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Huntsville, Al, Us

New York, New York, Us

• Responsible for the strategy, design & engineering, implementation, operationalization, improvement, and ongoing lifecycle management of Pfizer’s global portfolio of cloud hosting solutions.• Encompass traditional and transitional private cloud and modern, public cloud and IaaS and PaaS capabilities across a variety of cloud service providers.• Lead design and delivery of internal customer requests, while maintaining strict alignment to established security and compliance guidelines for new engineering solutions.• Ensure that designs are “fit-for-use” and achieve not only the desired outcomes but deliver an experience that is delightful (fast and easy).• Managed the transition of engineered solutions to steady-state operations (Digital Command Operations) and ensure operational support through documentation, effective handovers, training, and direct assistance.• Applied a DevSecOps approach to engineering, embedding security into each design, utilizing a standardized pipeline for code release, making significant use of automation in testing, and bias towards repeatability and ease of go-forward maintenance.• Maintain technical ownership over Pfizer’s Cloud Service Provider (CSP) account structure and define and manage the organizational policies in accordance with Hosting Security and Compliance teams• Leading SME on Cloud at Pfizer, participating regularly in ideation/design stage processes with Digital Architecture and Digital Hosting Product Owners in the translation of business outcomes to technology capabilities.

• Founded an employee owned and operated technology firm providing subject-matter expertise and principal engineering services to organizations of all sizes.• Specialize in skunkworks projects, featuring small, elite teams delivering high-impact, innovative solutions via rapid prototyping mechanisms.• Our team of experts comes from around the globe, covering a vast array of industries; each person with a wealth of knowledge and unique experiences.

Madison, Alabama, Us

IT and Engineering consulting and best practice for small-to-medium businesses looking to accelerate their technology footprint. Specializing in SaaS applications and public cloud infrastructure.• Fully automated infrastructure management, backed by AWS services.• Consulting and Advisory board participation• Providing part-time CTO role / responsibilities• Staff & manage technical and engineering contract employees• Domain management & website hosting solutions• G Suite (formerly Google Apps) Reseller• RingCentral VoIP Reseller• AWS Solution Provider

Seattle, Wa, Us

•Lead and support rapid innovation projects across key & strategic accounts,including Pfizer, Bayer, Moderna, BMW, Mercedes, GE, 3M, Siemens, and more Fortune 500 companies.•First Technical Program Manager hired for Prototyping - helped scale the prototyping team 200% (15 to 31 and growing) over a 2-year period.•Drive planning and technical discovery of customer-specific solutions.•Architected and co-led development of internal tool for automated demo launches, providing push-button, customized, functional demos of highly technical solutions.•Support and accelerated Sales and Business Development customer discussions, including on-site workshops and ideation sessions.•Standardization of engagement planning, development, and closeout; Automated data collection and reporting for executive feedback.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Organization-wide, multi-team engineering management of a global workforce of 60+ engineers• Conceptual product line scoping and design• Production roll-out planning and execution• Driving product features and UI/UX design• Organization-wide, multi-team, multi-disciplinary engineering management with mixed resources - employees, consultants, and contractors.• Product conceptualization, scoping, and design• Drive entire product lifecycle “cradle-to-grave” - concept, development, testing, delivery, and ongoing support & maintenance.• Manage cross-discipline shared resource team for aligning Design, QA, Documentation• Streamlined engineering processes for fewer, more focused meetings and greater alignment between teams.• Demo and evangelize products to open source maintainers, contributors, and organizations, including Fortune 100 companies.• Designed, built, and launched CommunityBridge (communitybridge.org), the first open-source sustainability platform. - Funding - Transparent financial support tool for open source projects & initiatives. As of 2020, more than $700k raised over 160 projects. - People - Growing the open source community through mentorship and diversity. As of 2020, more than 3,000 mentees & 400 mentors from 13+ countries. - Security - Analysis and reporting of vulnerabilities, dependencies, and licensing. As of 2020, more than 12,000 vulnerabilities identified across 90 LF-supported projects.• Partner with key open source maintainers to scope, foster, and grow Mentorship programs, including within the Linux Kernel community.

Huntsville, Alabama, Us

• Advice in technical roadmap & leadership initiatives• Support product and strategy planning• Executive-level technical engagement & pre-sales

Huntsville, Alabama, Us

• Organizational strategy for company growth and market expansion.• Executive leadership, budget analysis, and organizational planning• Alignment of Engineering & Product Management leadership teams.• Deployment of Agile software development tools & methodology.• Modernize and revolutionize IT infrastructure and business-supporting tools.• Evangelize and implement migration to AWS and related cloud infrastructure (where appropriate) for both production systems and engineering support.• Oversee development and mentoring cross-functional team of Engineering and IT personnel• Spearhead new cloud-first SaaS product offering and legacy, on-premise product scalability

San Antonio, Texas, Us

• Form & Lead Platform Core Team • Responsible for infrastructure & orchestration over multiple providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) • Coordinate with project management, executive sponsors, and key stakeholders. • Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker • Identify & evangelize standards and best practices• Part of a top-tier team of DevOps Engineers and Cloud Architects from around the world, building a new, fluid application PaaS built around federated Kubernetes using distributed system design: Trebuchet™ • Microservices architecture • Design by Contract • Orchestrated, containerized components • Web-scale • Contract-first (swagger) Infrastructure API utilizing gRPC / Go microservices for an abstracted, event-driven infrastructure management layer. • Utilizing Terraform & Redis• Custom Kubernetes application controller utilizing CRDs for application deployment and state tracking.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

• Part of Monitoring & Eventing team focused on building microservices for handling logging, eventing, and monitoring of internal and external components for a large-scale platform. • Elasticsearch / Kibana • Kubernetes deployment using Helm charts • Influx TICK stack • Kafka• Designed & prototyped highly-scalable service for event routing & alerting.• Onboarding & mentoring of new team members • Coordination & integration across multiple teams• CI/CD automated pipelines (Jenkins + GitLab)

Huntsville, Al, Us

• Creation and successful launch of robust Kailos (https://www.kailosgenetics.com) E-Commerce platform written in Ruby-on-Rails customized on top of Spree and Shopify.• AWS-backed bioinformatics platform for genotyping and phenotyping next-generation sequenced (NGS) DNA.• Development of gene-based suspect profiling application for Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) • Management / oversight of comprehensive multi-tenant, multi-tier AWS infrastructure hosting robust HIPAA / HITECH compliant healthcare applications and large-scale sequencing operations.• Security Architecture / Operations & DevOps of HIPAA-compliant AWS-backed services • Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Operational Reporting using modern BI tools such as AWS Quicksight and Tableau Online

Huntsville, Al, Us

• Research, Scope, and Architect high-speed data Internet of Things (IoT) processing platform for the M2M (Machine-to-Machine) industry capable of capturing, transforming, analyzing, reacting, and presenting high-speed data. • Capable of processing up to 300,000 messages per second, with sub-second TTP (time-to-process). • Distributed computing platform made up of next-gen queueing systems, multiple database technologies, real time & batch computation engines, and presentation layers. • Push-button, automated PaaS deployment into agnostic IaaS using Docker, Ansible, and other technologies.• Plan, hire, and manage new cross-functional platform engineering team from scratch to 14 engineers strong.• Responsible for software technology building blocks for entire engineering organization.• Implement software development best practices (peer code reviews, staged development environments, design review process, agile software development, continuous integration, automated unit/functional testing)• Evangelize next-generation technology stack with executive team and established engineering organization.• Oversee and manage consulting firms for legacy products maintenance and supplementing of engineering resources.• Facilitate Enterprise Software Guild for all enterprise and web software developers across the company.• Responsible for multi-million dollar engineering budget for pushing company’s technology stack to become a leader in the M2M space.

Huntsville, Al, Us

• Lab Information Management System (LIMS) developed for use by CLIA lab personnel.• Custom application development in Force.com (Salesforce) platform. • Administration/Management of Salesforce and Financialforce applications.• Ruby and Ruby-on-Rails (RoR) development for bio-analytical system for processing raw DNA sequencing data.• Management of cloud-based virtual servers using the Opscode chef platform.• Custom-built Bio-analytical system for analyzing human genome sequencing data.• Custom web-application development using Ruby-on-Rails, HTML5, Javascript (jQuery), and CSS3 implementing AJAX functionality

Huntsville, Al, Us

• Multi-tiered web application development for both internal & external use.• Architect reporting solutions for historical sales & business workflow analysis.• Creation of content management systems for internal & external websites.• Creation of application/resume tracking system for HR.• Decision-maker for technology direction and infrastructure changes for the company.• Created development infrastructure for source control, bug tracking, release scheduling/tracking.• Managed IT team of two technicians and one other developer.• Lead project/development team for implementation of VoIP phone system and integration with existing CRM system.• Lead project team for transition from Lotus Notes to Exchange/Outlook corporate-wide.• Participated in planning and lead integration team for company acquisition -- integration of all applications/systems.• Participated in planning and lead integration team for creation of new corporate entity for shifting existing resources into new industry (employees vs independent contractors) – split existing CRM and accounting systems to accommodate multiple company model.• Service for importing and synchronizing miscellaneous external data (any data source) with existing CRM system (Onyx).• Creation of service for synchronizing CRM system (Onyx) with Accounting system (Greatplains)• Customization of existing CRM system (Onyx/Consona)• Creation of Windows Sidebar gadgets for quick reference reporting of business key performance indicators (KPI) and departmental scorecards.• Advanced, custom database queries and reporting for executive management.• Creation of dynamic reporting tool – allowing dynamic, non-technical queries of all existing databases: CRM system (Onyx), Accounting system (Greatplains), and phone system (Interactive Intelligence) – Tool capable of filtering, grouping, and summarizing all data without pre-defined knowledge of database content.

Madison, Al, Us

• Visual Basic and .NET design and development for large enterprise GIS system.• Strong interdependence with Oracle and MSSQL databases• Advanced multi-process, multi-host debugging.• Defect resolution and verification testing.• Advanced COM library development.

Huntsville, Alabama, Us

• Developed multiple server-client applications (C#, Java)• Lead Web developer: PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, and Web Services.• Project Lead for multiple mission-critical software projects.• Lead developer on multiple mission-critical software projects.

Huntsville, Alabama, Us

• Development of server-client applications -- including security modules, workflow management, and database interfaces.• Responsible for company’s push towards .NET in current and future projects.• Interfaced Java with existing C++ libraries utilitizing Java Native Interface (JNI)

Huntsville, Alabama, Us

• Thin client front-ends for query of both database & proprietary solutions. • Managed day-to-day operations of the IT department.• Evaluation and testing of new development tools, including training of programming team for their use.• Re-designed network infrastructure and implemented design to overhaul company’s intranet/internet presence.• Administrated all network services, including, but not limited to, all internal employee support.• Design and implementation of IP telephony PBX system with full administration of that system.

Huntsville, Al, Us

• END Technical Support • Responsible for support of ISDN, T1, and other product lines through telephone support and email support.• END Product Qualification • Testing of new TA3000 DS3-CSM module • Gained knowledge of following: ATM, T1, ISDN, T3, PBX Systems, Cisco Routers, Multiplexers, and many other related telecommunication terms and technologies.• Packet Switched Design Engineering • Programming in C & C++ on both hardware and software level projects used in product development. • Hardware and Software board re-designs for cost-reduced IC changes.• Component Engineering • Component level cost analysis & reduction • Adding sources to existing components • $20k+ cost savings generated through elimination of sole-sourced components (adding additional sources)• T1/DDS Design Engineering • Hardware design of test board for internal use. • Assisted in software development of Cisco-emulating routerOS.

Huntsville, Al, Us

• Responsible for on-site administration and installation of Windows NT Servers.• Support for ImageFirst Library product which is used to handle archiving of check / bill images onto CD’s for large national banks.• Support for image technology products - particularly document management to large-scale clients.• Represented Book Systems’ Image Technology Division to customers, in charge of Public relations for this department.• Phone support for other products (MLS, Concourse, P-link, etc.) that are used in Library automation (Used in place of card catalogs in libraries, for searching books, checking in, checking out, etc.)

GENERAL MANAGER (1996 - 1998)• Facilitated formation of partnerships between CS&SI and other corporations.• Purchasing, Receivables, Payroll, Taxes, Contracts, and all other aspects of running the corporation.• Personnel management of 10+ employees.• Increased profit margin by cost reduction and management of current revenue.TECHNICAL SUPPORT LEAD (1994 - 1996)• Creation and support of home and business networks from 2 to 50+ computers.• Administration of Novell, LANtastic, and NT networks, as well as Microsoft Peer-to-Peer networks running Windows 95 and Windows 98 machines.TECHNICAL SUPPORT (1992 - 1994)• Hardware and software troubleshootingSOFTWARE SALES (1989 - 1992)• Retail sales of PC software sales