Founder and bootstrapper of cloud and AI startup and lead solutions architect of engineering team.In 2023-2024 we created three SaaS products and discovered three ways to not build a solution!

Volunteer mentor in an informal learning group for those with little or no prior experience in technology who want to learn and apply it to their current career and/or shift into technology & orienting the learners on a self-propelled path to success.

Developed and taught IaC workflows with MLOps Platform/Inference team, which:- Enabled successful deployment of an at-risk, yearlong rewrite of core application- Realized substantial savings in monthly AWS spend (estimated $1MM+ annually)Completely revamped infrastructure:- Implemented Terraform and Terragrunt from scratch for most companywide critical infrastructure- Revamped CI/CD workflows with Jenkins - Upgraded and redeployed Kubernetes/EKS ML inference infrastructureDeployed Airflow for platform team using Helm and TerraformImplemented and tested Disaster Recovery protocol and documentation for critical infrastructure

Lead in completion of two AWS competencies in two months which resulted in an AWS Rising Star award- Migration- SaaSCreated two internal AWS deployment SaaS products- SIEM dashboards for AWS infrastructure- AWS Control TowerConsultant in architecting (junior) and engineering (mid) of AWS cloud infrastructure- IaC (Terraform, Cloudformation)- GitHub Actions- AWS-native CI/CD- Atlantis (CI/CD for Terraform)- Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL- Performed migration of live infrastructure and databases to AWSPassionate about teaching new employees + helped them achieve AWS certifications

Google Cloud Engineering Support Specialist-Adept at Google Cloud case troubleshooting for high-profile clients-Quickly learned numerous extensive systems to become proficient -Assessed production outage cases thoroughly and swiftly to escalate to engineering-Contractor/TVC at Google

Bought and managed several vacation rental properties. Managed three teams of employees. Ensured guest satisfaction. I built a profitable business from scratch in 8 months!

Freelancer building websites, helping customers with IT solutions, analytics, and IT Security.

12 month contract to open a new analyst position on the product management team. I used Adobe Analytics and Qualtrics (surveys) to analyze user behavior and improve products. I frequently worked with the development and design teams. I was able to save $300,000+ in development costs by finding open source software to implement. I also provided tier 3 tech support for customers.

Developed new roles on a small IT team for a startup medical device company. I wrote documentation, provided tech support, did system administration, tracked bugs and helped manage the web development team.