* Work with team to execute AWS migration from legacy datacenter* With another engineer complete migration of Couchbase to dedicated EKS clusters* Introduce multistage container builds for CI/CD* Quarterly technical planning with Product Owner

Element AssetHub is the platform for mapping industrial IOT asset data streams to a working model of the customer industrial equipment and operations rapidly and accurately.Managed Platform team responsible for:* Delivery of AssetHub platform in each customer environment (Kubernetes, Helm)* Development and Deployment tooling in multiple cloud providers (AWS, Azure)* Platform Security assessments and mitigation. (began ISO 27001 audit)* AssetHub reliability and observability. Tier 2 platform support Individual accomplishments:* Standardized platform installation across multiple clouds to reduce custom installation cost per customer* Stabilized and grew Platform team to 5 productive engineers* Point-of-contact post-sales for customer security review and IT integration

Advisor to a great seed round marketing platform.* Worked with pre-seed startup to build initial proof-of-concept for MarComm platform.* Helped to validate GraphQL/Apollo/React.js Architecture* Ongoing advising on Engineering Organization best practices (following successful funding)

Responsible for leading and managing all of Engineering (17 engineers over 4 teams) 92% retention post CTO departure Reorganized team structure, adding leads; led to increased velocity of 50% Collaborated with Product to foster reasonable quarterly roadmaps Increased sprint completion percentage to >90% Responsible for security compliance and communication Responsible for recruiting and hiring engineers for all teams (3 in Q2) Built current AWS infrastructure, >99.9% uptime Mentored new leads and engineers Managed all aspects of the Rails/React/MongoDb stack

Grew strong team of seven from team of twoManaged site operations through exponential growthBrought uptime to 99.94% from 98% Rewrote all Chef instantiation and configuration code (greenfield, multiple teams)Maintained and updated deployment code for all servicesPublic speaking:AWS Public Sector Summit, Washington DC. Cost Optimization 2016AWS Summit, Santa Clara, The Mission Driven Tech Company: Taking a Start-up Approach to Solving Societal Problems 2016Migrated all datacenter operations from Rackspace to AWSEvangelized the DevOps way throughout Product DevelopmentBuilt and support new and existing SOA endpoints (node, rails, go, dropwizard)Implemented AWS VPC with public and private IP space across multi AZsIntroduced and built Cassandra Rings for production NoSql databasesIntroduced Fluent as event delivery systemEvangelized DevOps methods throughout Product Development

Administered Centos/RHEL, Tomcat/Apache, Postgres, Solr, Endeca platformAutomated configuration management using Puppet, near 100% coverage for Dev and Production environmentsWrote and/or refactored multiple puppet modulesManaged Rackspace hosted environment, primary contact.Part of the team moving all platform computing environments from Rackspace to AWS.AWS: developed multi-AZ, VPC environments with private and public subnets using Cloudformation templates.Collaborated on tooling for VPC, NAT, DNS & Puppetmaster creation with appropriate routing and VPN connections that can be run from any company laptop (Disaster Recovery)Implemented monitoring and metrics gathering: Nagios (NRPE); implemented Graphite and statsd; replaced graphite with DataDog SaaS solution. Wrote custom metrics for each.Created builds and deployed using Team City, Git and CapistranoOngoing troubleshooting and optimization for layers from network through application layer. member of on-call rotation. (Sysadmin duties)

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Managed, architected and built development and production VMware Vsphere infrastructure.Clustered environment uses DRS, ha and ft. Block (FC) and file-based (NFS) data storesWorked with development to use virtualized environments to quantify application metrics for large scale installations using scaled environments.Consolidated both Windows and Linux physical nodes into virtual machinesDeveloped automated provisioning and configuration systems for RHEL virtual machines using cobbler and CFengine.

• With CTO and Sr. Sys. Administrator; built and validated new virtualized architecture for the StreamGuys streaming media platform using VMware’s esxi, and Vsphere.• Developed automated test suite and ran load testing for virtual machine streaming server templates. Streaming services included Wowza (Java, rtmp), IceCast and darwin (rtsp) streaming servers. • Developed Perl automated configuration application for virtual machine deployment.• Using MRTG added real-time metering of non-network parameters to existing Stream Guys monitoring tool suite. Developed Nagios plug-in for testing and monitoring stream quality in rtmp streams. (Also OMSA, SNMP)• Configured and acceptance tested 10 GB networking. Tuned network drivers for throughput (netperf, SNMP)

• Developed market research and pricing application using selenium test automation suite for a 3rd-party auto it automated digital goods store, MTGO library. (Python, Selenium through xvdb)• Developed and tested real-time market tracking graphs. Custom application for capturing market data to create price charts, live ticker and pricelists (Mdtool, python)• While attending HSU environmental resource engineering program full-time, worked as primary contractor for various small business and university projects. (lamp stack)• Repaired and upgraded computers and networks as a per hour computing mercenary.• Programming using numerical methods for solving differential equations (Linux, Fortran, Perl, Suse Linux)

• Worked with top management to define the technical components necessary to achieve strategic direction initiatives, including collaboration with engineering team to define product requirements for an audio markup language. (Java, JavaScript)

• Led team in the design of beta and release versions of a self-service, self-publishing web site. The site utilized multi-server architecture and interfaced with automatic digital publishing services. (Java, rhel)• Designed and tested prototype for multi format large size document self-service system for publishing media, audio and video files for sale. (HTML, JavaScript)• Managed proof of concept and functional implementation of wireless access to both Cybergold and Mypoints incentives offers, using Clickmarks• Working closely with VP of Operations, analyzed all Mypoints business systems, identified methods for integration with Cybergold, and evaluated third party proposals vs. employing in-house solutions for integrating the two companies systems.

• Regression testing of groupware task management windows application.• Designed, developed and managed first and second-generation XML-JavaScript hybrid web connectors, customized for 70 different host sites that parsed plain language into database queries at host sites.• Managed and collaborated on natural language web interface prototype in partnership with dragon systems. • Planned and built support/service departments. Acted as primary customer contact and trained team in troubleshooting, technical/product support and customer service.• Developed and implemented initial auctioneer client systems and support plan. Designed and developed database for tracking customer relationship, registration, warranty and upgrade path, and ensured pre- and post-sales support.

• Automated and hands on testing of ringmaster web content management application. (MacOs, Linux)

• Lead tester, Macos version of day-timer organizer personal information manager software• Initial development of test automation tools using apple’s QA test tool • Built first QA lab for Macintosh systems; developed first automation tools for software development.