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San Francisco, California, Us

Providing architectural and use case level guidance to customers deploying and operating HashiCorp Cloud Operating Model products. Customers are in varied industry verticals such as retail and financial, are primarily large enterprise global and federal government entities. Extensive interaction with and development of DevSecOps practices and principles. SME and expert on automation such as Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Terraform Enterprise/Cloud and security and compliance with Vault. Responsible for developing customer facing documentation and tutorials for advanced topics related to product usage, operation, and integration and general best practices.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Consulting to the Department of Homeland Security on projects supporting the Office of the CTO. Architecting and developing a robust cloud platform with DevSecOps tooling and best practices to streamline migrations of tenant organizations.

Milpitas, California, Us

Architect and hands-on manager of a team of DevOps Engineers supporting the product development and testing environments for this leading cyber security company. Managing multiple on-site, CoLo, and offshore labs with physical and virtual infrastructures in highly secure models. Following current and best practices, implemented and improved on Continuous Integration and Delivery for the full pipeline along with Configuration Management with automation for provisioning and testing. Implemented automated and dynamic provisioning of virtual and physical devices running a full range of Microsoft, Mac, and Linux operating systems. Supported and utilized a wide range of the tools in the Continuous Integration pipeline including source code management, build, orchestration, artifact repositories, code coverage, object signing, security and penetration testing. Established physical endpoint labs for Wintel, Mac, and Linux testing with full remote access and management. Introduced and fully developed Agile Kanban practices with JIRA for DevOps project and task management and visibility. Overall brought a manual and QA-centric environment management operation into a collaborative and automated realm that greatly improved productivity, quality, and morale.

Rockville, Md, Us

Lead the move to a DevOps platform and mentality from the Systems Operations area. Automating infrastructure, middleware, and applications deployment with Chef and other related tools. Deploying, testing, and implementing Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and PaaS components to assist in the re-engineering of the primary web, API, and service based application platforms.

Kensington, Maryland, Us

On contract for the Maryland Health Exchange (ACA Website) project. Brought on after the problematic October 1 launch to help stabilize and streamline the application and architecture. Leading several aspects of the efforts to re-engineer the middleware and SOA/ESB platforms supporting multiple COTS product integrations and extensive B2B/EDI interfaces including the main Federal Hub.

Reporting directly to the CTO, originally leading the Financial Gateway and Application Architecture development teams, expanded to all of the Banking and Bill Payment product line development organization and Enterprise Technology initiatives and teams. As the founder, leader, and principal architect of the Enterprise Technology Services area, increased productivity, collaboration, stability, and customer satisfaction by over 100% across the entire company by developing and implementing enterprise tools and processes that meet and exceed the varying demands of the organization especially for integrated systems and data points with major improvements in technology areas. In development role, provided the technical leadership and managed the development and architecture teams to bring the online banking and bill payment ASP/SAS operation including the web front-end to a competitive level in the space, quadrupled the potential market base by delivering B2B interfaces with financial institution core systems and ATM networks; and brought continuous improvement to customer satisfaction and cost savings through the back-office and support systems.

Owner and principal consultant for a highly successful software and services consulting practice with well-known clients primarily in the Washington, DC area. Demonstrated advanced technical abilities and consistent delivery of high quality software and services resulted in constant repeat client engagements and referrals.EXAMPLE CLIENTS AND ENGAGEMENTSCareFirst FEPOC (BC/BS, Federal), Washington, DC - Application / EDI Architect, Project Leado Architected and implemented a B2B application to provide a messaging interface for BCBS Plans across the country to exchange healthcare and insurance information and processing transactions (“BlueExchange”).o Architected a B2B system for trading HIPAA transactions with healthcare providers across the country achieving the necessary government and BCBS regulation compliance.Union Labor Life Company (Ullico), Washington, DC - EDI Architect o Lead the technical aspects of the move to HIPAA compliance starting with conducting a complete Gap Analysis for numerous internal systems, including creating a sophisticated method for capturing and reporting the statistics.Freddie Mac , Reston, VA – Application Architect/Developero Several engagements involving modernizing the secondary mortgage industry supporting applications in areas like loan purchasing and underwriting, migrating legacy mainframe applications to more robust and practical platforms.Giant Food, Landover, MD – Systems Integratoro Brought digital document imaging and management into the enterprise.Manor Care, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD – Architect/Developer/PMo Supported and maintained legacy Patient Accounting systems while integrating and developing with modernized client server architecture.