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Austin, Tx, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Support agile squads charged with providing customers the best transactional communications experience via email, SMS, eVoice, and native app push notifications.• Led organization change restructure utilizing Team Topologies methodology to enable fast flow to support architectural transformation in the transactional communications space.• Leader of a geographically dispersed team of 28 software engineers.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Lead Engineer for the Cloud Engineering team, involving architectural roadmap, solution design and delivery.• Facilitator for Cloud Technology workshops to help educate corporate peers on cloud service offerings.• Mentor and develop peers in software engineering development and principles.• Designed and developed Golang API software automation solutions for corporate cloud delivery.• Consultant for application teams within the company regarding deployment patterns and design to the cloud.• Assisted in establishing a cloud cost reporting system across Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure to increase visibility of consumption costs to the business.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Launched the first and multiple eCommerce public cloud applications for The Home Depot’s website on Google Cloud Platform.• Developed a standard set of patterns and templates for deploying infrastructure and software assets utilizing Google Cloud Deployment Manager. • Created the cloud Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery infrastructure for the eCommerce area’s application and infrastructure build systems with GitLab, GitLab CI, and Jenkins.• Partnered with Enterprise Security to establish a process with automation for Cloud security governance and compliance regarding firewall requests and access management.• Built Google Compute Engine images utilizing Hashicorp Packer and Chef for various technologies including Tomcat, Nginx, Java, Varnish, and Endeca.• Automated a CI/CD pipeline for a centralized Nginx solution to allow on demand updates to a web server layer that is routing requests for all Micro Services deployed to Google Cloud.• Established a Service Registration and Discovery system in Google Cloud Platform utilizing Hashicorp’s Consul.• Executed the role of DevOps Engineer for eCommerce Mobile Web and Native applications.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

• Responsible for partnering with global project teams as the Infrastructure Design Engineer for key company strategic initiatives surrounding e-commerce integrations, mobile, application server, and messaging.• Developed corporate strategy documents surrounding the middleware stack in our various business units, primarily store and logistics, to consolidate and streamline deployed technologies to meet core business/technology needs.• Primary catalyst for effort to utilize Nexus and Maven for best practices around build artifact management for internal and external projects developed for deployment on middleware.• Implemented an open source messaging system utilizing JBoss Fuse (Apache ServiceMix) to replace existing proprietary WebSphere MQ for store sites. This led to a standards-based and more cost effective system. Laid the groundwork to utilize Apache Camel to solve many integration use cases at the stores.• Created standard infrastructure designs for open source messaging using JBoss Fuse (Apache ServiceMix) and application server technology using Apache Tomcat.• Served as chairman of the Middleware Governance Board that facilitates devising standards and governance around corporate middleware technologies to increase service delivery and stability.• Member of Open Source Center of Competency, Service Oriented Architecture Center of Competency, and Corporate Mobility Committee to serve as an advisor to steer corporate direction in these initiatives.• Mentor to fellow team members and company interns in career and skill development.• Received one of Walmart Stores Information Systems Division’s highest honors of “Divisional Champion” for work surrounding Application Lifecycle Management and our corporate development environment.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

• Technical lead for corporate implementation of an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) system that dramatically increased developer productivity and reduced licensing costs by 10 million dollars.• Implemented CollabNet TeamForge, Apache Subversion, and Hudson/Jenkins to lay the foundation of providing a development environment that would cross boundaries of platforms and operating systems.• Assisted management with area budget of over 20 million dollars annually and fiscal year planning.• Created a corporate strategy document surrounding the strategy and vision for the companies development environment. Led to the implementation of our ALM system.• Responsible for delivering, enhancing, and maintaining a development environment that serviced over 4,000 developers globally, spanned across all development platforms in the company, and was highly available.• Partnered with key division stakeholders to improve the System Development Lifecycle efficiency.• Served yearly in the corporate summer intern program as a mentor/advisor.• Promoted to senior level position after four and a half years with the company and in the industry.• Received Associate of the Month award for my area for three separate initiatives.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

• Technical lead for IBM Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest implementation to offer concurrent development to our Java community of developers.• Implemented Microsoft Team Foundation Server to offer source control and build management to our .NET community of developers.• Responsible with packaging, delivery, and support of various development tools that included Microsoft Visual Studio, IBM Rational Application Developer (RAD), and eclipse.• Migrated a C based legacy homegrown source control/build automation/packaging tool from existing HP-UX 11 to HP-UX 11.23 for platform support.• Built and maintained a standard perl distribution for the AIX, HP/UX, and Linux environments that included over 300 modules from CPAN.• Technical lead and primary contact for development tool compliancy for Sarbanes-Oxley and internal audit.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

• Streamlined the company’s I-9 process by leading the implementation of a third-party electronic solution, dramatically reducing human error and company risk.• Designed and developed web applications utilizing Active Server Pages (ASP) that delivered employee paperless compensation statements.• Converted the corporate turnover system’s web application from ASP to Java. Served as a developer for this effort.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

• Took ownership of the company’s multi-platform / multi-national turnover reporting system.• Provided customer support of five separate instances of PeopleSoft Human Resources Management System for domestic and international divisions.• Developed the company’s internal associate review and compensation suite in Active Server Pages.