Back in rotation and automating all the things at SCALE

Took time off to recharge and re-evaluate career goals.

Enhanced developer proficiency and skills through strategic delivery of content, code, and presentations on advanced technologies such as CI/CD, DevOps, Cloud Native, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and Infrastructure as Code. Maintained technical competency by researching and developing code in Python, Java, Node.js, Go, Terraform and many others, ensuring authentic and credible engagement with developer advocates.Elevated CircleCI’s industry influence through grassroots engagement, fostering credible relationships & partnerships beyond traditional vendor-customer dynamics. Contributed to innovative upgrades within the CircleCI platform, enhancing its profile and capabilities in industry adopted concepts such as continuous delivery and software release practices.Led and managed the transformation of CircleCI’s developer relations program, expanding team capabilities and aligning initiatives with community and customer needs. Established collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to drive the creation and dissemination of technical content, including initiatives like the AWS Modernization Workshop.Distinguished speaker with a portfolio including over 100 presentations at major conferences and more than 73 engagements at meetups, webinars, and events. Delivered over 44 private talks customized for organizational teams, substantially boosting CircleCI’s visibility and nurturing genuine community connections. These sessions effectively communicated and showcased the adoption of modern concepts such as Software Release practices and Continuous Delivery, highlighting the impact of automation platforms on critical development/release processes.Implemented a strategic content development process within the DevRel team, focusing on industry-relevant topics and fostering cross-functional collaboration with revenue, product, marketing, and engineering teams. Aligned goals and streamlined efforts to drive successful initiative among affiliated teams.

- Ensuring code is cut, bagged, tagged & shipped to our awesome customers- Infrastructure As Code is my mantra - Converting all the infrastructure to code is my goal- Containerizing everything in site- Generating & Orchestrating Immutable Infrastructure- AWS, Rackspace, Azure, Linode & other cloud infrastructure expertise

- Ensuring our teams succeed

- Passionately inspiring & building developer communities in and around the awesome point.io API as a Service platform- Develop and implement technical solutions for a wide variety of requirements regarding Cloud and AaaS technologies.

- Enterprise level Project Manager responsible for the overall design, execution and completion of projects on regional and national levels. Maintain active communication with stake holders and Senior Management on project status.- Responsible for the entire regional IT infrastructure to include enterprise level help desk, software, desktop, server, mobile device, telecom, network, support and operations for multiple US DOL Agencies under my jurisdiction.- Serve as Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) administering and monitoring contractor's progress in fulfilling the scope and technical requirements of contracts. Duties include managing resources, maintaining administration records, approving invoices and performing final inspection and acceptance of work performed.- Advise and Coordinate with HQ on all enterprise IT and security related issues such as compliance with OMB and Cyber security control mandates, ensuring all regional IT resources are 100% compliant with all policies and mandates such as FISMA and US Government Configuration Baseline policies.- Develop and maintain the regional Disaster Recovery (DR) and Continuity of Operations (COOP) plans that formally address regional contingency preparations and recovery actions related to events which may have catastrophic effects on information systems. The plans effectively augment the national continuity plans.- Continually developing and implementing effective customer service support strategies which enable exceptional support to users resulting in scores above 99% on customer satisfaction surveys.- Configure, maintain and enforce configuration management controls that enable uniformity and minimize risk to the infrastructure from internal and external threats.- Design, model and develop enterprise level solutions that are critical to the organizational mission.

- Configure, maintain and enforce Configuration management controls that enable uniformity and minimize risk to the infrastructure from internal and external threats.- Provide Group Policy administration and object management which ensures that the established enterprise Configuration Management (CM) process is enforced and executed.- Regularly consulted by HQ to resolve complex enterprise level software debugging.- Valued member of a National Office IT infrastructure steering group serving as an expert technical resource, providing the team with proven and knowledgeable guidance on technical and process driven project/issues.- Design, develop and maintain the OSHA Regional public and intranet sites. Enhanced the overall user web experience and ensuring compliance with all federal Section 508 requirements using technologies such as php, ruby, mysql, jquery. - Develop reports that are comprised of data from variety of sources such as databases and UNIX data stores. PERL, python, java and other scripting tools are used to generate critical reports for executive and senior managers.

- Chair agency sponsored committees that ensure national level resources function under FDCC policies and ensure continual 100% compliance with the OMB FDCC mandate.- Provide technical guidance and progress reports to senior executives & stakeholders ensuring their apprisal of matters- Project Manager for Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12) initiatives. Coordinate all tasks and successfully implemented HSPD-12 to the enterprise comprised of over 49 field offices.- Project Manager for Endpoint Encryption integration that allows the department to centrally manage the encryption of over 5,000 desktops, servers and mobile devices.- Collaborate with the OCIO managers and Senior Executives to ensure that my teams met all project milestones and budgets constraints. Successfully met target goals of 100% compliance within target deadlines.- Lead client team members to ensure that we provided premiere Tier 2/3 support to all of our customers. - Develop local policies and guidelines that are incorporated into standard operating procedures allowing the support teams to function consistently and provide quality services and products to customers.- Consolidated the entire agency's distributed IT infrastructure into two data centers utilizing virtualization software/hardware such as Citrix XEN Desktop/Server, blade servers and storage area network solutions.

- Accountable for the day-to-day operation of software development department.- Supervise all aspects of software and database development projects performed by the Eastern Distribution Center’s EDC software development team. Direct and lead the team on development tasks such as software design, database modeling, and database development for applications used by DOD and the White House.- Develop and collaborate on System Development Life Cycle models used to design, document and direct the development of software solutions using Agile, SCRUM, RAD and Waterfall development methods where appropriate.- Project Manager for external data integration initiatives that converting GSA data sets into formats that are compatible with DOD supply data visibility systems.- Design and develop enterprise applications which provide data processing functionality that fulfill the dynamic data requirements levied on the EDC- Perform site visits globally to install, repair, upgrade and implement disaster recovery plans for mission critical solutions which provide logistical support to the American war fighters in theater.- Ensure the MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise servers are fully maintained and operational 24/7.- Designed, developed, deployed and maintain enterprise level Radio Frequency Identification (RF-ID) software solutions that allows GSA to physically tag and track shipments sent to DOD resources globally in direct support of the war fighter.- Perform HR functions and serve as Technical recruiter which enable GSA to efficiently recruit talented candidates- Maintain, administer, and configure all aspects of the EDC Enterprise infrastructure to include application development/production, daily, weekly and monthly backup and administrative support.- Develop and maintain technical documentation such as network diagrams, IT resource inventory, business and use cases, standard operating procedures, lesson plans and software solution requirements.

- Accountable for all aspects of the enterprise infrastructure.- Perform hands-on system administration duties in day-to-day operation and maintenance of company servers and enterprise infrastructure.- Re-designed, developed, and deployed a commercial web hosting infrastructure, which produced an over 50% improvement on total system performance as well as a considerable reduction in costs saving over $75,000 per year spent on IT resources and manpower.- Provision and maintain web and database production servers for deployment of new commercial websites to be hosted. Ensure system administrators follow all established provisioning and maintenance policies.- Maintain, administer, and configure network environments & infrastructures including commercial web hosting, software development/production and administrative support.- Develop technical documentation such as software requirements and user guides for the LiSA Content Management solutions.- Provided 24-hour help/technical support to hosting clients in addition to company staff.- Design and develop a comprehensive web based software tutorial and help program, which efficiently familiarizes users with the Graphical Simulation Scenario Generator (GSSG) software.

- Provide NASA and DOD Senior Directors detailed presentations regarding launch support requirements & system status. Presentations consisted of data from multiple IT systems which was compiled and summarized.- Recommend the final network launch "go/no-go" order to Launch Operations Commander and Senior NASA officials. Assist in-flight hardware processing and satellite launch operations for DoD, NASA, & commercial users.- Developed an automated training & evaluation solution which reduced personnel training periods by 33%.- Coordinated and controlled worldwide network operations support for launches and on-orbit space operations.- Performed critical testing tasks during real-time experimental laser operations- Accountable for maintaining organizational databases and information systems