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Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

* Led multiple teams and shipped the Cray System Manager (CSM) software which operates at the intersection of HPC, Kubernetes, and Cloud Computing.* Owned and managed a Google Cloud Platform deployment responsible for running the CI/CD pipelines for HPE's largest open source project* Budgeted and managed Google Cloud forecasts and ensured that cloud spend was aligned with strategic goals* Organized a cross-functional team spanning three internal business units to securely deliver HPE's first site-to-site interconnect between on-prem colos and the Google Public Cloud* Oversaw the creation of HPE/Cray's first cloud-based HPC management solution which enabled automated DevOps workflows and increased developer velocity* Shipped a container-based solution for providing interactive developer environments in HPC systems, enabling customers to reduce turn around time on environment provisioning while more efficiently utilizing all available system resources* Managed large on-premise Kubernetes deployments that delivered fully air-gapped cloud-like experience for HPC* Responsible for shipping and maintaining a management network solution for HPE's exascale HPC offering, including physical network topology, configuration, and automation, as well as Kubernetes/K3S based CNI integration* Managed critical Kea DHCP and PowerDNS infrastructure within Kubernetes to provide automated IPAM, DNSSec, hostname resolution, and zone transfer solutions within the CSM cluster manager.* Responsible for delivery of metal OS images that could deploy Ceph and Kubernetes in a completely automated way using Cloud Init* Deployed a fully automated Packer OS image solution that deterministically build system images for virtual machines and metal hosts with fully security auditing and reporting.* Worked directly with customers to capture product requirements and production expert level production support for complex site integrations

Houston, Texas, Us

Developed and operated a virtual, cloud-hosted development environment for the Cray EX exascale super computer built on the Google Public Cloud. This environment was eventually expanded to serve as a build environment for our internal development which I helped to open source and push to GitHub.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

I directed multiple managers and teams to deliver a complex array of projects that included a cloud-based DBaaS solution for Postgres, a blockchain based license management service, and an automated container pipeline based on Kubernetes. I worked directly with customers, and our sales team, to align our technical direction and education programs with client priorities and market opportunities.I managed a fully remote time and regularly used roadmapping tools plus Jira and Excel.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Performed Team Manager duties while continuing with my Principal Architect responsibilities.* Ensured steady progress on projects and helped to remove blockers during engagements.* Managed the team schedule to ensure that we had complete project coverage and a healthy projectpipeline.* Organized client work in Jira and provided summary reports to the Director.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Owned large projects from beginning to end, including authoring the statement of work, managing the implementation team, maintaining the project backlog, and delivering the finished product.* Created solutions for hybrid environments consisting of multiple on-premise data centers and cloud providers such as AWS and Azure.* Built and implemented key solutions to facilitate faster and higher quality change.* Got my hands dirty throughout all stages of my projects. This includes Linux and Windows, development, DevOps automation, infrastructure, governance, and OpsViz (monitoring). * Used configuration management frameworks like Puppet and Ansible to automate cloud infrastructure.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Led, designed and developed DevOps automation and processes for multiple clients, including one ofthe largest securities companies in the world.* Developed solutions on multiple cloud providers including AWS and Azure.* Automated OS image provisioning using Packer.* Developed multi-OS scripts in Bash and Powershell.* Developed orchestration code in Python and Ruby.* Built continuous integration workflows to quickly build and deploy applications in an elasticenvironment.* Personally oversaw all components of projects, and performed quality control processes to ensuresolutions were built to specification, and were high quality

* Architected and shipped deployment orchestration automation on AWS using Puppet and Powershell.* Wrote custom Python for many DevSecOps pipelines.* Worked with customers on-site to gather requirements and scope work to help them accelerate their goals.

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

* DevOps engineer on the bestbuy.com Cloud Operations Team.* Used Chef to manage a highly available RHEL environment.* Led a cost reduction project resulting in over $3 million in annual savings.● Used other tools and services to run and manage the bestbuy.com applications including AWS, Sensu, Ruby, and Cassandra.

Hopkins, Minnesota, Us

* Cloud application operations, software development, IT and support for a global hybrid Ubuntu and Windows Server environment that hosts several web applications that facilitate persistent connections to ethernet, cellular, Xbee, and satellite connected devices.* Engineered deployment and operations automation using tools such as Puppet, Rundeck, Python and OpenStack APIs as part of our DevOps team.* Managed and monitored a production Cassandra ring.* Created and used various industry standard monitoring tools daily including Splunk, NewRelic, Nagios, and other homegrown solutions.* Used multiple programming and scripting languages including Python, Ruby, Bash, C# .NET, and Java.* Used git zealously.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Software design and development for financial back-end systems. Focused Primarily on Mainframe development (Cobol/JCL), but also supported the entire application including Java/Delphi front-ends and web services that communicated with the mainframe through CICS.

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IT management focusing on application deployment and end-user support. Role also included server and networking support in a Windows Server 2003 environment.