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Camp Springs, MD

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

Herndon, VA, US

• Architect, develop, and evangelize an automation framework to be replicated throughout the organization and utilized across Cloud Service Providers and OS Platforms
• Automate the deployment of an ITAR compliant ERP tool in AWS using Packer, Ansible, & Terraform
• Produce a platform for the organization to automate future cloud initiatives
• Construct and manage work in Azure DevOps utilizing Epics, Features, and ProductBacklog Items
• Mentor junior employees in tools such as Ansible, Terraform, & Jenkins

London, England, GB

• Worked with a team to design and maintain CI/CD pipelines in AWS to make sure code can be built and deployed rapidly and with stability
• Instituted CI/CD pipelines utilizing AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, & CloudFormation to create AWS Services like ec2, IAM, CloudWatch, s3, Neptune, Lambda, & APIGateway
• Created and maintain a backlog of Epics and Stories in Jira
• Applied DevOps concepts to implement a continuous delivery environment using AWSCodePipeline and Gitlab CI
• Oversaw the direct planning of projects

Toronto, ON, CA

• Collaborate with and guide customers on how to utilize Software Configuration Management best practices and standards set forth to ensure they can build and deploy software quickly, with greater frequency, and more.
• Develop strong relationships with the customer teams to help with the definition and prioritization of work
• Create and maintain a backlog of Stories and Tasks in TFS and Jira
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that requirements and acceptance criteria for tasks are properly defined, enabling successful delivery of many projects
• Interview new employees and participate in candidate selection
• Utilize DevOps concepts to implement a continuous delivery environment using Jenkins Pipelines

Toronto, ON, CA

• Worked with customers to utilize Software Configuration Management best practices and standards set forth to ensure they can build and deploy software quickly, with greater frequency, and more reliably.
• Provided leadership to members on the Online Platforms team as well as immediate support, Release Management, and Operations teams
• Led multiple products from conception to completion, using Continuous Integration and the DevOps principles
• Set up a dual site Test environment in OpenStack Private Cloud
• Taught strong problem solving skills with Continuous Integration builds/deployments, runtime, Big/IP, and application management techniques
• Formed relationships with external teams and helped to identify areas of improvement to assist teams in getting work done effectively and efficiently

Toronto, ON, CA

• Generated proactive and reactive techniques to help resolve issues immediately to keep application uptime at peak levels to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Normalized uptime test script using Powershell to run multiple test suites for QA and Prod environments
• Configured logging using Splunk for multiple applications to help troubleshoot issues as they arose
• Debugged application runtime issues as found through scale/performance testing
• Provided reports to leaders in the organization to give an overview of how our applications are performing on a week-to-week and month-to-month basis

Toronto, ON, CA

• Design, develop, and define the environment for software development. Provide software development tool support for WestlawNext – a code base larger than 6 million lines and an estimated 360,000 builds per year..
• Offered leadership to members on WestlawNext and other platform teams as well as immediate support, Release Management, and Operations teams
• Led multiple products from conception to completion, including WestlawNext Canada, standardizing deployments of dozens of applications, and normalizing infrastructure deployments and application health checks
• Established strong problem solving skills with Continuous Integration deployments, Java and.NET runtime, and Big/IP
• Provided software release support on a rotational basis

Toronto, ON, CA

• Worked with the Software Configuration Management team to design and implement the first Continuous Integration environment and create a deployment methodology to promote artifacts to customer environments.
• Configured Continuous Integration build & deployments for dozens of modules for the WestlawNext application using ANT and MSBuild
• Managed and troubleshoot builds and deployments for applications in WestlawNext
• Increased efficiency in my teams – i.e. developed an application using C# and.NET to facilitate faster multi-tasking in the Configuration Management release cycle
• Collaborated effectively by building strong relationships with other teams on tasks that span long periods of time

Minneapolis, MN, US

Maverick Software Consulting provides onshore outsourcing and college recruiting services that allow companies to bring jobs back onshore while building their IT Staff. We accomplish this by hiring the top computer science students to work on real world software development and testing projects under the guidance of Maverick Software Consulting senior.