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Victoria, BC, CA

San Jose, CA, US

Responsible for large scale initiatives like migrating the Cisco Umbrella Headend from Debian to Ubuntu including the build and canary environments, reviewing and securing the environment further by isolating network traffic to required ports per service, project managed the migration of 100+ Concourse pipelines to GitHub Actions and more recently tasked.

San Jose, CA, US

Although hired to join the newly formed SRE team, my initial primary responsibility was a full stack Golang developer working on the SAML Login Broker component of the Umbrella product. Tasks included coding the new JWT endpoints, creating the CI/CD pipeline, architecting the resiliency plan, updating the Terraform and Serverless deployment plans and.

Redwood City, CA, US

One of four embedded SREs on the Core Services team managing the infrastructure for the Service Aggregation Layer. Daily tasks could include managing deployments through Jenkins into the AWS EKS infrastructure, monitoring the infrastructure using Grafana and New Relic, maintaining services within the AWS EKS eco-system like Gradual Rollouts, attending.

Vancouver, BC, CA

Performed both duties as Senior DevOps Developer and (acting) Development Manager for the API Gateway team. As the Senior DevOps Developer I was responsible for building up the release pipelines deploying the API proxies between Apigee environments, executing automated tests and validating deployments. As the (acting) Development Manager I was responsible.

One of two DevOps staff supporting the Predix Edge OS and Agent teams here in Vancouver, and the primary Release Manager for the Predix Edge Platform. Proposed and/or implemented changes to the development pipelines that have seen turnaround times decrease from 2 days down to the current 6 hours with the forecast for early next year being 3.5 hours..

Currently focused on upcoming workflow and procedures for deploying Wine Direct microservices into AWS Elastic Beanstalk and utilizing AWS Parameter Store for the management of application configurations/secrets as well as using Application Load Balancers (ALB), EC2 instances and Aurora RDS instances. Prototyped a wrapper utility for the AWS and Elastic.

Palo Alto, California, US

One of three engineers responsible for the deployment and management of DevOps infrastructure including but not limited to services like TeamCity, Stash, JIRA, and Confluence. Deploying infrastructure in OpenStack and AWS (EC2 and RDS) and supporting Linux, Mac OSX and Windows operating environments. Maintaining environment with the use of Chef..

Redwood City, CA, US

Providing senior Perforce support to other EA Perforce administrators at other studios around the world with over 400 instances of Perforce running, and over 5000 active users. Supporting an environment utilizing DVCS as well as Commit/Edge infrastructure with over 500 changes being committed and replicated around the world each day on the most active.

Santa Clara, CA, US

Managed a sanity lab of 700+ hosts and 1000+ boards. Debugged issues with sanity boards to bring them back online. Evaluated new tools to improve the management of the lab resources. Participated in weekly coverage of lab systems.

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Primarily responsible for the software build of the 7000 and 7800 product lines, and the release to customer/factory for all product lines. This includes the management of the main Jenkins server, build slaves, defect tracking systems (Bugzilla), revision control systems (SVN and CVS) and code analytical software (Coverity and Protecode). Secondary.

Richmond Hill, Ontario, CA

Setup and configured their Perforce server, Bugzilla and Crucible code review tool. Performed and wrote disaster recovery practices for their servers and services. My primary function as a consultant to Fio was to offer Perforce administration and support.

Santa Clara, California, US

Primarily contracted back to project manage the movement of the Perforce servers from one data center to another, but wasn't limited to this activity. I also provided daily Perforce and Git support for the Software organization within AMD; managing accounts, system backups and performance issues.

Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, NL

My current project has me working on componentizing the code base of the organization as part of a shift in our development processes. I was responsible for the development of a new make framework using GNU Make, a centralized database using MySQL and a Perl based tool that manages the componentization process of the new build environment. Two spin off.

Santa Clara, California, US

Developed pre-submit and post-submit distributed build system, web based pre-submit code review tool with line by line commenting and preserved historical data, as well as many other tools used by the engineering teams. Senior administrator of the Perforce and TWiki servers and technical lead for the Software Configuration Management team.

Redmond, Washington, US

Worked on both the legacy build team and partners build team for the Visual Studio team. Maintained build scripts in Perl and was one of the technical leads. Responsible for hiring and managing several contractors within the build team.

Vancouver, BC, CA

Primary responsibility was to ensure the Perl Package Manager (PPM) server and build process was performed weekly. Audited the environment, established a central server room and rolled in standards to the build server environment. Wrote and maintained build scripts in Perl as well as tweaked third party Perl modules so they built successfully on multiple.

Originally hired to migrate the Desktop Driver team from Continuus to Perforce, then assumed the roll as Senior Configuration Engineer and team lead responsible for the day to day operation of the Perforce server and SCM needs of engineering. Developed several tools and scripts to assist in the auditing and maintenance of the source code repository..

Team lead and responsible for managing day-to-day operations of the SCM/builds plus engineering intranet teams. Took an automated build process from weekly to daily by normalizing the build environment and streamlining the process. Designed and managed the development of the engineering intranet. I also educated many of the people on my team about UNIX.

Houston, Texas, US

Assisted with the development of a custom POS system for the LRDC organization within Saskatchewan Education written in Visual Basic and backed by Oracle on SCO UNIX. I was also responsible for the development of the C based PTC device used by the warehouse staff for tracking inventory. Also was contracted as a UNIX Administrator for Saskatchewan Education.