Darnell Holmes Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Greater Chicago Area

• Led a team of 5 cloud infrastructure engineers at Cars Commerce, providing leadership, guidance, and fostering a collaborative team culture.• Managed multiple cloud infrastructure projects, ensuring on-time delivery and within budget, while addressing security vulnerabilities and compliance standards.• Supported cloud governance initiatives, established standards, and managed automated controls for SOX and ISO certification audits.• Managed communications between infrastructure… Show more • Led a team of 5 cloud infrastructure engineers at Cars Commerce, providing leadership, guidance, and fostering a collaborative team culture.• Managed multiple cloud infrastructure projects, ensuring on-time delivery and within budget, while addressing security vulnerabilities and compliance standards.• Supported cloud governance initiatives, established standards, and managed automated controls for SOX and ISO certification audits.• Managed communications between infrastructure engineering team, cross-functional partners, and stakeholders, including regularly updating on project status, addressing concerns/questions, and ensuring goal alignment.• Mentored, coached, and developed engineers towards career advancement and professional goal attainment. Show less

Greater Chicago Area

As a DevOps/SRE manager, I led a team of 10 engineers to ensure infrastructure reliability and performance. Collaborating with software engineering teams, we developed tooling and automation solutions for efficient software delivery, and established metrics and monitoring for infrastructure reporting.

Greater Chicago Area

In my role as Team Lead, I spearheaded a team to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of the web application infrastructure platform. Collaborating with software engineering teams, we implemented automation solutions using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and Docker Swarm for faster software delivery. I also established metrics, monitoring, and dashboards for reporting, supporting team growth and alignment with organizational goals.

Greater Chicago Area

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, I maintained and documented releases for tracking and validation. I automated deployment processes for front-end and back-end applications, ensuring efficient operations. I also supported middleware applications on AIX and Linux, contributing to incident management and project success.

In my role as a DevOps Engineer, I maintained a strong understanding of front-end and back-end applications, middleware infrastructure, and interdependencies between systems. I automated continuous integration and deployment, coordinated software releases, and troubleshooted issues in production and non-production environments.

In my role as a Senior Application (Middleware) Administrator, I maintained and supported multiple middleware applications across various platforms, ensuring seamless operations and providing 24/7 support. I actively participated in software releases and implemented IBM WebSphere Middleware products to streamline deployment orchestration.

In my role as a Java Developer/Sr. Systems Analyst, I led the development and support of a java web application, analyzed business features requests, converted design specifications into programming code, provided off-hours technical support, and prepared documentation for training.