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Copenhagen, Denmark, DK

• Technical architect, lead engineer and Scrum Master for a team of five DevOps engineers developing Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code Azure cloud solutions for SimCorp Client Reporting software.
• Spearheaded SimCorp's first successful adoption of DevOps principles and practices, streamlining automated deployment, configuration, and management of Azure IaaS/PaaS infrastructure for investment software clients.
• Developed automation processes and code for testing, deployment, and configuration of Azure solutions utilizing industry-leading tools such as ARM/Bicep templates, Terraform, Azure Automation runbooks, Ansible roles.
• Designed and implemented Azure DevOps Git repositories with automated Build/Release, CI/CD Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, accelerating the deployment and configuration of cloud solutions.
• Developed complex Azure network and systems architecture solutions. Some key components included Entra, Azure Compute resources, Citrix SSO, Databricks, network security rules and VPN gateways, IPS systems.
• Optimized cloud monitoring and management by planning and building Azure Log Analytics-Kusto, Azure Monitor metrics and telemetry, Loki/Grafana dashboards, and Rapid7 SEIM solutions.

• Senior engineer on the software development team of Orca, a DevOps industry-award-winning application configuration management and automation software solution; competitor to Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Salt, and Octopus.
• Lead software architect for Orca's Windows IT infrastructure configuration and automation design.
• Designed and developed Orca back-end PowerShell modules to deeply manage and configure a wide variety of applications such as IIS, SQL Server, Sharepoint, TFS, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, MSMQ, Windows OS, etc., plus.
• Primary architect of the in-house Orca Agile development CI/CD pipeline solution, using Git, Team City, Jira, Hyper-V and VMWare VMs, and in-house scripts to automate, test and deploy Orca software builds.

Lincoln, Nebraska, US

• Architect, technical owner and subject-matter expert (SME) of company key IT infrastructure areas: PowerShell configuration management, orchestration and automation; Active Directory Domain Services; DNS; Group Policy.
• Performed system design, development, integration, and final-tier support activities for the above SME areas as well as network devices and appliances, UCS and VMWare systems, Windows and Linux servers, IIS and.
• Windows infrastructure security specialist with government-level (NIST) security configuration oversight and primary audit response responsibilities (for NIST, SOX, etc., including third-party client audits)..
• Personally designed, developed and coded in-house orchestration runbooks and automation solutions leveraging PowerShell and other scripting languages, application web services, SQL databases, WMI queries, software.
• Planned, designed and implemented a wide variety of enterprise IT infrastructure solutions.
• Created and maintained architectural design and process documentation, and mentored peers and junior technicians in SME areas.

• Established business and technical requirements, built development teams, and managed client projects through a formal project development lifecycle.
• Analyzed, defined, refined, and implemented official company-level project management processes and process guidelines.
• Managed successful web application development projects to completion for clients including AMD and Applied Materials.