- Spearheaded the integration of DevSecOps practices within the enterprise product development lifecycle at US OPM.- Led cross-functional teams in the implementation of security-focused DevOps processes, fostering collaboration between development, operations, and security teams across the enterprise.- Defined and prioritized product backlogs, incorporating security requirements and ensuring continuous improvement through iterative development cycles at the enterprise level.- Collaborated with stakeholders to define enterprise product vision, roadmap, and release plans, balancing business needs with security considerations.- Facilitated knowledge sharing and training sessions to promote a culture of security awareness and continuous learning within the enterprise.- Orchestrated the adoption of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology across enterprise teams and departments within US OPM, driving organizational agility and alignment.- Led the migration efforts of critical federal systems, a $90m profile, to Microsoft Azure.- Developed comprehensive migration strategies, encompassing assessment, planning, execution, and post-migration optimization phases, while ensuring compliance with federal regulations and security standards at an enterprise scale.- Collaborated with enterprise stakeholders to define migration priorities, resource requirements, and timelines, balancing technical feasibility with business objectives.- Implemented automated migration workflows and tools to streamline the migration process, minimize downtime, and reduce manual intervention at the enterprise level.- Provided guidance and support to cross-functional enterprise teams, including infrastructure engineers, developers, and security professionals, to ensure successful migration outcomes and ongoing operational excellence in the cloud enterprise environment.- +more

I am responsible for production aspects of select HHS website projects including:- Medicare Authenticated Experience (MAX)- OC Internet Services (iServ)- Security Control Orchestration, Utilities and Tooling (SCOUT)- Beneficiary Experience Data Analytics Portal (BEDAP)- CMS.gov. For the systems that I support, I serve as a dynamic and collaborative leader in developing new, and maintaining existing, software systems in an agile environment. I provide full software development lifecycle as well as operations & maintenance expertise for a variety of applications supporting a complex case management process that supports many thousands of users in a highly visible public-facing set of applications. Provide program and project management, scrum master support, business requirements analysis, solutions architecture, software engineering, release management, application support, security management, testing services, configuration management, change management, COTS/GOTS support and the development of new solutions as needed. I support the agency in all Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) and Development/Security/Operations (DevSecOps) methodologies, practices, and processes.This position involves management of multiple tasks across a wide variety of individuals internal and external to the Agency. Analytical skills are required for problem solving, in addition to excellent communication skills to coordinate among users and contractors to define and resolve problems quickly and completely. The work consists of:- monitoring projects and assignments that require me to review unresolved issues- synthesize and simplify complicated information- define, describe and compare alternatives & summarize study results- selecting the most appropriate course of action & making recommendations - The work involves numerous interrelationships and is complicated by conflicting program goals and initiatives and/or changes in legislative, policy, and regulatory guidelines.

I was a Senior Systems Administrator for the USAJOBS 3.0 project with two other systems administrators. I am a part of the Security and Compliance Team, Disaster Recovery Team, Octopus Deployment Team, Akamai Team, On-Call rotation, and Systems Center 2012 R2 Team for USAJOBS. As a systems administrator for USAJOBS I was responsible for the day to day operations and 24x7 support for USAJOBS. I was responsible for the virtual and physical environments that USAJOBS environments run on. I built virtual machines in VMware, server build configurations, server role (Web server, FTP server, Mail server, etc.) and feature configurations (MSMQ, Application Server, etc.) and documentation. I worked with my systems administrator team in server patching utilizing System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 and USAJOBS application deployments utilizing Octopus Deploy.

I assist in the design, development and implementation of USAJOBS 3.0 developed in VB.NET 4.0 using SQL Server 2008 r2. I work with vendors(other agencies) through Footprints ticketing system during the UAT testing phase prior to go live in October. I assist in testing, stress testing and load testing of the application as well as 508 compliance testing. I work with a team of developers utilizing TFS 2010 in an agile environment developing in Visual studio 2010 Ultimate. I work between the development and data migration team assisting in both server configuration, application configuration, development, brainstorming sessions, and idea generation following best practices.I work with our security team on FISMA compliance of the software and hardware used for USAJOBS 3.0 and assist in discussions and meetings around some of the decisions in correcting any findings they have.I am a member of the deployment team which requires constant communication with team members, attention to detail, collaboration to resolve problems, and problem solving skills to assist in the long term deployment goals and plans. As a member of this team I also work with members of the SCB team on setting up hardware to run USAJOBS on, and assist in setting up other environments including documentation of the environment implementation and configuration.I have also implemented Windows Server AppFabric caching, MSSQL Change Data Capture (in collaboration with DBA's for auditing in compliance with federal standards) and MVC 3.0 into USAJOBS 3.0.I assist in performance monitoring, application tuning, and software troubleshooting based on results provided by Microsoft System Center AVICode, a .Net application performance monitoring application.

January 2008 ­ November 2009 I developed in C # 2005 and T-SQL with a SQL backend. IP Communications is a VoIP company providing a product range includes Local Origination Services, international local numbers (DDI), domestic/international Toll-Free Service, area based IP T1 (PRI) replacement service, VoIP termination and IP private line services. IP Communications is one of the largest local origination service providers in the world. I ensured that customers could use the Account Management System (AMI) to view and work with their account(s) on-line. I developed and maintained the on-line ordering system and administration portal. IP Communications business management system had been written in Access when the company started 8 years ago. Since then the company out grew Access and I assisted in migrating it to SQL with a web-based interface. I maintained two systems simultaneously while working at IP Communications.My responsibilities included but were not limited to

I held a position at South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta, GA. I worked on the applications team and was responsible for various hospital systems. My main system was the ongoing development of the SQL driven intranet site. The SGMC intranet site was built from the ground up in 04’ and contains roughly 1.5 million lines of code, & just fewer than 50k in documents. I have also just created the online patient pre-registration system, which is SQL driven with daily downloads from our AS/400 that is parsed into tables, for the hospital which just went live and can be viewed at www.sgmc.org.Aside from programming I was also the systems administrator for our API system, Time and Attendance system, payroll, proximity doors, education tracker, active staffer, Premise Bed System, OR scheduling system, Business Objects, Document Imaging and Scanning for our hospital records system, & Google Search Appliance.I was also the lead developer over many different levels and types of junior programmers ensuring that their code conforms to standards of the organization. I was responsible for the help and support, as well as training, of a few intermediate programmers who were writing different apps for given departments in the hospital. I mentored, tutored, and assisted in the development.SQL Server 2000 & 2005, Access:Maintained over 30 SQL databasesOver 100 Access databasesGoogle Search Appliance:SetupConfigurationMultiple Front-ends & CollectionsDesign User Interface and Enterprise search proto-type using Google appliances for searching MRO Materials - Freeform search, Taxonomy search and search based on attributesBuilt Taxonomies from Unstructured data using Google ApplianceSome notable web systems:IS Assets TrackerPatient Pre-Registration http://prereg.sgmc.orgEach Department in the hospital has a sitePolicies and Procedures systemPhone DirectoryOBQS Flash StatsGI-Lab Flash Stats

I worked as a Programmer/Analyst I for Georgia Farm Bureau in Macon, Ga. My responsibilities included working with a staff of 8 other programmers creating the applications generator that the agents in each county would use to submit prospective applicants into the mainframe through ASP and DLL’s. We used Visual InterDev, VB 6 and Visual SourceSafe as our development environment moving to .NET as I was leaving the company to move home.Worked with Crystal Reports, ASP, VBScript & Java in the client/server environment relaying data through com objects into SQL.As a Programmer/Analyst I, I was also responsible for mentoring and tutoring the Programmer/Analyst positions, as well as the Programmer/Analyst I intern positions to help advance their knowledge and ensure compliance with other programmers.