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Created my own video games and novels.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Led a high-performance software team that built CI/CD and Dev Experience tooling to deploy applications and infrastructure to Azure for LinkedIn's Productivity Engineering org.- Built a fully remote and globally diverse team of 8 engineers from existing employees and new hires.- Delivered MVP and two major milestones of unified infrastructure and application CI/CD product. Reduced application deployment and approval times from months to hours.- Owned 5+ products and served as both Product and Project Manager.- Interacted with stakeholders throughout engineering to ensure strong feedback loops.- Mentored three newly promoted Managers.- Ensured code met quality and security compliance.- Developed and enforced standards and best practices for Cloud Application development and deployment.- Modernized SDLC practices for traditional operations teams.- Promoted Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging through workshops, discussions, and equitable interviewing/hiring practices.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Served as Lead Architect for CI/CD products for infrastructure and application deployments to Azure. Designed and implemented multiple tools and frameworks to improve developer productivity and job satisfaction.- Delivered a CI/CD pipeline to deploy IaaS resources to Azure, eliminating manual deployments and reducing IaaS deployment times from weeks to minutes.- Designed and implemented internal build/test/release framework for PowerShell module development used to build 100+ internal modules.- Developed proprietary JSON-based Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework to meet technical and security requirements.- Architected and built a unified infrastructure and application CI/CD product using Azure DevOps, PowerShell, and ASP.NET supporting Java, Python, JavaScript, and C# applications deployed to 30+ Azure IaaS and PaaS components.- Designed event-driven automation framework that eliminated manual pre and post-deployment tasks.- Designed Kubernetes-based build-agent-on-demand solution that served 100's of builds per day.- Mentored 10+ senior and staff engineers from multiple teams on software engineering and DevOps.- Hosted and led monthly technical training sessions on various programming languages and tech stacks.

Kanata, Ontario, Ca

Architected and implemented business solutions with PowerShell, C#, Active Directory, Azure AD, Azure, AES, Office 365 Exchange/SharePoint/OneDrive, and ADFS.- Architected enterprise PKI solution that enabled improved int user experiences for accessing internal systems.- Developed self-service OneDrive access and permissions request tool to allow temporary or permanent access to leavers' OneDrive.- Designed and implemented PaaS-first strategies for cloud technologies in Azure and AWS to reduce on-prem infrastructure costs.- Delivered CI/CD pipelines for PowerShell-based business automation using AWS CodeCommit, Lambda, Azure Functions, and Azure Automation to improve tasks' constancy and reliability and solution delivery.- Architected and designed modern configuration management & patching strategies for clients and servers using Intune, Azure Automation, AWS SSM, and AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager.- Deployed and Maintained SSO solutions with AD FS using SAML, WS-Federation, OpenID, and OAuth, enabling employee access to 20+ applications.

Worked on Source Control Management (SCM) team to ensure the reliability of source control and CI/CD systems.- Designed and deployed Linux build and development virtual machines on VMWare vCenter that served 100's of builds per day.- Deployed and managed Jenkins server that eliminated many build and testing tasks.- Built and maintained automation for build and development processes using Python and Bash, improving reliability and performance of builds.- Designed and maintained CVS integrity, stability, and disaster recovery, ensuring operation and continuity in the event of major disasters.- Maintained storage management and automation for source code and build assets, optimizing storage costs and maintaining data integrity.

Oversee operations and Systems Administration. Plan, implement and support internal, corporate, and complex client systems on all version of Windows server platform and various Linux distributions. Maintain, update, and manage database servers (Mysql and MSSQL), web servers (Apache, IIS, and Nginx), Exchange, Active Directory, corporate jabber server, support ticketing system, and various other systems important to the day to day operations of the organization. Plan, implement, and maintain Disaster Prevention (load balancing, RAID, Geo-diversity, Round-robin DNS, etc) and Disaster Recovery (local, remote, and off-site backups). Serve as Level III Technical Support for client initiated issue escalation and as a final point of escalation for all technical issues within the organization. Serve as point man for all complex system security issues. Specialize in manual detection and removal of viruses, malware/spyware/greyware, rootkits, and zero-day exploits.

Primarily responsible for repairing printers of all types, brands, and applications. Secondary responsibilities include the testing and repair of wired and wireless networking routers, hubs, switches, adapters, and other various networking related hardware. Have previously repaired and tested VCR's, DVD players, and game consoles such as Xbox, Playstation 2, Gamecube, and Gameboy Advanced.

Irving, Tx, Us

3rd level outbound general technical support, network antivirus administration (clients and servers), computer: repair, upgrades, installation, maintenance, Server: preparation, repair, antivirus tool development, in-house general tech support, Windows 2000 migration (clients), technical documentation, supported corporate wide environment update for private network. Configure statistic gathering on Cisco switches. Crystal reports upgrade to 9.0. Also wrote several administrative scripts.