Empowering agile business delivery through devops best practices, tools, and platforms. I lead a team of platform engineers specializing in bridging the gaps between application development, application delivery, information security, systems engineering, and platform operations. We not only keep the lights on, but we also improve processes, build devops relationships, and empower business units to make smart technology decisions. My team challenges the status quo to prevent long term technical debt from accumulating while minimizing the friction of new business initiatives. We strive to design and deliver robust, secure middleware platforms that adhere to industry standards and best practices. We interface with all aspects of the business and are the last stop for any technical, security, or process incidents.

Convert all manual configuration, upgrade, and build processes to Ansible, GIT, Bitbucket, Maven automation platform. Managed the middleware infrastructure on boarding of Mule ESB, AMQ, and Jahia as part of our application design overhaul; code named Darwin.Designed and coded an SSL certificate expiration management component into my existing COMISTA system.Upgrading, tuning and slimming the JBoss EAP infrastructure from 5.0.1 to 5.1.0; from 5.x to 6.x; and now onto 7.xMigrations from WebSphere to RedHat products. Simplifying and consolidating Apache HTTPD infrastructure into a single web farm for multiple web applications. Implemented an automated, web based, and LDAP integrated tool for deploying code and other simple management tasks. Branded Comista. Created a dynamic network search utility, integrating all DNS zone dumps, host information, and load balancer data.Lead the redesign of enterprise monitoring infrastructure, policies, governance, and industry best practices utilizing multiple vendors including CA, Splunk, and SoftwareAG to name a few.

- Work with architects and developers to build out application and web tier servers.- Standardize application system infrastructure and provide best practices in securing and tuning various application servers including Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, WebMethods, and Apache HTTP.- Standardize web tier system infrastructure. Improve analytical data, security standards, visibility, and throughput for all support infrastructures in production operations organization.- Provide on call support and escalation for Java based applications and infrastructure.

- Act as escalation and mentor to enterprise system administrators.- Standardize application system infrastructure and provide best practices in securing and tuning various application servers including Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, WebMethods, and WebSphere.- Act as J2EE subject matter expert- Standardize web tier system infrastructure. Improve analytical data, security standards, visibility, and throughput for corporate web farm.- Be available to handle any UNIX/LINUX administrative tasks such as server builds, user management, hardware configurations, disk layouts, troubleshooting, etc.- Oncall support for UNIX team on a rotational basis.

- Facilitate changes for network setup as it relates to technology projects including FW rules and CSM/CSS/F5 configurations for new or existing applications.- Middleware and Appliance (CI, Google, Proxies) application management including builds and documentation.All configuration change requests and daily operations support.Manage, schedule, and implement upgrades and patches.Maintain vendor relations.- Apache and IIS server builds and configurations. Develop and document implementation and configuration standards.- WebLogic and Jboss application server builds and configurations. Develop implementation standards.

Manage technical staff to achieve support and automation initiatives. Lead the development and implementation of project plans and schedules for IT software development initiatives for the technical unit. This includes development of work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans and status reports. Duties also include: - Ensuring technical project development life cycle is being followed and required deliverables are being completed, reviewed and signed- off on by appropriate stake holders. - Resolving project issues and resource allocation conflicts to expedite timely completion of projects within budget. - Prepare and report accurate project status to business unit and technology management. - Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables to ensure project goals are accomplished and in-line with business objectives. - Manage change and ongoing operations for divisional applications such as external web support sites, internal knowledge sites, voice biometric authentication for customers, and CMS message systems- Co-ordinate onsite vendors demos and lunch and learn sessions - Program manager for new internal and external support applications.

Organize, coordinate, and manage a wide variety of project management duties and to serve as an escalation point for application, system, data and general technical issues. - Attend impromptu and weekly scheduled meetings and/or conference calls - Review business requirements- Interact/communicate with Business and Technology units in preparation for rewrites, releases, rollouts, etc