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Seattle, Wa, Us

New York, New York, Us

Provides monitoring, maintenance, availability, and reliability of Genvid production infrastructure and is responsible for safe releases into the production environment.- Using DevOps and GitOps tools and workflows, provide monitoring, maintenance, availability, and reliability of Genvid production infrastructure and safe releases into the production environment.- Demonstrated ability to deploy infrastructure as code using Terragrunt, Terraform, Bitbucket Pipelines, Helm, Crossplane, and Argo Workflows to Kubernetes and AWS.- Rollout of Windows-based GPU instances using pipelines, and Hashicorp Nomad, Consul, and Vault for config

Seattle, Washington, Us

Provides developers infrastructure support, guidance and tooling as an embedded team member to accelerate application deployments while maintaining the highest level of availability and security standards.• Developed automated application pipelines using GitLab CI to build and test new code upon new merge requests, then deploy the code to the dev, stage, and prod Kubernetes clusters, managed by Rancher and built in AWS, upon approval.• Built the all cloud-based infrastructure and security policies for the successful launch of zillowhomeloans.com while working closely with the compliance team on quarterly audits to help maintain protection of sensitive data.• Documented manual processes with step by step detail to then be turned in to automated tasks.• Built a fully automated, push button deployable sandbox environment, matching production, using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes and Rancher Server.• Nominated as VP of Accessible Product and Workplace for the ADAPT employee affinity group focused on promoting awareness and change to support Zillow Group employees and customers who are challenged by any kind of disability.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

Provides production integration services for application teams in the Investing and Bank lines of business by designing and readying infrastructure in a very large enterprise environment. Presents guidance and best practices to the internal customer to be sure infrastructure being deployed meets strict enterprise guidelines.• Acted as Cloud Infrastructure SME and worked directly with Dev teams to provide training and hands on involvement for migrating datacenter-based applications to AWS with the consideration of enterprise requirements, best practices and automation.• Developed, and cross trained on, standardized JSON and YAML formatted CloudFormation templates for development teams to quickly deploy application stacks including EC2 (with ELB and ALBs), ECS, Route53, S3, IAM policies, VPC Security Groups.• Created immutable infrastructure by deploying the infrastructure as code in tandem with the app code by utilizing automation tools such as Chef, Jenkins, CloudFormation inside the CICD pipeline for both Linux and Windows Server based applications.• Produced highly detailed cloud architecture and infrastructure designs for every application migration.• Conducted quarterly infrastructure overview sessions to train new tech employees on the details of the Investing LOB’s complex datacenter and cloud-based infrastructure and application architecture.

Mclean, Va, Us

• Worked on the Server Infrastructure team to maintain the health and day-to-day operations of the Capital One Investing (formerly ShareBuilder) production environment.• Maintained an environment of over 1300 servers in four virtual environments for Dev, QA, DR and Production running on vSphere 5.x.• Assumed the role of deployment and support lead for the rollout of CipherCloud encryption gateway for Salesforce running on 2 node Redhat clusters in both our Prod and DR datacenters.• Co-led the massive efforts of performing a full upgrade of the virtual infrastructure from vSphere 4.0 to 5.1, buildout of an AppFabric cache cluster in production, and an Active Directory Domain rename.

Herndon, Virginia, Us

Systems Administrator (2009 – 2012)Individually responsible for managing and maintaining all aspects of Idea Entity’s IT infrastructure including day-to-day operations and contributing to long-term development projects. • Designed, planned, and tested the deployment of a Zend Server based website running on CentOS in the Cloud using Amazon Web Services to host an automated load balancing and elastic web farm for an up and coming web based Crowdfunding startup company.• Deployed Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and CRM 2010 for Internet facing accessibility and allowing Single Sign On (SSO) authentication by configuring Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).• Responsible for proposing, planning and executing the move of all on-site servers to a co-location datacenter for reliability, disaster recovery and security reasons.Web and UI Developer (2010 – 2012)• Performed beyond my daily responsibilities by acting as lead UI developer for a Windows Phone based mobile app for a large nationwide clothing retail client written in XAML and C#.• Designed and built the web interface for a new startup client using a mix of Adobe tools such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Illustrator.• Built a new custom website for Idea Entity on top of the WordPress platform to allow for easy site administration and content management.

Springfield, Ma, Us

Provide Managed Services technical support for multiple clients ranging from level 1 desktop support to level 3 engineering troubleshooting and high visibility projects.• Acted as lead support engineer for multisite VoIP infrastructure including new site rollouts with Cisco CallManager integration and Voice Gateway configuration.• Involved in all aspects of VMware Virtual Infrastructure management including the installation of new ESX servers, HA and DRS configuration, Datastore management via SAN infrastructure, VM creation, VCB backups, P2V server conversion.

Herndon, Virginia, Us

• Provide technical support for desktop and server issues in this large enterprise and multi-site company with 500+ employees.• Involved with the migration and administration of Microsoft SharePoint Services 2003 and Microsoft Exchange 2003 to a clustered environment for both local and web access.• Responsible for the research, planning, implementation, and daily operation of a $150k+ backup infrastructure on a SAN backend using Veritas NetBackup. • Administer a Cisco VoIP phone and voicemail infrastructure to support new hire phone deployment and troubleshoot existing users using Cisco Call Manager and Unity. • Responsible for the creation of an independent domain for a training room containing a Windows Server 2003 domain, DNS, WINS, DHCP, SUS, and Symantec Anti-Virus Server. • Implemented an Altiris Deployment Solution server used to quickly push baseline images to training room PCs dependent upon the needs and topic of each training session.

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- Assigned as prime liaison of web solutions with the Afghanistan Reconstruction Group (Department of Defense)- Designed collaboration pages within the DHS Extranet/Intranet web portals- Observed and participated in the process of enterprise solutions development/deployment- Obtained a DHS Departmental Secret Security Clearance