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Alpharetta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Direct and manage global cloud engineering comprised of cloud engineers, architects, SREs and software developers engaged in a multi-year cloud transformation effort. Focus on driving operational excellence, system reliability and security through automated provisioning of infrastructure resources, enabling the business to rapidly adopt public cloud on a global scale.• Serve as agile product owner for public cloud platforms• Coach and mentor high performing agile teams delivering automated cloud infrastructure and self service capabilities• Responsible for hiring, mentoring, defining roles and responsibilities, and providing leadership and vision for infrastructure engineers, architects, SREs and software developers• Collaborate with business and product teams to deliver enterprise cloud solutions for Equifax businesses units globally• Develop, maintain and report KPIs to senior leadership• Partner with security department on identity and access management, logging, monitoring and security incident response protocols

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Manage and lead software development and automation teams in Alpharetta GA and Auburn AL. Responsible for creating and delivering infrastructure automation and self- service capabilities on a global scale to Equifax business units, utilizing agile practices and DevOps methodologies. Owner of the vision and strategy for infrastructure automation providing the tools and processes for the transition to DevOps from traditional development. Scope concurrent projects while effectively managing costs and timelines.• Built engineering and infrastructure automation teams—hiring, mentoring, defining roles and responsibilities, and providing leadership and vision• Managed software engineering and infrastructure teams through successful integration and delivery of multiple large scale and high priority application infrastructure and technology transformation projects involving colocation and cloud technologies including Amazon Web Services (AWS)• Successfully planned and coordinated project activities, budgets and resources• Automated fulfillment of internal cloud and network services, providing significant labor and related operational savings, and reducing average request fulfillment times by nearly 100% through the introduction of self-service capabilities automating cloud VMs, DNS, storage, load balancing, firewall, SSL certificates, and ITSM tools• Oversaw successful technology transformation efforts across multiple global systems and data centers, with resultant 4,500+ fully automated, zero-touch physical servers and virtual machines under management, utilizing Chef Automate• Led deployment of HSM-backed Hashicorp Vault clusters, totaling over 100 VMs in six data centers, in addition to four regions in AWS• Worked closely with project managers and partnered with technology and business teams to ensure new systems and operating models were designed and built to effectively meet organizational and other requirements / standards,

Seattle, Wa, Us

Software development company best known as the creator of the Chef Automate platform• Responsible for supporting sales in South and Southeast regions• Delivered proof of concepts and pilots to fortune 1000 companies• Created a multi-platform framework that enabled sales staff to deliver a standardized suite of demos of the product to customers

New York, Ny, Us

Big data analytics company providing predictive analysis for the music industry• Designed automated, physical and cloud-based IT infrastructure and solutions• Improved software delivery by introducing continuous integration and automated delivery• Reduced cloud spend by 80%, and automated 100% of infrastructure deployment

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Responsibilities included system administration, automation of infrastructure, and designing and building the company's cloud provisioning system.• Developed Chef recipes for automated system configuration• Led Agile methodology adoption for the department and delivered a fully automated, self-service cloud provisioning system three months ahead of schedule

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Responsible for database administration - tuning, query optimization, backup/recovery, and high availability. Maintained DBA tools written in Bash, Perl and Python. Focused on administering non-relational databases including MongoDB, Apache Cassandra and Hadoop.• Solely responsible for 200+ Instances of MySQL with 40+ Terabytes of combined data• Supported and continued to develop IT tools written in Python, Perl, Bash, PHP and Ruby• Developed custom HA solution using Zeus Traffic Manager to load balance MySQL• Operationalized Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, and Hadoop• Developed custom HA solution using Zeus Traffic Manager to load balance MySQL which improved performance and uptime• Reduced hardware footprint by 40% by using container technology• Reduced incidents by 90% through the use of automation• After successful automation effort, took initiative to work on the company’s internal cloud, which led to a promotion when a decision was made to create a dedicated cloud team

Minnetonka, Mn, Us

Provided leadership and direction for software development team. Motivated and supported staff to achieve both team and individual work objectives. Focused on systems architecture, planning, project management, and development of technical specifications.• Directly managed team of software engineers• Decreased QA regression testing by 80% through the use of automated testing tools• Reduced software defects by 60% by driving the development of unit testing

• Increased system reliability by refactoring the application and database resulting in a 25% increase in billable activity• Promoted to Technical Development Manager after Digital River’s acquisition

Co-owner/Operator of web hosting company.• Founded and managed successful web hosting company• Sold the business in 2004

Owner Operator of online retail store for custom window coverings• Created an e-commerce site for selling residential window coverings• Sold the business in 2003