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Implementing continuous delivery paired with automated testing on cloud services. Assist government departments to build on top of existing and greenfield cloud environments. Help clients learn to use continuous delivery fully and adopt Agile methodology. Build automated infrastructure environments.

Reston, Va, Us

Implementing continuous delivery paired with automated testing on cloud services. Assist government departments to build on top of existing and greenfield cloud environments. Help clients learn to use continuous delivery fully and adopt Agile methodology. Build automated environments for government contract tech challenges. Such as, a Terrafrom deployed AWS infrastructure with Kubernetes (EKS) ArgoCD deployment environment with, Argo Workflows, Argo Events, SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana, Istio, Sealed Secrets, Reactjs UI, spring API, Cognito, Secrets Manager, and Aurora serverless DBs.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Responsibilities:Implementing continuous delivery paired with configuration management on Amazon Web Services for a web SaaS delivering student information for multiple schools in North America.Accomplishments:Composed Terraform project and Ruby Rake Orchestration Tool for automating and maintaining multiple web application stacks for different school districts. Moving infrastructure into Kubernetes and Docker solution.

Reston, Va, Us

Responsibilities:Implementing continuous delivery paired with configuration management exclusively on Amazon Web Services. Assist clients to build on top of what they already have in AWS or greenfield. Help clients learn to use continuous delivery fully and adopt Agile methodology. Help clients increase reliability, consistencies and productivity.Alma - Devops TeamWrote Terraform configurations, modules and an orchestrator tool to deploy multiple large web stacks to AWS.Unisys - Government Tech Challenge - (3 months):Architected and built full AWS stack consisting of Kubernetes cluster for microservices, Jenkins for CI/CD,Sonarqube, Zuul, AngularJS frontend, two Java backend services, Postgres and DynamoDB. Lead and taught the team Agile method, AWS, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ruby and more.Realtor.com - Enterprise DevOps Team - (2 months):Evaluated Jenkins environment. Gave a presentation with findings and recommendations. Worked on Jenkins shared Groovy libraries code to produce usage metrics through lambda to Splunk dashboard.Capital One - Github Team - (4 months):Worked on the Enterprise DevOps team dedicated to the Github Enterprise automation. Automated deployments with Ruby, Chef, and CloudFormation. Later moved to Terraform.Capital One - Jenkins Team - (1 year 10 months):Worked on the Enterprise DevOps team dedicated to automating and maintaining the Cloudbees Jenkins 2.x platform. Completely automated a blue/green deployment solution with Ruby, Chef and CloudFormation. Later moved to Terraform. Bi-weekly deployments to production. Production stack around 120 instances in AWS.Hewlett Packard Enterprise - Enterprise Team - (6 weeks):Worked on the Enterprise team to help with a Java Lambda project that verified AWS instance tags.Capital One - ATM Team - (1 year 7 months):Wrote several Chef cookbooks and CloudFormation templates to automate the software deployments effortlessly to production.

Beaverton, Or, Us

Responsibilities:Design, create and maintain automated deployments or web stacks with Chef using advanced Ruby programming for development teams on Linux environments. Implement Continuously Integration of all staged environments. Help migrate web stacks for multiple teams to Amazon Web Services. Accomplishments:Learned Ruby, Chef, MongoDB, Go CI and several other skills in a short amount of time. Improved Infrastructure Team MediaWiki site and cookbook. Took ownership of the shared MongoDB Chef cookbook and have advanced it in numerous ways. Wrote migration script that all the Nike GTM groups used for their RHEL upgrades. Wrote a bootstrap script for all the teams to use for remotely deploying the Chef Client using Knife SSH. Set standards and migrated several team web stacks to Amazon Web Services.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

Responsibilities: Build, monitor and maintain server operating systems plus software packages for over 2,000 physical and virtual Windows and Linux systems throughout North America.Accomplishments:• Lead Engineer for Lab Manager environment that was setup by a previous employee.• Reconfigured Lab Manager East environment to increase stability and functionality.• Designed and built Lab Manager West environment including the establishment of design standards to increase performance to West coast users.• Reconfigured Lab Manager East service hosts to match the standards I established on the Lab Manager West environment and improve performance.• Researched replacement product for Lab Manager and worked with the customers for approval. Subsequently, learned, designed and built vCloud Director as the replacement environment for Lab Manager.• Trained coworkers on Lab Manager and vCloud Director to improve support. Additionally, trained customers on Lab Manager and vCloud Director to increase productivity.• Assisted setup and design of View environment with thin clients to have a secure environment for Sales and Support users that dealt with credit card information to use as a replacement workstation.• Learned advanced PowerShell scripting in a short amount of time to create an automated Windows Patching solution for over 2,000 servers across North America.• Created PowerShell modules to automate VMware Infrastructure, Active Directory and various Windows tasks to save time and manpower.• Designed and implemented standard backup environments across North America to increase backup success and make it easier to support.• Replaced tape drive libraries with Data Domain devices to reduce costs, increase performance and improve stability.• Took ownership and redesigned the McAfee environment to improve performance, stability and protection on over 6,000 systems.• Trained coworkers on McAfee products to improve support and overall operation.

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