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. Some highlights include:● 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).

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 management practices and establish organizational best practices.● 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.● Demonstrate new technology for our Spring Java microservice application platform through research and the creation of Proof of Concept (POC) implementations.● Participate in planning sessions with senior technology leadership regarding the implementation of technologies to help pay off technical debt

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

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, reliability, and scalability into the development lifecycle through the implementation of modern DevOps practices and tools.● 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.

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 capability.● 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.● Work with stakeholders and staff to implement accepted solutions, often hands-on, as a subject matter expert. Incorporating feature requests, proposal changes, and implementation revisions due to unexpected variances or other elements that were not discovered or communicated earlier in the process.● Frequently, working directly with staff to train them on any newly introduced or developed tools, technologies, workflows, and processes.● Conducting informational presentations and interactive group learning sessions/labs.My typical clients were small software development companies, graphic design firms, print publishing shops, web development/marketing firms, and non-profit organizations. In many/most cases I was essentially implementing process/workflow automation techniques before that sort of work had a name (DevOps) and educating staff on managing application delivery.

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

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

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.

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