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Cupertino, California, US

SRE Tech LeadCertified Kubernetes Application Developer

Chicago, IL, US

Co-Founder, President and CTO of the Chiditarod Foundation, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to combating food scarcity and insecurity through grants, fundraising, and creative participatory events like the annual CHIditarod shopping cart race. Lead a team of 25, liaison to the City of Chicago municipality, manage the nonprofit business, research and recommend.

Small technology, consulting, hosting, and software development practice launched in 2008. Serving non-profits, small businesses, and the middle market.

Chicago, IL, US

I've done a bunch of fun things at Groupon, including:- Technical Lead building and onboarding 100+ applications onto a container-based CI/CD Jenkins pipeline deploying to Cloud infrastructure managed by Mesos and Marathon. Realtime metrics integrated with WaveFront and Elkstack. Static code analysis with Sonarqube. Outside-in integration testing.- Built.

Chicago, US

• Co-founded a fire performance business based in Chicago.
• Designed, produced and executed hundreds of visually stunning kinetic fire performances for corporations, municipalities, community groups, and individuals on an international level.
• Built, managed, and evolved online channels into successful revenue streams.
• Maintained 100% positive safety record with endorsements from fire marshals in multiple states.
• Ninja skills achieved: small business creation and management, accounting, banking, insurance, choreography, dance, fire safety, costume design/fabrication, music/video production, back office.

The Bold Urban Renaissance Network (“B.U.R.N.”) is a dynamic nonprofit organization which fosters community arts through grass-roots projects and civic collaborations. We seek to create, display, and support interactive arts and civic participation that inspires action and connects people by moving them from passive spectators to creative participants..

San Francisco, CA, US

• Built the Web Release Manager position, tamed the Wild West, brought order to the land.
• Responsible for daily planning, deployment, and crisis management of 40 web-based applications.
• Coordinated and executed rollouts with multiple dependencies across Web, Client, Server, and API platforms.
• Migrated legacy web applications to in-house Amazon EC2 build, deploy, and package management system.
• Created on-demand EC2 image clusters for immediate developer use.
• Co-developed and performed image-based rollouts across various datacenters.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Advanced from entry-level developer to Senior Consultant in 3 years.
• Completed over 20 successful projects for over 15 middle-market clients across a range of industries in less than 4 years.
• Interacted daily with C-Level executives, project managers, business users and technical staff.
• Architected, developed and deployed medium and enterprise-grade websites and web applications.
• Became the firm’s thought-leader on Content Management, Open Source, SEO and Web Standards (W3C).
• Led two redevelopments of the firm’s public-facing website, including a multi-lingual CMS implementation.

Built and improved client relationships with mid to high-volume Internet Service Providers and independent companies. Specialized in all things email-related: high-capacity delivery and throughput, automatic blacklists, spam filtering, security and authorization, open source, qmail.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

Oversaw and improved entire IT infrastructure: LAN management, Windows network security, shared resources, etc. Built web applications to support business needs (LAMP stack). Designed and implemented a virtual private network between 3 facilities in 2 countries: T1 and microwave connectivity, VoIP integration with PBX systems, saving the company hundreds.

Ba, Economics, Computer Science

Forum & Advanced, Possibilities And Action