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- Spearheaded budget decision-making processes alongside C-Suite and VP-level executives, leveraging in-depth analysis to inform strategic financial planning allowing engineering and IT to shave off 5-10% of budget from swapping from old SaaS providers- Championed development and implementation of empathy-driven, employee-first policies, coaching directors and managers on effective management practices and importance of valuing employees’ time, enhancing overall team morale and productivity.- Engineered and released several open-source tools tailored for government technology sector, including innovative solutions for tracking sam.gov and Slack bots designed to streamline management of internal resources, demonstrating technical leadership and commitment to public sector innovation.- Designed innovative architectural solutions for multi-million dollar government contracts, crafting tailored strategies that outpaced competitors and secured new business opportunities, significantly contributing to company growth.- Conducted comprehensive analyses of staffing requirements to ensure optimal resource allocation for government projects, enhancing project efficiency and effectiveness through strategic planning and foresight.- Oversaw the management of the company’s cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and GCP, enforcing principles of least privilege and meticulous cost control to remain within budget constraints.

- Designed POC and compared multiple SAAS solutions to improve security and performance tooling across McGraw Hill enterprise while increasing cost savings- Implemented AWS Control Tower tooling across 155+ AWS Accounts to maintain standards- Built shared Terraform modules as standard deployment practice to centralize SRE/Developer workflows- Worked closely with engineering management to provide solutions for development teams- Created technology radar to help new developers understand technologies that are used across McGraw Hill enterprise without restricting creativity and flow of developers- Improved software performance by conducting thorough code reviews and implementing optimization techniques.

Create and manage a full stack web LMS in symfony2 and angularJS, and also manage thedevops for the infrastructure and build processes in AWS.Design and develop full stack applications using restful APIsCreate bash scripts for working and maintaining infrastructure working within AWSHelp other developers with code review and maintain a stable build

Develop and maintain core functionality for internal web applications. Design and implement new and innovative designs for new web applications. Create tests and maintain stability for core applications. I use mainly Perl/PHP/JS

Responsible for creating and working with ideas that will help build a greater web for people to enjoy.

Responsible for design specifications and development of key components and features of PHP based bar coding software.

Responsible for but not limited to: maintaining and monitoring projectors, and computer statuses of a large 250+ computer network. Responsible for maintaining inventory of all projectors, computers, and other equipment stored in a classroom.

Helped students and faculty with problems associated with online maintenance and accessing existing accounts.