Accelerate change in infrastructure and information technology to promote rapid scaling of the business and excellence in service delivery. Champion cost efficiency and agile delivery to minimize risk while increasing pace. Rally cross-functional teams around a clear vision and eliminate wasteful technical debt.

Contract to drive the transition of tools from owned data centers and infrastructure to AWS. Develop deployment patterns for applications and services to transition to the cloud. Drive improvements and efficiencies in operational practices. Serve as subject matter expert and advocate for automation of build and deploy pipelines and transition to continuous deployment.

Develop CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Packer, Ansible, Terraform and other industry standard tools, with primary aim of migrating systems from Openstack into AWS. Automate build, test, deploy and monitoring process.

Develop, administer, and support the company’s Linux systems, Windows systems, and VMWare, creating and enhancing specialized systems and applications that are efficient, effective, and secure. • Work closely with business units and technical team members to build, deploy, and support systems. Cultivate solid working relationships while discussing technical requirements and creating solutions to meet those needs. • Install, configure, test, and maintain systems as well as associated hardware and software. Manage applications for mail routing agents, vulnerability management, managed security services, and cloud-based SaaS applications.• Utilize a wide range of hardware, software, operating systems, and servers to accomplish functions. Write scripts using Puppet, Perl, Bash, Ruby, Python, and Php to deploy and automate systems. • Continually monitor and improve systems for optimal performance, security, and reliability. Perform regular maintenance on systems. Troubleshoot and resolve issues. Respond promptly to down systems. • Train and assist users with new and existing systems. Serve as a Subject Matter Expert on all systems and a main point-of-contact for information, questions, and issues.• Assist in the development and management of standard operating policies and procedures as well as audits and controls that ensure system integrity, security, issue resolution, and communications.• Regularly update infrastructure documentation to maintain completeness and accuracy. Document and prepare technical documents for other departments and knowledge base archives.• Meet with the Management Team to provide technical updates and status reports while offering recommendations on the improvement of existing systems.• Take on additional roles, often working extra hours to lead special projects or assist with overflow work.

Directed teams and activities involved in multi-million dollar projects for this leader in fire protection systems, with responsibility for project specifications, budgets, and timelines as well as team training and supervision, project management, testing operations, quality controls, certification procedures, and client services.