David Shepard Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Greater New York City Area

• Led migration of 1M+ secure credentials from legacy system to IBM Cloud Secrets Manager.
• Leveraged Kubernetes & Argo Open-source software in order to build the next generation of continuous deployment standard that aids in the onboarding of Watson services on to our platform
• Use open source software (such as Tekton, Jenkins, Ansible, Packer) to automate and improve efficiency in the continuous integration process.

TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights

• Served on pilot program to identify opportunities and analyze advantages of delivering Watson platform on AWS.
• Worked with the Business Process Management team in order to transform their existing REST-based workflow language into a fully functional multi-tenant public offering on IBM’s PaaS offering, BlueMix

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Developed a patent pending real time "user" extensible Middleware Analytics product that can collect, search, visualize, and analyze data in a truly cloud fashion
• Worked heavily with ElasticSearch and the JS framework d3.js to provide user-customizable graphs in real-time
• Liaisoned with IBM Bangalore and became adept at working on projects across multiple timezones

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Developed applications to facilitate the collection and analysis of application logs for the WebSphere Technology Institute of IBM’s Software Group

Greater New York City Area

• Designed scripts to adapt mobile comics for distribution via iTunes to the iPad and iPhone
• Created and sent out regular mailing lists to customers