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United States

Write APIs for internal team consumption of our product servicesDevelop automation to meet business needs around population management, attribute sync from HR data and other various sources.Modernize legacy processesExample: Rewrote an ETL job that took 4 days to complete down to less than a 5 hour run time.Lead our backend platform migration effort by identifying, planning, and executing on work with help of other team members.Onboard and train new team members on development practices, our application suite, and support processesProvide analysis services to help with reporting of various security related issues.Implement development, unit/regression testing, and documentation practices to aid in quality product deliveryImplement a standardized application startup/shutdown and configuration management strategy throughout our backend application suite.

Backend developer responsible for writing automation to align user populationsProvide reporting on various security related incidentsWrite automation workflows to aid in fulfillment of business needs

Stabilized Docker Swarm on Windows environment by providing a more stable architecture and host refresh processBuilt out AKS infrastructure for purposes of transitioning non production environments to AKS for greater environment flexibilityAdded additional value in process of migrating our application to a cloud native infrastructure.Database flexibilitySecret managementCDN hostingDevelop process for publishing branding documentation to containerized environment.Developed process for working with development database in containerized cloud environmentEnables picking/tracking of changes, regular refreshes, retrieving/injecting diagnostic dataIntegrated with Service-Now to feed CMDB of changes to applicationAutomated tasks developed for container strategy initially were merged into general infrastructure management proceduresMigrated applications to a more highly available architecture

Mendota Heights, Mn

Automate various tasks including: Server provisioning, DHCP scope creation, file share creation, privileged group auditing, IIS install/config, among other tasks via Azure AutomationManage and operationalize tasks related to file server and file transfer environmentBuild out highly available DirectAccess environmentDevelop PowerShell script framework and distribution methodPerformed key tasks in company acquisition migration effortsProvided expertise in migrating services off of old and undocumented platformsActed as level 3 infrastructure support

Mendota Heights, Mn

As a Production Engineer, I was tasked with managing and maintaining health and application updates UAT and Production environments of various key business systems, migrating applications from legacy environments to modern environments, performing techincal troubleshooting on production issues, creating processes and technical documentation, define requirements for hosting platform health for applications I was responsible for, automate tasks to better manage web farms and highly available applications, and aid in various migration efforts from company acquisition.

Roseville, Mn

At McKesson I was tasked with establishing policies and procedures, provide both internal and external support for the 4 products offered, task automation with PowerShell, migrating/rebuilding 25 virtual machines from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 as well as establishing a QA and UAT environment to the already existing a Development, and Production environments for each products offered, and working with the developers to implement new features and harden security.

Apple Valley, Minnesota

My role in Slingshot as a Systems Administrator included: updating and patching Windows and Linux systems, securing and hardening servers for both client's and Slingshot's environment, monitoring and maintaining servers and backups, documenting server and network configurations, managing a small FreePBX phone environment. (5 phones, time condiditon IVR), Active Directory and Exchange management. In addition, I also assisted local clinics in hardening network/servers, operations reporting, network support, employee onboarding, and Physical to Virtual migrations/implementations.

Apple Valley, Minnesota

I was in charge of training and overseeing new employees progress in the department. In addition to training new employees I assist customers with finding items throughout the store, and stocking shelves.

Apple Valley, Minnesota

Assisted a local clinic with basic IT services. In addition to basic IT services I was configuring two Linux virtual servers running various services.

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Information Systems Management

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (Aas), Networking Administration