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Oakland, California, Us

Working in the core DevOps team to automate DevOps tools and how our customers use them.Rearcitected the chef infra for the core tools team. Allowing for less code and more automation while simplifying how the end-users use the code.Built an end-to-end solution to automate the management and deployment of the Jenkins agent fleet used by all KP digital teams to deploy their code.Managed and improved the Nginx auth proxy and cache for the internal employee website. Got the auth and caching improved along with an overall speed improvement of 27% by finding inefficient code and improving network routing and nationwide placement of key infrastructure.Built an ansible skeleton framework to improve developer adoption for migration to ansible form chef and puppet and custom scripts.

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Developing Real-time Analytics for Ubers Customer Support group. Providing their Business and World Wide support users with real-time insights into the metrics that drive users support. Using Grafana, M3, GO, Kafka and Flink, we are able to provide sub-10-second metrics that can affect real change in the business and how we support our customers.

San Francisco, California, Us

Managed the core Infra team building out Infra to control and provision servers for the Driverless car custom infra. We ran the day to day server and systems health along with Optimizing and SRE work for any service running in the data center. Regularly met with and worked on upstream tasks critical to the success of the Org. My team was critical for fixing many of the storage issues we have with the 29 million dollars worth of storage we purchased from DDN. We also created the infra needed to remotely offload the trucks and cars in sites with low connectivity. Many of my team acted as SRE embeds while also working internal projects and any break-fix system or service outages. We generally had to be a jack of all traits team with a deep understanding of how the Driverless Car Org used its custom bespoke infra.

San Francisco, California, Us

Worked to help automate and build devops tools for corporate infrastructure.Built Puppet Testing architectureBuilt Chef Architecture for endpoint managementBuild Chef repo's to manage Developer Experience and delivery for fleet-wide services.Built Puppet infra to manage the deployment of all code related to uChat a completely internal replacement for Hippchat based on Mattermost.Worked on deploying and automating the uSearch Infra a new project.

Foster City, California, Us

Senior Architect responsible for Cloud Solution Architecture and Strategy • Providing leadership to the CICD, DevOps, and Configuration Management tools cloud work streams.• Setup Jira and all Items needed to manage complex agile projects for the automation team along with other teams.• Implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CICD) with Chef, Jenkins, Packer and Jira to package middleware and automating jobs for end-to-end delivery.• Executing proof of concepts for a diverse range of cloud technologies to determine technical, functional and financial , alignment with the cloud reference architecture,• Authoring requirements, functional specifications, timelines, adoption plans support technology implementation and present architectural design concepts and solutions to all levels in the organization.

Foster City, California, Us

Director of Automation, implementing Chef at Visa. • Managed the automation team, implementing Chef as the Configuration Management Standard for Visa.• Rolled out servers, built environments, evangelizing Chef, architected CICD for recipes, and work closely with all PD (Product Development) and Engineering teams to ensure this framework is effective and successful. • Managed an extensive POC working to implement IAC (Infrastructure as Code) and pick from Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.• Involved with many other projects on automation at Visa Prior to Chef, such as being involved in implementing BSA and custom Cloud API.• Technology: Chef, Jenkins, Packer, BSA, HPOO, Vagrant, Virtual-box, VMware, Custom Automation, Jira.

St. Louis Park, Mn, Us

Sustaining Engineering lead on a major public-facing VISA project. Provided management and coding to improve the release cycle’s efficiency through automation and brokering internal communication between the team and other projects. Achieved drastic improvements in the stability and release cadences, meeting the team’s objectives. • Manage the creation of Deploy, Validation, and Turnover Documents.• Manage provisioning new servers.• Manage the coordination of the teams.• Create any needed timeline’s for project planning.• Process Pen Test results.• Worked to automate the deployment and configuration of any code set involved in the deployment process.• Worked to setup and maintain an integrated environment for quick diagnosis of production issues.• Worked with production support to allow us to get scrubbed datasets from production for further testing.• Worked to develop and finalize the automated Deployment scripts.Technology: .Net Framework, ASP.Net, WCF, MVC,C#/, XML, PowerShell, TFS

Sussex, Wi, Us

Managed virtual server cluster that ran SQL, websites and business services servers composed of C#, VB, and ASP .Net code. The software provided a centralized point to manage the delivery of art and billings for a financial software package built around Great Planes 10.• Managed any faults or issues in the Microsoft Dynamics Server, including mining data to resolve complex accounting issues.• Upgraded and built a crystal reporting engine to VS 2008 from vb6 incorporating several ways to view the new reports including .Net controls and .net controls that could be called by the classic ASP.• Upgraded all SQL servers from 2000 to 2008. • Upgraded all 100,000+ lines of code to VS 2008.• Worked to redesign the XML XSL sheets that create the Insertion Orders (Invoices) for the newspapers.Technology: .Net, ASP.Net, Winform, Win Services, C#/VB.Net, XML/XSL, SQL 2008, COM+, , JSP, ASP

Previous consulting jobs:• The most recent project that I managed was working for a large construction company in Watsonville CA, where my role was to architect a move from VB6 to .Net. This project was to move a mission critical application from VB6 to a new architecture using WPF and WCF and .Net 3.5. Currently the envisioning has been done and they will start the project. • Stepped in as architect and lead engineer for a real-estate website when their previous resources left the company. While they looked for a replacement I was able to upgraded their code to VS2008 and .Net 2.0 and also created a stable build and release environment, and fixed some major issues• Worked on a Dot Net Nuke project for a company out of the Midwest. Automated their data collection using DNN and custom code.• Worked as a subcontractor for Magenic Technologies out of their San Francisco office on an emergency project for large legal firm. Re-engineering a database that tracks test results.

St. Louis Park, Mn, Us

Worked to gain and maintail accounts for Magenic in an Account Exsecutive role.

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Worked on a project responsible for supporting and fixing all released code for the project in a sustaining engineering capacity. Created and managed SOX-Compliant deployment scripts, drastically reducing cycle time. • Created a complete QA Dev production environment deployment process.• Upgraded all Dev and Prod Servers from 2000 to 2003. • Created Custom ASP.Net controls to replace legacy business processes and pages.• Supported and debugged using nUnit and other tools to test the system and implement changes.Technology: .Net Framework, ASP.Net, C#/VB.Net, XML, Oracle 7 and 11, COM+, Visual Build Pro, JSP

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

Was responsible for the performance of the application by improving and rewriting the SQL queries and the database application layer. Managed and performed additional work on the UI to improve the user experience along with overall application performance. • Created/managed solutions in VB6, VBA, VB.Net, C#, JavaScript, and T-SQL for this application.• Stabilized and re-structured system for rapid development.• Worked to isolate and rebuild poorly performing queries.• Worked to recreate and remodel the data layer including stored procedures.• Worked to optimize UI for the most streamlined user experience possible.• Worked to document and deploy rapid development methodologies. Technology: ASP/ASP.Net, SQL Server Biztalk, VBA, VB.Net, C#, JavaScript, and T-SQL

Sacramento, California, Us

Worked to manage all SQL Server, MS Access and one-off applications. Consolidated all custom databases, according to HIPPA regulations, onto one server with user data access control and database management. This allowed for centralization of data to facilitate the oversight HIPPA requirements.• Created a Winform .Net application that replaced a manual process, saving time and money in the reimbursement process for troubled accounts. Managed over 150 custom MS Access and SQL Server databases.• Created and managed the migration of these databases to a central database repository. • Created a “no-click” deployment Winform application.• Worked with business units to design and structure their custom application business architecture to ensure results from the needed applications.

Architect, Lead Developer and Project Manager of over 75 business management systems which were fully integrated Visual Basic applications built in Visual Basic, MS Access and SQL Server. Managed cold calls and client meetings to close deals and bring in business. Worked to train and develop junior developers to allow this company to gain efficiency in employee productivity. Led development for the following clients and industry specific applications:• San Jose General Hospital – Indigent Health Care tracking and reporting system replacing legacy hospital system handling over 300,000 claims per year. MS Assess front-end / SQL Server back-end. • Conversion of MS Access-based childcare management system to SQL Server for Creative Childcare, Stockton, California. MS Access front-end / SQL Server back-end.• Customized reporting system for Stockton Unified School District purchase order system. VB front-end / Oracle back-end. • Comprehensive Agricultural Products – receiving, billing and production management system for the walnut and almond industry, in use at three different corporations.• Trucking dispatch and billing system – AC Trucking. • Donation tracking system and custom programming for Carolina Logistics, nation’s largest product return clearing house, servicing Safeway and other large grocery chains.• Warehouse and inventory management system for Carolina Logistics.• Camper Tracker 2000, a comprehensive front office management and scheduling application. Currently this application had over 70,000 lines of VB code. Camper Tracker is in use at over 70 camps nationwide.Technology: Access, SQL Server, VBA, VB, and T-SQL

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High School Diploma, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician