Leading CNCF's end user program, the largest in open source. Driving growth and engagement of the cloud native ecosystem through:* Expanding end user memberships across multiple industry verticals* Reimagining and enhancing the CNCF end user experience* Developing Special Interest Groups for tech and industry verticals* Spearheading end user research initiatives like tech radars* Fostering thought leadership and PR opportunities for end users* Increasing end user participation in KubeCon + CloudNativeCon eventsCollaborating with CNCF teams to strengthen the foundation's position as the premier hub for cloud native innovation and end user engagement.

The Technical Leads of the SIG establish new subprojects, decommission existing subprojects, and resolve cross-subproject technical issues and decisions.

Release Manager Associates are apprentices to the Release Managers, formerly referred to as Release Manager shadows. They are responsible for:* Patch release work, cherry-pick review* Contributing to k/release: updating dependencies and getting used to the source codebase* Contributing to the documentation: maintaining the handbooks, ensuring that release processes are documented* With help from a release manager: working with the Release Team during the release cycle and cutting Kubernetes releases* Seeking opportunities to help with prioritization and communication* Sending out pre-announcements and updates about patch releases* Updating the calendar, helping with the release dates and milestones from the release cycle timeline* Through the Buddy program, onboarding new contributors and pairing up with them on tasks

Cloud Native Live is the CNCF weekly live stream for people to learn hands-on about CNCF projects and members. The real world is rarely like a “how-to” blog post where everything is greenfield and works out of the box. Cloud Native Live allows the cloud native community to dig into these problems in real-time and see how people solve them. It creates a community around solving cloud native problems and bringing our greatest assets, the people, to the forefront.

Cloud Native Ambassadors (CNAs) are passionate about Cloud Native Computing Foundation technology and projects, recognized for their expertise, and willing to help others learn about the framework and community.

* Define and drive the HashiCorp community and developer adoption with the HashiCorp suite of tools* Deliver compelling presentations, product demos, sample solutions, technical blogs, and discussions to drive adoption of HashiCorp products* Prototype new projects and technical integrations between HashiCorp products and tools in the broader ecosystem* Build demos, webinars, white papers and tutorials about emerging technologies and industry developments* Collaborate with internal teams on the product roadmap, market positioning, messaging and developer program initiatives* Support the product team in helping to analyze, update, re-design and craft compelling web and online experiences and easy learning opportunities for developers aiming to get started with HashiCorp tools.* Gain industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee, panelist and keynote speaker at technology conferences, trade shows, and press events* Maintain a strong and credible presence in social media channels meaningful to developers and operators* Scale, extend and drive the global expansion of existing community-focused programs, for example Hackathons, User Groups, Meet-ups, Community and DevOps events.* Build relationships with community enthusiasts in the field to improve the experience of the open source developer community* Share standard methodologies and help build a best-in-the-industry Advocacy organization* Assist in the development of and improvement of community-focused programs like the HashiCorp Diversity Scholarship program

I lead the Site Reliability Engineering team at Disney Studios. Our team works on over 350+ applications and ensures those application services are performant, secure, and reliable. * Cultivated relationship with multiple vendors and our teams at Disney Studios, which led to a more empowered and productive team. * Started SRE newsletter and regular meetings with team leaders across studios which greatly improved cross-team communication.* Led teams to implement security scanning across all cloud accounts.* Refreshed ticketing system for incidents, established system to increase visibility on unplanned work.* Refined PagerDuty escalation policy working with senior management in Disney Studios.* Implemented 10% time for team to focus on new technology and automation.* Started weekly one on ones with the SRE team to improve communication, and create a better sense of community.* Aligned patching and update cycles to occur during business hours, ensuring all teams are available to participate in the process.

* Managed the entire Theatrical infrastructure portfolio, applications and services.* Created postmortem template that all Disney Studio teams utilize.* Co-created an AWS CMDB application to surface all EC2 data and tags.* Migrated multiple theatrical workloads to Kubernetes, including containerization efforts.* Educated team members on observability, best development practices, and system reliability.

Shadowed the Communications role for the Kubernetes release team in 1.14 and 1.15.The Communications Coordinator role is responsible for facilitating, empowering, and curating communication between the release team and various stakeholders including the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the media, contributing vendors, and Kubernetes project managers.

Started a company to focus on providing software solutions for local businesses in Cleveland, OH. I grew our software and infrastructure teams, while simultaneously growing strong relationships with all of our clients.Some notable projects we worked on are:* C.E. Tracking Systems – Created a real-time car dealership application in Node.js, which enables sales and finance departments to work more closely on all car purchases. The application leads dealerships in being able to analyze their sales performance and set goals for growth throughout the year.* ManageSIG – A Ruby on Rails realty management application that not only helps to manage tenants, rent, and properties, but also to facilitate work orders, staff, and tenant payments.* EconoData – An Elixir and Elm powered blog and informative site that will be used to showcase financial market findings, capture paid subscribers, and educate financially minded individuals.

Manged our HIPAA-compliant cloud systems and infrastructure for our team within the Cleveland Clinic. Our team was featured on the homepage of Apple.com and we were in numerous medical and technical publications for the applications we worked on.* Created a CI/CD system for all mobile projects, providing better control over build processes and development cycles.* Implemented a container-based workflow for our Go and Ruby application environments, leading to a 70% increase in build speed. * Introduced configuration management to standardize all machine administration and instantiation.* Performed multiple cloud migration efforts to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and achieving HIPAA compliance in the cloud.* Created data science tools that enabled co-workers to extract and process clinical data for IRB publications.

I was in charge of awesome things here at American Greetings. I developed social interactions and experiences. My work can be found across all social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter.Facebook Development * Created custom Facebook framework (via JavaScript), which allowed for easy capturing of user data to quickly create new American Greetings accounts.* Developed a social search engine, using the Facebook API that searches through all public Facebook data points.Twitter Development * Created a tool that lets users search for a keyword and measure its “reach” across all users that have retweeted or mentioned the chosen keyword. This tool outputs an graph to help illustrate the individuals reached by a certain user's tweet.

This amazing job entails me creating Web Services, Xbox Kinect Sensor Programs, and iOS Development to help better the medical community as a whole. I get to interact directly with doctors and pave the way of the future...all with code and problem solving skills.

I employed full stack development skills towards improving online identities for clients across multiple verticals, utilize best SEO practices, and work with the marketing team for all ad campaigns.* Facebook API Development - started Facebook development at Fathom and created a custom framework to capture and display demographics about users using our Facebook applications.* Project Management System - created and maintained the company’s project management system. Created reports and custom software to measure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).* User Experience Design - worked directly with our creative director to redesign multiple customer website experiences, including our company intranet.* Mobile Web Development - created several custom mobile websites and landing pages using open source technologies.

I provided technical leadership to software developers, and created all software architecture. I coordinated the design and implementation of all our software applications, engineering teams, and client representatives to ensure on-time completion of project deliverables.* Performance Metrics Visualizations - created a dashboard for all company data that ran on Mac and Windows systems.* Intuit QuickBooks Development – created a financial application used to facilitate order and cash generation, account balancing, order history tracking, and security audits across the company network.* ISO 9000 Certification - lead the creation of all technical documentation, process documents, and an intranet that helped COTSWORKS receive their ISO 9000 certification.