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Montgomery, AL, US

Montgomery, Alabama, US

Montgomery, Alabama, US

• Lead a team of engineers that assisted with migrating many applications from an On-Premise datacenter to Cloud One’s AWS GovCloud enclave
• Lead a team of engineers that stood up the COTS product Appian, a no-code/low-code platform, deployed on AWS EKS across several zones (Lab, Dev, Test and Prod)
• Designed and architected several secure, cost-effective, maintainable solutions such as pre-hardened Bastions for developers to leverage in the Cloud
• Developed and maintained Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using cloud-agnostic and cloud-native tooling such as Terraform, Packer, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation and Unix Shell Scripting
• Acquired experience working with several AWS Services in depth, including AWS EC2, S3, RDS, OpenSearch, Lambda, Directory Services, and many more
• Configured numerous scanning technologies to scan code and infrastructure throughout various systems (i.e. OpenSCAP, AWS Inspector, ACAS, JFrog XRay, SonarQube, CheckMarx, Fortify, Kube-bench)

• Responsible for identifying and remediating security findings in over a dozen Air Force applications hosted in AWS' and Azure’s U.S. Government Cloud One cloud enclave
• Each application includes hundreds, if not thousands, of virtual machines and resources
• Developed and executed AWS/Azure Security Assessment findings with automation tools such as Ansible, Unix Shell Scripting, PowerShell and AWS/Azure CLIs
• Developed Infrastructure as Code solutions to accommodate customer’s needs
• Provided advice and code examples on Security posture and development & operational improvements
• Responsible for deployments, monitoring and other operational tasks

• Participated in successful Cloud Migration efforts of DOD Air Force applications with various classification levels
• Application and database migration from on-premise to AWS' and Azure’s U.S. Government cloud platforms using Platform as a Services (PaaS) technologies
• Responsible for Automation scripting using the Ansible Framework, Unix Shell Scripting, PowerShell Scripting, AWS CloudFormation and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates
• Designed solutions to provision Cloud Resources and maintain Cloud Environments for Air Force Mission Applications
• Architected high availability, failover and backup & restore solutions
• Responsible for hardening server and application level resources (STIGs)

• Demonstrated Serverless technology using AWS' services Lambda, API Gateway, Dynamo DB, S3 Static Web Hosting, CloudFront and Route 53
• Architected and built a Mobile application from the ground up (www.visreg.com)
• Built and maintained several static websites using modern Web Development and Configuration Management techniques
• Participated in several hackathons hosted in the Montgomery, AL area

Houston, Texas, US

• A part of Alabama’s Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) team
• Responsible for reprocessing thousands of medical claims
• Played a major role in the Regional Care Organization (RCO) project construction and implementation
• Responsible for extensive unit testing and thorough documentation
• Responsible for peer reviewing other's unit testing
• Reliable to handle any tasks or issues that occur at any time, day or night

Montreal, Quebec, CA

• A part of the Development team for Computer Assisted Collections Software (CACS)
• Developed VBA code to export data from Excel Spreadsheet to XML files
• Wrote Windows Batch and UNIX Shell scripts
• Created SQL scripts to spool data to CSV files
• Enhanced and revised Java code
• Modified COBOL scripts

St Louis, Missouri, US

• Raised product awareness to customers
• Cooked many types of food, including frozen food and raw meats
• Presented and displayed samples in a fashionable manor

Atlanta, GA, US

• Loaded 1500 to 2000 packages per night
• Responsible for safe handling of hazardous packages