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Flower Mound, Tx, Us

Plano, Texas, Us

Improving is a modern digital services company offering innovative technology solutions through custom application development, agile transformation, and consulting.As a Platform Engineer, I have the opportunity to design, build, and maintain workflows and tools for organizations to enable consistency and automate repetitive tasks. My specialties include architecting cloud native solutions, utilizing infrastructure as code, CI/CD automation, containerization, and improving observability across enterprise-scale applications. Not only is my work relevant, but it also keeps me sharp and continuously learning in a space that is evolving rapidly. We embrace change, appreciate variety, and thrive solving complex business problems with Platform Engineering.Client Work:Healthcare - March 2019-November 2021Retail Supply Chain - November 2021-December 2022Worldwide Shipping - January 2023-October 2023Financial Services - October 2023-December 2023Retail Pharmaceuticals - January 2024-Present

- Created and sold a web and email hosting service to an ISP/Solution provider. - Provide technology consulting services to businesses from design to finished product.

Chanhassen, Mn, Us

- Researched ROI and features, persuaded management, implemented, and provided leadership of measures such as an Akamai to Fastly CDN migration, saving in excess of $250k annually and an incremental annual savings of over $20k per site over previous plans while improving change time from weeks to minutes. Other improved maintainability and cost-saving measures included migrations of SalesForce to Microsoft CRM, and Oracle Service Bus to Mule ESB.- Integrated DevOps philosophies leading company-wide Agile development by recommending and implementing CI/CD tools such as Atlassian Jira/Confluence/Bamboo/Stash, Nexus, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, and Vagrant.- Managed a direct report, mentored others, and assisted development, troubleshooting, and design efforts with diverse systems, teams, and products including Enterprise architecture, POS, web sites, mobile apps, video, security, networking, development, PCI/HIPAA, and contract reviews.- Automated, designed, and maintained systems and processes to increase significant cost savings, productivity, and capabilities including Azure, AWS, and other SaaS cloud-based tools, Chef, Vagrant, F5, Adobe CQ/AEM, Java, .NET C#, Python, WordPress. Virtualized development environments increased holistic reaction speed of upgrades and large changes from months to weeks and helped the entire company to be rebranded in about one month.- Provided expertise and knowledge to smoothly transition a team of around 70 to an outsourced offshore model.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

- Decreased managed hosting cost by 100’s of thousands of dollars and improved reliability by creating and maintaining a secure hybrid VMWare, AWS and bare metal auto-scaling redundant infrastructure.- Managed a direct report and other employees in the systems administrator role providing on-call support for high-traffic and viral web hosting systems peaking at bandwidth rates exceeding 500 Mbps. Proven track record with clients such as Target, CapitalOne, LensCrafters, Bauer Hockey, Wyndham, and Dairy Queen.- Coordinated SOWs, SLAs, and other legal contracts, and provided assistance for new business technical sales.- Acted as information security officer leading the introduction and enforcement of security policies.- Created CI/CD processes automating deployment and approval processes for hundreds of applications saving countless hours of work and increasing time to market of some changes from weeks to minutes.- As a senior developer and tech lead, created marketing sites, mentored developers in performance tuning, architecture design, and DevOps coordination with IT. Organized “Tech Talks” for developers to share skills and introduce new technologies. Utilized technologies such as Apache, IIS, Nginx, MySQL, MSSQL, J2EE, Tomcat, Glassfish, Hadoop, MapReduce, Nagios, PHP, Sitecore, ColdFusion, and Bash.

- Led development and architecture design for multiple national loyalty programs for Fortune 10 and 100 airline, hotel, automotive manufacturer, and retail clients. Improved the scalability, performance, reliability, security, and fraud-detection for web sites, socket-based Java back-ends, batch processes and databases measured in terabytes.- Managed complete setup of new office and datacenter networks. Created efficient operations by implementing monitoring, bug tracking, version control, wikis, continuous delivery, and automated file-processing tasks and mentoring others.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

- As lead developer, managed creation of Discovery Channel web sites with ColdFusion and MSSQL.- Developed and maintained web sites using Agile methodologies for clients ranging from viral sites to enterprise branded solutions such as Dairy Queen and Standard Hotel.- Recommended and implemented CMS technologies for multiple clients including FatWire Content Server, MCMS, MS SharePoint 2007 (WCM), MS Commerce Server, typo3, Drupal, Joomla, EPiServer, and in-house.

Rochester, Minnesota, Us

- Maintained and assisted in audits for a multi-million dollar resident Medicare reimbursement database.- Improved employee productivity by eliminating recurring creation for the finance department by administering servers and automating capital budgeting, taxes, call-center metrics, content management, surveys, and more.- Established a users’ group, mentored others, and provided architectural direction for Java.

New York, Ny, Us

- Envisioned, developed and implemented ASP/MSSQL applications for dynamic storage of configuration data which improved time of change implementation from weeks to days.- Migrated core business retirement and mutual fund statement applications from legacy systems in COBOL, MQ Series, and an IBM Mainframe environment to newer technologies in Unix, Sybase (Transact SQL), and Java (IBM WebSphere). Included requirements gathering, diagraming, design, development, and testing.

- Administered Internet servers hosting over ten million hits a month and developed web pages primarily utilizing ColdFusion, ASP, JavaScript, PERL, and MSSQL. Also maintained Cisco ISP networking services.- Tutored employees on emerging technologies and helped with troubleshooting of arising problems including on-call support for all technical system operations.

- Created Internet dial-up services and ColdFusion web hosting for hundreds of city residents, businesses and K-12 institutions which provided a new source of revenue.- Managed store on weekends assisting customers in a retail and technical support environment. Repaired hardware and software for printers, computers, and networks.

Bachelor Of Arts, Quantitative Methods And Computer Science

Certification, Emt