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Cleveland, OH, US

• Troubleshoot issues with CI/CD pipelines.
• Coordinate effort to gain permissions to any systems our team requires access to.
• Documenting new processes.
• Coordinate cross-training sessions within our team, development teams, and cloud teams.

Austin, TX, US

• Identify bottlenecks within the build/deploy process and design the process we used for moving forward. This included many of the technologies listed below.
• Responsible for maintaining EC2 instances, EKS Clusters within AWS.
• Migrate internal servers and agents to AWS.
• Maintain and setup the Teamcity projects and agents.
• Introduced Artifactory for artifact storage.
• Brought in Conan packager for creating C++ packages.

Bloomfield, CT, US

• Coach the development teams to implement solutions for their builds and deployments.
• Create Lean Process Maps (LPM) to analyze and improve their current processes.
• Recommend tools and strategies to streamline deployments.
• Implement Artifactory, TFS, and Ansible Tower, Jenkins, Docker, Openshift deployment pipelines.
• Migrate teams from Gitlab/TFS to Github.
• Coach teams on proper branching strategies.

Austin, Texas, US

• Develop a PowerShell module for on-boarding/off-boarding/modifying customers.
• Maintain IIS and SQL servers.
• Train the systems team to develop in PowerShell.

• POC to demonstrate the need for an automated deployment process.
• Built the POC around Automic, uDeploy, AWS, Azure, Chef, Octopus
• Evaluated AWS and Azure to determine the best cloud environment for our needs.
• Evaluated various CI/CD tools. After determining that all existing CD tools were insufficient for this company, I engineered and am assisting in the development of an internal application developed on Angular.
• Developed internal shared Chef cookbooks.
• Coordinate the various department deployment configurations.

Boston, MA, US

• Develop a Powershell script using the TFS API to migrate Team Foundation Server workitems to new workitem templates.
• Create a C# class framework for Team Foundation Server to use with the current Powershell script framework.
• Create PowerShell module for migrating the TFS workitems..
• Mentor and assist other Powershell developers in the understanding of Powershell and scripting techniques.

London, GB

• Specializing in enterprise automation solutions using the UC4/Automic ONE solution.
• Delivering Workload Automation & Application Release Automation solutions.
• Working with customers world-wide to design and implement dev-ops solutions.
• Designing and implementing deployment processes for enterprise customers.
• Creating custom actions within the ARA platform to wrap new and existing processes into a repeateable/reusable codebase.
• Design and implement fully tailored end to end deployment solutions from build to deployment, improving performance and minimizing downtime

Chicago, IL, US

• Develop solutions for automatic deployment and management of the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator(ePO) server.
• Powershell development to automate: 1. The Windows 2008 build on the VMWare ESXi server. 2. The deployment of the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator server. 3. The deployment of the McAfee agent and packages to all Windows.
• Powershell development to manage the server after deployment: 1. Develop disaster recovery scripts used to backup and restore the SQL database and file structure. 2. Develop a script to re-index and reorganize the SQL.
• Create the MSI package for deployment of the scripts to the server for setup.

Powershell scripting to pull reports from Active Directory and the request database.Administer and provision network security such as new user accounts, folder permissioning and application access.

San Francisco, California, US

London, GB

Powershell scripting for process improvement.Development of an automation tool.Establish application/system logins.

San Francisco, California, US

Establish logins for applications/systems.Process improvement.Powershell scripting.

West Des Moines, IA, US

• Establish security logins for AD/Novell/Citrix/RACF, etc…
• Organize the Active Directory structure
• Group Policy administration
• Create email accounts for Lotus Notes / Domino servers
• Script development for automating end user setup tasks
• Establish procedures/policies and write Technical Documents to support these policies

Armonk, New York, NY, US

• Migration from NT4/Novell to Windows XP/Active Directory
• Migration from Exchange 2000 and Domino to Exchange 2003
• The AD/Exchange Administrators relied heavily on my previous migration experience. Calling on me multiple times for my input on “best practices” for AD setup and structuring, group policy administration, and Exchange.
• Image workstations
• Streamline the conversion process.
• Site Focal for three of the larger locations.

San Francisco, California, US

• Establish security logins including Active Directory, Novell, Citrix, Mainframe, etc…

San Francisco, California, US

• Helpdesk Support

West Des Moines, Iowa, US

• Windows NT/2000 Server Administration
• Migration from NT4 to 2000
• Migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000.
• Structured Active Directory
• Administer group policies