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Orlando, Florida, United States

Responsible for architecture of solutions to enable SRE teams to build and manage infrastructure.One manager with a team of 6.Delivered infrastructure as code approach using Terraform across AWS and Azure.Implementation and maintenance of Terraform solutions for: - Object storage: AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage - Compute: AWS EC2, AWS Auto Scaling groups, Azure VM, Azure VM Scale Sets, AWS Batch, AWS Fargate, Azure AppService, AWS Lambda - Container management: AWS ECS, Rancher-based Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service - Load balancing: AWS ELB/ALB/NLB, AWS Route53, Azure DNS, Azure Application Gateway - Shared Storage: AWS EFS, AWS AFX - Block Storage: AWS EBS, Azure Disk Storage - CDN: AWS CloudFront - Backup: AWS Backup, Azure Recovery Service VaultsCollaboration with our security and finance partners to ensure that our solutions meet and exceed our security standard and enable reporting on billing details.Implementation and maintenance of the Chef Server infrastructure used for infrastructure configuration management.Implementation and maintenance of Rundeck environment to enable operations self-service.Migrated from Microfocus Operations Orchestration to Terraform-based tooling for on-prem server provisioning to bring parity between on-prem and cloud deployments.Ongoing SRE support for Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser.Architected and Implemented Route53 Resolver within AWS resulting in $400K annual savings over the previous BIND implementation.Architected AWS Systems Manager to provide multi-factor authentication for AWS and Azure Windows and Linux systems.

Responsible for SRE support of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) business systems as well as partnering with the WDI team on new experience standups around the globe.One dotted-line manager with an 8+ person team.Delivery of the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser: - Design and standup of backend infrastructure to support the guest experience through an in-house game engine. - Design and standup of the infrastructure to support D309, the Halcyon’s logistics droid and the first, fully AI character deployed in Disney Parks using VMware and NVIDIA GRIDSetup, configuration, and automation via Chef of ride vehicle systems for attractions including: - Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway (Orlando and Anaheim) - WEB SLINGERS: A Spider-Man Adventure (Anaheim and Paris) - New lands and attractions in Hong Kong Disneyland and Shanghai Disneyland ParkMaintenance and enhancement of a GitLab CI-based build pipeline system which enables CI/CD and AWS infrastructure provisioning in a single pipeline.

Responsible for solutions to enable development teams to manage code and build artifacts.One manager with a team of 6 and a 10 person managed services team with Capgemini (8 offshore, 2 onshore) responsible for CI/CD platform operations.Management of 4,500+ individual pipelines.Jenkins-based platform with custom workflow and automation to support Java/Maven, Node.js/NPM, Android, iOS, PHP, Python, and Docker builds.Management of the Sonar environment for code quality reporting.Delivery and maintenance of the architecture for ElasticSearch in AWS and Azure.Delivery and maintenance of configuration and secrets management using Etcd, Hashicorp Consul, Hashicorp Vault, and a unified UI across all products.Implementation of a self-service tool for development teams to manage onboarding into the CI/CD platform reducing onboarding time from days to minutes.Slack bot to manage our on-call process enabling notification of on-call shift starts and reporting on open ServiceNow incidents.

Responsible for the ongoing maintenance of the on-prem VMware hosting environment.30+ person managed services team with Capgemini.8,000+ Linux and Windows VMware VMs built on HPE hardware.Management of the hardware, firmware, storage, backup, and provisioning within the environment.Support for the cloud migration team and the cloud-first strategy by managing costs within the environment:Eliminated the use of Gen7 HPE hardware by migrating 2,000+ VMs to newer hardware with no downtime and no production impact.Migrated from HPE LeftHand storage appliances to Pure Storage saving $2.5M in annual costs.Cleaned up unused infrastructure and documented current inventory enabling a new HPE service contract saving $800K per year.Reduced overall cost of the Capgemini managed service by $1M per year without adjusting the service level provided.Implemented HPE GreenLake platform for compute and virtualization to replace the aging hardware within our Anaheim data center to provide a significant compute upgrade without a capital investment by using HPE’s As-A-Service model.Decommissioned in-park data center capability within Walt Disney World reducing the number of locations the managed service contract is responsible for.

Responsible for managing the overall release process for core systems, websites, and mobile applications.Two manager direct reports each with a team of 4-6 release managers plus 5 person consultant team managing application deployments.50+ development teams and 100s of applications under management.Reduced the release cycle to four week releases for websites and mobile applications from the previous 12-13 week cycle.Management of release features, prioritization, and executive updates.Directed the decoupling of the monolithic release process to independent releases to allow development teams to release on their own cadence and reduce overall coordination overhead for releases.Drove the implementation of new release practices to enable nimble releases using less hardware.

Built and maintained the CI/CD platform for the segment.Directly managed team of 6 and a 10 person managed services team with Capgemini (8 offshore, 2 onshore).Cast members responsible for enhancements to the platform.Management of 3,500+ individual pipelines.Jenkins-based platform with custom workflow and automation to support Java/Maven, Node.js/NPM, Android, iOS, PHP, Python, and Docker builds.Management of the Sonar environment for code quality reporting.

Responsible for the Change Management process.Managed services owner for Accenture team executing the process.Team reviews and approves 30,000+ changes annually.Updated and enhanced the change management process to remove roadblocks and simplify the system.Maintained a 99+% success rate for changes.

Disney Virtual Queue system to support Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.Capacity Managed Event to support reservations for Disneyland for Star Wars: Galaxy’s edge.Security ProjectsPrimary project delivery and implementation partner for segment security team.Delivered new Linux and Windows access management solution which enabled enhanced auditing of user access as well as additional security controls across our high impact systems.Delivered TrendMicro Host-based firewall solution to protect all systems utilizing personally identifiable information (PII).Implemented the delivery mechanism for CrowdStrike Falcon used across the 15,000-20,000 servers both on-prem as well as in AWS and Azure.Implemented new multi-factor, Okta-based solution for access to the PCI environments.

Responsible for the automation tool set for the segment.One manager with a team of 6.Management and support of Microfocus Operations Orchestration tooling to support on-prem provisioning processes within our VMware environment.Sustainment and enhancement of an in-house built automation platform using Operations Orchestration and custom Node.js and Java code to manage infrastructure standup for AWS across 50+ accounts.

Accountable for operational support of back of house systems across the Parks & Resorts segment including the following key systems/customers: - Marketing, Sales and Lodging Technologies - MyMagic+ including FastPass+ systems - Core back-end systems supporting availability, recommendations, and workforce management - Walt Disney World Resort - Disneyland Resort - Disneyland Paris Resort - Shanghai Disney Resort - Disney Reservation Center - Disney Vacation Club - Disney Cruise LineLed a 10 member, geographically dispersed, team with a focus on new infrastructure standup including: - IBM WebSphere Application Server, Apache Tomcat, JBoss Application Server, and Node.js platforms on 4,000+ servers. - Apache HTTPD web server infrastructure. - IBM WebSphere MQ for critical back-end system integrations. - F5 virtual LTMs for pre-production environments. - Design and implementation coordination for F5 LTMs in production environments with operational support from Atos.Led the transformation of the team into an Kanban model of execution.Collaborated with Reference Architecture, Solutions Engineering, and Systems Engineering Solutions/Design teams on application infrastructure design and provisioning.Responsible for forecasting weekly, monthly, and annual OpEx.Facilitated the definition of standard configurations and procedures within Systems Engineering.Led the implementation of Chef as the standard provisioning and configuration tool.Managed the integration of Chef and Rundeck into the overall CI/CD pipeline.Partnered with the Reference Architecture team to implement zero downtime deployment with F5 Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and F5 Global Traffic Manager (GTM) technology.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Owner of the strategic road map for application monitoring, service management, and report distribution.The four member team provided operational support for: - IBM Tivoli/Netcool OMNIbus - Dell Foglight Application Performance Monitoring - CA Service Desk Manager - xMatters - CA Workload Automation (AutoSys) - ASG-Cypress Suite

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Owner of the strategic road map for application middleware and developer tools.Accountable for Software Quality Assurance and overall testing strategy with two team members focused in this space; performed 180+ audits of 38 projects in 2014.Supported multiple integration testing events for new market and expansion facility startups.Responsible for the identification and evaluation of new technology solutions for application development and middleware with two team members focused in this space.Major research and development efforts for 2014 included: - Big Data, specifically how to use technologies like Hadoop to improve the overall speed of integrating new business units. - Application Platform, specifically Cloud Foundry, and how microservices architecture could improve supportability and reliability. - Front-end build tooling, including evaluations of Grunt, Gulp, Broccoli, and dependent technologies to support SOFEA application development.Designed and executed the security and patching process for all third-party application development software libraries.Supported the Director of Infrastructure in long range planning for all infrastructure domains.A five member sub-team provided operational support for: - Application Server (Oracle WebLogic, Apache Tomcat) - Directory Server (Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition) - Web Server (Apache HTTPD) - Business-to-Business (B2B) integration software (GXS Enterprise Gateway, GXS Application Integrator) - Identity Federation (Novell/NetIQ Access Manager) - Developer tools (Subversion, Eclipse, Atlassian FishEye, Atlassian Crucible, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, Apache Maven, Jenkins, Sonatype Nexus) - Testing and Quality tools (Sonar, Sauce Labs, JUnit, Selenium, JMeter) - Third-party software libraries (Spring, Hibernate, Apache Struts 2, AngularJS)Continued responsibilities as the Chair of the Application Architecture Council.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Systems Architect and Team Lead for the Application Services team. The team supports the mission-critical middleware and development tools including: Application Server (Oracle WebLogic, Apache Tomcat), Directory Server (Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition), Web Server (Apache HTTPD), Business-to-Business (B2B) integration software (GXS Enterprise Gateway, GXS Application Integrator), developer productivity tools (Subversion, Eclipse, Atlassian FishEye, Atlassian Crucible, Sonar, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA) and software libraries (Spring, Hibernate, Apache Struts 2). Responsible for ensuring that all tools meet security standards.I was responsible for task prioritization and workload assignment for the tool support team.Lead the team that researched and selected the new application platform for Gordon Food Service. Lead a proof of concept (POC) for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.Member of the Gold Club. The highest aware at Gordon Food Service for individual achievement.Member of the Technical Engineering Council which is responsible for reviewing projects to ensure they meet technical architecture standards.Chair of the Application Architecture council which is responsible for setting application architecture standards, reviewing new technology and providing overall strategic application architecture direction.Founded and Chaired the JIRA Advisory Group, a cross functional group that reviewed and suggested changes to the Atlassian JIRA environment.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Member of the Application Services team. Responsible for the support of the Gordon Food Service application middleware environment including BEA/Oracle WebLogic Application Server, iPlanet/Sun Java Systems Directory Server and Wily Introscope. The team also supported software development tooling including CVS and Subversion, Eclipse IDE and the Atlassian toolset: JIRA, Confluence, FishEye, Crucible, Clover.Served as an Application Architect on a variety of business projects including:Invoice ODS: Moved invoice processing off the mainframe into the Java EE environment; created an Invoice Operational Data Store (ODS) as the central, authoritative source of invoice information.Order Pickoff: Java SE application responsible for interfacing with our Order Processing and Routing systems to provide workloads for the Warehouse Management System (WMS).Antics: Ant based build and deployment solution leveraging JIRA and Maven.GFS User Management: Apache Struts 2 application for managing users and groups in the Sun Java System Directory environment.Member of the Technical Engineering Council which is responsible for the review of projects to ensure they meet technical architecture standards.Served as a technical advisor to the Application Architecture Council in the areas of application middleware and software development tooling.Provided mentoring and training for the team as well as the larger Gordon Food Service development community.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Member of the Integration Services team.Member of the virtual Information Architecture team, responsible for representing the application and data integration space.Supported a third party, custom, Java SE integration framework using XML-based JMS messaging with IBM MQSeries.Created and maintained near-real time integration of customer, invoice and payment data to custom E-business systems hosted in a third party facility.Created and maintained near-real time integration between retail point of sale systems in 70+ retail stores and the central systems.Designed the Integration Toolkit, a custom Java framework , to replace the legacy third party framework supporting XML-based JMS messaging.Provided a standard library for application integration which abstracted the transport details (e.g. FTP, JMS messaging, BEA Tuxedo, HTTP, SOAP) and allowed for changes to the transport without modification of the application.Implemented a centralized mechanism for tracking integration routes between systems.Added support for Java EE development with Message-Driven Beans (MDB) within the WebLogic Application Server.Supported BEA Tuxedo and OSITP-based integrations to the Unisys MCP Mainframe environment using WebLogic Tuxedo Connector (WTC).Implemented TIBCO BusinessWorks to replace custom frameworks for application integration.Implemented TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adaptor for Database for integration with custom ERP implementation.Implemented TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) to replace IBM MQSeries as the central messaging infrastructure.Implemented TIBCO Hawk for monitoring of the overall TIBCO infrastructure.Integrated solution with Tivoli Enterprise Console to provide event notification for our operations center.Responsible for evaluation of open source tools for use in the integration space including build tools (Ant), unit testing (JUnit) and continuous integration (CruiseControl).

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Third-level support for the Gordon Food Service HelpDesk and Field Service Technicians.Responsible for PC hardware evaluation and selection for all US operations.Created and maintained Windows OS images for all support hardware models.Built standardized software distributions using the Novell NetWare Application Launcher (NAL) for all US operations.Wrote a Visual Basic 6 utility for converting NAL software distributions to the Wise Installer for offline installation.Developed a JSP and Servlet web application using third party ActiveX controls to support terminal emulation for the Unisys MCP Mainframe.Managed the Novell NetWare directory including login scripts, drive mappings and security permissions.Managed the Citrix WinFrame and MetaFrame server environments including setup, software installation, and security access.Professional Certifications: - Certified Novell Administrator - Citrix Certified Administrator

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Supported 1200+ PCs at the Gordon Food Service Corporate campus.Supported an additional 500+ PCs at satellite sales offices, retail stores, and distribution centers through Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan.Second-level support for the Gordon Food Service HelpDesk.Responsible for printer configuration and maintenance supporting the Novell NetWare and Unisys MCP Mainframe environments.Created a printer information database to standardize printer configuration across US operations.Responsible for Novell group membership administration.Created Visual Basic 5 and 6 utilities to assist with hardware inventory and HelpDesk operations.