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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, US

• Worked on benchmarking Arctic Wolf’s SecOps cloud scanning product on many different platforms
• Created shell scripts that were integrated with cloud system building scripts to produce diagnostic results that showed 100% pass, 100% fail, and a baseline diagnostic report to show proof of detection integrity on.
• Participated in SCRUMM stand ups to track benchmark progress
• Worked with other groups that managed different parts of the system ocnfiguration scripts that built cloud systems for the purpose of showing proof of remediations for common CVEs across supported operating systems and.
• Benchmarks I worked on included MacOS 12, Debian 12, Windows 2012 Server, Windows 2016 Server, Windows 2019 Server, and many other operating system versions and device versions

Austin, Texas, US

• Worked with Engineering team to improve and create automated processes in AWS
• Audited security with Laceworks and used findings to tighten security, as well as checking passwordintegrity and enforcing password policies with users
• Tore down older Travis build and deploy system and helped with implementation of Github Actionsfor CI\CD
• Created documentation in Confluence
• Technologies include Laceworks, travis-ci.com, Github Actions, Jira, Confluence, AWS Fargate, AWSRDS
• General AWS application uptime management tasks

Portland, Maine, US

• Worked with a variety of departmental engineering teams to improve and create automated processesin AWS
• Technologies include AM2 Amazon Linux, EC2, AWS Lambda, IAM roles, SSO integration in both Linuxand Windows, Python, Bash
• Participated in daily scrum-style meetings for status and work allocation
• Used Packer and AWS Image Builder to build custom images for use in AWS by other departments
• Used Ansible to automate processes for system security implementation on newly created infrastructure

San Diego, CA, US

• Migrate legacy web and database systems from on-premise operation to a fully cloud solution usingAWS with a minimum of system downtime.
• Utilize aws-cli with JSON for any migration tasks as well as some lightweight scripting using pythonto interface with AWS.
• Technologies include CentOS, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, Postgres, HazelCast,DynaTrace, node, Maven, CSV, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Java, bash, and Python.
• Worked with software development to implement Dev and Staging environments for the cloudificationof key applications in preparation for deployent to production.
• Oversaw and helped troubleshoot initial switch-over to cloud-centriic production
• Monitored application traffic and errors with Dynatrace

• Designed and implemented continuous integration and deployment and deployment for dozens ofapplication software projects, both internal tools and customer-facing interfaces and tools, using Jenkins and Microsoft Team.
• Creating software quality group to help steer design, testing, and implementation to improveproductivity in software development.
• Designed and implemented infrastructure as required to build out development environments and QAenvironments to ease software production tasks.
• Selected and implemented Zabbix to monitor development environments as well as SNMP
• Selected and implemented PageDuty uptime monitoring to continually monitor and report outages inreal-time on our production portals.
• Managed networking and DNS for our various customer payment portals.

Austin, TX, US

• Designed, administered and maintained high-availability cloud infrastructure on AWS, including ELB,RDS, S3, R53, CloudWatch, EC2, VPC, and more. This infrastructure ran Ubuntu 14.04TLS with a java server stack.
• Oversight of engineering support, including bug tracking (Zendesk, Trello, Jira), wiki (Confluence),version control (GIT), and build (Jenkins), in addition to day-to-day IT break/fix and Mac support
• Led complete overhaul of IT infrastructure to ensure redundancy, fault tolerance, and backups. Implemented systems for license and asset management, hardware monitoring, notifications and documentation.
• Helped design and implement disaster recovery plan.
• System engineering across bare metal, cloud, and localized virtual machines. Windows 2008 R2 (IIS8,SQL Server), Linux (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux); AWS.
• Managed customer support operations, creating and overseeing customer deliverables and onboardingprocess.