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Irons, Mi, Us

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Member of Digital DevOps team providing support for full stack technology software releases. Customer focused team player, responsible for scheduling, planning, and controlling the software development and delivery process. Worked closely with developers, SDETs, product owners, SRE, infrastructure, and cloud teams. Lead release manager on most large project initiatives across all tech stacks and enterprise. Provided consulting and mentoring to junior level team members across the organization. Maintain release schedule for Azure cloud services team. Participated in thirteen scrum team ceremonies for release planning. Developed full release management process adhering to corporate change management and ITIL rules. Monitored each release for potential risks as well as dependencies across the entire tech stack and enterprise. Held all go/no-go calls as well as facilitated each release call. Worked closely with DevOps team on CI/CD pipeline readiness and monitored over a hundred code repositories and maintained clean Gitflow branching strategies. Worked closely with senior and executive leadership communicating risks and status of planning and post implementation. Participated in SAFe PI planning across all scrum teams evaluating final plans prior to leadership final approval. Implemented full rollout of LaunchDarkly feature flagging platform along with full working demo for new developers.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Assisted Enterprise Data and Analytics team with a cloud conversion kickoff project as a DevOps Engineer. Created new CI/CD pipelines for deployments to Integration, Certification, and Production environments. Worked with Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Function apps, and APIM. Developed and administered all code repositories, documented entire architecture and usage, and organized full change management process for the team.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

3 month contract extended to 5 monthsMember of the TechOps/DevOps team providing support for production I.T. operations. Utilize tools such as Solarwinds, CA Workload Automation (dSeries), Veritas Netbackup and Service Now to monitor the corporate network and infrastructure. Worked closely with many teams across the company to solve production issues including networking, cloud/servers, SAP, and database. Handled a variety of Netbackup administration activities including adding new clients, updating policies, client installations, monitoring, data restores, and fixing errors. Utilized Linux commands to monitor and update the system. Designed, documented, implemented, and trained staff on a full Azure DevOps code repository process for the TechOps team utilizing GIT for version control as well as a full build/release pipeline to manage the team custom source code and scripts. Wrote and maintained Powershell scripts to automate manual processes. Utilized Powershell scripting to minimize Windows low disk space alerts. Lowered the windows disk space alert queue to reduce manual efforts in disk clean up. Steelcase IT operates with full agile processes utilizing Azure DevOps for project management under two-week sprints. Participated in daily standups and all scrum ceromonies. Made recommendation for ehancements to improve process flow and workload estimations and tasking.

Holland, Mi, 49423, Us

This was a six month contract assisting the Haworth web team in the following areas:Developed standard operating procedures for how the enterprise will handle SSL certificates.Documented the Haworth Adobe enterprise implementation which included Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Adobe Campaign. Campaign was a new product for Haworth that I was technical lead for from the beginning. Campaign and AEM were integrated so assets could be shared. I was responsible for integrating Campaign with our SOA platform for SSO implementation. Campaign integration also included Microsoft Dynamics. Was system administrator on all Adobe products.Responsible for Azure DevOps build and release pipelines.Responsible for documenting all team tribal knowledge pertaining to Haworth web infrastructure.Shared the support queue with one other person and alternated on-call. Handled many medium and high support tickets.Deployed a number of new and existing web applications with Azure DevOps.Worked on a number of MVC web applications adding new features to support other initiatives.Worked with the following at Haworth: Nginx, AEM, Adobe Campaign, LeanIX, Active Directory, Cloudflare, GIT, Splunk, Orion, MVC, SQL, IIS.

Kalamazoo, Mi, Us

Technical Lead .NET July 2016-July 2018Held multiple roles as Technical Lead at Stryker. Axeda device cloud developer: Experienced in Axeda device cloud programming with the Groovy language. Wrote many custom objects to interact with medical devices in the field. Built and maintained systems to send data between the device cloud to the Azure big data cloud that our team custom built from ground up. Release Manager: Developed from ground up an entire automated release management system using VSTS tools. Handled all aspects of the release from internal communication to engineering the builds and releases. Azure Infrastructure Manager: Managed a $45,000 monthly Azure budget as well as administered all aspects of the Stryker Connected Care Azure portal. Experienced in IoT Hub, ADF, Databricks, Data Lake, Azure SQL, Automation, Powershell, API Management, App Services, Logic Apps, Function Apps, Storage Accounts, Service Fabric, and Virtual Machines. Database Administrator: Performed maintenance on all databases across every environment. Maintained permissions, monitored all upper environment performance through App Insights, wrote and maintained cleanup scripts as necessary. Performed backups and made copies of databases for developers. Wrote custom automation to build and release manual SQL scripts using DbUp.Operations and Sustainment Manager: I owned and maintained the production environment from security to Application Insights monitoring. Set thresholds to receive email alerts on performance or dropped data. Held weekly operations and support meetings with the team to review the health of the LINK platform. Assigned issues and tracked incidents in Service Now and created bugs in VSTS. The team was on three-week sprints. I represented DevOps and gave updates at sprint plan/close as well as created my sprint tasks for releases during the sprint, prep meetings, and many developer support tasks related to release management in VSTS.

Hanover, Md, Us

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

• Agile Scrum Master on a large Checkmarx implementation project using Jira for sprint tracking. Budget was $400,000 for phase one. Responsible for managing and tracking requirements, software installation, application configuration, code assessments, managing vendor support and QA, Bamboo CI/Checkmarx integration, end user training and production rollout• Updated multiple libraries using Nuget package manager, C#, and Visual Studio. Responsible for running unit tests, updating DLL’s, creating change controls, and production deployment• Security Champion on Checkmarx code scan assessments. Responsible for following OWASP Top10 standards evaluating results of C# and Perl security vulnerabilities. Make recommendation to remediate or record as false positive. Used Fiddler proxy to test found vulnerabilities.

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Position includes the following roles:• Project ManagerResponsible for managing all web related projects in an agile environment. Give weekly team updates as well as executive leadership team updates on budget and timelines. Responsible for all web team members and all aspects related to a successful implementation of website development including architecture and keeping up on the business five year plan integrating future growth into our functional designs.• Web Architecto SOA implementation (Coldfusion 9 with MVC technology)o Responsible for all aspects of the company’s $4 million complex website infrastructureo Developed common MS SQL data source for all web related productso Work closely with application development project teams, vendors and business analysts to architect and review design of all aspects of the music, curriculum, and trade book publishing businesso Research on the emerging technologies to advise managers and guide the development teams about their most effective utilizationo Provide guidance on development standardso Lead efforts to solve problems in critical, high volume, real time applicationso Consult with senior IT management on the design of systems, projects and emerging technologieso Support existing business systems applicationso Architect end-user customer facing internet interfaceso Maintain and enhance tooling, frameworks, and common serviceso Provide guidance and best practices from systems integration perspectiveo Provide strategic technical direction for mission critical applications• Web Developer• Skilled in ASP.NET (C#), SQL 2008 development and maintenance• Coldfusion 6.0, 9.0 maintenance and development of http://www.davidccook.com and the company SOA architecture. Work closely with outside consultants to maximize development efforts that ensure future growth potential• Joomla/VirtueMart development and maintenance.

Broomfield, Co, Us

ASP.NETSQL 2005/2008AJAX

Littleton, Colorado, Us

Expertise in Web Development:ASP.NETC#VBSQL 2005Visual Studio 2008ASP ClassicWeb architecture, project management, SQL database design.

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

• Successfully lead $5 million ASP.NET conversion project. This project involved 40 team members including MSIB developers, executive governance, third party vendors, and business stakeholders. Managed development and design teams, scoped project, facilitated status meetings, and mentored team members. Website project included over 300 requirements one of which was full online ordering capabilities. Estimated annual revenue first three years from the eCommerce application: $4.5 million.• Met project goal which was to upgrade legacy ASP websites to ASP.NET using C#. Converted more than 30 websites including an eCommerce site used to manage profile information and integration with legacy systems.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer And Information Sciences, General

Bs, Computer Information Systems