We help organizations understand and navigate their opportunities in Cloud, DevOps, AI, MLOps, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, IT, Cost Management, Security, Compliance and Data Management. We provide strategic guidance and deliver engineering solutions that solve business critical problems. Leverage decades of industry experience by working with our friendly and talented group of IT Leaders, Cloud Engineers, DevOps Experts, AI/ML Engineers, Solution Architects, and Data Analysts.

Leading multiple platform engineering teams and driving enterprise-wide engineering investments. These teams support resilient microservice architectures delivered using cloud-native best practices. AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, DataDog, Python, Go and Shell are some of our most frequently used tools and technologies. We're a highly collaborative group; regularly working with application engineers to plan and facilitate architecturally significant migrations. We also work with engineering leaders to advise and design sound cloud infrastructure platforms, solutions and practices. Along with our partners in business, we deliver on production uptime goals, manage all infrastructure through code, provide application engineers access to self-service infrastructure tooling and develop new infrastructure solutions within a HITRUST compliant cloud environment.If any of this sounds interesting to you, please do send me a message. I'm always eager to network.Primary skills for team: AWS, Kubernetes, IaC, GitOps, Cloud Architecture, Security and Networking.

Managed a team of Lead and Senior DevOps Engineers; working primarily with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Python, Shell, DataDog, and Splunk among other cloud technologies.

Managed a team of Senior DevOps Engineers; working primarily with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Python, Shell, DataDog, and Splunk among other cloud technologies.* Led company-wide Kubernetes migration; moving hundreds of apps to k8s backed infrastructure* Rolled out AWS MSK Kafka infrastructure for use by engineering teams company-wide* Key contributor to compliance and auditing initiatives involving AWS Networks and Infrastructure

* Built Rally Health's first MN based DevOps team; directly hiring 4 Senior DevOps Engineers* Designed and deployed a secure Kafka solution; delivering key data to a major business partner* Led company-wide Kubernetes migration; moving hundreds of apps to k8s backed infrastructure * Monitored company-wide AWS usage and spending; advocating for strategic cost savings

Managed a team of 4 full-stack engineers with primary responsibility for back end systems, vendor integrations, security and devops strategy. Delivered solutions using agile methodologies.DevOps Lead responsible for research, design, project planning, cloud budgeting, automation tooling. security compliance and implementation of company-wide DevOps strategy.Strategic responsibilities: Development Lifecycle Standards and Process, Culture Building, Configuration Management, System Monitoring, Release Management, Infrastructure Scaling, Cost Management, Deployment Automation, Performance Testing and Security Policy Planning.Daily responsibilities: team management, engineering department leadership, design reviews, code reviews, log analysis, technical research, project analysis, executive briefings, project management, issue diagnosis/triage, vendor communications, and coding in support of strategic/daily responsibilities.

DevOps Lead responsible for research, design and implementation of DevOps strategy.Strategic Responsibilities: Development Lifecycle Standards and Process, Culture Building, Configuration Management, System Monitoring, Release Management, Infrastructure Scaling, Cost Analysis, Deployment Automation, Performance Testing and Security Policy Planning.Daily Responsibilities: engineering team leadership, design reviews, code reviews, log analysis, technical research, project analysis, executive briefings, project management, issue diagnosis/triage, vendor communications, and coding in support of strategic/daily responsibilities.

Cross-functional Technical Lead for a team of Engineers and Analysts that delivered Special Education Due Process documentation, regulated data capture and process management tools.* Performing technical aspects of prior positions, in direct and supervisory capacity* Acting as professional mentor to Engineers, Analysts, Testers and Interns on team* Providing management tools and work supervision (agile/SCRUM/Kanban), for team and dept.* Developing technology adoption strategies and promoting cost-conscious product innovation* Serving as a technical and product domain liaison between my team and rest of company

* Created Special Education Due Process forms in web-based and PDF formats* Authored software tools for Special Education document and process management* Trained and mentored co-workers in the performance of job tasks mentioned above * Built code supports to accelerate and improve development tasks for the department and team* Piloted new technologies for internal use and produced detailed cost/benefit analysis documents* Maintained an extensive domain knowledge of Special Education regulation and compliance* i.e. Special Education in practice, administration, funding, law, state reporting calculations, etc

* Created Special Education Due Process forms in web-based and PDF formats* Authored software tools for Special Education document and process management* Trained and mentored co-workers in the performance of job tasks mentioned above * Built systems to accelerate and improve development tasks for the department and team

Created Special Education Due Process forms in various electronic formats available via web-interface. Also produced PDF templates of the same forms to serve as legal documents of record.