Harrison Schmidt Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

DriveWealth is the pioneer of fractional equities trading and embedded investing. We are a visionary technology company that empowers more than 100 partners around the world to engage their customers by placing the markets in the palm of their hand. We believe the future is fractional, transactional and mobile. Every mobile device should be a gateway to accessing investing and savings products, services, advice, and assistance for global citizens of all ages, wealth stages, and levels of financial expertise.Managed team of DevOps Engineers, DBAs, and System Administrators to innovate, support, and maintain critical infrastructure servicing DriveWealth's financial services platform. Focusing on Platform Engineering and Developer Experience, the DevOps team worked to streamline CI/CD pipelines, implement a GitOps approach to the SDLC, and automate to industry standard best practices. Our aim was to reduce risk, accelerate time to market, and prioritize Developer/Product productivity. Worked cross functionally with Development and Product teams to resolve build and deployment hurdles and provide solutions to infrastructure and tooling needs.Tooling and Infrastructure: AWS, ROSA/OpenShift Kubernetes, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform / Terraform Cloud, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

Kyriba empowers financial leaders and their teams with award-winning solutions for cash and risk management, payments and supply chain finance. Managed team of DevOps engineers in creating and maintaining cutting edge automation and CD pipelines. Leveraged tools and technologies such as: Terraform (TFE), Ansible (AWX), Kubernetes / Docker, Chef, and ArgoCD to create effective, declarative application and infrastructure deployments. Hands on technical manager who worked cross functionally with Engineering, Product, and Operations to support, deploy, and manage Kyriba’s application stack that spanned AWS, Azure, and on-premise (VMWare) via Kubernetes and VM / EC2. Developed and enforced SRE / DevOps mindset – GitOps, automation, and IaC. Scrum Master responsibilities – Sprint planning, execution, facilitation, and standups. Worked within a handful of compliance and governance frameworks including: SOC and SWIFT.

San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

Cloud and DevOps Architect / Manager. Created DevOps operational workflows and outlined designation of duties. Used Azure DevOps to automate deployments, reducing errors and decreasing deployment times. Implemented Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD Release Pipelines, and provided architectural feedback. Responsible for administering and supporting releases and deployment rollbacks (Release Management). Supported all Azure based Development and Production environments (Infrastructure and application support). Supported back office networking (Cisco ASA/Catalyst/Meraki).

San Diego, Ca, Us

Managed Production DevOps Team. Provided technical expertise on networking and security architecture for Production AWS (Cloud) environment. Led operational DevOps staff to implement environment-wide services and IDS monitoring utilizing industry standard tools. Used automation to drastically reduce system deployment times and enable consistency. Created operational processes that span multiple departments. Implemented tools and process for on-call scheduling and 24/7 system monitoring. Additional duties included overseeing back-office IT Dept. and IT Manger to drive KPIs and IT initiatives. Provided technical due diligence for business acquisitions and IT projects (MFA, 2FA, and network security). Worked with staff to institute IT compliance / governance (ISO 9001 & 27001).

San Diego, Ca, Us

Worked directly with executives and directors to plan and implement IT strategies. Managed IT initiatives for multiple office and data center / collocation (colo) environments. Managed help desk staff and ensured prompt response to tickets, increased troubleshooting accuracy and served as an escalation point. Worked with direct reports to grow sysadmin skill sets (system / network administration) and career goals.Environments: RedHat / CentOS, Ubuntu, Solaris, and BSD. Other technologies included: MySQL, Oracle, VMWare, Apache, nginx, ZFS, AWSCorporate Environments: Windows Server 2008 R2 / Server 2012.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Performed IT related tasks: provisioned workstations and servers (Linux and Windows based), administered Directory Services (Active Directory and SMB-LDAP), administered Symantec Backup Exec implementations (planned, created, maintained various backup strategies), administered file server shares (Linux (SMB) and Windows based), created and maintained SharePoint infrastructure, administered Cacti/Nagios alerts and monitoring, managed Cisco Unity phone system, implemented Amazon EC2 and RDS solutions, and resolved IT related issues.