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DevSecOps Lead for a cloud-based CI/CD pipeline at a Department of Homeland Security component.Software Security Lead for a large Agile development program at a Department of Homeland Security component.Cloud Architect and Agile Infrastructure Coach for an Azure Government Cloud implantation at a Department of Homeland Security component.Chief Architect for a private cloud implementation at a large Homeland Security component.

Technical lead responsible for rolling out Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control to monitor the world's largest implementation of Oracle Exadata Database Machines and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud engineered systems. Also performed the role of Product Owner as this project was implemented using Agile Scrum.Technical adviser to the team implementing a Continuous Integration environment for a large development community within the Department of Homeland Security. Tools include Hudson, Subversion and Nexus as well as the Atlassian suite of products. Also performed the role of Product Owner as this project was implemented using Agile Scrum.Reported directly to the Chief Technology Officer of a large agency within the Department of Homeland Security and lead a team of 30 application infrastructure engineers including, database, application server, storage, network, Unix, security and virtualization engineers. Key projects included:• Designing and successfully prototyping an application appliance rack based on fully virtualized commodity servers with rack-mounted storage and a converged InfiniBand I/O fabric.• Creating the System Design Documentation for the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and the Exalogic Elastic CloudAs part of this work, Agilex has developed an excellent relationship with Mellanox and is one of a small number of companies around the world that participate in the beta testing of Mellanox InfiniBand drivers for various hypervisors.

Led a team of architects and engineers in the areas of SOA, J2EE, information security, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Database, applications/services monitoring and Identity & Content Management. Responsible for hosting large-scale, highly-available and highly secure enterprise applications, web sites and related infrastructure for a large agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Provided customer-focused technical support for the complete Oracle technology stack including: database, application server and the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications.

Established and managed the programming and database administration staff for the start-up, WorldPartners Association, a consortium of international telecommunications companies including: AT&T, KDD and Singapore Telecom. Negotiated technical specifications for billing information exchange among the partners and member companies.