Network Security Enhancement: Spearheaded critical efforts as an Infrastructure Engineerto fortify the American Express network, implementing robust security measures and protocols that successfully safeguarded the organization against potential vulnerabilities, ensuring uninterrupted and secure operations.•Team Leadership and Application Support: Demonstrated exceptional leadership skills by effectively managing a cross-functional team responsible for the development and support of an innovative application building platform, empowering four distinct teams within the department to streamline their workflow, enhance productivity, and deliver high-quality applications.•Automation Expertise for Efficiency: Pioneered the development of cutting-edge automation solutions that significantly accelerated large-scale patching operations, resulting in substantial time and resource savings while maintaining the highest standards of system integrity and reliability.•Tech Stack: Ansible, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Python, Oracle DB, Postgres DB, Cassandra DB, Kanban, JavaScript, Git, Unit Testing, Security Hardening, CI/CD, Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering

- Managed automation team of five comprised of DBAs, PMs, and other engineers to support a new external product and to build an automation platform on that product. Both the product and platform have proliferated to being used by several teams within my department, according to growth plans developed and executed by my team.- Managed external product from contract inception to production use while accounting for various compliance processes, legal negotiations, and information security compliance measures. This required me to broker contracts with the vendor, build computing architecture to support the product, and coordinate training with non-development talent and other stakeholders. The product enabled non-developers on my team and related teams to engineer both back-end and front-end applications to allow for internal application development without needing to hire additional engineering talent. This platform reduced development overhead by 1000s of working-hours on my team and other related teams.- Lead the creation of an automation platform that automated internal compliance and related configuration management overhead for my department. This product reduced working-hours used for compliance and configuration management in my department by 800% - 1900%.- Spearheaded several security initiatives across the American Express data center requiring cross-collaboration across multiple business units, Python automation scripting, and the Ansible automation platform.

- Created a program to optimize manufacturing supply chain using Python, Machine Learning (Scipy, DEAP), vue.js , Mathematical Optimization Techniques (NumPy), and a NoSQL database (MongoDB, JSON) that manages the maintenance schedules of manufacturing equipment- Deployed application on a global load-balanced CloudFoundry environment allowing for high availability and scalability.- Maintained and exhibited ownership over the program by writing documentation, administering training, and adhering to strict application security protocols.

- Spearheaded the transition to ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) computing architectures in the displays application department- Integrated SCADE (Security Critical Advanced Development Environment) and trained my team to incorporate it into their workflow- Supported software development tasks such as validating customers and governmental regulation requirements