- Hired as the first DevOps Engineer in 2016, and helped bring the company to a successful exit inDecember 2020.- Led a team of 3 DevOps engineers, and 2 Data Engineers, all working on distinct parallel projects(server migration, fulfillment improvements, ETL). This included task prioritization, overviews of keyAWS concepts, and determining the going-forward project plan, as well as mentorship on DevOpsbest practices- Served as infrastructure lead on all company mergers and acquisitions (5, in total from 2017-2021),including all necessary migrations and integrations of acquired systems into extant AWSinfrastructure.- Led all security-related initiatives, including PCI and GDPR compliance- Led all data-related initiatives, including the design and implementation of a Data Warehouse in AWSRedshift- Managed all DevOps components of the tech budget, including regular cost monitoring and reporting,cost forecasts for new projects, and cost-savings recommendations- Maintained communication with other departments within the company, to ensure thatbusiness-facing deadlines are always met or exceeded

- Designed and implemented a multi-environment, self-service deployment process from the groundup, incorporating CI/CD and security best-practices.- Maintained all company tech infrastructure across AWS (6 accounts across 4 distinct businessdivisions), as well as all other 3rd party services for such tasks as data processing (extract-loadprocesses), BI reporting, and mail campaigns- Researched and implemented a multitude of SaaS and in-house solutions for performance andsecurity monitoring of all application infrastructure, including extensive alerting to multiple engineerand business-facing channels

Managed the company's entire infrastructure footprint, which included - 50+ AWS EC2 servers in 3 Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) with Route 53 DNS management - AWS RDS (PostgreSQL) and Redshift databases - S3 data storage, with CloudFront CDN - multiple Heroku application instancesDeveloped and implemented a complete application and infrastructure monitoring strategy. This included: - a comprehensive alert system via Slack and text messages to the DevOps team through Datadog and bash scripts - dashboards to monitor application and infrastructure health (Datadog)Planned and implemented a company-wide application deployment strategy. This included: - infrastructure planning for new application deployments - usage of Jenkins CI and AWS S3 to build and store all application artifacts - various bash scripts to automate and version infrastructure changes and deploymentsManaged and performed forward planning on the company's infrastructure budget. This included: - regular monitoring and reporting of AWS, Heroku, and other third-party application costs - frequent analysis and research into infrastructure cost-reducing strategies - setting the company infrastructure budget for the upcoming fiscal yearContinuous forward planning for migration to containerized application instances, via Docker and Kubernetes, as well as configuration management via etcd and Chef.Extensive communication with all company teams to determine infrastructure improvements, and help troubleshoot infrastructure-related issues.

- Troubleshot various field server communication and information synchronization issues with their primary customer management product, via remote sessions with the customer server- Troubleshot product access issues for individual customers- Troubleshot product licensing issues- Worked with Customer Service team to identify improvements necessary for their customer management product.

- Handled all necessary code/Maven dependency changes and assisted with deployment of a major library upgrade for their primary customer service product.- Moved their primary customer management platform from Tomcat to JBoss, including deployment-related changes.- Contributed feature improvements to the their primary customer management platform.- Investigated and resolved various issues in the QA and Production environments, primarily involving website communication, cron job execution, and basic server performance.

Working for Grassroots Tech, Inc. as a consultant for SETG, I performed the following tasks:- Assisted with creation and smoke testing of new developer sandbox, acceptance testing, and performance environments for their primary customer management platform.- Managed code branches and builds for application patches and Production code deployments.- Executed/troubleshot daily code builds to QA.- Executed/troubleshot daily code deploys to QA and bi-monthly deploys to Production.- Improved custom-built deploy scripts to allow for email notification of deploy start/complete, as well as webapp status codes on deploy completion.- Built out new servers, when necessary

Worked for primary company client Scholastic Education Technology Group (see experience detail above).

➢ Developed and taught a curriculum for an introductory computer science course involving animations and robotics, using Java➢ Developed and taught a curriculum for an Advanced Placement Computer Science course, in Java, and in line with College Board requirements➢ Developed and taught a curriculum for a Game Programming course, using XNA Game Studio 3.1, C#, to teach game design concepts➢ Assisted students on projects in Python, C++, C#, Java, and Visual Basic 2008