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Lehi, UT, US

Austin, Texas, US

• Contributed to the Golden Gate service in Oracle Cloud as a member of the Devops Team
• Given ownership of all new OCI region buildouts for the Golden Gate service during a period of rapid expansion and growth
• Moved new region provisioning from highly manual process toward a fully automated system using an iterative process to identify and eliminate manual components
• Participated in all call rotation

Lehi, UT, US

• Consulted on all DevOps related projects across the entire company, providing key feedback and guidance on direction of all DevOps efforts
• Championed automation for all tools across the organization and pushed for complete removal of all manual processes in favor of self-service tooling platforms, reducing human error and increasing speed of common.
• Rearchitected company wide code build platform from static legacy Jenkins pattern to highly scalable Server/Worker Jenkins model leveraging EFS backend for resiliency reducing potential downtime from 24 hours to 5.
• Prototyped unified deployment pipeline architecture supporting Windows and Linux containerized platforms using hosted and serverless infrastructure on Harness NextGen, decreasing costs and effort required to maintain.
• Retooled existing internal Machine Image (AMI) creation process, evolving it from a custom in-house solution to a fully automated Cloud Native EC2 Image Builder implementation with integrated testing and validation.
• Transitioned all existing Windows workloads to new Windows containerized platform, including several key high-traffic services with zero downtime and seamless transitions. Resulted in decreased costs, improved recover.

Lehi, UT, US

• Advocated DevOps principles as standard practice across organization
• Created new Windows infrastructure model combining existing legacy Windows automation, docker containers, and AWS ECS platform to provide a scalable, resilient, and highly fault-tolerant platform for aging Windows.
• Executed transition to container implementation for Windows based services without re-writing.Net Framework code, providing a seamless transition for customers and developers without any operational downtime during.
• Standardized CI/CD workflows across Windows and Linux implementations based on ECS container strategies and Harness First Gen Workflow engine
• Spear-headed AWS multi-region implementation project
• Served as subject matter expert on AWS infrastructure

Jacksonville, FL, US

• Tasked with transforming the Bluehost organization using DevOps principles
• Lead project to construct a standardized CI/CD workflow
• Designed a custom platform and toolset to simplify DevOps migration
• Collaborated with a wide variety of disciplines within Bluehost to ensure project success

Seattle, WA, US

• Provided a direct point of contact to the customer for all Enterprise Support entitlements.
• Advocated for the customer within AWS to meet and exceed their business needs.
• Fostered collaboration at all levels of interaction with the customer.
• Partnered with customers to meet their business needs and help them achieve their objectives.
• Executed immersion days, deep dive sessions, and architecture discussions to help the customerimprove their understanding of cloud services and optimize performance.
• Facilitated formation of Cloud Centers of Excellence within customer’s organizations toimprove internal sharing of cloud expertise.

Lehi, UT, US

• Focused on providing the highest level of platform reliability and resilience, and pivoting to a completely cloud native infrastructure implementation.
• Tasked with decentralizing DevOps tools and enabling complete developer ownership ofservices.
• Simplified internal certificate process reducing turnaround time on request from weeks tominutes.
• Designed and executed Amazon AWS cloud migration for commerce department, includingzero down time, multi datacenter straddling and full scalability.
• Provided the most stable and reliable commerce platform to date, painlessly handling recordlevel Cyber Monday traffic without incident.
• Redesigned and refactored existing automation system to function flawlessly in any cloudsolution, creating a nearly painless path for a companywide lift and shift migration to AmazonAWS.

Lehi, UT, US

• Tasked with decentralizing DevOps tools and enabling complete developer ownership ofservices.
• Simplified internal certificate process reducing turnaround time on request from weeks tominutes.
• Designed and executed Amazon AWS cloud migration for commerce department, includingzero down time, multi datacenter straddling and full scalability.
• Provided the most stable and reliable commerce platform to date, painlessly handling recordlevel Cyber Monday traffic without incident.
• Redesigned and refactored existing automation system to function flawlessly in any cloudsolution, creating a nearly painless path for a companywide lift and shift migration to AmazonAWS.
• Implemented cloud-based resiliency, providing zero downtime solutions for services thatpreviously would have taken hours or days to restore functionality.

Lehi, UT, US

Tasked with decentralizing DevOps tool sets, migrating functionality to the cloud, and enabling Developers to fully own their services.

Hollywood, MD, US

• Founding Member of the DevOps Automation group.
• Tasked with defining and implementing internal DevOps policies, automation techniques, continuous deliver methodologies in a flexible format for use on client projects.
• Transitioned existing cloud infrastructure use from a mostly manual process to an automated, repeatable process greatly reducing required time and user introduced errors.
• Consulted with clients to determine requirements and project scope.
• Provided clients with custom designed cloud architecture based on desired results.
• Worked directly with clients to ensure requirements were being met in a timely manner.

Lehi, UT, US

• Founding member of the DevOps group.
• Consistently the most highly requested member of the DevOps group.
• Tasked with implementing continuous delivery methodologies through the use of automation and self-service tools.
• Expanded virtualization environment from a small niche of the company infrastructure to the primary service delivery mechanism.
• Provided seamless automated migration between disparate hypervisor platforms without service disruption or outside intervention.
• Automated development and operations functionality into an end to end solution allowing for extreme gains in server provisioning, software installation, configuration, and code deployment.

• Responsible for all IT operations in the company, reporting directly to the CTO.
• Continually implemented cost saving and productivity increasing technologies.
• Optimized business processes using technology to reduce wasted resources.
• Implemented green solutions significantly lowering internal operating costs.
• Consolidated multi-homed CRM solution into a centralized database engine combined with a terminal server based thin client resulting in an approx. 20x increase in responsiveness.
• Consolidated web presence with uniform marketing, CRM, and E-business integration.

• Responsible for all IT operations in the company, reporting directly to the CTO.
• Implemented cost saving technologies including VOIP, telephony, and virtualization technologies resulting in approx. 80% lower communications and server operational costs.
• Implemented video conferencing to replace antiquated conference call seminars with new Webinar technology resulting in a 600% attendance increase.
• Implemented redundancy and disaster recovery policies resulting in 100% up time and zero data loss.
• Reorganized and optimized massive web presence into a more centrally manageable format.
• Implemented E-Business platform resulting in increased sales and new market opportunities.

• Highest level IT manager reporting directly to the company partners.
• Responsible for all hardware and software functionality and maintenance.
• Performed data recovery on failed multi-terabyte raid volumes with 90%+ rate of data recovery.
• Implemented and managed an in-house Render Farm, requiring quick transition flexibility for several different render engines and software packages expanding operating capacity by 900%.
• Created a proprietary patch release system custom designed to handle multiple software applications, seamlessly implementing new software packages studio wide.
• Implemented, maintained, expanded, and monitored web-based applications, including Web sites, Video Conferencing, FTP, VPN, Microsoft SharePoint, Project Server, Enterprise SQL, and various other web services including.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

B.S. Computer Science - It Administration, Computer Science