As the Senior Manager of DevOps at UBC, I lead the ongoing effort to establish and grow the DevOps Center of Excellence. By driving the adoption of DevOps culture and practices, my team and I worked to strengthen agility, reliability, and security throughout the organization.Establish and execute a roadmap of DevOps initiatives including, but not limited to : - Standardizing practices - Implement branching strategy - Test-Driven-Design methodology - Re-architect CI/CD strategy - Modernize pipeline practices by developing, and implementing secure development practices o Quality gates in pipelines o Code coverage requirements o Static and dynamic code analysis o Automated (active) vulnerability testing - Increase developer adoption and understanding of DevOps principles - Encourage cross-team collaboration at all stages of the product lifecycle - Reduce deployment friction to developers - Implement project retirement strategy and automation - Collaborate on developing and implementing technical debt resolution strategies - Collaborate on developing architecture modernization strategy for existing platforms - Develop, implement a containerization strategy for new and existing platforms - Develop, implement reliability strategies and policies across the technical organization - Propose, implement, and integrate centralized monitoring, tracing, and metrics solution across the technical organization - Develop, implement infrastructure as code using Azure ARM Templates, Bicep, PowerShell DSC, and Terraform - Research, develop, implement software license management strategy - Implement certificate lifecycle management strategy and solution - Continued to maintain a significant amount of the hands-on work handled as an Architect/SDE.

Work with all teams across the IT organization to expand existing automation in Development and implement new strategies working towards an end goal of 100% Infrastructure as Code.Develop complex PowerShell modules, scripts and resources adhering to .NET Standard and targeting PowerShell Core. Work with teams across the technical organization to create and manage Azure resources using ARM Templates Develop Functional POC’s for advanced in-house systems using PowerShell and PowerShell Universal, then build out the final solutions using C# (if necessary)Automated Systems Configuration and Maintenance Reporting solution for all Windows Machines.Active Directory Groups Membership Self Service AutomationBuild a bespoke IIS Log Collection and Centralization SystemBuild a centralized cross-domain SSL Certificate Management System Create and implement a unified build management module for in-house software using PowerShell.Manage projects built in - NodeJS - C# - PowerShell - Angular - React - Various others…Administer: - Octopus Deploy - Team City - Azure DevOps / TFS

Worked as an intermediary between development and operations under the development umbrella. Assisted in building complex automation tools using PowerShell and Desired State Configuration.Assisted in migrating hundreds of active production servers from one organization to another using PowerShell and DSC.Built out extensive PowerShell modules to facilitate the aforementioned migrations, as well as to configure new systems.

⁃ Project planning, product testing, cost-analysis, and integration/implementation ⁃ Implement, upgrade, and maintain new and existing information technology information systems ⁃ Maintain and improve existing network infrastructure as needed ⁃ Reconcile and improve current Windows Active Directory and Group Policy to meet best practices ⁃ Present and improve existing information security presentations ⁃ End user security awareness training program conceived and implemented ⁃ Follow and improve change control, and project process management ⁃ Test and improve disaster recovery protocols, procedures, and documentation ⁃ Migrate backup, disaster recovery, and virtual server environment to Azure ⁃ Manage Fortinet firewalls & Access Points ⁃ Automate internal processes whenever possible using PowerShell ⁃ Manage virtualized server environment ⁃ HPE Hyperconverged ⁃ VMWare vCenter (4 hosts, 80 Servers) ⁃ Migrate legacy Mailgate to Proofpoint Security Solution and integrate with existing Hybrid Exchange Environment

As the Systems Administrator at SkillSurvey, I was tasked with keeping the technological wheels of the company turning. From day to day technical issues, to full scale solutions implementations, I handle it all.2015-2016 Highlights:- Hosted Exchange Migration to Office 365 (cloud)- Implementation of Azure AD- Organization-wide upgrade to Windows 10- On-premises Upgrade to Windows Server 2012 R2- Integrated on-premise Secure File Sharing Solution- Organizational implementation of TeamViewer as a support initiative- Upgrade of on-premise server and storage infrastructure- Upgrade of on-premise Network infrastructure (Meraki)- Security Appliance- Wireless Access Points- Implementation of centralized Print Management (Ricoh)- Homegrown Automation Scripts implemented for multiple systems and tasks to increase productivity and decrease downtime.- Internal Helpdesk implementation- Organization Employee Community & Collaboration Site (Intra/Extra-net, KB, Discussions, Etc...)

System Operations Control and Analysis.Collaboration with development and support teams.Manage, Monitor, and Automate the inbound and outbound flow of data. Client communications for Operations and Support related tasks and issues.Provide support for issues reaching beyond the scope of the support team.Maintain and re-work duty related documentation.Maintain and convert existing automation scripts to interface with newer infrastructures and systems.

Technical Support and Customer Service

− Mobile Device Management− Asset Maintenance/Management− Phone/E-mail Support− Advanced Apple mobile device and desktop configuration and troubleshooting− Assisted in Implementation of over 11,000 mobile devices and 1100 computers to healthcare facilities across the country− Achievements – − Q4 2011 – Certificate of Achievement ROX Mobile Projecto Implemented streamlined mobile device solution for billable time in healthcare environment