Cathy Braun Email & Phone Number

Centennial, Co, Us

Team Lead for DevOps CICD- Lead effort to modernize traditional IT infrastructure to AWS Cloud services and technologies.- Lead effort and vision for Infrastructure as Code (IAC) with Terraform and CloudFormation.- Adopted and implemented Ansible for Configuration as Code (CAC).- Introduced and drove the vision for high availability, resilient platform engineering projects in AWS Gov Cloud.- Worked closely with cloud security team to ensure zero-trust best practices for Fed and Gov Cloud based services.- Ensured deployed services were airgapped for Gov Cloud compliance.- Ensured AWS permissions boundaries adhered to least-privilege principle.-- Core Features:---- Autoscaling for minimum instance failure recovery with EC2s.---- Blue/Green and Canary deployment for zero downtime updates.---- ECS/Fargate for scalable on-demand build time runners.- Modernized CICD at ULA using GitLab, replacing legacy pipelining tools.- Lead efforts for containerization modernization strategies using Docker, ECS, and Fargate.- Lead efforts to modernize build engineering with elastic and scalable EC2s.- Lead efforts to modernize next-gen rocket simulations for fast, high-performance delivery.- Lead efforts to convert development from bare metal hardware to AWS EC2 and container services.- Provided mentoring, upskilling, guidance, and training to first time users in the AWS Cloud.- Trained the ULA DevOps CICD team to develop in IAC with Terraform and CAC with Ansible.- Introduced Lunch n Learns so that the members of the team could share their knowledge as they were upskilling.- Worked collaboratively with other ULA teams to use scalable development environments, replacing aging hardware.- Developed strategies and roadmaps for modernization, building collation support with other programs and teams.- Adopted SAFe agile development from the ground up to improve project planning, development cadence, and meet team goals.- Kicked off DevSecOps Community of Practice

Fort Collins, Co, Us

- Lead effort to develop a Technical Review process focused on release reliability.- Implementing kubernetes infrastructure relays in Docker, helm and Minikube for LaunchDarkly.- Creating code standards for feature flagging in development teams utilizing LaunchDarkly.- Implementing DataDog CI Visibility metrics.- Utilizing Terraform for access controlled delivery of infrastructure and GitHub CI deployments.- Created organizational quality initiatives based on DORA metrics.- Implementing and driving organization SonarCloud goals.

Denver, Colorado, Us

- DevOps lead for Microsoft Azure based applications:-- Digital aviation charts delivered to pilots using a Jeppesen mobile application.-- Map and terrain application using ArcGIS software.-- UAV navigation API.- Coordinated objectives as team lead for globally partnered projects in Vietnam and Poland.- Architected and implemented the CI/CD design for a build and deploy pipeline in Jenkins, GitLab Runner, and Artifactory.- Utilized Microsoft Azure DevOps for infrastructure as code CI/CD pipelines with ARM templates repositories provisioned with chef.- Directed and mentored the team on DevOps best practices, including blue/green deployments and infrastructure as code.- Mentored other teams within Jeppesen and Boeing to implement CI/CD pipelines.- Built DevSecOps into the deployment model implementation.- Implementation of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions.- Worked closely with cloud architects on scalable solutions.- Received multiple Boeing awards for leadership and innovative solutions with CI/CD and software automation.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Member of the Digital Aviation team at Jeppesen, creators of the next generation of aviation charts and documents delivered to the iPad and Surface tablets.- Assisted with the conversion of a mission critical Jeppesen product from an on-premises application to the AWS cloud. This was the first successful application in the cloud for Boeing and Jeppesen.- Designed and developed the cloud solution for Selenium Grid in AWS.- Implemented the AWS continuous integration solution for Selenium test automation execution with Jenkins. My work was the first within Jeppesen to include UI testing in the development build pipelines. This would be the foundation for CI/CD pipelines in the future.- Architect of a Selenium functional UI test automation framework developed in Java, TestNG, and object oriented design. Metadata elements were abstracted into application agnostic XML structure for maximum portability.

Arlington, Va, Us

- Member of the Maintenance Performance Toolbox application team for digital delivery of Boeing airline maintenance manuals, serving all aircraft from the 717 to the 787.- Architect of the software automation framework structure written in Ruby/Watir. Developed and implemented using agile principles, object oriented design, and test driven development.- Employed virtualization with VMWare to manage testing the current and in-development software versions. This virtualization methodology was a precursor to cloud devops principles and technologies.- Trained the test team to convert manual tests to automated tests.

Seattle, Washington, Us

- Developed automation tools in Perl and Ruby/Watir framework to improve quality processes.- Tested web applications for cross platform compatibility, security, efficiency, user friendliness, and search engine optimization goals.- Created quality assurance processes and implemented configuration management branching techniques for Portent Interactive’s internet marketing team.- Managed test schedules and test cases for Portent’s numerous and varied clients achieving Search Engine Marketing goals.- Facilitated positive and constructive relations between the QA and development teams.

- Member of the Midrange System Administration team managing mission critical, high availability SUN Solaris and IBM RS6000 servers on the Worldcom account.- Wrote perl scripts that interfaced with the BMC Patrol system monitoring suite to alert system administrators on critical errors- Refactored existing perl scripts for improved performance, reliability and readability- Wrote technical documents outlining procedures for alarms on the BMC Patrol Console

Golden, Co, Us

- Performed availability and security analysis on SGI IRIX systems- Managed tape backup and restoration procedures- Managed user policies and software installation for IRIX and Windows NT systems

- Developed prototype relational database and interface for an experimental project to standardize pawn shop transaction data submitted to the Lakewood Police Department- Presented demonstration to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation for additional funding support to continue the project.- Wrote technical specification documents describing the data schema for future development and project continuation.

Education record

Software Test Automation Certification In C#

Mathematics/Computer Science

Computer Science