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Milwaukee, Wi, Us

- Grew the AWS cloud from a bespoke platform to the premier infrastructure and application platform for a fortune 100 company- Led a team of 8 Engineers who built and maintained the Infrastructure experience products for the Cloud- Built a system to easily and safely deploy fully integrated Serverless architectures. This product is used 30,000 times a month.- Was flown out to Austin by AWS to film a video in the This is my Architecture video about our Serverless product- Rebuilt and maintain Kubernetes deploy process built with the latest technologies including Gitops and Canary Deployments- Team consistently ranks at the top of the organization in both productivity and engineer happiness- Write an internal blog about DevOps practices and topics important to the dev community

New York, New York, Us

- Designed and built a secure self-service pipeline to deploy infrastructure with Gitlab and Terraform- Automated all AWS account and VPC creation to quickly scale to 100+ accounts and 150+ VPCs- Designed and built pipeline and process to rehydrate all EC2 servers with secured AMIs- Created process and automation for new teams to request and be onboarded to POC AWS accounts, including billing alerts, and automated account cleaning- Created many Terraform modules currently used in production by 100s of developers- Internally open sourced Terraform modules and managed pull requests from developers- Part of the team that developed highly available kubernetes cluster with bootkube on CoreOS with full self service automation- Wrote automation to connect kubernetes authentication with AD to allows devs differentiated access- Wrote application to estimate the cost of infrastructure based on Terraform state files

New York, Ny, Us

Led project to move company from Puppet to AnsibleBuilt HA Hadoop Architecture in GCPTrained and led team of systems and dev-ops engineersTaught Bi-Weekly Lunch and Learns on various technical subjectsBuilt Kubernetes cluster, designed docker infrastructure, and deployment process in Google cloud and then on-siteCreated self-serve dev environment with Ansible and Google Cloud

New York, Ny, Us

Upgrade Windows 2008 to Windows 2012 on all environmentsMoved company from RedHat to CentOSProvide support for all production, staging, and R & D systems, 500+ ServersBuild and maintain VMware infrastructureOptimize windows systems for specified performance objectivesRebuilt and organized production domain including a Group Policy overhaulResponsible for 500+ Windows and CentOS serversDesigned the infrastructure for many proprietary applicationsInstalled and configured UCS bladesHelped design and build west coast data centerBuilt out cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCPRebuilt Cognos BI system from the ground upMoved to SQL 2014 failover clusterLed project to move to a new NetApp storage systemBack to Back to Back Hackathon winner

New York, Ny, Us

Provide end user support for a company of ~100 people.Refresh entire computer inventoryMoved company from exchange to Google AppsMoved company from onsite PBX to hosted phone serviceManage company domain and all associated serversBuilt ticketing systemBuilt asset management systemLead training courses on all new systemsRebuilt and rewired corporate server room

Paramus, Nj, Us

Troubleshoot Software/Hardware/Server issues for 300 users Build and maintain ESXi and various VMsImplemented a new file storage systemInstituted a Video Conferencing system (Vidyo)Maintained server room, switches, and patch panels

New York, New York, Us

Troubleshoot Software/Hardware/Connectivity issues for 500 users worldwide Set up and maintain all AV and Video Conference SetupsCreate images for all laptops and desktops

Technical Support for 4 locations throughout Bergen CountyImplemented Electronic Medical Records system