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Purcellville, Va, Us

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Developed and implemented DevSecOps pipelines within Department of Defense (DoD) private cloud environments hosted on AWS, resulting in a 40% reduction in deployment time for air-gapped artifacts across multiple impact levels.Architected Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps tooling, and comprehensive documentation for the Appian platform, leading to a 30% increase in deployment efficiency and a 20% reduction in deployment errors. Leveraged Jenkins, Terraform, and Artifactory to facilitate the promotion of Appian applications and IaC artifacts, achieving a 25% faster deployment process and a net new Appian deployment time of 43 minutes.Designed, managed, and implemented an internal AWS lab environment for internal testing of DevOps tools and IaC components.Completed Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) compliance checklists for multiple DoD organizations, resulting in the issuance of 3 new ATOs and 1 CATO for the Appian platform.Developed, maintained, and automated scripts to initiate and terminate the Appian platform on EC2 instances and VMs, reducing operational costs up to 15% for private cloud environments.Maintained and implemented kubernetes and EC2 instances of Appian for Self-Managed customers operating on Linux and Windows deployments for 10 DoD customers.

● Raised funds from an international businessman, purchased estate, scaled operations to over $3m in annual revenue● Pivoted during the onset of COVID-19 pandemic to cloud-kitchen delivery model, scaled 3 restaurants to over $100k/month in E-commerce only revenue ● Oversaw IT operations, website, and social media accounts to expand our customer base; we now have over 11,000 followers across Instagram, Facebook, internal email lists, and returning website visitors● Raised funds within local community to support new real-estate propositions and expansion to 2 new locations

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Lead technical liaison between internal development groups and government IT teams, responsible for the deployment & integration of new technology sets in complex environments.Assembled cross-functional teams to address unique customer challenges related to stringent physical and cyber-security requirements in order to maintain STIG compliance and security best practices.Developed and coordinated with cross-functional teams to deliver customized cloud applications ahead of schedule & under-budget, for over 300,000 OCONUS and CONOS military devices. Awarded a US Military Challenge Coin for my efforts - a rare token of appreciation for exceptional service for DoD organizations.Managed and maintained integrations to AD systems as well as configurations and security best practices for maintaining AD group policies and configurations.

Facilitated IT cloud-based services into on-site solutions for over 30 marketing companies.Attended regular cloud consulting interviews with supervisors to gain full perspective of the relationship between the customers and end-point solutions. Leveraged AWS and Microsoft Azure platforms to gain a deeper understanding of public cloud initiatives

Washington, Dc, Us

Collaborated with various corporate and web development teams to address the full work flow of the customer-consultant relationship on to the final production web page. Implemented and launched apache servers via MAMP in order to run local versions of WordPress. Customized WordPress templates and pages to create original content for customers.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, Us

Completed full openStack training for Red Hat covering storage, virtual, and cloud based solutions.Enhanced customer service and organizational skills by attending weekly meetings and communicating with customers. Developed a comprehensive understanding of the advantages of open source technology and how this contributes to advances in cloud based systems, data storage, and software production.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Engineering