My day-to-day is mostly taken up with improving our partner integrations and making sure prospects flow smoothly through our insurance exchange. It's some sprint planning, some project management, a lot of interacting with our account team and the partners they support. Occasionally I even get to write some code!It's pretty cool here. If you're into Ruby, Agile development, infrastructure programming on AWS, or revolutionizing how small businesses get insurance, we should talk!

Codifying IT infrastructure using the API-centric nature of the cloud means quickly getting environments in the hands of your developers and new features in the hands of your customers.AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.My job is to make sure AWS CloudFormation is the best possible tool for developers to define and manage their AWS infrastructure as code.

In this role I help large enterprises to migrate critical workloads to Amazon's public cloud and to integrate Amazon's web services with their existing on-premises systems.My primary goal is to champion repeatable, secure deployment of infrastructure, application stacks and code through the use of automation, orchestration, configuration management and the application of DevOps best practices at enterprise scale.

Independent pop/rock duo self-publishing original music and web comics. Featuring Chuck Meyer on bass guitar and Dana Young on vocals.

Managed a team of ten technical resources focused on web application/web service access control and security. The team consisted of access management (SiteMinder), PKI, LDAP and User Provisioning (Sun Identity Manager) subject matter experts and engineers. Duties included assisting hosted applications on meeting security needs, responding to audit findings, and troubleshooting day-to-day operational challenges. Specific management tasks included hiring, employee reviews, and workload redistribution.

Served as Subject Matter expert to provide guidance and support for the access management layer of a classified Government E-commerce Infrastructure.

Served as an independent security contractor on a long term engagement serving as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the security architecture of a classified government infrastructure.

Maintain an existing access control infrastructure for an on-going government contract with the Treasury/Federal Reserve. Provide architectural input to modernize and maintain compliance with all government security standards.

Hidden People was a band performing original music based out of Brooklyn, NY. Line up included Otto Van Horn on drums, Dana Young on vocals and Chuck Meyer on bass.http://www.hiddenpeople.net

I spent a majority of this time as an onsite resource at Metlife assisting with support of their existing security infrastructure and initial rollout of their next generation infrastructure.

Provided on-site technical support migrating to SiteMinder 6.0 and TransactionMinder and while maintaining the current security infrastructure. Position was via CA's premier services program.Guided customer toward appropriate solutions for future environments.Served as a liaison for customer to other technical resources within CA

Butterknife is a band playing original music in the Boston area. Original line-up was drums, bass, guitar, and keyboards. They are still active in Boston.

Provided first and second tier support via phone and web for all Netegrity products.Created technical white papers and training documents for internal and external use.Assisted other engineers troubleshooting issues focused on product APIs and Apache Agents.

Supported and maintained custom code solutions developed for Netegrity customers both in-house and on-site.Maintained internal development infrastructure and tools.

Developed Internet/Intranet applications for use at Scripps properties.Designed and implemented Linux-based print-to-online ad servers for newspaper sites.Researched and designed online obituary application.

Coordinated design and creation of an online order form and transaction management system from domain name registration for Domain-It's UK site (www.domainit.co.uk).Managed Domain-It! Web Development department. Launched two high traffic commercial sites.

Migrated all users from AS400 terminals to a Windows 3.1/Novell based LAN. Provided support for network infrastructure, servers, desktops, and network hardware.