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.• Creates innovative solutions that normally involve the schedule, technology, methodology, tools,solution components.• Supports overall Bluestone reporting requirements.• Owns the overall delivery of this ROM and transition to serving as the single point of contact forall CI/CD Pipeline and hosting services enhancements needed once this ROM is completed.• Defines CI/CD pipeline strategy that aligns with the DEA's overall software development goalsand objectives.• Collaborates with development teams to ensure that the code is developed in a way that isconducive to automation and can be integrated seamlessly into the CI/CD pipeline.• Coordinates with testing teams to ensure that the pipeline includes scheduled testing,and that testing is performed at each stage of the pipeline.• Ensures that the pipeline is scalable and can accommodate changes to the software developmentprocess as the organization grows.• Values and removes any impediments that may prevent the team from achieving their goals.• Facilitates Agile ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, and SprintRetrospective to ensure that the development team is aligned with the objectives of the CI/CDpipeline and hosting services enhancements.• Promotes collaboration and communication between the development teams, product owners, andstakeholders to ensure that the CI/CD pipeline delivers the desired business outcomes.• Facilitates continuous improvement in the CI/CD pipeline by promoting a culture ofexperimentation, feedback, and learning, while maintaining an up-to-date and prioritized productbacklog of future enhancements.

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 touchscreens strategically placed as well as tablets in very accessible areas throughout the manufacturing floors. Served as the technical lead over a multi-million dollar software contract with 18 direct reports.Facilitated Okta integration into a customized Python / JSON data heavy architecture adhering to DSCA security requirements. Served as Deputy Project Manager on integrating VA data into more user accessible interface for 10,000+ non-VA locations across the world. Managed and oversaw data cleaning and migration of varying security access levels on Oracle database. Managed software and security teams to update both end-user access as well as software access controlled API integration for new data.

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.• Worked as SCRUM Master on multiple projects with various federal organization leads.• Work directly with developers concerning quality control and improved development standards.• Work done in tiered linux environments, using either Oracle, MySQL or MSSQL databases.• Work done with support from Atlassian software suite, vagrant, nexus and virtualbox technologies.

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 as internal web sites and applications in an Agile Scrum development methodology.• 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 meetings and quarterly employee reviews. • 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 done in Joint Application Development (JAD) cycles to heavily incorporate senior management feedback. • 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, quality of development techniques and adherence to standards as well as well-documented project plans, daily client communication, RFP reviews, timelines and regular senior management reporting to show improved successful deliveries. • Technology Translator / Motivator / Communicator / Solution Finder, often through daily status meetings or 10 minute team coffee breaks.

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 transitioning to a new analytics visitor tracking systems.• 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 design, software development and implementation, hosting management with a multi-department coordinated "go-live" strategy, content distribution network implementation for online video streaming, a multi-team allocation for over 500 pages of content migration, as well as development and implementation of a large-scale banner-ad marketing plan to promote the new design.

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 consists of 3 developers. • 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 based in the United States.• 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.• Public website done within United States SEC requirements• Worked closely with CIO, CMO, VP Corporate Affairs and VP Global Programming

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, multiple content management systems (CMS), national and international e-commerce sites and organization, fully integrated intranet sites, as well as several other database driven websites primarily in PHP using MySQL• 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