Completed a lift and shift for the State of Massachusetts’s Department of Revenue tax system to the AWS Cloud environment. The project took six months and completed on time.  This involved creating Terraform code to build a multi tier environment to support the states residential and business taxes. The environments were built in the AWS Cloud and used tools like AWS EC2s, ELBs, Cloud Watch, Terraform, GitHub, SQL Server, JIRA, and the Linux, and MS Windows Operating Systems.Built a Disaster Recovery environment for MS SQL database servers using AWS DR services.Completed a lift and shift for the State of Massachusetts’s Executive Office of Education to the AWS Cloud environment. The project took nine months and completed on time.  This involved creating Terraform code to build the multi tier environment to support the state’s Office of Education. The environments were built in the AWS Cloud and used tools like Terraform, AWS EC2s, ECS, ECR, Code Pipeline, ELBs, Cloud Watch, GitHub, SQL Server, JIRA, and the Linux, and MS Windows Operating Systems. The environment supports over 100 different .NET, and Java educational applications for the state.Created twenty plus technical documents explaining how to use and administer the environments including usage of AWS Systems Manager (SSM) and the Parameter Stores.

March 2019 to present; part of the Card authorizations and fraud team as a Senior DevOps Engineer supporting the Kubernetes continuous integration, continuous delivery & deployment pipeline environments (CICD). Member of the well managed team that supports multiple production applications for Card authorizations, decisioning, and fraud pipelines. Implement the use of AWS EC2 Spot instances in Capital One environments.

As part of the Retail Bank Cloud Business Office I tracked and promoted efficient use of AWS Cloud resources in Retail Bank, Created a two-phased approach to save money and increase performance; first conducted Brown Bag Sessions twice a week to train DevOps teams on how to modernize AWS Cloud Instances, which saved over a quarter of a million dollars; second used Cloud Custodian to code multiple automated solutions to automatically notify users that newer and faster Instance types are available to use instead of the older type. Created multiple DataDog dashboards to quantify modernization numbers in RDT QA and Production, worked to solve Modernization issues found using with M5 Instance types, Created an Instance Downtime dashboard for Production to display possible savings using ASG downtime

As part of a team that is leading the next wave of disruption on a whole new scale, I am a part of the advancing Capital Ones Cloud eco-system and culture of technical excellence. I contribute supporting end-to-end public Cloud Automation of application delivery, including Infrastructure provisioning and integration with continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platforms, using existing and emerging technologies. I have experience moving infrastructure to the Cloud. My responsibilities and expectations include the ability to plan and lead the deployment of a cloud stack in a production environment, develop scripts and glue code to integrate multiple software components, I automate the provisioning of AWS environments using tools like Jenkins, Chef, and Cloud Formation. I design and develop automation workflows, performing unit tests and conducting reviews to make sure the DevOps work is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for platform performance. I assess the overall quality of delivered components for DevOps. I have strong verbal and written communication skills which are necessary due to the dynamic nature of collaborations with customers, vendors, and other engineering teams. I solve complex business problems together with customers and fellow DevOps engineers. • Manage moving multiple Linux and Windows web-based applications to the AWS Cloud. • Create and implement Cloud Automation (CI/CD) deployment solutions for web-based applications in the AWS Cloud• Mange QA and Production Single Sign On solutions for web-based applications in the AWS Cloud• Create and implement cost savings solutions for web-based applications in the AWS Cloud• Create and implement web-based deployment Dashboard for AWS Cloud applications• Manage QA and Production support for AWS Cloud QA and Production applicationsI am a highly creative and intellectually curious Cloud Engineer, that is passionate about cutting-edge distributed computing.

Manage a zVM Linux z10 mainframe environment using WebSphere and DB2 Universal SQL Database (UDB) to support the various web-based business initiatives for the State of Virginia courts system. Experience includes setting up WebSphere servers in the development, QA, UAT, and production environments and taking appropriate actions for errors in the application server or web server logs. Involved in performing stress test for workload balancing, memory leaks, tuning, and connection pooling issues with WebSphere Application Server. Experienced in installation and configuration of WebSphere Application Server 6.x,7x, and 8.5 Network Deployment Manager clusters, IBM HTTP Server , and Apache on virtual Linux servers. Experience in Jacl and Jython scripting and also shell scripting for various automation tasks and troubleshooting.Experienced with performance tuning using Resource Analyzer and Tivoli Performance Viewer.Excellent relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and the technical community. Monitored servers and application health, built, configured Linux servers across two business class IBM Z10 mainframes. Created and update system documentation, including configurations and procedures. Ensured that computer systems and operating systems are compliant with established configuration guidelines. Upgraded fifty WebSphere servers from version 5.1 to version 6.1. This project took one year and was completed on time. Upgraded one hundred Linux servers to the Novell SUSE Linux version 10 operating system. This project took more than 6 months and was completed ahead of schedule and under budget.

Member of a 17-person Agile Project team (a nontraditional approach to project management) that participated in a $3.5 million project to convert Capital One’s new account credit decisioning system to an outsourced vendor’s environment. Analyzed, developed, and implemented effective business solutions for handling new credit card accounts using Fair Isaac’s Capstone Decision Manager application and Unix ksh scripting.

Served as senior support manager within Capital One’s Rapid Cycle Development group. Responsibilities included managing a team of six employees to support software enhancements and 84 ASP web applications with SQL Server, Oracle, and Teradata databases, which serviced more than 1,000 users. Identified a savings of nearly $250,000 of disk space that was not allocated or used for 8 months. Made appropriations to put the unused disk space back into service. Installed, tested, packaged, and documented the new version of Capital One’s BMC capacity planning software. This included designing, installing, and testing SUSE Linux, Sun Solaris, HP HPUX, IBM AIX, and Microsoft Intel platforms; packaging the software for distribution; and documenting its installation.

Primary lead responsible for daily computer systems monitoring, support, configuration, and upgrades in the Capital One IT distributed computing environment. Managed and coordinated the large-scale installation of Capital One’s IT monitoring infrastructure in a highly secure disaster recovery site. Developed project schedule and timeline for deliverables consistent with allocated resources. Managed project responsibilities and resolved problems to ensure that objectives were met and the project was completed on time. Gave formal presentations to corporate groups and developed written reports for various audiences. Used surplus equipment to help manage costs. Met objectives under a strict deadline and at a documented cost savings.Supervised the monitoring staff and contractors using BMC’s PEM and PATROL Perform and Predict products. Responsible for stabilizing the monitoring infrastructure by increasing up time to 99% without increasing cost. Implemented two large monitoring software upgrades without a loss in production monitoring of Capital One’s IT systems. Managed the roll-out of new Common Event Format (CEF) monitoring which enabling Capital One to align the alert monitoring systems directly to its affected business lines. Responsible for 24/7 support of production monitoring systems and applications.

Supported and implemented Capital One’s Internet web site. Provided 24/7 support of Internet services’ on Sun Unix computers, F5 network load balancers, and web applications. Supported implementation of Capital One’s Get My Card web application, which netted 1 million new credit card customers in 6 months.

Responsible for the support and implementation of eight hundred Sun Microsystems and HP Unix computer equipment in the Capital One IT infrastructure.