Spree AI is a virtual fashion startup that provides an AI-based virtual online fitting solution. I was recruited by a past manager to handle DevOps tasks, execute a backlog of security projects, and contribute to FinOps projects, scale-up automation, and QA. I also supported team management for interim periods during absences. Project Highlights: • Authored security policy and procedures, including hardening procedures for EC2 and Kubernetes.• Implemented Okta for SSO and IdM.• Led code compliance, scanning, and reporting systems to maintain high security standards.• Managed AuthZ/AuthN systems (SAML, OIDC) for enhanced access control.• Coordinated with external security services vendors for comprehensive protection.• Built and executed DevOps and SecOps workflows using AWS, Terraform, Ansible, etc.• Led evaluation, selection, and implementation of password management and anti-malware solutions, and selected Keeper and Bitdefender Gravityzone for implementation. • Established onboarding/offboarding standards and process automation for employees, including procedures for Okta, Google Workspace, Atlassian, Zoom, Slack, etc. • Managed day-to-day DevOps work - code packaging, application and server deployments, AWS management, and tasks with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Terraform, and Ansible. • Implemented Vantage.sh and nOps for automating cost management and reporting.

I joined Oracle upon their acquisition of Webtrends’ Infinity Big Data platform, and my work focused on supporting integration of Infinity with Oracle products and specifically Oracle Marketing Cloud.Project Highlights:• Ported Webtrends servers, workflows, and both local and AWS-hosted systems into Oracle’s cloud stack.• Designed and built code compliance, scanning, and reporting systems for enhancing security and stability.• Led DevOps and support for global applications teams, ensuring seamless operations.• Debugged and maintained Oracle Cloud, Chef, and Docker systems, optimizing system builds.• Streamlined release management for Artifactory, Jenkins, Chef, and Rundeck.• Designed and implemented workflow automation for a diverse tech stack, including Java, Node.js/Typescript, Ruby, Scala, and Python.• Developed a global artifact management system to enhance efficiency.

Webtrends is a marketing metrics company and a pioneer in website activity tracking. I was brought on to supplement a DevOps team with a focus on improving their legacy build and artifact chains across the product portfolio, in addition to server management, scaling, and process development. Project Highlights:• Debugged and maintained VMware/Chef and Docker systems builds.• Structured release processes to manage ~160 builds with ~20 targets across Linux and Ubuntu deployments.• Served as lead for a deployability group responsible for centralizing DevOps related process management for ~100 developers.• Oversaw the maintenance of 1700 production servers (comprising hardware and virtual instances) distributed across 6 data centers, encompassing 4 physical locations and 2 AWS environments, along with approximately 2000 staging/QA systems.

For five years I provided technology consulting services to various clients.Engagement Highlights:• DevOps/Release Engineer, Renewable Funding (2014) Improved DevOps through streamlining release processes that enabled transition from one deploy weekly to ten deploys daily. Debugged and maintained PXE and Puppet systems builds, optimizing system performance.• DevOps Engineer, Appfog.com (2013) - Built and maintained Linux application nodes, service nodes, and SSL termination nodes. Debugged and maintained build-out images and deployment scripts across cloud platforms. • SQL Applications Engineer, Agilyx (2012 - 2013) - Built and maintained Linux systems, reporting applications, and database systems. Rescued a near-abandoned codebase and created a public release in under three months with new releases every two months after. • Systems Programmer, Careinnovations.com (2012) - Managed systems for daily compiles and builds, wikis, and QA testing platforms.• Systems Programmer, Getclicky.com (2011 - 2012) Implemented and maintained numerous metrics and tracking systems. Contributed to build of systems architecture for auto-imaging, testing, virtualization, and deployment. Ran numerous testing setups to ensure smooth scaling for new features across ~430k websites of continuous data.• Software Engineer, G5platform.com (2009 - 2011) Centralized company-wide documentation into a single mediawiki-based system. Created automated web ranking systems to instantly provide and analyze data spanning 3k URLs to eliminate 640 work hours per quarter. Wrote ad-hoc scripts for multiple departments to reduce/eliminate manual data entry, analysis, and lookups.

Promopeddler is a promotional products sales/distribution company.Project Highlights: • Architected multiple fully redundant, fault tolerant server and network systems that reduced 20 days a year of unscheduled downtime to 0.08 seconds of transparent failover (no user downtime, using mod_proxy, drbd, and concurrent networks) a month, recovering ~$1.6M in lost annual sales on a $200K budget. • Managed code/bug/feature review for ground up rebuild of an e-commerce solution.• Implemented code tracking, task tracking, bug tracking, and system monitoring.• Refactored and tuned a seven-day PHP/bash data load process (for a 300K+ item catalog) into a three-hour PHP/bash job.

I founded a consulting firm and hired and managed a team to execute projects with clients nationwide. Engagement Highlights:• National security vendor - Member of a 24/7 "Zero-Day" solutions team, to find, research, profile, and (if feasible) detect all new major computer security network-related risks that threatened national, corporate, or other major assets and infrastructure, providing research results, and detection solutions, within a 24-hour sliding window of threat notification.• Multinational Fortune 500 logistics provider - Designed and implemented directory system encompassing 200+ offices, 30K+ users, with A/B testing for different solutions.• Fortune 1000 retail franchise - Created meta-cart system to replace numerous ad-hoc cart systems, with non-sophisticated user input interfaces for non-expert users to manage their cart systems.• Fortune 1000 retail franchise - Led a small team in migration of core and edge systems in a three-day window with up to 24 hours of maximum allowed downtime, achieved with 8 hours of downtime.• Multiple clients - Transitioned companies from blind-write databases to ACID-compliant database systems.