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San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Led a six-member engineering team in the design and development of application delivery and operation platforms, enhancing overall system efficiency. - Regularly modernized and maintained compliance across 12+ systems, preventing system atrophy and ensuring operational consistency. - Established and managed team OKRs quarterly, focusing on clear objectives and measurable outcomes. - Actively participated in on-call rotations, proficiently troubleshooting services, managing major and minor incidents, and maintaining system stability. - Implemented GitHub Actions across the engineering organization, providing samples for swift adoption and fostering process improvement. - Negotiated contract renewals with third-party vendors, ensuring cost-effective services without compromising quality.

Madison, Wi, Us

My primary goal is to build and manage a highly functional DevOps engineering team while leading the way on technical initiatives.- Building infrastructure as code for greenfield and legacy platforms.- Engineering and managing kubernetes clusters- Reducing Infrastructure technical debt and driving automation to reduce attack surfaces and rapidly address vulnerabilities.- Architecting and Engineering solutions that leverage python based lambda functions to empower Engineering teams to manage Non-Prod systems.- Managing team strategy and prioritizing the backlog to meet strategic goals.- Mentoring team members on technology and best practices- Building Monitoring / Alerting / Reporting systems to be metric and data driven.- Evangelizing Cross team collaboration and SDLC best practices.- Managing the Source Control Management system.- Building Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery solutions- Handling support tasks and all planned and unplanned downtime.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Implemented and managed systems responsible for source control management (GitLab), continuous integration (Jenkins), continuous delivery (Ansible), and operational monitoring and reporting (Elastic Stack).• Collaborated with developers to modernize deployment processes of legacy sites.• Built processes to modernize test environment using Jenkins, Docker, and custom built golang applications.• Built test automation using cucumberjs and selenium grid.• Designed and implemented new web product’s infrastructure.• Built deployment processes for the new web product leveraging bare metal servers (MacOS), Linux VMs, and AWS CloudFront.• Built and demonstrated proof of concepts around Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible and AWS to help develop product strategy.• Worked as part of the internal helpdesk and on-call rotation to support all systems.

Placed at The Omni Group to provide DevOps related experience and support to both existing and new products.

Mclean, Va, Us

• Performed Release Management duties, running Bi-Weekly outage and non-outage releases while building tools and processes to streamline and automate aspects of release planning and generating audit-able documentation. • Worked along the Developer Services team to implement CI/CD tools for the Engineering teams to work with. • Coordinated and managed the annual Technology Recovery Exercise proving our line of business' ability to recover to a secondary datacenter in the case of a disaster. • In January of 2017 I started transitioning to a DevOps Engineer role to help facilitate the upgrade and migration of our sensitive information encryption platform to AWS. • Collaborated with Operations support teams to help build DevOps/SRE skillsets and automated processes for systems management, monitoring, and reporting. • Coordinated and ran DevOps knowledge sharing meetings with the operations and engineering teams as well as a personal project building a Raspberry Pi 5 node docker cluster to help the operations support team improve their linux and docker skills. • Built automation to replace manual data acquisition using corporate APIs and AWS Serverless Technology (Lambda)

Portland, Or, Us

• Staffed at Capital One Investing as an Urgent Channel Operations Engineer working on high priority incidents requiring a code oriented technical solution. • Moved into Release Management to run Bi-Weekly outage and non outage releases while building tools and processes to streamline and automate aspects of release planning and generating audit-able documentation. • Participated in the 2015 Technology Recovery Exercise troubleshooting and resolving issues that would otherwise impede a passing grade.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Responsible for the customer focused design of improvements to the incident management system serving enterprise customers. This system included over 120 servers across Production and Pre-Production environments.• Responsible for the operation and uptime for the incident management system serving Microsoft’s enterprise customers.• Responsible for the development and successful execution of High Availabilitty strategy (SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn) as well as multi datacenter disaster recovery plan.• Development of near real-time analytics for customer support services using PowerBI. This provided stakeholders a view of business activities being performed in the ecosystem to drive strategic decisions.• Design and development of a Modern Windows application to provide a real time view of deployment activities and analytical analysis post execution. This application was a winner of the FY13 Innovation Venture Capital competition that featured over 200 entries.• Led operations team that included 1 onshore dedicated resource and 6 offshore.• Led deployment teams and trained new leader for deployment activities.• Development of a large amount of automation processes leading to direct positive customer impact.• Recognized with the FY14 Q1 IT Collaboration Excellence Award for work contributing to the migration of services to a “Zero Planned Downtime” development and operational model.

• Staffed with the MPSIT Services group at Microsoft, tasked with resolving incidents across 40 applications and 2 cost centers. These incidents range from affecting single users to major outages.• Used my background and expertise with SQL Server to help design and develop a revamped Services Dashboard responsible for reporting Application Availability and Performance.• Helped to design and develop standards for a common set of database tools deployed across production servers to facilitate metric gathering.• Worked on tools in both C# and SQL to fulfill team needs in regards to both automated tasks and information gathering.

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Worked on Microsoft's PlanCast financial forecasting project as an Accenture asset placed with the Business Intelligence Engineering group.• Responsible for design and development within MS SQL 2008 R2 and MS SQL 2012 of a metadata driven system to acquire data from multiple external sources while maintaining row identity durability for both domains and custom hierarchical structures. The system used it’s metadata to be flexible to avoid the SDLC process.• Worked with Mirroring, Snapshots, and CDC to acquire data from another source internal to the project. These systems are used to provide “near real-time” reporting on user entered data.• Responsible for documentation of developed systems and consolidation and clarity of Operations Guide.

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• Responsible for architecture and optimizing databases involving both large amounts of data and sensitive customer information.• Design and development of middle tier in both PHP and C#.• Design and development of a customizable online CRM system using PHP and MySQL.• Managed several MySQL servers in both production and development environments and 1 MS SQL Server in a development environment.• Setup and management of Linux appliances (LAMP).• Managed code via subversion and later Git.• Management of Linux and MySQL via Bash.

Scottsdale, Az, Us

• Developed ETL processes used to populate dimension and fact tables in our large MS SQL Data Warehouse system using T-SQL, DTS, and SSIS.• Resolved database backup and restore, database tuning, database upgrade, and stored procedure troubleshooting requests.• Part of a 3 person 24/7 DBA on call system for the majority of my time there.• Worked on previously built replication system, identifying problem areas and setting up automated maintenance jobs.

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• Developed databases that standardized government loan data from each state using T-SQL, stored procedures, and DTS. Responsible for tuning, deployment, and maintenance of these databases.• Sole designer for desktop applications in VB.Net and C# to stage the data and load it into the appropriate databases. Also developed desktop applications to link files on the server to records in the databases.• Worked as part of the team that redesigned the website utilizing the loan data. The project involved converting from ASP to ASP.Net and increasing the features of the site.

Developed databases that standardized government loan data from each state using T-SQL, stored procedures, and DTS. Responsible for tuning, deployment, and maintenance of these databases.Sole designer for desktop applications in VB.Net and C# to stage the data and load it into the appropriate databases. Also developed desktop applications to link files on the server to records in the databases.Worked as part of the team that redesigned the website utilizing the loan data. The project envolved converting from ASP to ASP.Net and increasing the features of the site.