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United States

• Developed a completely automated solution by interfacing with key clientele and deriving critical business requirements.
• Architected and successfully lead the pre-production readiness efforts of the multi-public cloud Hub and Spoke model for handling all of KPMG internal clients.
• Formulated strategic plan for implementing KMPG workspace cloud components for accessing and maintaining the Cloud 2.0 initiative while on Azure, AWS, and GCP via standardized remote gateways.
• Guided and architected cloud infrastructure around an Emotion Recognition engine
• Assisted in the building and training of ML models data modeling utilizing TensorFlow

San Francisco, California, US

• Lead and mentored a team of 15 DevOps Customer Engineers to foster culture growth and meet company goals.
• Partnered with the product team to gather and guide Enterprise-level customers in implementing CircleCI Server 3.0 utilizing Kubernetes across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Provided on-site and remote technical solutions and training boot camps for application reliability, availability, and implementation to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Re-architected internal cloud account integrating SSO to increase efficiency around user onboarding & overall account security.
• Successfully built and maintained a cloud-agnostic service that continuously analyzes and removes unutilized cloud-based resources. Decreasing CircleCi’s cloud footprint by over $100k a month.

• Lead pre-production readiness efforts, POCs, lab testing, and knowledge transfer for the Cloud 2.0 initiative.
• Architected and successfully lead the pre-production readiness efforts of the multi-public cloud Hub and Spoke model for handling all of KPMG internal clients.
• Formulated strategic plan for implementing workspace cloud components for accessing and maintaining the Cloud 2.0 initiative while on Azure, AWS, and GCP via standardized remote gateways.

New York, NY, US

• Helped shape and delivered on a strategy to build broad use of distributed solutions with focus on Blockchain/Crypto Currency Technologies, automation, design and implementation of secure virtualized environments using.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in AWS cloud application solutions by implementing complex, large-scale, cost saving platform solutions in a challenging/cutting edge area of technology.Key Achievements:
• Spearheaded the creation and implementation of new cloud infrastructure solutions and standards for the large scale Blockchain application saving upwards of $500k a year.
• Effectively enhanced the integration and implementation of deployment automation through the connectivity through AI bot integration.

Raleigh, NC, US

• Architected and delivered modern distributed applications with focus on Cloud Technologies, automation, design and implementation of secure virtualized environments using agile methodologies.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in container platforms and cloud application solutions by implementing complex, large-scale container platform solutions in challenging customer environments.
• Architected and implemented the push button automation of a 10k core cluster for use within multi-cloud platforms AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure.
• Formulated strategic plans for component development with Azure Kubernetes Service for Network virtualization and Docker image client-less remote gateway.
• Implemented automation and containerized cloud application platform solutions for large enterprise financial institutions; focusing on infrastructure concerns including networking, storage, virtualization, security.

San Francisco, California, US

• Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Wells Fargo Banking services.
• Solve problems relating to Wells Fargo systems and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
• Influence and create new designs, software, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Troubleshoot and mitigate the thorniest problems in our most mission-critical systems. Advise the team during postmortems on effectively avoiding repeated incidents.
• Develop end to end automation and deployment utilizes using Ruby, Bash, Powershell and Python.

Charlotte, NC, US

• Responsible for all activities related to the company’s development and deployment of all platforms and technologies.
• Successfully jump-started, configured, migrated and deployed the new system infrastructure utilizing Amazon Web Services.
• Focused heavily on architecting the development of applications including but not limited to test driven development, MVC Architecture and domain driven design.
• Achieved a successful implementation of Continuous Integration utilizing Docker container management, Jenkins/TeamCity CI tools and Amazon Elastic Container Service.
• Executed a cloud implemented proof of concept solution utilizing Amazon Web Services, then developed an auto-scaling high-available solution for entire company’s system infrastructure.
• Managed, supported and grew a broad team of 15 talented mobile, web and backend developers in delivering mobile applications from the ground up.

Detroit, MI, US

• Apart of Technical User Experience team is responsible for the User interface development for all Ally websites for mobile, tablet and desktop.
• Develops in HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript and the Ember.js framework. Utilizing multiple JavaScript libraries and open source technologies
• Assists in development as well as supporting the already existing User Interfaces on mobile, tablet and desktop.
• Works with team to develop faster more efficient web pages increases
• Assure code and user interfaces are thoroughly tested and coded to the best standards

Redmond, Washington, US

• Subject Matter Expert in SharePoint, Microsoft’s leading social content management system and collaborative data discovery platform.
• Assist in configuration and adaptation of SharePoint for numerous Fortune 500 companies
• Web Application and server architect for environments supporting tens of thousands of users.
• Proactive Assessment of possible issues encompassing: server farm performance; disaster recovery and availability; and infrastructure capacity.
• Infrastructure Planning and Performance Optimization for companies setting up SharePoint Environments and who are experiencing performance hits.
• Review and assist in the implementation of Custom Solutions within SharePoint incorporating custom features and web parts into the customer’s environment.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Subject Matter Expert in SharePoint, Microsoft’s leading social content management system and collaborative data discovery platform.
• Assist in configuration and adaptation of SharePoint for numerous Fortune 500 companies
• Web Application and server architect for environments supporting tens of thousands of users.
• Proactive Assessment of possible issues encompassing: server farm performance; disaster recovery and availability; and infrastructure capacity.
• Infrastructure Planning and Performance Optimization for companies setting up SharePoint Environments and who are experiencing performance hits.
• Review and assist in the implementation of Custom Solutions within SharePoint incorporating custom features and web parts into the customer’s environment.