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San Antonio, Tx, Us

San Antonio, Texas, United States

Administer high-availability systems including Monitoring and MetricsImplement "Infrastructure as Code"Triage production issues and contribute to RCA analysis

Austin, Texas Area

Built devops team from ground upimplemented CI/CDMigrated all environments from on-prem to cloudAutomated environment creation

Austin / Telecommute

* Coded integrations in the background screening/drug test industry.* Created and maintained interfaces with many Background Screening and Research platforms and ATS systems including Taleo (business and enterprise), iCIMS, Hrsmart, Successfactors, SAASHR and many other middle or smaller systems as well as many one-off integrations.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Coordinated and monitored technical projects from initiation through delivery. Responsible for all aspects of the project lifecycle: diagnosing the needs of internal clients, managing project teams from initiation to completion, removing roadblocks from the team, and leveraging the knowledge and creativity of colleagues to generate awesome new ideas to solve business problems. Served as liaison between technical and non-technical departments in order to ensure that all targets and requirements were met. Key accomplishments:* Handled multiple assignments, often with conflicting priorities* Took Barbican key manager from inception to OpenStack incubation* Managed variety of projects from building software to infrastructure projects Working on Open Source / Open Stack Projects such as https://github.com/cloudkeep/barbican and http://openrepose.org

San Antonio, Texas Area

Working in an Agile (SCRUM) development environment as part of a highly functional team. Work with extremely large data-sets and high availablity/ scalability applications.Key accomplishments: Became a certified SCRUM master (2007) Project Lead on major enhancements to AIMSweb application (http://aimsweb.com) Led a performance team on load testing project working perfomance related issues on tables containing 10+ Billion rows in a large, multi-server database/report intensive application with an average 150k page loads per minute. Rewrote major portions and layout of application to work though AJAX to reduce bandwidth use by 60% by not serving the site layout on every page request.

In role as Coldfusion Web Architect, I worked on a team of five developers responsible for design and implementation of the company’s web presence, including the public site (www.benplan.com) and an extensive private corporate Intranet. Coded custom benefit enrollment systems for high profile clients such as Underwriters Labs (UL), Six Flags, and The Scooter Store.Key accomplishments: * lead project to convert codebase from Coldfusion5 to MX7. * lead project to integrate "Web 2.0" (one page interactive web app) features such as inline edit-in-place functionality to reduce page loads and navigation . * Designed and developed custom benefit enrollment web systems implementing complex business logic that varies vastly by system and client. * Was responsible for development of a project planning system wraping together a ticket request system, issue logging and MS project server data into a workflow application to streamline the company' s development process.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Primary product management duties included generation of use case documents, software change requests, detailed specifications/requirements for new features as well as defect fixes. Gathered engineering, QA, and implementation estimates to compile and maintain project schedules using MS Project Pro and Project Server. Effectively used cross-functional teams, defect tracking software (Seapine’s Test Track Pro) and document version control methodologies to track development projects through the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) process. As Web Developer, I was responsible for design and implementation of the company’s web presence, including the public site (www.Marketron.com), WebAvails (www.WebAvails.com) site and an extensive private corporate Intranet. * Responsible for development of an interface between a desktop application used by sales staff at 800+ TV stations and a web service accessed by thousands of the top media buyers in the country.

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Focused primarily on writing code and developing processes for automating testing and development processes.Implemented traceability matrix of applications and components. This procedure was soon adopted as a mandatory deliverable at the conclusion of the release lifecycle.