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Sacramento, Ca, Us

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Helping companies unlock the full potential of the cloud to transform their business and the world.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Managed all AWS cloud infrastructure, app development and data services for the Rivian Advanced Driving/ADAS team.- Promoted from Principal Cloud Architect to Sr. Cloud Manager- Hired, trained and supported a 10 person cloud team including cloud engineers, data engineers and cloud operations engineers- Worked closely with ADAS Management team to design, implement and scale SageMaker GT, Automated Airflow Pipelines and custom React Web Application tools- Provided Project Agile Management for 20-30+ different projects and work streams - Managed all ADAS cloud compute and storage for 200+ engineering team- Implemented and scaled key data pipelines on AWS/Airflow MWAA- Managed development of Data ingest pipelines and custom web React Web Tools- Lowered Cloud computing costs by 50% from peak usage- Managed cloud security standards across multiple AWS accounts and public web applications- Participated on ADAS Leadership team- Managed development and operation of SageMaker ML training and Labeling solutions

Irvine, Ca, Us

Helped scale Rivian cloud services for Automated Driving team to reduce carbonization of our atmosphere. - Deployed Cloud Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation- Supported Cloud Support for 200 person Automated Driving Team- Setup Templated Training and Development ADAS compute- Setup and Operated Public Vehicle Services on Kubernetes Clusters- Supported ADAS Data ingest processing on S3 and AWS RDS- Operated Linux and Windows storage and compute- Implemented Bash scripts - Supported CICD for cloud applications- Estimated and negotiated ADAS Compute and Storage usage and discounts

Los Angeles, California, Us

Managed Cloud DevOps for customers and special projects for other customers. Primarily focused on architecting and deploying dynamically scalable, highly available, secure, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications on AWS. Work closely with Project Management and DevOps Engineering teams to deliver Mission’s Managed DevOps service to the accounts.- Selected appropriate AWS services to design and deploy for many customer applications based on given customer requirements- Provided K8s and EKS support on AWS- Designed enterprise-wide scalable operations on AWS- Deployed core AWS security and auditing capabilities for many Mission DevOps customers- Applied DevOps Concepts including IAC using Terraform, configuration management using Ansible, CI/CD using Jenkins, CodeDeploy, CircleCI- Made informed decisions about customer’s infrastructure understanding the impact of design decisions- Acted as the customer’s AWS Solutions Architect and “trusted advisor” through driving forward recommendations specific to optimization and alignment with best practices- Translated customer business objectives into a technology roadmaps- Performed assessments of customer workloads as compared to AWS best practices and made recommendations for remediation- Acted as a liaison between Mission’s Managed DevOps customers and Mission’s DevOps Engineers and Managed Cloud Team- Worked with Project Management team to plan sprints for all assigned customers including resource allocation and estimation of tasks- Served as a mentor/technical lead for DevOps Engineering staff, including DevOps Engineers and DevOps Consultants- Supported pre-sales efforts by contributing to the creation of Services Order Forms/Statements Of Work- Interviewed new DevOps consultants and engineers

- Provided team mentoring and training in software, security, cloud, agile and devsecops best practices for mechanical and software engineering teams.- Built a new DevSecOps team- Designed, documented and implementing next-gen IoT platform and automated Kubernetes pipeline with Rancher 2.4, Ansible, Terraform, CircleCI and AWS EKS- Assisted with Edge platform selection, including benchmarking, config and deployment- Migrated Influx AWS env to Influx Cloud SaaS- Assisted with selection and implementation of an IoT MQTT Middleware solution for high volume, compressed, secure MQTT messaging- Developed Agile Development process for Hardware and Software teams and trained the entire company how to write stories and use SCRUM to create a sustainable development process. Scrum master for company- Responsible for automating our cloud operations and security of our K8s stack from edge to cloud including deployment of OpenVPN and service mesh- Implemented and maintained private artifact repo in the cloud- Implemented CircleCI CD pipelines and ArgoCD GitOps K8s service- Created Ansible playbooks- Researched many Industry 4.0 topics and extensively focused on Kubernetes and Edge IoT design for next gen version of our platform- Implemented AI pipelines on AWS SageMaker and setup custom SageMaker Notebook using our custom REFPROP temperature libraries- Various pre-sales support, design and runtime documentation

Hercules, Ca, Us

I work as part of the Bio-Rad Enterprise Architecture team providing architectural, process guidance and solutions for global Cloud and IoT initiatives across the company.- I designed and deployed a security baseline to the AWS cloud for our company based on AWS Landing Zones now Control Tower. I also integrated this with our OKTA ecommerce and multi-account IAM platform allowing SSO to company cloud environments in a secure, role based and compliant way. - I assisted with design of and defined and implemented the DevOps pipeline for a High Performance Genomic processing pipeline using CircleCI, Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, Lambda, API gateway, React front end built using open source tools. Made extensive use of AWS Step Functions and other advanced features including Docker containers running in the AWS ECR service and deployed an AWS ELK monitoring stack. I also developed some of the Lambda services in Python.- Assisted with design of and implemented Terraform DevSecOps pipeline for an AWS Data Lake project. We implemented Informatica BDM for data transformations and made use of many AWS services to design and implement the Data architecture.- Helped define and test China solutions to enable faster access to US services.- Worked with many business unit evaluating them using the Well Architected standards from AWS.- Developed and promoted a standard multi-cloud DevSecOps pipeline based on Terraform and CircleCI.- Participated in several cloud related proof of concepts and provided DevOps, development and Cloud IT support. - Helped define and implement company wide cloud and development standards. Researched and provided reports on best of breed tools and frameworks.- Assisted with definition of the cloud product strategy on several projects.

Continue assisting operating companies with deploying Cloud, IoT, DevOps and Data projects.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Sr. Software and Cloud Architect promoting Cloud, IoT and DevOps across our industrial focused operating companies. I love to build things and Danaher has given me a lot of opportunities to build and share across the company. - Developed a cloud enablement program and delivered across the world onsite/webinars- Assisted with design and implementation of Kinesis based IoT solution on AWS- R&D in Internet of Things, DevOps and Cloud related technologies and best practices for operating companies- Setup and automated Dev and Staging ThingWorx IoT AWS lab environment for operating companies- Developed .NET/Java based cloud solutions on AWS for operating companies- Deployed wiki and KnowledgeBase to share Lab work across companies- Developed PoCs for operating companies and training courses for Cloud, IoT, DevOps best practices- Developed DevOps/Chef based process and training for operating companies to bootstrap their DevOps processes- Assisted with AWS cloud support issues and how-to discussions with operating companies- Managed external vendors doing contract work for my team- Reviewed and demoed external tools and partners for operating companies- Developed and delivered company-wide training lessons

Seattle, Wa, Us

Professional services Sr. Consultant helping customers deliver highly scalable elastic cloud solutions on Amazon Web Services. Responsibilities include partner enablement, training, architecture design/reviews, cloud migrations, development operations and cloud application development. Experience with the following AWS services.- CloudFormation - Automated environment provisioning- Elastic Beanstalk - DevOps - Managed Services - SNS, SQS, SES, RDS, Zocalo, Kinesis- Compute - EC2- Networking - VPC, ELB, Elastic Auto Scaling- Storage - S3, EBSExperience with cloud tools:- Automation - boto, troposphere, aws cli- AWS SDKs/APIs- Eclipse AWS Plugin- Continuous Delivery - Jenkins/Git/Artifactory/Ansible in the cloud

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Worked on special projects for the VP of IT on executive level projects.- Assisted with IT integration of new Home Depot acquisitions. - Developed executive dashboards and applications using Java, Python, Django, and Tableau. - Designed Java/REST credit card processing gateway. Participated in PCI DSS compliance review and standards implementation.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Architect responsible for definition, design, and implementation of RIA and Content Management applications for Adobe's Fortune 500 clients utilizing Java, Adobe's Flash/Flex/LiveCycle and Day CQ CMS platform.

El Segundo, California, Us

Reponsible for the definition, design, and implementation of Identity Management related solutions primarily utilizing IBM's Tivoli security products. Technical lead on project engagements defining and enforcing product and development best practices, mentoring team members, and responsible for key project deliverables related to user account lifecycle management.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Enterprise Architect responsible for implementing Web SSO for several internal HR applications. Helped design and establish Identity Management infrastructure. Technical Architect responsible for improving server provisioning to support application development. Implemented development server virtualization strategy and system infrastructure modeling.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Identity management and Java architect for an Atlanta based Java and Microsoft solution consulting company. Architect specializing in Java, .NET, as well as SSO and provisioning solutions. Helped companies assess their IdM architecture requirements and implement IdM solutions. Java architect on several WebLogic trouble shooting engagements and custom Java application development projects. Drafted proposals for several engagements and responsible for estimates, POC engagements, vendor evaluations and project kick starts, as well as custom design and development.

El Segundo, California, Us

Responsible for application architecture design and implementation on numerous consulting engagements. Utilized many best of breed open source tools, frameworks, design patterns, and development methodologies. Helped define hybrid extreme programming methodology called Titanium to deliver projects on time, sliding scope not timeline. Led numerous teams as architect, technical team lead, and project manager. Managed budget and timelines on individual and concurrent projects. Assisted defining the Java/J2EE, application definition, EAI, portal, and application server implementation practice areas. Interviewed numerous candidates. Mentored consultants through in-service trainings and briefings, as well as through peer programming. A primary services sales engineer for the company. Generated project estimates and wrote numerous proposals. Technical lead on many engagements and coordinated development teams.

New York, Ny, Us

Lead developer for WebView, a web based practice and financial management application for law firms deployed around the world. This application included marketing, time, cost and expense entry, reporting, and bill editing applications. Worked extensively with clients in the design and customization of web front ends to the database product. Involved in the evaluation and selection of their next generation application server. This involved market research analysis, needs analysis, coordination of software vendor demos and prototype development. Team lead of a group of three Java programmers involved in application customizations. Responsible for recommending application platform specifications, user interface development, prototyping, application design and development, documentation, and deployment of the application. Lead user acceptance testing, training, and support after the completion of the development phase for many clients that purchased the product.

Network administrator for a regional internet service provider. Developed operating and monitoring procedures for a Windows NT network. Responsible for the R&D and implementation of their various ISP services including DNS, NNTP, WINS, WWW, POP, and PPP. Designed web hosting schemes and customer support policies. Administered customer web design and Internet productivity training. Responsible for a team of network administrators, graphic designers, and web application developers.

2 Years, Computer Science

English Secondary