Focused on Security, Compliance, Automation, and Infrastructure. Supported clients by identifying vulnerabilities in firewalls, IAM, credential misuse, and remediating them.Provided technical expertise to ensure a passage of a SOC2 audit. This includes remediating issues discovered in Vanta and documenting them. Implementing Sumo Logic and Prisma Cloud across the infrastructure to provide insight and auditability. Working with Veracode to automate Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST). Supporting Veracode manual penetration testing. Built roadmap assessing the current infrastructure shortcomings and identified changes and best practices to make to improve security, reliability, and scaling. This revolved around doing an in depth manual audit of their environment and speaking with key stakeholders to identify short comings, then building documentation and presenting the over all plan that would be implemented to the stakeholders.Implemented CICD leveraging Jenkins, Artifactory, and Sonarqube to build, test, and deploy infrastructure and services to AWS. This reduced manual tasks for the rest of the team freeing them to focus on features and improved feedback loops to reduce bugs and failed deployments that would take down production. Familiar in working with RDS, DMS, ECS, DocumentDB, and others. Designed and built custom Terraform modules for deploying DMS Clusters, Endpoints, and Replication Tasks in a way that allows the team to easily scale and add additional endpoints and tasks with reduced overhead for repeated inputs.

Utilized FinOps practices to monitor spend and right size environments creating an initial cost savings of $480,000 per year.Built service in Go to seed developer Spanner instances so that the development environment more closely matched production.Designed and implemented a Docker development environment improving the development teams ability to iterate faster with a custom CLI to help with running common commands against the containerized environment.Built custom monitoring in Javascript and Go and alerting solution in Go to improve failure visibility and notifications for the development team.Develops and iterates on CI/CD pipelines to improve build response times and reduce expense on unnecessary runs.Manages and Facilitates Google Cloud Certification program to help fellow engineers earn professional certifications.

Develop, debug, and test Python, Bash, Groovy, YAML, and PowerShell scripts to automate deployments across multiple environments. Managed resources both local and in AWS. Achieved substantial cost savings by creating on demand automation to start and stop resources. This saved over $50,000 in the first 6 months after implementation and will continue to save long after. Built automation pipelines utilizing Jenkins, Docker, Cassandra, and parent/worker relationships. Continually developed workflow improvements and automations, improving task focus for operations and development while reducing error and risk. Redesigned Jenkins build pipelines with concurrency saving each developer 20+ hours a month. Automated release notes for any deployment by consuming Bitbuckets pull request API. Further reduced development time by eliminating the need for developers to access Jenkins directly. Replacing manual job runs in Jenkins with dynamic comment webhooks in Bitbucket. Containerized both Java and Python web services in multistage Docker builds improving testing, reliability, and repeatability.Current Technology Focus:Cassandra, Jenkins, SQL Server, Postgres, Redshift, Tableau, Python, Celery, AWS, Redhat, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Prometheus, Grafana, Influxdb, and more.

Implemented Static code and Dependency analysis to help developers shift the focus left. Designed and implemented Jenkins pipelines to speed up delivery and remove obstructions. Deployed and demonstrated capabilities of Kubernetes with plans of future growth. Researched and developed mobile security strategies and procedures. Developed and designed defensive security strategies for mobile networks. Provided threat intelligence gathering, and offensive security strategy development. Expert in Jira Agile processes and workflow management along with the rest of the Atlassian suite to facilitate the development life cycle from the first line of code to a stable release. Deployed and managed GIS platforms such as Google Earth Open Source and Open Street Map. Used Pentaho Data Integration in working with Microsoft SQL and Postgres databases. Designed and deployed Mobile Device Management infrastructure utilizing Mobile Iron. Develops full stack web applications utilizing Java, MongoDB, Spring, Vue, and React.

Installs, operates, and performs unit maintenance on multi-functional/multi-user information processing systems and peripheral equipment and auxiliary devices. Performs input/ output data control and bulk data storage operations. Transfers data between information processing equipment and systems. Troubleshoots automation equipment and systems to the degree required for isolation of malfunctions to specific hardware or software. Restores equipment to operation by replacement of line replaceable unit (LRU).

Maintains and repairs power generation equipment, small internal combustion engines, and air compressors. Troubleshoots, repairs, and maintains power generation equipment and engines by adjusting valves, carburetors, ignition points, alternators, regulators, and solenoids; performs maintenance services such as lubrication, oil change, and radiator flushes; repairs small motor generators.Troubleshoots, repairs, or overhauls starters, alternators, generators, voltage regulators, and control circuits; maintains and repairs diesel engines.

Distinguished above colleagues in the industry. Provided training to the owners and operators to facilitate cost management in repairs and operational expense. Utilized technical expertise in preventative and proactive maintenance to establish 100% availability of power generation equipment. Maintained over $2M dollars of tools as the Special Tool Manager for company. Also established proper standards for tool accountability to ensure 0 tools were lost. Played a leading role in establishing safety and quality assurance guidelines to earn the Army Award for Maintenance Excellence for the entire Korean peninsula.

Provided technical leadership to help new technicians and maintainers attain certifications in Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) maintenance and operation. Maintained 13 Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft, 3 Ground Control Stations, 3 Ground Data Terminals, and 3 UAS Launchers valued at a total of $14.8M dollars. Also served as the primary maintainer for the 6 generators and 10 vehicles ranging from 1 to 5 tons that are used with this system. Spent time volunteering at a recruiting station to help educate children about the military. Traveled to Airshows to demonstrate the capabilities of the Military UAS Program.

Developed technical ability as a Power Generation Technician. Became proficient troubleshooting, repairing and maintaining power generation equipment from 2KW generators up to 150KW generators. Also performed maintenance on the hydraulic and pneumatic mast group, to include control circuits. Individually maintained 15 generators from 2KW to 150KW while keeping a 100% system availability rating for a Patriot Missile Battery. Selected in 2003 as a subject matter expert in Power Generation to deploy within 24 hours to Kuwait in the support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Main purpose was to repair generators that were vital to the operational readiness and preparation for movement and defense of US personnel during the initial conflict of OIF.

Utilizes expertise to deploy systems to meet client’s needs. Leverages exceptional customer service skills to liaison with internal and external clients to find solutions that not only resolve situations, but also improve workflow. Provides remote and on-site technical support. Deploys complete workstation solutions to enable client to function to their fullest potential. Installs, operates, and performs unit maintenance on multi-functional/multi-user information processing systems and peripheral equipment and auxiliary devices. Administers the Atlassian suite of software and development tools. This includes Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo, and Service Desk. Deploys and manages web applications in both Linux and Windows environments. Utilizing Apache Tomcat, and Microsoft IIS. Demonstrated ability to configure web applications in a production environment utilizing Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and reverse proxy to provide a secure session and limit vulnerabilities. Utilized network expertise and capabilities to run network cables and punch down drops. Recommended and procured solutions that provided HDMI over Ethernet that provided teams with an extended capability to monitor feeds as a group and keep more eyes on the mission at hand. Built and deployed Checkbox Survey tool in a Microsoft IIS environment to provide the ability to receive customer feedback on products and services that the customer delivers.

Researched, conducted preliminary designs and product evaluations on a final Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution. Collaborated with other team members on a prototype that is currently being evaluated for production. Conducted a presentation of the MDM solution to senior staff. Researched, planned, and tested PIV authentication with the Identity Server project. Researched, configured server, installed, and tested Hadoop cluster. Collaborated and coordinated with project teams to provide technical support and assistance with ongoing projects. Racked and installed server blades for a project to be deployed in the production environment.