Mitchell Whalen Email and Phone Number

Experience with both Agile and Waterfall Project delivery methodologies. Work with customers to discover and establish project requirements. Perform sizing and costing estimates for proposed solutions. Architect infrastructureand Software solutions around PCI & cybersecurity compliance, along with ensuring proper HA & Disaster Recovery principals. Lead several large scale initiatives of on-premise applications to the private cloud. Coordinated and manage project team through the completion of the project. Perform knowledge transfer to support team to ensure continuous support. Designing, implementing and automating installation and configuration of applications and infrastructure to support "Infrastructure as Code" (IaaC). Assist other team members to help maintain scheduled project delivery dates. Provide support as L3 escalation support to resolve highly visible and widespread P1 and P2 incidents.As a team mentor provided training on existing and new technologies. Lead global automation efforts and shared applied techniques, tools, and scripting to drive a set standard across team. Trained team members on automation techniques, tools and scripting. Established a regular forum for team members to spread skills and knowledge with other team members. Reviewed and advised team member with architectural designs to include high availability, partial and full disaster recovery solutions. Responsible for establishing team best practices and team standards. Create and maintain associated documentation for team policies standards and training. Worked along side the senior director to distribute work loads to ensure proper distribution and completion times for work efforts and projects. Technologies utilized and supported include, but are not limited to, Ansible, HPESA, Git, Jenkins, Concourse, NDM, Windows, RedHat Linux, Oracle Linux, MongoDB, MySQL, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AppDynamics, JavaScript, Bash, Powershell and Python scripts.

Professional Agile DevOps team member proficient with multiple automation technologies. Day-to-day activities include server/process automation across six operating environments consisting of VMWare/AWS virtual machines, development of automation techniques, processes and routines utilizing technologies including Ansible, Powershell, Javascript, Python and Bash Shell scripts, HP Operation Orchestration (HPOO), Jenkins. Development of Python micro-service application to implement Rest API. Designed team standards around version control tools utilizing Git and BitBucket. Developed standards and train team members in writing efficient and reusable code modules saving multiple man hours of automated tasks and repetitive code. Trained multiple team members in the use of a variety of automation tools, scripting and technologies.

DevOps Agile team member responsible for designing and implementing automation solutions. Solutions created utilize tool including Git, Ansible, Jenkins, HPOO, Python Based Rest API services and other tools.