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Charleston, South Carolina, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Serve as the senior-level, highly technical executive leader of Enterprise DevOps for all of PayPal, Inc including PayPal Core, Venmo, Braintree, Honey, Zettle, etc.Leading a team of 75 highly skilled DevOps engineers tasked with supporting the full end-to-end SDLC for all development at PayPal, Inc. Responsible for managing and scaling managing DevOps and SRE resources for the organization.Managing the rollout of the next generation DevSecOps Developer Productivity Platform at PayPal.Responsible for conveying the enterprise vision, technology direction, and future roadmap for DevOps to the CIO and CEO along with the comprehensive strategy for platform tools and software enablement services.Facilitate software enablement services for continuous integration, delivery, testing, monitoring, feedback, regulatory compliance, and operations for all PayPal business units.Designed, implemented, and currently manage the new PayPal Developer Productivity Platform (DPP) representing a comprehensive end-to-end DevSecOps Enterprise SDLC. Influence and direct all DevOps architecture decisions for the PayPal enterprise.Establish the strategic direction for and manage the implementation of DevOps enablement services, pipeline process building, planning, solution engineering, capacity planning, team building, and the promulgation of the DevOps Enterprise SDLC for build/deployment automation across PayPal.Own and manage the PayPal SDLC operations process, PayPal SDLC policy, development standards, guidelines, etc. along with metrics gathering, reporting, and developer training for regulatory/SOX and security compliance.Rationalize and identify convergence opportunities for the tools and services across multiple business units and provide for an enterprise toolset supporting a unified path to production for all technologies and deployment endpoints.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Enabling the DevOps modernization and transformation for the second largest bank merger in history.Serve as a senior-level, highly technical executive lead manager for the enterprise DevSecOps organization responsible for directing the work of managers, team leads, and engineers.Establish strategies for and direct the implementation of DevOps enablement services, pipeline process building, planning, solution engineering, capacity planning, team building, and the promulgation of the DevOps Enterprise SDLC for build/deployment automation across multiple projects/business units.Own and manage the SDLC operations process, development standards, metrics gathering, reporting, and training for regulatory compliance.Own and manage all of the enterprise DevSecOps tools and capabilities including GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps, Urban Code, Jenkins, Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, SonarQube, Veracode, Black Duck, Terraform, Skytap, and Liquibase. Enable both the infrastructure and support functions of the tools as well as the best practices, enterprise architecture, and self-service capabilities for the tools.Lead strategies for multiple automation capabilities, leverage existing industry best practices for DevOps, implement emerging DevOps trends developing in the marketplace, enable technical innovation as well as lead and direct multiple projects and agile processes.Articulate and implement the direction and path for new modern enterprise DevOps capabilities to our customers to increase adoption and awareness.Responsible for ensuring the secure, resilient, and compliant delivery of DevOps services for cloud and on-premise environments that enable applications teams to deliver maximum value to the business.Direct the strategy and creation of cloud formation templates and infrastructure as code (IaC) for DevOps pipelines. Influence and direct all architecture decisions for the enterprise. Direct and articulate cloud best practices for AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud.

New York City, Ny, Us

Managed a global team of 13 senior DevOps engineers to facilitate continuous integration, delivery, testing, feedback, and monitoring as well as software enablement services throughout all NBCU business units.Maintained enterprise DevOps tools such as IBM/HCL Urban Code, Liquibase/Datical, GitHub, Collabnet TeamForge, Perforce Helix SCM, Atlassian JIRA, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Crucible, SonarQube, Sonatype Nexus, NPM Enterprise, Skytap, Autodesk Shotgun, etc. to adhere to infrastructure standards, security/SOX compliance, governance, and industry best practices.Designed, implemented, and currently manage the entire NBCU comprehensive DevOps Enterprise SDLC for over 200 enterprise applications and modules. This modern, secure, enterprise build and deployment platform functions to enable multiple technology stacks to support the agile development/deployment of software of any platform and technology.Built the single deployment-endpoint agnostic path to production for NBCU enterprise applications and enabled deployment to AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Azure, On-Premise (Corp/DMZ), Mobile, etc. Improved the quality of code written throughout the development cycle through extensive shift-left QA practices.

New York, Us

Responsibilities included the scoping, analyzing and ultimately building of a new automated release/deployment continuous integration system.Developed customized deployment software and scripts to allow for transparency as well as repeatability and greater throughput during pre-production and production deployments.Designed and built specialized integration environment labs for software testing, configuration, and refinement prior to live site deployment.Deployed projects to “live” status and ensured the projects functioned with the appropriate changes and without difficulties. Established and measured performance metrics of systems under test in order to provide for software quality assurance.

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Rendered IT & consulting services for aeronautic parts factory.Provided desktop support, administered network, & maintained software.Designed, installed, & tested network backup systems.

Rendered IT & consulting services for publishing firm.Built and configured Apple Xserve, Xserve RAID, and corresponding client network.Centralized file system as well as created integrated font and image file repositories.Provided desktop support as needed, administered network, & maintained software.Designed, installed, & tested network backup systems using Retrospect.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Devops

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Engineering