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Santa Rosa Beach, FL, US

Houston, TX, US

• Creating and mentoring an Engineering team to help migrate Accelerate Learning to AWS and build the future for the STEMScopes platform.
• Created a cost model to show migrating the public cloud can save the company significant costs while increasing agility.
• Delivered a strategic plan for migrating to the public cloud that provides a high level of security while increasing developer efficiency and has the eventual goal of achieving SOC 2 compliance.
• Designed and built a GitOps based platform using EKS, ArgoCD, Istio and Pulumi to automate building highly secure Kubernetes clusters that audit all approvals and changes to infrastructure.
• Created processes for automating the creation of GitHub repos via Pulumi to meet security standards and ensure that best practices for source control are followed.
• Created automation with GitHub workflows to automate testing, approval and deployment of AWS infrastructure using Pulumi.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Leading the engineering team that builds the core infrastructure security blocks to allow Equifax to migrate to the Google Cloud Platform and comply with FedRAMP standards.
• Established best practices for managing Google Kubernetes Engine and created Terraform automation that teams can use create clusters that meet high Equifax security standards. Continuing to bring new functionality such.
• Designed configuration in GKE and ASM that support observability requirements to run GKE at global scale for our SRE leads.
• Developed an internal container image catalog to support the SDLC standards for all development teams. Container images are regularly scanned for vulnerabilities and updated daily to ensure we have tight control over.
• Designed automation to build server images as well as the policies to ensure cloud servers meet Equifax security standard. Created automation that software teams can use to automate server rebuilds on a frequent basis.
• Designed Equifax Shell, a cloud resource where developers and software engineers can work that is kept up to date with the latest security patches and tool versions. It ensures teams are always on the same versions of.

New York, NY, US

• I led the Crossroad development team that developed a new broadcast scheduling and advertising management system which handles over 40% of the revenue of the company. I introduced agile development methodologies to the.
• I developed the automation to deploy the Crossroad system across hundreds of servers and reduced deployment time from over a day to less than an hour and reduced the errors introduced from manual configuration. It.
• I created a plan to save money and increase productivity by using senior resources that could apply automation to routine DBA tasks. I was able to bring back several people who were laid off and I improved our level of.
• During a critical data center failure, which included the DR site, I was able to use automation to build out a new production environment in our development data center and have Crossroad operational before the next.
• I worked with the NBA to transition their Sybase servers to cloud based SQL Servers for replication of statistics data and saved over $400K in annual licensing costs.
• I managed vendor relationships with cloud and tool vendors that supported our development efforts. I worked with vendors of public clouds, development tools and databases including Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, GitHub.

Met with customers to sell and deliver consulting services to assist in building custom software solutions. Conducted architectural assessments for various national and regional companies to deploy best practices for Web Service based applications. Architected financial systems built around smart clients, SQL Server and SQL Reporting Services.

Houston, Texas, US

HP acquired Extreme Logic. Lead consultant teams to develop solutions for Enterprise customers. Engaged on several proof-of-concept projects to help sell the Microsoft base systems to potential customers. Accepted to the Microsoft Platinum Partner program. Built systems around service oriented architecture for desktop, web and mobile platforms.

US

Developed customs solutions for Enterprise clients using the Microsoft.NET and SQL platform for client/server and web based applications.

Consultant for small and mid-size businesses. Built custom software solutions and assumed the role of trusted advisor to my customers.

Sold hardware and software solutions for small businesses. Developed custom software solutions for Windows systems.

Baltimore, Maryland, US

Developed health insurance management systems for IBM OS/2.

The Hague, South Holland, NL

Developed credit insurance management systems for IBM PC systems.