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Kansas City, MO, US

Claymont, Delaware, US

• Led FinOps initiative to optimize Kubernetes cluster efficiency through right-sizing, VPA implementation, and Karpenter scaling, driving average utilization from 10% to 60% while reducing AWS instance costs by over 50%.
• Identified RDS backup inefficiencies and collaborated with compliance to develop and enforce optimized backup retention policies, eliminating redundant snapshots while maintaining regulatory requirements, resulting in.
• Designed and executed RDS PostgreSQL modernization strategy, combining technical debt reduction with FinOps best practices through Aurora I/O optimization, resulting in $120,000 annual cost savings while enhancing.
• Developed high-impact Datadog dashboard for alert monitoring, providing team-specific health overviews; rapid adoption led to company-wide implementation within one week, significantly enhancing incident response.
• Created a centralized Terraform repository for self-service DNS management, establishing patterns for teams to maintain Route53 records with review, eliminating DevOps handoffs and enhancing developer experience.
• Engineered and implemented a stampable environment pattern using Terraform and Argo CD, creating a centralized platform ecosystem with Argo workflows, Harbor registry, and Twingate for zero-trust encrypted access.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Built and executed complex load testing framework using Gatling (Scala) for Mythical Marketplace in one-week turnaround, identifying performance bottlenecks that enabled future success of high-traffic product launches.
• Spearheaded HashiCorp Vault implementation for secrets management, establishing secure credential rotation and access patterns while reducing secret provisioning time from hours to minutes.
• Overhauled observability modernization by implementing Google Managed Prometheus and Grafana, centralizing metrics across projects and establishing standardized dashboards, reducing MTTR by enabling rapid cross-project.
• Implemented custom metrics pipeline using Stackdriver adapter, enabling automated horizontal pod scaling (HPA) based on business-specific metrics.
• Leveraged Argo/Crossplane to implement GitOps workflows for stateful infrastructure management.

Overland Park, Kansas, US

• Led migration from kube-aws to EKS clusters, implementing IAM role-based access control, cluster autoscaling, and custom metric-based HPAs, resulting in improved security posture and automated scaling capabilities.
• Architected multi-region disaster recovery solution using CloudFormation, successfully replicating critical VPC infrastructure and exceeding quarterly goals with rapid Kubernetes cluster deployment in new regions.
• Redesigned AWS IAM architecture using Troposphere, establishing reusable patterns for team-specific access control and service account rotation, enabling DevOps to rapidly onboard new services while empowering teams.
• Streamlined AWS infrastructure deployment by implementing GitOps practices with Flux, managing cluster extensions via Helm and enabling automated namespace provisioning.

Westlake, OH, US

• Optimized workflows and addressed application deficiencies, leading to identification and mitigation of excessive EC2 and S3 costs. Achieved projected annual savings of $125,000.
• Provided support and improvement of the Twistage video encoding platform, which was largely built in Ruby and Python on Amazon Web Services leveraging services such as OpsWorks, CloudFront, EC2, and RDS.
• Automated alert statuses, enabling scripted resolutions for failed services to automatically recover without manual intervention.
• Proposed a serverless transcoding pipeline leveraging AWS Lambda. Segmenting large and small videos into 5-7 second chunks, encoded via Lambda's horizontal scaling, reduced transcoding times and eliminating persistent.

Lexington, Kentucky, US

• Optimized workflows and addressed application deficiencies, leading to identification and mitigation of excessive EC2 and S3 costs. Achieved projected annual savings of $125,000.
• Provided support and improvement of the Twistage video encoding platform, which was largely built in Ruby and Python on Amazon Web Services leveraging services such as OpsWorks, CloudFront, EC2, and RDS.
• Automated alert statuses, enabling scripted resolutions for failed services to automatically recover without manual intervention.
• Proposed a serverless transcoding pipeline leveraging AWS Lambda. Segmenting large and small videos into 5-7 second chunks, encoded via Lambda's horizontal scaling, reduced transcoding times and eliminating persistent.

Kansas City, MO, US

• Architected and managed high-availability infrastructure for Times Square Alliance's New Year's Eve ball drop stream, utilizing AWS CloudFront, CodeDeploy, and EC2 Auto Scaling to handle millions of concurrent viewers.
• Designed multi-region hosting solutions for enterprise clients including Cargill, Sprint, and Dairy Queen, ensuring 99.9% uptime using AWS EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, and CloudFront.
• Built scalable web platforms supporting diverse technology stacks (WordPress, Drupal, Node.js, Ruby on Rails) and databases (MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL) on load-balanced Ubuntu and Windows Server clusters.
• Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins for automated deployment of SVN and Git repositories to AWS infrastructure, reducing deployment time by 70%.
• Established internal SaaS platform providing Stash and JIRA services for sister companies (40Digits and BarkleyREI), supporting 100+ developers across organizations.

Kansas City, Kansas, US

Built an IT department from the ground up, changed culture to accept technology and think with IT in mind. SPEC had an outdated environment of 37 locations across the southeast US, with a part time contractor doing specific tasks. Projects covered a wide variety of identified problem areas such as ISP selection and billing, desktop replacement policy.

Supported a fleet of 25 vehicles outfitted with radiology equipment with remote support and hands on repair of company assets. Functioned as a PACS Administrator, project manager, and repair technician for radiology equipment. HIPAA compliance was a huge part of my time at MMS as we worked tirelessly to add hard disk encryption, SSL tunneling and other.