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Cleveland, Oh, Us

Establishing and defining programming languages, tools and frameworks, AWS technologies, SDLC processes, CI/CD process, etc. for the entire T2C (Transforming Tax Collections) initiative. Creating developer and team onboarding documentation for aforementioned technologies and processes. Heavily involved in interviewing and hiring processes for developers, QA Lead(s), IT Managers, Product Owners, etc. Creating initial proofs of concept for various AWS technologies. Assisting Architects in creating infrastructure diagrams.

Foster City, Ca, Us

Architect and implement features that optimize the effectiveness of our SEO Autopilot product. Implement and send emails to users, showing the performance that SEO Autopilot brings to the customer's sites. Help increase user engagement by sending and measuring metrics on A/B testing of said emails. Mentor Junior Developers and conduct code reviews for the team.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

I led a team of Software Engineers to continue the adoption of gRPC microservices, introducing them into our legacy, monolithic applications. Guided the team in decisions around data models, testing approaches, investigatory practices, performance, etc. Helped make decisions with other Technical Leaders that involve the department as a whole.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Created a Kubernetes cluster in AWS in a repeatable manner using Cloudformation templates. Created generic, re-useable Ansible roles to deploy apps to the Kubernetes cluster using kubectl through a bastion server in the environment. Created many Jenkins CD pipelines to build, test, publish, and deploy apps to sandbox, dev, qa, and production environments. Used shared Jenkins libraries to run similar operations across different pipelines. Created health checks for the various apps deployed to Kubernetes.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

I migrated the marketing site hosting platform from a third-party to a self-hosted solution, automating the building of the servers using Ansible onto EC2 and RDS. I've made many improvements to our code responsible for integrating employee and punch clock data with many of our customers' time and attendance systems. Play a big part in automating the building of the entire application infrastructure using Ansible. Build software Debian packages and deploy to servers via Ansible. Maintain Nagios configuration using Ansible and remain on-call 24/7 for responding to Nagios alerts in a proactive manner.

Canton, Ohio, Us

I maintained a web application that manages pre-paid maintenance plans for car dealerships and larger insurance companies like Allstate Dealer Services and Zurich North America. I also maintained the entire systems and network infrastructure that supports the application and the company's internal servers and network. These devices and servers include: mail server, web servers, DNS, print servers, file server, FTP server, development server, workstations (including virtual machines), NAS, backup server, printers, content filter, switches, routers, and firewall.

San Francisco, California, Us

Design, implementation and documentation of infrastructure, server management, continuous integration, virtual environment provisioning, application and database management, user administration.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Infrastructure design and implementation, server management, virtual environment provisioning, application and database management, user administration.

Maintained several LAMP stack web applications and static websites, including a repair ticketing system for the railroad industry, an inventory/retail management system for a convenience store distributor, and several static websites for various companies.

Kent, Ohio, Us

Assisted ResNet Helpdesk and offices by providing phone and walk­-in support on personal computer, network, and Internet related questions. Problem solved various user­ computing problems associated with hardware, software and wiring issues. Assisted in the removal of viruses and spyware and ensured that the proper software updates are installed correctly. Configured network switches for replacement of failed switches.

Ashland, Oh, Us

Installed and updated software and hardware. Problem solved software and hardware issues, including printers. Assisted faculty and staff in emergency technology issues. Re-­imaged PCs in computer labs.

Bs, Computer Science

Computer Science

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