Isaac Springer Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

I lead a robust team of engineers seeking to apply a set of uniform operating principles across the enterprise; extending capabilities into all technology teams. Our mission is to assure services and workloads can be provisioned where they are best-suited - not driven by limitations between public and private cloud.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Working with a fantastic team of Engineers that provide capability services to the entire Sleep Number business to enable product teams to transition their products to the cloud using common templates, essential core services and enterprise-ready patterns and practices before their first deployment.* Drive standardization of CI/CD workflows* Capture solutions and best-practices as reusable templates* Work across teams to leverage common practices and tooling wherever possible* Implement end-to-end infrastructure management using terraform pipelines - allowing product teams to contribute and self-serve most changes in their environments* Act as a liaison with product teams when required to onboard new resources and solutions not currently in our service catalog* Providing abstraction from the complexity of complex cloud resources by providing modules that assure things are created in a safe and consistent manner across the organization* Joining in working sessions and lunch-and-learn engagements with others in the company to present new ideas, approaches or solutions that we feel may be valuable in the near-term* Working with Enterprise Architecture to identify solutions that may need more work or better rigor before going-live

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Working with teams across the organization to refresh, update, innovate and bring best-in-class solutions to improve our software development lifecycle. It's my mission to not only implement, but also identify and cultivate talent within the organization and act as a resource to find patterns and processes that remove complexity.Sleep Number's core values place a strong focus on improving people's lives through better sleep - I can be a part of improving lives through automation and intuitive design.* Drove the adoption of modern SDLC using GitHub Actions to fully automate developer interactions with application delivery.* Created an automated pipeline handling the setup/config/implementation of cloud resources using GitHub Actions & Terraform; following best-practices of IaaS.* Collaborating with teams across the organization to reach consensus on tooling, process and patterns and drove implementation to provide as a capability to external teams to use.* Hosting frequent Lunch-and-Learn sessions highlighting new processes and tooling and receiving feedback to drive use-cases for adoption; including but not limited to - Apache Airflow, GitHub Actions, Terraform, container building best practices, implementing base container images, automated security scanning in the pipeline, CICD parallelization.* Worked with cross-functional team to offer AKS (Kubernetes) as a business capability and provided onboarding/training to get teams productive in record time to meet delivery.* Worked closely with Architecture team to identify expertise, opportunity & direction to best meet the business needs quickly while avoiding pitfalls.* Integrated with worldwide team of FTE and contractors to create Sleep Number's first cloud-native product.* Defined guidelines for our Azure Cloud Foundation; providing a path and process for teams to be consistently onboarded to Azure for their projects from POC to Production.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

As a member of the Cloud team we're at the forefront of accelerating C.H. Robinson into the next phase of business by creating the framework for stable, repeatable and secure cloud infrastructure and pipelines. By working closely with our colleagues in DevOps, Datascience and Security we're creating the next generation of infrastructure and a solid foundation using IaaS principles.* Create custom modules in Terraform for consumption in our infrastructure pipeline using GitHub and Atlantis.* Craft solutions for management of cloud metadata systems to comply with auditing and billing requirements for the organization.* Designed the foundation for modern pipeline workflow to be adopted by DevOps and Developers via a simplified self-service dashboard.* Designed the first working model for DevOps pipeline for our newly created Datascience teams when the existing processes didn't properly serve their use-case.* Create facade APIs using serverless Azure Functions to simplify management of several back-end systems.* Updated several old script processes using modern solutions (e.g. Powershell-core, Go, Python, Nodejs, Groovy).* Implemented several training sessions to improve external support teams understanding of troubleshooting distributed systems in Kubernetes.* Deployed and configured Helm when it became clear we needed a more robust deployment system when moving from Mesosphere to Kubernetes.* Worked with partners at Microsoft to guide development teams to use the appropriate solutions.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

* Integrate Kubernetes and Helm into mature release pipeline.* Coordinate with Infrastructure, Development and Architecture to support hybrid-cloud environment.* Implement modern pipelines while minimizing disruption to critical release process.* Maintain build infrastructure pushing more than 80 deployments to Production every-single-day while maintaining zero-downtime tolerance.* Manage migration of container platform from Mesosphere to Kubernetes.* Refresh and uplift legacy tooling to improve reliability.* Ensure 24x7 availability of deployment tools and systems.* Work with Infrastructure teams as the tools relate to or interact with platforms.* Custom development: enhancements to tools, and surrounding ecosystem.* Oversee and ensure production readiness of new technologies/systems.* Research new technologies with common benefits to both AppDev and Infrastructure that promote improved AppDev and Operational efficiency, quality, and stability.

New York, Ny, Us

Working in the development team of a young company with tight requirements and short turnaround times. I work in service to Development providing guidance and tooling to make sure business requirements are fulfilled above expectations.* Deployed Jenkins CI/CD Build Environment* Implemented Artifacting Processes* Created Centralized Repository for Real-Time Operational Data* Exposed Core Production Metrics via Modular Dashboards* Established Processes and Procedures for Config-as-Code and Repeatable Builds* Developed Custom Solutions for RDBMs Change Tracking and Migrations* Created Self-Service Portal Serving Development and Infrastructure Teams* Built Composable Deployment Modules for Platform Customizations, Prerequisites and Core Application Components* Designed Custom Monitoring Tasks Capable of Detecting Issues in Application and System Logging Data Capable of Remediating Issues Without Interaction* Designed Distributed Platform to Accommodate Business Growth, Provide Resiliency, and Shard High Performance Components* Manage F5 Load Balancer Configuration* Improved Stability and Performance of Reporting Services by Splitting Report Processes to Read-Only Replica* Reduce Production Deployment Process From Several Hours to a Matter of Minutes

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Providing technical, scaling and automation solutions for our global infrastructure. Our team works closely with Development and Operations to scale for growth, manage change and get things done.* Transition and refresh automation frameworks with modern solutions* Create central logging index integrated with entire application stack (LogStash)* Design maintenance and recovery services to improve resiliency* Implement best practices for agile development lifecycle; continuous deployment & continuous integration (Jenkins CI)* Develop deep integration utilities allowing data portability and seamless scaling across infrastructure* Architect framework for deployment and upgrade mechanisms of RMS application (Maven, PowerShell, FlyWay/DBMaintain, Groovy, etc.)* Provide escalation support and training for global support network* Create centralized monitoring and diagnostic services to provide a real-time display of application and infrastructure activity* Provide support to Development, Operations, R&D and Scientific Departments* Assure technology choices are adherent to long term goals of the executive leadership, company and client needs

Lakeville, Mn, Us

Provide resilient infrastructure spanning multiple data centers for mission critical systems.* Deliver virtualized Platform as a Service to DevOps, Implementation and Developers.* Create packaging and deployment frameworks to automate environment creation.* Convert existing deployment models to self-service.* Manage virtual environments using Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager* Monitor and manage Compellent storage solution.

Lakeville, Mn, Us

Acting as a bridge between IT and Development teams; the Dev Ops group takes a pragmatic approach to solving problems across various product lines. * 24/7 Emergency Response * Packaging / Deployment * Change Management * Virtualization * Application Farming * Failover/Replication Scenarios * Data Manipulation/Migration * Custom Code Development

Managed IT infrastructure for a local print and packaging company that provided services to Fortune 100 and multi-national corporations.* Maintain all mission critical systems in a heterogeneous operating environment ranging from Microsoft, Apple, Linux & Unix based systems.* Plan and execute all company wide hardware/software/infrastructure modifications.* Managed ticketing and support for company wide infrastructure containing over 200 systems and hundreds of employees with a total helpdesk headcount of 2 or less employees (myself included).* Assure functionality of multi-million dollar integrated systems in a down-time intolerant production environment.* Implementation of several automation services and IT initiatives to reduce waste and increase efficiency tailored workflow specific needs.* Design and implementation of disaster recovery strategy, execution and maintenance for all in house systems.* Executed migration of workflow data, systems and sales information during Print Craft's acquisition of another company.* Administration of telcom and voicemail systems.

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Provide next tier support for Geek Squad Agents using traditional phone and remote management capabilities. Drastically improved solve-rate and business offerings.* Provide support for technicians in the field via phone & remote control (VNC type application).* Furnish performance & metrics data for cross functional teams overseas to administration.* Maintain knowledgebase of troubleshooting and repair techniques for multiple OS platforms.* System and software repair/support.* Research and development for malware behavior and defense methods.

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Pilot project to provide a remote support tier to the brick and mortar locations across the world and improve solve rates in addition to turn-around times.* Troubleshooting of internal processes and resolution.* Quality assurance for production level work.* Research and development on improving efficiencies and general process.* Investigate possibilities of new business streams.* Training of cross functional teams.* Development of internal specialized applications and systems.* Aid development of a mission critical database to automate work-flow standardization and performance reporting.* Completed in depth on-site training of approximately 200 overseas agents in Bangalore, India.* Managed bug reporting and issue management for remote service application.* Create issue management database for internal project to improve communication and standard operating procedure.* Compile weekly metrics reporting data and furnish to administration.