Senior Consultant at Cognizant successful at assisting global IT organizations with optimizing their processes and infrastructure towards attaining vastly improved levels of consistent reliability, customer satisfaction, and increased scalability, along with all relevant supporting metrics.Currently engaged in Release/Project Management at the UPS Innovation Center in Parsippany, NJ.

At Contino, we transform the results of software delivery teams through the successful adoption of DevOps and Continuous Delivery tools, platforms and ways of working. We have a particular focus on cloud, infrastructure automation, and container technologies, and are one of the world's leading authorized Docker training and consultancy partners. We work alongside our clients with a dual delivery and up-skilling mandate, modernizing technology platforms for increased ability to innovate, whilst giving our clients people the experience of modern ways of working and approaches to software delivery.We have offices in the UK and US. We provide consultancy services, complete delivery teams, and training for organizations looking to deliver software with a collaborative DevOps mindset.

• Founded LLC to service New York City client base

Senior DevOps Engineer, Virgin Voyageshttps://www.virginvoyages.com/• Observability and monitoring for cruise ship and shore applications and infrastructure: • New Relic, DynaTrace, DataDog, Instana • Prometheus and Grafana - PoC • AWS platform; on GCP migration team (cost optimization)• Container Orchestration & Management: Kubernetes, Helm, Docker• CI/CD Pipeline Maintenance: Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible

DevOps: Ansible, RPA (Robotic Process Automation)Systems Administration: Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS, vmWareApplications Administration: • ERP: Oracle JDE, SAP Migration• CRM: SFDC

• CI/CD Architect & Administrator: • Jenkins Blue Ocean • Ansible & YAML Playbook Scripting• Linux Bash Shell Scripting• QA: Katalon Studio, GhostInspector

• Release Manager: CONNECT (Higher Education Textbook Content Premiere Website)• AWS Cost-Containment Initiative: Automated the quiescing of unused instances using Jenkins• Agile Sprint Planning translation of waterfall-based infrastructure projects for multiple Agile Dev Teams

• Managed team of six engineers supporting over 20 mission-critical clinical applications used across the hospital by healthcare providers (both physicians and nursing staff)

• Director of Application Support Group (ASG) - 24x7 operations team for global B2B web apps• Instituted Application Performance Management (APM) in 2001 for mission-critical Ratings apps• Created Center of Excellence for Service Level Management at S&P and other McGraw-Hill companies

• Checkpoint Certified CCSE/CCSA, Firewall-1• Cisco Networking Academy Instructor Certified, West Virginia University• Global NOC: Managed HP OpenView system monitoring 250 devices in 80 countries

Managed corporate firewalls (TIS Gauntlet on hardened BSD) and cross-trained engineering staff to provide ongoing support. Deployed NetID, a Unix-based GUI DNS administration tool (prior to Windows GUI DNS adaptation).

Administrated Production Unix systems (IBM AIX) running both core financials and pharmaceuticals R&D document management systems (Documentum). Administrated Corporate firewall and also assumed responsibilities as Webmaster for the BD corporate internet website: https://www.bd.com

Managed enterprise HP 9000 HP-UX systems for E&Y's national data center in Lyndhurst, NJ, for payroll processing and critical back-office support applications.

Won New York Times Publisher's Award on January 15, 1996, for my work towards launching the National Desk on an automated pagination platform. Systems administrator for IBM AIX networked workstations and servers comprising the Time's first fully-automated full-page layout composition system across all desks of the entire publishing organization.

Production systems maintenance.

C programming on UNIX platform.