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• Founder, owner, operator of DevOps Gorilla LLC offering DevOps engineering and consulting services• Services include setting up CI/CD, Monitoring and Logging systems, and Cloud-based deployments (AWS or GCP)• AWS Certified• Google Cloud Certified

Supervised IT and Product Development Operations to support over 250 employees across 3 geographic locations• Supervised the DevOps team’s rebuild to a Continuous Delivery system that increased production releases up to 40x a week• Managed budget and security policy for three AWS accounts• Reduced annual AWS spend by 15%• Consulted cross-functional groups on Technology Operations solutions• Supervised Desktop Support, Storage Networks, User Directories, Network Systems, and Digital Asset Management – mission critical systemsfor the entire company• Managed vendors supporting critical systems such as Storage, Networking, Content Distribution, IT services, and Data Warehousing• Designed governance & policy standards for Change Management, Security, Internal SLAs, Event Management, Release Management, Documentation,and Incident Response• Designed the on-call policy for the DevOps, IT, Frontend, and Platform teams to drive year-round 24/7 support of all critical back office andcustomer facing services• Led our Site Reliability Engineering group – a cross-functional team focused on reliability, business continuity, and disaster recovery

• Technical Lead for over a dozen web applications• Worked closely with customers, sales, and project management to develop requirements, milestones, and project plans• Standardized workflows, request management, change management, and incident response using cutting edge technologies• Co-developed a Project Management web application for tracking billable time and managing incidents, bugs, and feature requests

• Organized a group of graduate students to develop an online, encrypted diary used in research projects• Gathered requirements from stakeholders, tracked progress, organized presentations of the end product for approval• Developed a hand-off and maintenance plan for the research team

I performed research into VLSI design using Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools. Designed, simulated, tested, and synthesized an IEEE-754 compatible Floating Point Processing Unit for use with a 32-bit MIPS pipelined architecture. Concluded work in Fall '09 with a comprehensive report detailing the design plan and results