public corporate website from a Microsoft.NET environment to a Linux/Apache/PHP (LAMP) environment as well as.
• Successfully managed a 6 month project to completely redesign, develop and implement a new multi-lingual corporate website with a fully-customized Drupal content management system back-end. This project included.

Silver Spring, MD

• Developed, maintained and improved the public and internal websites and website standards in accordance with the IT, Online Marketing, Station Content and Corporate Affairs standards.
• Directed and coordinated with multiple global regional offices and web environments and their respective 3rd party contracts. International regions include development teams of 3 to 10 developers and local team.
• Intranet site is based on a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) environment, while multiple global public websites are organized around complex JavaScript and CSS structures as well as ASP scripting and MS SQL Databases.
• Initiated and completed major developments for the WorldSpace web presence including the first RSS feed and introduction of satellite uplink streaming technology to an international audience with source and properties.
• Multiple website enhancement contract negotiations across multiple regions, as well as in-depth Podcast research and development in excess of $800 Million.
• Led marketing and technology teams that landed and broadcast the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Arlington, VA

• Lead and worked within multiple teams as well as independently in a rapid development environment culminating in many commercial sites and products. These include large-scale secure conference registration systems.
• Responsible for web server setup and maintenance with Windows, Red Hat Linux and Mac OSX environments utilizing PHP, LDAP, MySQL and other configurations
• Work was for both private companies as well as Department of Defense Contractors