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Seattle, Washington, United States

Aircraft mechanic: inspecting, testing, repairing, and maintaining aircraft structures, components, and systems.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Aircraft mechanic: inspecting, testing, repairing, and maintaining aircraft structures, components, and systems.

Spokane, Washington, United States

Building the skills needed to obtain FAA Airframe and Powerplant certifications. Inspecting, servicing, and repairing aircraft and helicopters. Aircraft structures, engines, hydraulics, electrical wiring, flight instruments, and aviation components and systems.

Spokane, Washington, United States

Life is a learning experience. 2020 and 2021, from what we'd all experienced, has been an ideal time to not only take a break from the long-term career, but to immerse myself in further education and certification along an alternate path.

Centennial, Colorado, United States

‣ Design authority and Operational Architect for the strategic hosting Platform as a Service.‣ Guided the operationalization, supportability, and developer experience of our Cloud-based application infrastructure.‣ Encouraged growth and sustainability of the IT Organization in its journey from traditional systems administration into a Cloud model.‣ Relentlessly pushed for sufficient documentation to share knowledge and ensure the PaaS readily enabled and and promoted self-service.‣ Enabled and encouraged teams to drive aggressive self-governance and cost management strategies to right-size spend without degrading the customer experience.‣ Reduced costs US$1.2M/yr (26%) with no degradation in performance.

Centennial, Colorado, United States

‣ Cultivated and led 26 globally-distributed developers and designers, bestowed a lasting impact on the team's and organization's journey toward a cloud native future.‣ Instated 12 Factor design practices and guided development teams in alignment.‣ Coordinated an aggressive migration of over 60 disparate education products into a unified Global Learning Platform.‣ Shepherded partner-teams in appropriate use and application of technologies.‣ Developed enhancements with Python, Terraform, Git, and Ansible for containerized model residing wholly within AWS.‣ Right-sized resources to ensure business requirements and performance capacity are met.‣ Drove the creation of a global self- and managed-service containerization infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications and products Pearson's end-learners.

Centennial, Colorado, United States

‣ Contributed to the design of a stack upon AWS included Bash, Python, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes and many others.‣ Developed and refined automation to ensure a full-stack development platform for application testing matches precisely a production environment.‣ Designed a platform where each hosted product was readily transferrable between AWS regions with no negative impact to service delivery.‣ Ensured that each partner team's products and services within our PaaS were incapable of negatively-impacting any other team's product.‣ Implemented several mechanisms to provide seamless and secure self-service to hosted applications: web-based, CLI, and JSON-defined configurations.‣ Defined standards and methodologies in a bimodal transformation -- toward a heavily-automated, containerized suite of services to support 12.5m concurrent users globally and ensured 99.98% availability.‣ Remotely trained Junior and Mid-level developers to aide and assist in their understanding of the available technologies in order to build and attain the next level in their careers.‣ Implemented CI/CD toolchains to reduce the risks of manual error in implementation of developer-created applications and services.

Denver, Colorado, United States

‣ Provided on-site support and management of 2,400 physical and virtual servers within several data centers in the Denver metro area.‣ Ensured well-coordinated remote support to an additional four facilities in hosted in Iowa City, IA and Waltham, MA.‣ Installed, configured, upgraded, and supported Windows servers and UNIX systems including RedHat, CentOS, and Ubuntu across the enterprise.‣ Guided the infrastructure team in the implementation of Nagios, Puppet, and Cobbler for deployment, distribution of configurations, and continuous monitoring of all systems.‣ Applied root-cause analysis methods to understand, identify, and resolve customer and executive escalations.‣ Coordinated the real-time, live migration and consolidation of six data centers.

Denver, Colorado, United States

‣ Managed physical assets across five data centers.‣ Coordinated platform-agnostic growth of compute resources.‣ Improved redundancy, fault-tolerance, and stability of infrastructure supporting global learners with partner-universities.‣ Analyzed equipment performance records to determine the need for repair or replacement.‣ Diagnosed, troubleshot, and resolved hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary.‣ Performed routine network startup and shutdown procedures, and maintained control records.‣ Maintained an inventory of parts for emergency repairs.

Associate Of Arts And Sciences - Aas, Aviation Maintenance Technology

Pursuit of an education in Airframe and Powerplant mechanics meeting the Federal Aviation Administration's requirements for lifetime.

Associate In Applied Science, Network And Systems Administration/Engineering