Lead and execute on compliance programs that enable Vibes to deliver services to large, global customers.Maintain the corporate infrastructure, tools, and systems needed to keep employees productive, collaborative, and secure, including laptop/desktop management, office networks, telephony, and cloud-based productivity tools.Deliver scalable tools and infrastructure that help Vibes develop, test, debug, and release software quickly and reliably – source control, build, and deployment.Design, develop, and operate an optimized cloud-native platform that provides Vibes with a reliable and resilient foundation for our products.Lead a culture based on the practices and principles of continuous delivery and DevOps – automation, measurement, and shared ownership.Establish a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) function to increase the reliability, resiliency, and performance of production services.

* Extensive knowledge of continuous delivery, continuous integration practices with experience implementing them at enterprise scale* An evangelist for the culture of agile, continuous delivery, and DevOps both inside and outside of the organization* Lead the effort to migrate a websites platform receiving 10 million visitors an hour from monthly and quarterly release process to outageless deployments in less than 1 hour. * Developed a docker container-based build, test and deployment pipeline as a service, running on both internal data centers and AWS infrastructure. Time to market for a new product or service was reduced from 3+ months down to 20 minutes.* Support CDK's public brand by presenting keynotes at recruiting events, hosting technical meetups, and presenting at trade conferences* Consistently deliver development projects and process improvement with an annual departmental budget of $7.5M* Designed and implemented a global process to capture capital expenditure software development projects out of the total R&D effort, unifying the entire product and R&D organizations on a single issue tracking process, providing data for quarterly shareholder statements and annual reports.* Saved $3.5M through pre-production virtualization project. Streamlined development process, eliminated 3300 physical and virtual hosts, and eliminated the need for a data center relocation project. * Created a successful and widely adopted tooling platform which runs 7000+ source code repositories, 4000+ build & test automation plans, and 1000+ deployment plans* Continuous Delivery training and evangelism to over 1500 engineers, leading seminars and training's to guide them towards best practices of evolving legacy platforms to outageless anytime deployments* Effectively built and led a globally diverse team of 65 people across 8 offices and 6 time zones.

* Team lead for Software Configuration Management team of 12* Configuration Management lead for 200+ developers in distributed environment spanning multiple continents* Responsible for 185 live builds which were branched from 40 distinct code lines* Administered source control server, build applications, daemons and backups* Implemented systems virtualization and distributed load sharing* Maintained documented 99% uptime of build systems, servers, and CM applications* Coordinated the process of identifying, bundling, planning, scheduling, reporting and measuring all application and infrastructure work, including bug fix and emergency releases.* Designed and developed automated build environment to administer, control and report on builds and deployments* Integrated third party IDK packages and worked directly with partners to build embedded systems* Updating outage scorecards/weekly communications of changes going to production/test environments* Helping teams investigate job failures and issues encountered during Performance Testing, System Testing, UAT* Manage Production Synchronization Defect Database to insure proper synchronization between the Production and Test landscapes* Mentored and trained SCM personnel in satellite offices* Created an internal CI system to compile and test changes on embedded systems to provide immediate feedback to engineering team, speeding up the feedback loop for code changes from weekly to under 30 minutes.* Automated a hybrid build environment for embedded systems, cross compiling code for over 30 unique hardware specifications from the same code lines. This freed up a team of 8 people who were previously performing the work manually.

* Provided top-tier customer support for technical issues using client/server network applications* Scrum Master for agile development team to determine project scope, time-line and features.* Trained customers and customer support representatives on new product features* Managed team of QA analysts and Customer support representatives* Fore-casted purchases both quarterly and yearly to develop department technology budgets* Maintained spending within specific budget restraints. * Administered build machines, source repository and QA environments * Designed, released and supported automation framework for internal products

Network administration of a 50 workstation Macintosh department, prepress of all print materials for stores in US market, graphic design and corporate identity, and the creation of automated tools to improve speed and accuracy to be used internally by several teams.

Management and mentoring 15 employees, managing department schedule of incoming jobs and assigning tasks to individual team members, network administration including email, backups and end user support, graphic design, web design and prepress.