Manager IT SystemsManaged the work of devops and DB engineers across the organization, including groups of engineers in Costa Rica and in the Ukraine.Helped to facilitate the migration of automation for infrastrucure as code, CI/CD, secrets management and microservice architecture both in local datacenters and in the cloud.DevOPS/Systems AdministrationResponsible for all the backend services dealing with dental claims processing. Responsible for administration of clustered messaging queues (Rabbit and Kafka) between microservices, DB's and and other systems dealing with claims processing.Handled security patches and important software updates through the use of tools and automation.Moved all backend data services from Team City/Mercurial to Gitlab CI/CD pipelines. Integrated security scanning and static code analysis tools into the CI/CD pipelines.Helped the team to move applications and infrastructure to containerized solutions.Changed infrastructure and application deployments from custom Python scripts to k8s cluster in aws (EKS) using both Harness.io, and gitlab pipelines.Maintained the existing vmware infrastructure while migration to aws proceeded, wrote automation and ansible playbooks for provisioning machines in local data centers.

Created CI/CD build pipeline templates for all the development teams at Progressive. Several hundred projects.Went from 0 to ~100 projects in CI/CD in less than a year.Built templates (circleci and jenkins declarative pipelines) and circleci orbs used by the entire organization. These components were designed for .NET Core apps, .Net Framework, node.js/Angular.js, .NET Core Worker Services, Windows Services, Nuget and NPM Packages, Docker.Moved the company to Artifactory, and setup the new artifact server to handle artifacts of all types for the projects listed above.Led a pilot using Octopus Deploy which gave Development teams more control of their on-premise deployments and helped to manage runtime configurations. Moved the pilot through security, acquisition and legal reviews and made it a standard throughout the org.Trained Development teams on how to integrate the CI/CD templates into their existing projects.Wrote automation to handle build, test, code coverage, static code analysis, security scanning, package dependency scanning, packaging and deployment for all project types. Deployment automation using Jenkins/CircleCI, Helm, ArgoCD for cloud deployments (k8s), and Octopus Deploy and Powershell for non cloud deployments.

Responsible for automating the lighting components of a Control4 home. Wrote Java/RestAssured automation to control light switches, dimmers, wireless dimmers, keypads, configurable keypads, remote control units, and relays that were all controlled by a node.js based RESTFul API.Wrote automation to exercise websocket requests and events for the Control4 Home Dashboard using Chakram and Mocha. Wrapped performance test automation that ran in the build pipeline to compare performance metrics with baselines previously established.Refactored the build system to be CI/CD using Jenkins pipelines to control the build, testing, packaging and deployment to Amazon EC2. Integrated the builds with Artifactory.Wrote front end automation for an Angular.js app in Cypress.IO testing the interface for creating rules to manipulate hardware devices for creating home automation. (Control4 When/Then). I connected this automation to run at commit time in the CI/CD pipeline.

Key Responsibilities:Architecture:Defined corporate development standards around unit and component testing, put in place tools to audit all teams for compliance in an effort to improve availability of Ancestry's core product.Migrated stacks to AWS using cloudformation, terraform templates, AWS CLI.Developed a full stack application written in node.js to catalog and organize all Ancestry teams integration tests. Co-led an effort to containerize all of Ancestry's integration tests.Developed UI/API automation frameworks used by the entire testing org at Ancestry.Created bootstrap apps in both Node.js (yeoman) and Java (archetypes) to help teams quickly get up and running with new UI automation projects.Documented branching strategy in Git/Stash.Maintained and migrated to AWS Ancestry's static analysis tool Sonarqube. Helped teams hook up and implement an effective strategy for understanding their code quality.Developed AWS lambda functions, IoT, and Alexa apps to facilitate automation goals. Management:Defined the company's career ladder for the SDET position.Hired a small team of SDET's and placed them strategically for broad impact.Managed other TE's and SDET's, both local and remote while fulfilling several team assignments and individual contributor role.Managed several engineers in India, properly leveraging their expertise on various automation projects.Led company wide Test Automation Guild.Trained developers on test automation topics in Node.js.Led the Organization's Center of Excellence as the expert on test automation.Individual Contributor:Influenced, moved the team to Continuous Delivery.Moved the products into CI server, static analysis with unit, component, integration and acceptance running as quality gates.Migrated all team tests to the NUnit test framework for C#. Established a data driven approach to integration and acceptance testing, performance and system level test automation.Process:Kanban, Lean Startup, Agile

Implemented continuous integration and testing using Maven and Hudson for our java and native code application.Set up automation and code coverage reporting within Hudson for unit (junit) as well as functional or daily regression tests.Maintained high levels of automation for all test types including system, functional, UI, regression and integration tests.Automated deploy of application within Hudson.Extended and wrote new Maven plugins to fit our environment.Teamed with other groups to help set up and maintain project automation.Implemented performance, scalability, fault tolerance testing for RESTful services.Automation written in Java, Python, SilkTest, Bash scripts.

• Planned, implemented, and developed automation and a system test harness that cut the job load of three test engineers down to one for the clustering team on Netware 6.5.• Extended existing API’s written in C adding greater functionality for Novell Clustering Services. • Led a team of engineers in an effort to switch our development life cycle from a Waterfall approach to Agile. The new approach offered greater ship date flexibility, ensured higher priority items were completed first, and organized work into smaller more manageable components.• Researched new automation techniques for Java SWT based development in the Eclipse IDE and implemented them in Agile.• To date have had a leadership role in the release of two major revisions and one minor revision of Novell’s Identity Manager (DirXML). Products were on time and according to schedule and have been consistently rated as one of the most stable and usable products at Novell through customer surveys.