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Mclean, VA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• At Embark, my role was primarily to work with our feature engineering teams as a member of our web platform team to evangelize cloud infrastructure modernization, devops adoption, and automated test and deployment..
• Expanded the continuous integration (CI) process to include automated checks and testing at the pull request level using GitHub Actions for infrastructure changes.
• Simplified the deployment process using GitHub Actions and AWS CDK (Typescript), introducing immutable deployments and infrastructure-as-code for all cloud resources that any given application was dependent upon.
• Introduced the software engineering teams to trunk-based development, proofed and demonstrated the functionality, and spearheaded adoption across several feature development teams.
• Designed and developed multiple internal tools for managing cloud security compliance (web application firewalls, load balancer logging, security scanning and remediation).

Atlanta, GA, US

• As Lead Platform Engineer I work closely with both infrastructure and software engineering leadership to evolve our application platform and further enhance the utilization of modern development and infrastructure.
• Architect and implement cloud-based infrastructure and application delivery platforms.
• Architect and implement CI/CD pipelines for trunk-based development teams.
• Architect and implement modern application deployments to AWS EKS/EC2.
• Develop Terraform modules for application and infrastructure deployment.
• Work closely with software engineering technical leadership in the development of advanced/modern application testing techniques.

Atlanta, GA, US

• As a Site Reliability Engineer, I was tasked with working closely with both software engineering and infrastructure engineering to bridge technical and procedural understanding of the software and operational platform.
• Design and assist in the authoring of software tools that reliably manage application delivery.
• Design and assist in the setup and maintenance of the build/release infrastructure.
• Improve predictability and reliability of software releases.
• Reduce application deployment windows by leading the company towards a Continuous Deployment environment.
• Move forward adoption and implementation of new technologies through hands-on design, implementation, and training sessions with technical staff

West Warwick, RI, US

• Worked closely with the development teams to migrate their PHP projects into an AWS cloud environment, gaining a deep knowledge of the systems as well as contributing to their overall design. Incorporated security.
• Introduced a VCS system (Github) for managing source code changes and to enable a more testable and automated developer workflow (Git Flow).
• Built engineering automation and productivity tools to streamline and scale applications in the production environment
• Troubleshot and resolved issues related to application development, deployment and operations
• Built highly reliable infrastructure services in AWS from the ground up to deliver highly scalable services
• Implemented New Relic monitoring to help gain insights which improved performance of company web applications.

New London, CT, US

• IT and technical operations manager for Java development firm specializing in SaaS learning management software.
• Maintained and administered co-located data environment and web server platform
• Updated production infrastructure to modern, virtualized, systems
• Converted code base from CVS to Git to further enable modernization of development process.
• Integrated cloud resources for corporate, production, and development usage
• Implemented modern DevOps practices for development and deployment

• Throughout much of my career I've functioned as a technical consultant across multiple industry types as both a member of a technical consulting firm and independent consultant. Typical challenges include:
• Working with executive teams, functional staff, and other organizational stakeholders to identify "pain points" associated with organizational, budgetary, and process bottlenecks and inefficiencies related to technology.
• Assessing the technical capabilities of potentially affected staff to better tailor solution recommendations to the specific organization in order to increase the likelihood of success.
• Developing technical, process, and staffing improvement recommendations based on the requirements analysis of identified "pain points" of both executive and staff stakeholders and their organization's technical.
• Creating solution proposals that accommodate the interests, capabilities, and budgetary constraints of the organizational stakeholders based on the accepted recommendations.
• Outlining a targeted plan of action for the implementation of accepted solutions.

US

Acts as sole point of technical expertise within a small but highly dynamic mixed platform environment.

US

Managed IT department in a mid-sized online marketing and print advertisement company.

Virginia Beach, VA, US

Sysadmin for website, beliefnet.com. Maintained system and operations performance and uptime.

Test and turn-up technician for broadband network systems from PRI to SONET.

Randolph AFB, TX, US

Ground systems operator for the 2d Space Operations Squadron, Schriever AFB, CO.