Business Application SolutionsNYS Workers’ Compensation BoardLabor, Workforce and Education Portfolio•Partners with senior leadership to align cloud architecture and DevOps initiatives with long-term business objectives, ensuring that technical solutions are responsive to evolving needs.•Creates a comprehensive performance management framework for the DevOps team, defining both individual and team goals that drive operational efficiency and ensuring alignment with company-wide objectives.•Promotes an inclusive team environment where every DevOps engineer feels empowered to contribute ideas and innovations, supporting diversity in problem-solving and technical decision-making.•Leads the deployment of scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform, automating provisioning processes to ensure consistency across development, testing, and production environments.•Collaborated with the enterprise security and infrastructure teams to introduce live vulnerability scanning using Dynatrace, enabling real-time identification and remediation of security threats across cloud environments, while ensuring continuous monitoring and compliance with organizational security standards.

NYS Workers’ Compensation BoardLabor, Workforce and Education Portfolio•Identified and planned the short- and long-range goals for the DevOps team.•Managed, assigned work, and monitored job progress of subordinate staff members.•Edited and adjusted configurations for running application builds of Azure DevOps pipelines.•Strategized agency modernization efforts with consideration to cost and security.•Organized and facilitated meetings for discussion of technical projects.•Motivated and engaged team members; coordinated team-based projects.•Designed, built, and maintained CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery (e.g., reduced deployment time by 50%).

NYS Department of Taxation and Finance• Guides ITS2 technical staff for maintaining best practices and adhere to ITS mission statement.• Assists and provides leadership through all phases of the system development lifecycle.• Delegates assignments and trains team members. Verifies task completion and correctness.• Motivates and engages team members; coordinates team-based projects.• Ensures technical infrastructure is up to date with current release patches and security protocols.• Acting vendor liaison to IBM consultants.• Promptly assists in escalation of technical issue resolution with affected stakeholders.• Provides support in maintaining and troubleshooting web and standalone Java applications.• Creates project documentation, including application documentation, user guides and detailedstatus reports for upper management and department staff.• Knowledge of web application server environments. Installs and configures WAS and BPMapplications for biweekly morning production deployments.• Coordinates and attends meetings for large-scale application and data migration projects.• Submits weekly ITSM change requests for summary of group production migration requests.• Designs and develops PHP, HTML5 & CSS JAVA servlet web pages. Creates user interface anddatabase. Maintains source code, libraries and application related files for ad-hoc reports in Git.• Tests and debugging of in-house applications; post-implementation review and refinement.

NYS Department of Taxation and Finance• Maintained the movement of 280+ Tax Department web programs, and their associatedstructures, definitions, and architectural elements across several environments on numerousplatforms; WAS, WPS, AIX.• Processed Java WebSphere and Mainframe migration requests in ServiceNow system.• Scheduled nightly tasks for overnight builds and created summary reports of daily migrations fornightly, group emails. Collaborated with IT support teams to reduce impact on end users.• Lead analyst and programmer of various scripted internal tools; ANT, XML, Java, and PERL.Installed and administered WIKI website on Apache Tomcat host for updating unit proceduresand documentation. Created MYSQL database for WIKI.

NYS Office for Technology• Monitored and controlled IBM and XEROX data processing equipment. Checked equipment forerrors; took corrective action in response to error messages. Ensured proper alignment andsequence of forms for operation of printers; cleared paper jams. Cleaned equipment and calledfor service when equipment was not operational.• Observed and reported job progress on Mainframe console. Trained and mentored colleagues on use of printers and updated procedural documentation.