John C. Bland Ii Email & Phone Number

We provide high-quality software development and management services for the web, desktop, multiple mobile platforms; including automating infrastructure and infrastructure management.

Dublin, California, Us

The infrastructure as a whole was a combination of Click-Ops and 3 automation approaches with a lack of documentation leading to uncertainty of updates. I led a significant initiative to restructure all infrastructure to code (Terraform through Cloud Posse Atmos) using AWS best practices. This structure paid off in spades when we decided to add a new group of accounts for data which we accomplished within a week which previously took 6 months on two different occasions and failed to realize that goal. All infrastructure used trunk-based deployment through Spacelift with RBAC for protected stages and Slack notifications for failures.This complete rewrite required migrating old accounts to new groups of accounts. We were able to migrate over 80 services and 7-9 databases from 3 prior stages using a combination of binlog replication, DynamoDB S3 export/import, and AWS DMS.There was also a massive hole in understanding a completely new AWS RBAC approach and the new deployment model. Within the first few weeks of joining I began weekly Office Hours where anyone could join to have problems reviewed and answered as well as train on the latest changes of what was happening. This created library of over 80 hours of training and aided in documenting not just the current state, but it provided a weekly status of changes and the general direction of specific initiatives. Videos are great to have yet take time to review so over 20 Confluence documents were created explaining the system with a full Lucid Chart documenting everything from AWS accounts, RBAC, networking patterns, migration plans, and more.We also attempted to move the engineering department to a better deployment strategy. We built a full CI/CD strategy with GitHub Actions allowing a simplified approach without using two trunks which created a lot of problems for engineers. This vision wasn’t fully realized, but we were able to utilize it to quickly provide CI/CD for Lambda, AWS Batch, and ECS services.

Walnut Creek, California, Us

See the attached image for details, but the short story is...I manage and build tooling enabling Engineering to be successful. This includes Cloudbees Jenkins (automated Kubernetes deploy; formerly managed CircleCI), Twistlock (Kubernetes deploy), Hashicorp Vault (Kubernetes deploy), JFrog Artifactory/Xray (EC2 deploy), and some custom things here/there.

Old-fashioned photo booth fun for the digital world.With EventBooth it’s incredibly easy to create, manage, and share branded photographs at your next event. Offering a suite of tools — from a socially connected iPad Application to an all-in-one photo booth, your next gathering is guaranteed to generate buzz.

Ames, Iowa, Us

My initial responsibility was working on a web product, built in Angular, coupled with wrapping it in Cordova for our initial iOS offering. I contributed to a major rewrite of the application to solidify the structure and handled the offline architecture along with sync capability.I was then transitioned to building 2.0 of the app with a smaller team of devs. We worked on the Android and iOS versions separately and built both natively with one specific Cordova view, versus the entire app being in Cordova. I was tasked with handling the majority of the native iOS work until the team grew.Currently, I'm working on a React-based web app, written in Dart with some JS interop, for an upcoming product while getting a chance to touch some Go and Java for our backend architecture.

Built and manage the web presence, live streaming platform, on demand media experience, media department (sound/video requirements during services), and video editing of services and mini-movies.

Manage product development/direction and developer/design teams

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I was tasked with building and maintaining a full streaming platform with a direct concentration on the gaming community.

Tempe, Arizona, Us

Provided Flash support for live streaming, wrote new media player code for easier distribution of the official Limelight player for customers, wrote a custom file uploader for the Harpo [Oprah's company] team

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Worked on several Flash related web projects.

Tempe, Az, Us

Worked as a ColdFusion contractor.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Worked as a ColdFusion contractor.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Worked as a ColdFusion contractor.

Made a ton of mistakes and learned to be a better businessman. ;-)

This was a great job. I worked with great people and had some great times with the students. It was interesting to see the kids learned how to use a computer to do great things like make/mix videos, play games (of course), learn, type professional letters, etc. Teaching the teachers was probably just as challenging and definitely as much fun. We had several trainings which I thoroughly enjoyed facilitating. For some it was a steep learning curve due to age, etc but they eventually caught on and found themselves using the computer all of the time.In 2003 I decided to go full time with JDEV Inc. so I left AOE after my 2nd full year. It was fun while it lasted but my time was up.

Computer Engineering

Computer Science