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Atlanta, Ga, Us

Santa Rosa, California, Us

Operations Manager for the Keysight Labs DevOps team. I have a heavy focus on R&D development and support around Continuous Integration tools and processes for desktop application and cloud development teams.Our core application stack is built around Artifactory, Bitbucket and Jenkins with dozens of integrations for software quality in our pipelines and solutions. Our automation relies heavily on Ansible, Terraform, Vault, VMware and AWS for both on-premise and public cloud operations.

Santa Rosa, California, Us

Amsterdam, Nl

• Design, development, and support of automated build and release processes• Manage builds, deployment and coordination of various releases across multiple cloud environments• Administer source code repositories (Github, Stash, Bitbucket)• Work closely with Development, QA, Product Management, and Production teams to make sure that product releases and upgrades happen on-time and with quality• Support cloud based products• Stay abreast and advise on latest in build technologies like Jenkins, Building in the Cloud and Git• Provide design and implementation guidance and tutoring as necessary to team members in best practices, tool use and quality assurance• Develop build scripts and tools for builds, using most appropriate languages and technologies• Integrate automated builds and build artifacts into test environments, unit test harnesses and code analysis tools• Identify and implement innovative solutions for present and future customer needs; this includes forecasting needs and delivering requirements for customer interactions, internal as well as external• Develop high quality designs and code with respect to testability, internationalization, scalability, performance, security and fault tolerance• Manage build machines, servers and build environments and applying security concepts and processes for build systems

Austin, Tx, Us

• Drupal technical lead focused on Drupal application performance, development best practices, hosting infrastructure management and performance tuning for the Kony web properties.• Provide infrastructure direction for the various Kony web properties.• Ensure best practices are leveraged and maintained for infrastructure across the web properties.• Conduct builds and release across multiple environments using GitHub, AWS, Jenkins and custom CI tools.• Work with the development team to maintain build and release automation.• Determine workload across all the web properties to ensure they can meet the performance demands of each site. Leverage Amazon Web Services to meet those requirements.• Work with the Product Owners and development team to implement architectural, infrastructure or process changes.• Own the infrastructure implementation of the properties.• Assist in implementations of high impact events that may generate large amounts of site traffic.

New York, Ny, Us

Specialized in Drupal, PHP, MySQL application development.Specialized in Linux system administration.Build and maintain internal and client hosting systems.Draft configuration diagrams for large scale customer projects.Provide Drupal development and analysis on enterprise projects.Perform security audits.Devise and oversee deployment processes for code release and change management.Draft technical specifications for applications and systems.Create and maintain performance optimization checklists.Create and maintain a definitive software library.Devise strategies and best-practice approaches to building and maintaining internal and client systems.Mentor junior team members on development best practices.Contribute in an ongoing basis to the Drupal community.

PHP/MySQL developer with a focus in event management, social networking and art culture projects. Created several custom applications specific to event management.Notable clients included:The Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America.Winston Cup Racing Wives Auxiliary.University of Georgia.ConTour Magazine.Athens Regional Medical Center.DragonCon.GA Communications.Laser Tech Color.

Operations Manager for large event venue and located in midtown Atlanta catering to music and trade events. Performed duties of a general manager as well as on site events manager for most clients. This included sales and marketing, staffing, fixture rental/procurement, client services and general day to day operations of two locations. Note: While this seems to fall outside my trade I've been involved with organizing classes, indoor events, outdoor festivals and trade shows ranging from 20 - 5000 attendees since 1998. When asked to participate in the creation of this venue it was a natural opportunity for me.