Managed DevOps group and provide direction for the modernization of the existing platform, including containerization, microservices, automation with Terraform, platform security hardening, scalability, monitoring and alerting. Successfully launching first client and laid groundwork for future customer success. Additionally, responsible for driving infosec best practices in preparation for ISO 27001 and SOC1 compliance.Managed Data Science team delivering a high though put data lake critical for customer facing and internal consumption. Responsible for the architecting and implementation of the data lake, ETL jobs, report generation and ML/AI predictive analysis.Managed the IT team responsible for maintaining all business systems, processes and procedures ensuring we reduced friction for development, while applying up to date security and management of IT systems.

Executive advisor on cloud, information security, information compliance, and general information technology topics.Architecture consultation, development, deployment and training, relating to: multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, infosec, GDPR, ISO27001, SOC, PCI, and other topics.Infrastructure migration to/from cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure).Interim management of software engineering, database engineering, infrastructure engineering, network/server engineering, and other IT individuals.Data engineering and science consultation and interim support.Information security and compliance consultation and interim support.

Information security engineer working with Linux, UNIX, Apple and Microsoft operating systems. Worked with Cisco, Extreme, Juniper, SonicWALL, Nokia, and more networking and firewall equipment.Deployed and maintained systems on premise for customers, consulted during outages and implementations.On-call for customer issues.

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Responsible for site reliability for global cloud infrastructure.Managed team of SRE and DevOps engineers for infrastructure reliability.Managed entire global infrastructure and resource budget.Technical architect for infrastructure and security concerns.Responsible for all information security and compliance concerns, built from the ground up.Implemented ISO 27001 and SOC2.Led organization in all information security concerns.Developed, deployed and maintained all information security and compliance policies, controls and documentation.Managed information security and compliance related budget items.Developed and led the InfoSec team.Managed information technology (internal) department and budget.People leader in the Americas, starting tech teams presence in the both North and South America.

Responsible for overseeing architecture and direction for AWS and on premises infrastructure.Technical SME for AWS resources and utilization.Responsible for AWS budget and curation.Trained and presented on various DevOps, SRE, security and cloud topics.Primary technical leader of the InfoSec/Compliance council.Managed a team of data engineers and analysts globally, supporting internal and external customer requirements, database and data engineering code performance. Responsible for data sets upwards of 16 TB.Managed network and servers team, responsible for 6 customer sites and 2 corporate sites.Managed DevOps/SRE team responsible for 15 (and growing) AWS accounts, automation of on prem and cloud resources, and compliance/security of infrastructure. Also responsible for training and education of developers in cloud usage.

Lead/managed DevOps / SRE team of FTEs and contractors.Architected an end-to-end Kubernetes transformation (migration to Kubernetes) across all environments, down to developer's laptops.Enabled 5 9's uptime from 3 9's uptime by leading infrastructure and code transformation to microservices and containerization.Stood up an AWS account for data warehousing using Redshift, Lambdas, Firehose (Kinesis), Tableau Server, EKS, Athena, custom code and S3 bucket triggers to provide a secure PCI/PII compliant data warehousing home.Ingested data from various sources including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Quickbooks Online, Sales Force, Zendesk, AWS Service log files, system log files, and others by performing transforms using Python and GOlang. Stood up and managed Tableau Server and SME for visualizations for business intelligence (BI) reports.Built Tensorflow machine learning platform supporting GO program and GO learn for the purpose of identifying customer trends and making business recommendations.SME for Tableau (reports) SQL and MongoDB data migrations.Tools used: Golang, gonum/mat, gorgo­nia­/te­nsor, knire­n/gota, goml/gobrain, mat64, godoc.org/code.google.com/p/probab, jbrukh/bayesian, timkaye11/goRecommend, gopkg.in/mgo.v2, nlopes/slack, aws/aws-sdk-go, lib/pq, and others.Interim compliance and security officer managing and driving all PCI, PII, and compliance related work within the organization.Managed the cardholder data environment (CDE) to the highest PCI-AOC standards.

As an engineer, senior level, my primary focus was as an architect and leader within my group. During my time, I was given the responsibility of the management of our software engineering group.I designed and lead a team that built a hardware inventory data warehouse for all hardware items (servers, network equipment, storage equipment, registers, etc). This solution was completely client less and server less, in the AWS/GCP multi-cloud environment. I also designed the infrastructure to ingest real time metrics from all hardware across the organization, with a granularity of 5 second intervals within the AWS/GCP cloud. These two solutions provide visibility and understanding into the organization's utilization of hardware and help pinpoint problems before they happen. It provides 30-60% cost savings across resource utilization and provide the groundwork for a chargeback model. This project has visibility across all tech organizations and up to VP levels.I have driven the adoption of Python 3, Django, Postgresql, AWS serverless services such as Lambda, Jupyter notebooks, and secure best practices.I have lead the adoption of data cleaning principles such as the use of pandas, matplotlib, and related Python tools as well as R to create tidy data. I presented data with Shiny for quick dash boards. I was responsible for training within my team and across teams, and hold training sessions, brown bags and tech talks.I was directly responsible for 8-12 engineers, meeting tight deadlines and increasing the value the group provides.

Led our DevOps/SRE team through the launch of a new mobile game and maintenance of multiple older titles.Drove our team to provide a highly available, minimal downtime experience for our gamers. Working with AWS/Google Cloud, Ruby, in house tools, Salt, Python, Docker and other tools, we successfully kept our SLAs. I worked closely with all groups within the organization to provide an awesome experience for my internal customers and external customers.SME for AWS services and principal/architect level decisions. Deeply focused on security and proactive security measures.Utilized my education in data science to provide data to marketing, and operations using R, Python, Redshift and ELK (elasticsearch, logstash, kibana) clusters, to name a few.Led the adoption of Salt Stack (similar to Chef and Puppet) within the infrastructure.Successfully launched the mobile game Paradise Bay.

Lead innovation of continuous integration/development for the migration of existing and build of new systems into the AWS and internal cloud (hybrid) infrastructure. Managed a team devoted to fanatically exceeding our customer's expectations and passionately driving for the best technology for the job.Successfully delivered several projects ahead of schedule, including complete documentation and clear maintenance operational responsibilities. The solutions used Jenkins, GitHub, S3 and Java to deploy a customer facing static site with real time deployment mechanisms, unit tests, code promotion rules, monitoring and alerting.SME for AWS related integration and architect level discussions.Responsible for a team and our deliverables to our global internal and external customers.Utilized my education in data science to provide R and python scripts for data mining events, and to provide data to the business for making critical decisions.

Managed 2-8 technical developers in the production of high quality products.Developed technical curriculum, documentation, and courseware for AWS training programs.Developed lab creation processes and procedures for continuous evolvement of the training materials to match the AWS services.Designed real time labs using Ruby, JSON, Python, rake, and AWS services for Curriculum Developers.Defined technical specifications around courseware to best fit AWS customer training.A liaison for Curriculum Developers to the technology.Designed and built tools to simplify workflow and provide better labs more quickly.Understood current technology to best integrate relevancy into training.Created repeatable, automated patterns using technology like Chef and CloudFormation to simplify classrooms and labs for massive teaching opportunities such as re:Invent.Managed programs for internal AWS teams to support launches of courseware that was used by hundreds of thousands of people.

Led a team of 5 junior to senior infrastructure engineers.Spearheaded the deployment of Opscode Chef Private Server and the integration of Continuous Delivery and DevOps within the organization.Drove the adoption and mindset shift to cloud services on AWS.Built tools using Ruby for Windows and Linux systems management.Managed and maintained thousands of Windows servers supporting the entire Nordstrom.com website, housing IIS, MS SQL, and custom code.Managed F5 load-balancer clusters.Managed relationships between my team and dozens of other teams to best deploy new features, while maintaining uptime and stability of website.Architected new solutions with other teams to improve the website and internal infrastructure usability.Led intermediate team mates to successful implementations and relationships with other teams.Advised and educated team mates in technologies.Helped lead the organization to a DevOps mindset including: contributing to community, infrastructure as code, and the building of relationships transcending the job description.

Lead a group of 8 engineers (DevOps, Database, Network, Virtualization, and Server).Refined processes resulting in 33% faster server deployment.Managed, deployed and troubleshot more than 800 Windows server 2000, 2003 and 2008 platforms.Deployed a new domain spanning 4 data centers worldwide, and planned/executed migration from 3 other domains.Managed IIS6 and IIS7 spanning several hundred servers.Managed SQL 2000, 2005, and 2008 spanning a couple hundred servers.Built ITIL documentation standardization with CAB.Managed and troubleshooted Exchange 2007 production infrastructure.Built Group Policy in the new Windows server 2008 R2 domain, while maintaining the existing 3 domains (until migration was complete.)Managed Active Directory across multiple domains, and built security as it pertains to PCI standards.Responsible for 2 F5 Big-IP clustersDeployed Juniper SRX 650, SRX 220H, Secure Access 2500 Base Systems, and Junos Space Virtual Control ApplicationManaged and refined Hyperic monitoring solution.Participated in Disaster Recovery exercises and mitigation procedures.Managed Global DNS over 5 Data Centers. Managed 3PAR and Equallogic iSCSI and Fiber channel SAN storage solutions.Trained colleagues on various technologies including F5, DNS, Group Policy, Active Directory, Juniper, and other topics.24x7 top-tier on-call support for production outage and security incident response.

• In 2013, Architect and manage the complete migration of on premises data center to AWS including services: Exchange, Active Directory, IIS, MS SQL, MS Dynamics for POS, MS Remote Access Server (RAS and DirectAccess servers), Checkpoint firewall and central management server and Symantec Backup Exec. Orchestrated training for staff and best practices for AWS resource utilization.• Provided high level re-architecture of current LAN, WAN, wireless and VPN / remote access management, including: Cisco and Nokia Checkpoint. The recommendations are for the corporate offic and over 80 remote offices, to include stability of POS, in store wifi, and the corporate data center.• Stabilized the production Hyper-V deployment, including IBM x3560 M3 hosts and an IBM DS3524 ISCSI storage solution.• Managed physical to virtual (P2V) migration.• Directed Exchange 2003 to 2010 migration.• Configured Symantec Backup Exec for streamlined backups on an IBM TS3100.• Provided best practice recommendations.• Provided ITIL standard documentation.• Implemented VPN solutions for the corporate office, including SSL vpn and IPSec options.• Provided disaster recovery recommendations and best practices.• Managed vendors for quotes on network and wireless, security, and data center facilities.• High level troubleshooting of Windows Server 2003, 2008, Exchange, MSSQL 2008, Cisco, and Checkpoint.• Trained and lead Tully's technical staff.

• Assisted in planning an enterprise wide, multi-domain System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (SCOM) covering over 2000 servers• Assisted in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) R2 management and high level architecture deployments.• Managed 2 ISA clusters for PCI compliance.• Managed IIS 6 and IIS 7 spanning several hundred servers.• Participated in Disaster Recovery exercises and mitigation procedures.• Participated in troubleshooting for all Windows Server related problems.• Assisted in Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 troubleshooting and management.• Assisted in Group Policy management in a Windows server 2008 R2 domain.• Assisted in management of Active Directory across multiple domains, including security as it pertains to PCI compliance.

• Effective responsibilities: Senior systems, network, infrastructure, ops and security engineering.• Managed 3 engineers to provide “4 9’s” uptime.• Lead the adoption of AWS services for production products.• Executed a Windows domain migration.• Planned a production data center move, from a hosted to a colocation solution.• Managed both production and development environments.• Managed hosting provider for Ruby on Rails environment to establish a faster than 30 minute turnaround of incidents.• Purchased and configured entire development environment, including a SAN, servers, Cisco networking, and VMware.• Configured Cisco networking for multiple ISPs and port level security, allowing for easy infrastructure growth and management.• Built a disaster recovery plan for production, for a less than 3 hour recovery.• Managed IT personnel, and brought internal incident response time down to 30 minutes.• Supported 30+ employees using Windows 7 and Apple OSX 10.x in a mixed Windows Server 200x/Linux server environment.• Built and configured Windows 2003/2008 AD domain with single sign on and RADIUS..• Built and configured: MS Exchange 2007 for multi-domain, SSL operation, MS SQL 2008 for MS CRM 4 Dynamics, OCS 2007 R2, SharePoint 2010 / IIS7 server, Dynamics CRM 4 / IIS7 server with Exchange integration, SCCM / SCOM 2007 R2 servers.• Built rapid deployment Linux environment for Ruby on Rails developers on VMware 4.• Configured, managed and monitored both MS RAS and Cisco client and client less VPN solutions.• Configured and maintained MySQL servers for production and development environments.• Managed dozens of vendors and contractors.• Drove and managed project initiatives for major application and system overhauls, managing internal staff and external vendors.• 24x7 top tier on call support for production and development environments.• Mentored and educated fellow staff on various topics including DNS, IPSEC, and disaster recovery.

• Effective responsibilities: Senior systems, network, infrastructure, ops and security engineering.• Managed 3 engineers to provide “4 9’s” uptime.• Executed a Windows domain migration.• Planned a production data center move, from a hosted to a colocation solution.• Managed both production and development environments.• Managed hosting provider for Ruby on Rails environment to establish a faster than 30 minute turnaround of incidents.• Purchased and configured entire development environment, including a SAN, servers, Cisco networking, and VMware.• Configured Cisco networking for multiple ISPs and port level security, allowing for easy infrastructure growth and management.• Built a disaster recovery plan for production, for a less than 3 hour recovery.• Managed IT personnel, and brought internal incident response time down to 30 minutes.• Supported 30+ employees using Windows 7 and Apple OSX Snow Leopard in a mixed Windows Server 200x/Linux server environment.• Built and configured Windows 2003/2008 AD domain with single sign on and RADIUS..• Built and configured: MS Exchange 2007 for multi-domain, SSL operation, MS SQL 2008 for MS CRM 4 Dynamics, OCS 2007 R2, SharePoint 2010 / IIS7 server, Dynamics CRM 4 / IIS7 server with Exchange integration, SCCM / SCOM 2007 R2 servers.• Built rapid deployment Linux environment for Ruby on Rails developers on VMware 4.• Configured, managed and monitored both MS RAS PPTP and Cisco client and client less VPN solutions.• Configured and maintained MySQL 5 servers for production and development environments.• Managed dozens of vendors.• Managed on site low and high voltage contractors.• Drove and managed project initiatives for major application and system overhauls, managing internal staff and external vendors.• 24x7 top tier on call support for production and development environments.• Mentored and educated fellow staff on various topics including DNS, IPSEC, and disaster recovery.

• Helped design and secure architecture for a VMWare Infrastructure Enterprise deployment, saving millions of dollars in current and future hardware costs.• Built and configured VMware Host clusters involving various HP hardware including: C7000 blades, DL series (including 580's), and miscellaneous other server hardware.• Built, configured and secured hundreds of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x86/x64 hosts and Windows Server 2008 hosts.• Migrated, configured, and secured dozens of physical machines into VMware Infrastructure. • Helped manage Active Directory policies thereby smoothing the process of adding new servers.• Participated in peer review of documentation, which streamlined and corrected errors, saving hundreds of hours spent troubleshooting and wasted time.• Migrated OCS 2007 R2, SharePoint 2007, Exchange 2007, MS SQL 2008, IIS 7 and other servers. • Reviewed and secured Altiris/RDP deployment scripts, where I helped resolve several bugs. • Managed customer project deliverables to completion. • Reviewed purchase orders for accuracy and completeness, catching errors that saved the company hundreds of thousands of dollars. • Trained T-Mobile employees on process and procedure for: VMware (deployment, security and management), purchase orders (from vendor quote to submission to finance) and documentation procedures.

• Designed and secured architecture for a WAN spanning multiple worldwide sites. This built confidence in our PIX and ASA IPSEC infrastructure, such that future projects will make more use of them as well as helped to build a very scalable solution.• Designed and secured architecture for upcoming long-term and short-term projects, resulting in converting a fully routable network to a fully firewalled network, build out for our Bellevue datacenter, and proper procedure for help desk to proactively prepare for company growth.• Installed and configured new security and network devices as well as server hardware which provided for a more secure, simplified, and manageable architecture.• Maintained and monitored security, network and VPN devices on LAN and WAN. My implementation of Cisco’s Adaptive Security Device Manager simplified the process for all of the IT personnel.• Maintained and monitored server architecture on LAN and worldwide data centers, including thousands of servers running Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, an Exchange Server 2003, various proprietary pieces of server software configurations, and several Linux distributions including FreeBSD, SUSE, CentOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu.• Built, configured and hardened a MS SharePoint 2005 / IIS 6 server with a MS SQL 2005 backend serving more than 1000 users around the world.• Built, configured and hardened a MS Office Communications Server 2007 R2 server servicing 1000+ users.• Implemented and maintained server hardening, log monitoring, and intrusion detection systems.• Reviewed and amended security policies for the corporate office and worldwide data centers.• 24x7 top-tier on-call support for production outage and security incident response.• Designed, implemented and secured multiple VMware infrastructure servers.• Mentored and educated peers. Lead and responsible for all help desk-related support in the local office. Supported all help desk staff.

• Designed and secured architecture for a WAN spanning multiple worldwide sites. This built confidence in our PIX and ASA IPSEC infrastructure, such that future projects will make more use of them as well as helped to build a very scalable solution.• Designed and secured architecture for upcoming long-term and short-term projects, resulting in converting a fully routable network to a fully firewalled network, build out for our Bellevue datacenter, and proper procedure for help desk to proactively prepare for company growth.• Installed and configured new security and network devices as well as server hardware which provided for a more secure, simplified, and manageable architecture.• Maintained and monitored security, network and VPN devices on LAN and WAN. My implementation of Cisco’s Adaptive Security Device Manager simplified the process for all of the IT personnel.• Maintained and monitored server architecture on LAN and worldwide data centers, including thousands of servers running Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008, an Exchange Server 2003, various proprietary pieces of server software configurations, and several Linux distributions including FreeBSD, SUSE, CentOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu.• Built, configured and hardened a MS SharePoint 2005 / IIS 6 server with a MS SQL 2005 backend serving more than 1000 users around the world.• Built, configured and hardened a MS Office Communications Server 2007 R2 server servicing 1000+ users.• Implemented and maintained server hardening, log monitoring, and intrusion detection systems.• Reviewed and amended security policies for the corporate office and worldwide data centers.• 24x7 top-tier on-call support for production outage and security incident response.• Designed, implemented and secured multiple VMware infrastructure servers.• Mentored and educated peers. Lead and responsible for all help desk-related support in the local office. Supported all help desk staff.

• Installed, hardened and administered 30+ Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2000 in the production datacenter.• Installed, secured, and administered 40+ Windows XP and Windows 2000 desktop for six sites.• Installed, secured and administered 20+ Ubuntu 5.10 and Ubuntu 6 Linux servers.• Installed, secured and administered 4 Macintosh OSX 10.4 servers and 30+ workstations.• Administered and supported a Toshiba Strata 260 telephone system for 40+ users.• Administered a production SQL Server 2000 database for a MAS 500 accounting system.• Planned, secured, and implemented a WAN infrastructure over point-to-point T1s using Cisco ASA 5510s and SonicWALL 3060 PRO.• Designed and implemented IT policies and disaster recover procedures (DRP) to enable full recovery and operability from complete building outage.• Deployed SCOM 2005 for management of existing systems.• Determined and maintained IT budget of $250,000 annually, of which we came under budget each year.

• Installed and supported 12 Windows servers including: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 as well as a Citrix Server and a SCO Unix production servers.• Supported IIS 5 installation for the ecommerce side of the business.• Installed and supported 3 Macintosh OS X workstations, and 100+ Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP workstations.• Installed and supported Citrix Metrafame server XP 3.• Supported several Cisco PIX firewall and various Cisco routers and switches for the corporate WAN.• Researched and implemented new systems and processes that provided a more smoothly run IT infrastructure, resulting in more than 20 hours weekly of regained productivity in various departments, for a total savings of more than 4000 hours.• Acted as a network and server security consultant from 1999 to 2001.

• Installed and supported more than 500 Windows NT 4.0 production servers.• Installed and supported more than 400 Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows 2000 workstations.• Supported WAN infrastructure devices including Nokia and Check Point firewalls and Cisco routers.• Piloted the installation and deployment of SCCM / SCOM for ease of systems management.• Responsible for first and second tier issue resolution with an average ticket turn-around or escalation of less than 10 minutes.