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San Francisco, CA, US

• Retained all Crew responsibilities after Square acquisition in July 2021.
• Integrated Crew AWS production and CI environments with Square, including SSO, Shibboleth SAML, Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Migrated Crew SOC 2 to live underneath Square's SOC 2 umbrella.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Automated CI/CD for Kotlin/Java backend, Node web product, Go websocket and iOS & Android products.
• Automated the monitoring, alerting, logging, developer self-service and auto-scaling functions in Dev, Prod and Data environments. Built all infrastructure using CloudFormation.
• Implemented SOC 2 Type 1 & 2 start to finish, including quarterly DR testing and annual audit.
• Led AWS cost control measures.

San Francisco, CA, US

• In the first three months:
• Built a dedicated, automated development environment in AWS that properly isolated production from non-production resources, implemented security policies and introduced universal logging in order to satisfy WalMart.
• Built a fully-automated CI/CD pipeline with GitHub, Jenkins, JJB, CloudFormation and Docker/ECS. The SaaS environments received automatic deploys. CentOS/RHEL/SL versions 6 and 7 RPM artifacts were automatically.
• Introduced easy self-service AWS resource provisioning for developers with CloudFormation.

San Francisco, California, US

• Built CI/CD environment using GitHub, Jenkins, JJB, AWS and Docker. Automatic and ad-hoc Node, Rails and Scala code builds, tests, artifacts, migrations, Docker image builds and deploys to AWS ECS and EC2.
• Completed SOC 2 audit.
• AWS environments automated with Ruby/CloudFormation, instances/containers automated with chef-solo.

San Francisco, California, US

• Coordinated with global development teams to convert monolithic application to a microservice architecture.
• Built Docker-based self-service Jenkins-driven continuous deployments in AWS environments for these microservices.
• Project Manager for Kubernetes orchestration initiative. Implementation lead for Docker, Whale (homegrown Docker API orchestration tool), Jenkins and Chef components.

North Hollywood, CA, US

• Converted the infrastructures from manual-everything to automated-everything. Coupled with revised planning and preparation schedules involving the Development, QA and Customer teams, this led to a reduction in the.
• Led a team that doubled the size of the public cloud infrastructure while reducing costs and eliminating system-related downtime for the primary SaaS product.
• Designed, tested, packaged, validated and delivered on-premise installations to Fortune 500 customers.
• Ubuntu, CentOS, MySQL, Release Management, Configuration Management (Puppet), AWS (EC2, RDS, ELB, S3), Tomcat, SDLC, Hudson, Adobe AMS, Couchbase, ActiveMQ

Santa Monica, California, US

• Coordinated with the development team and vendors to design and build production infrastructures at an Internet startup. Acquired by AOL in January, 2014.
• In order to do more with less, automated (nearly) all aspects of the environment.
• Designed, built, tuned and managed the Hadoop/HBase cluster, integrated it with GlassFish app servers and Netscaler hardware, which provided personalized content to visitors of The Wall Street Journal, among many.
• Ubuntu, Hyper-V, MySQL, HBase, Configuration Management (Puppet), Release Management, Glassfish, AWS (VPC), Hadoop, PXE, Redis, Nagios, Cacti, Hudson, HAProxy, MCollective, PHP, Vertica

• Balanced and managed the books, set the budget, ran payroll, renewed state licenses and insurance policies, prepared and submitted annual filings, and coordinated yearly audits at an emergency foster shelter care.
• As a licensed nonviolent crisis intervention trainer, taught methods and proven strategies that ensured childcare staff had the skills to safely and effectively respond to anxious, hostile or violent behavior.
• The effects of the 2007-08 financial crisis resulted in a termination of state funding, at which point coordinated the winding down of business functions and the dissolution of the corporation.

• A resource to the development team and supported the infrastructure at a virtualization software startup. Acquired by Citrix in May, 2012.
• Checked in code (Bash, Java) to resolve certain customer feature requests.
• Designed and built an external automated provisioning environment for customer pilots. The 30-minute automated provisioning process replaced former manual efforts, which took upward of a week and experienced a high.
• Created and documented implementation methods for customers and potential customers, helping convert the latter into the former.
• Identified and communicated the pairing potential between products by Virtual Computer and Quest Software, subsequently resulting in a technology alliance between the two companies.

• Assisted buy local, small business and health care initiatives in internship for Brown University.

Providence, Rhode Island, US

• Primary support for departmental storage arrays and 50-workstation Windows environment, team support for 100-workstation Linux environment and 80-node compute cluster.

• Technical lead for all computer and network equipment, software and services, including 100-node compute cluster and multi-site storage array.
• Designed and built a private network spanning seven buildings, providing researchers instant access to experimental data. This was adopted by CSBi @ MIT, where I was also the technical lead.
• Designed and built a reporting and tracking system, providing internal chargeback capabilities and usage data for workstations and biological wet lab equipment to center managers.

US

• Designed and managed the Windows infrastructure, managed the Linux infrastructure for a growing biotech startup. Acquired by Beckman Coulter in April, 2005.

• Buiilt, managed and led the team responsible for the infrastructure of a small Internet startup.

Mba

B.A., Political Science

Education record