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Bentonville, Arkansas, US

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Engineering Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management in a multi-cloud environment, including self-managed clusters on Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), VMware Vsphere.
• Managing Large Public Cloud and On-Prem K8s Clusters, as well as a lot of very small edge clusters in Walmart Stores & distribution centers.
• Team lead, Developing Kubernetes build automation using cloud-init, kubeadm, and CI/CD pipelines(concord/ansible/jenkins).
• Participating in both the Open Source Kubernetes Cluster-API SIG and Cluster Life-Cycle SIG
• Developing upgrade path to keep thousands of clusters current and secure. Including ability to quickly deploy day 0 vulnerability fixes
• Implemented Cluster DR with Heptio Ark and Persistent Volumes using Cloud Provider Container Storage interface (CSI)

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Engineered Technical Solutions to auto-heal application incidents in our datacenters and 11,573 stores worldwide, reducing manual intervention and resulting in a time savings of 225 hours a week for the team.
• Pioneered the utilization of Puppet in automating Middleware configuration management, preparing for future Cloud operations.
• Spearheaded the adoption of newer Agile and Lean approaches to operations work (DevOps) in Middleware Tech.
• Employed Puppet to managed SHA2 SSL certificate updates required for secure encryption of 340+ applications.
• Scripted an application to scan our End-of-Life Server environments and catalog undocumented applications needing modernization.
• Actively mentor others in methodology, best practice, and standards while helping them develop their career paths.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Project manager in Walmart's Information Systems Division, Specializing in IT Infrastructure Projects.
• Executed contracts which increased project success and enhanced vendor and supplier partnerships.
• Managed technology projects with budgets in excess of $12 million capital and returns of up to $20 million.
• Successful in leading global large-scale projects and bringing innovative technologies to Walmart stores.
• Introduced service bundling, leading to a reduction of $2 million in expenses.
• Contributed to development of product strategies and alignment of project portfolios.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Specializing in Unix & Linux Server administration (AIX, HP-UX, SLES, Solaris, RHEL)
• While dealing with capacity planning and resource utilization, collaborated with 5-15 teams per server to eliminate 200+ large, inefficient, end-of-life UNIX servers. This reduced the datacenter footprint by 10% and.
• Coordinated operations, dependencies, and development between 40+ teams across the division, leading to the successful migration of business critical databases on a very tight time constraint to maintain a 99.98% uptime.
• Led a cross pillar effort throughout Infrastructure to improve productivity and customer satisfaction by creating a solution to quickly and accurately estimate the costs of infrastructure services for budget planning.

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

• Mitigated security risks and maintained compliance for PCI and SOX standards on servers in multiple Data Centers.
• Engineered Servers to customer specifications & developed scripts to reduce repeatable processes.

Provo, UT, US

• Design and Implementation of Desktop Virtualization for 2000+ public access computers. Management of Standard computer Images.
• Implemented new virtualization technology which eliminated the need to re-image all of the public computers every year and reduced trouble tickets by 40%.
• Developed requirement specifications and maintained design for enterprise desktop image while administering 500+ office PC’s

Seattle, WA, US

• Provided complete end user support including the configuration, installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of a variety of hardware, software, and peripherals.
• Executed SOX standards in refurbishing 100 computers, preparing them for resale.

Provo, UT, US

• Encouraged students to think out of the box in discovering ways to analyze problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Instructed 30 students in creating web structures using JavaScript, PHP, HTML, Perl, and JSP.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

- Leader responsible for the strategy, motivation, training, and results of 15 full-time Volunteers.- 60% increase in time efficiency by optimizing and automating office duties.- Developed skills in influencing others, personal communication and sales.