November 2024 - PresentMember of SAIC Innovation Factory delivering solutions to DOD and Civil agenciesNovember 2021 to November 2024Federal contractor for NASA on the EAST2 contract building and supporting 2 major Amazon Web Services (AWS) PaaS implementations for Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.• Consult with NASA partners and consumers to develop best in class solutions which match requirements and expectations for resiliency, manageability, and performance• Provide best practice recommendations for both infrastructure services as well as development optimization using modern design elements and tooling• Architect and develop system configurations & patterns for deployment of common build templates, primarily through Terraform + Ansible• Create automation improvements through custom scripts, data sources, and Lambda functions• Develop and maintain complex module based pipelines for delivery of IaC components using Jenkins & Bitbucket, and GitHub Enterprise with GitHub Actions• Develop, monitor and evaluate security tools for scanning and compliance through automated checks and validations• Evaluate new technologies for integration within CI/CD pipelines • Create and maintain automated 'gold' image configurations and deployment tooling using Packer and Ansible

• Automation Engineer developing solutions using DevOps principles to create standardized CI/CD pipeline deployments using internally developed toolsets• Architect on a multi-cloud deployment solution developing a framework for deploying immutable infrastructure elements using Terraform, Ansible, as well as several Docker container deployment configurations• Technical Lead Architect & Subject Matter Expert for vSphere encompassing a worldwide deployment of over 10,000 hypervisor instances supporting nearly 150,000 VDI seats• Subject Matter Expert for x86 based hardware, specializing in converged and hyper converged solutions specifically designed to support a wide range of use cases• Assist in the evaluation, selection, and configuration details for a variety of solutions within the Infrastructure Technologies space• Active as a Technical Advisory council to multiple hardware and OS vendors for unreleased products as well as existing product enhancements• Author of scripts and operational support processes to enhance automation, fault detection and recovery, compliance, and data collection• Provide mentorship and training for technical colleagues of all levels and backgrounds

Consultant on site at a Dot Com company which folded in December 2000. I was brought in to build servers, create and update procedure documentation, and provide expertise with systems issues. I worked on several systems, primarily Windows Exchange and SQL servers, as well as Cisco switches and routers.

Computer Sciences Corporation provided a starting point for me in IT, and taught me many valuable skills mainly in Windows, Unix, and Cisco but also how to work well within a structured, multicultural and global organization. After gaining the base experience supporting a small satellite office in the Facilities department I was asked to join a Division IT team working primarily in support of New Business Development. Later I moved on to work directly on spinning up several new facilities after winning a major contract with the US Defense Department for Logistics Modernization.