- Expanded team to include the Digital Technology Infrastructure team and my former AWS DevOps team. Continued focus on AWS cost optimization and operational efficiency.- Broad expertise in all discount models on AWS. Negotiated massive discounts through a preferred pricing agreement with AWS with targeted rack-rate discounts for key services. - Replaced a commercial Cloud Cost Management with in-house dashboards, config rules, Lambdas, and preventative controls.- Built internal tooling in Python for faster operations across hundreds of AWS accounts in our Organization.- Collaborated with the CAE teams to transition from SOCA (Scale-Out Computing on AWS) to AWS ParallelCluster.- Managed a large-scale migration of HPC Storage from EFS to FSx OnTap for cost efficiency and performance.- Greatly expanded AWS governance through Organization SCPs, AWS Config, and CDK deployed Organization StackSets.- Automated reporting for SOX controls providing forms for quarterly reviews with provable (via Git and MD5) evidence embedded within.

Divested my DevOps team members to a new leader such that I could establish an AWS Center of Excellence team. Hired a team of eight AWS architects to act as internal consultants to improve infrastructure practices across the company. We created reference architectures, improved security controls and actively assisted other teams with initial implementations. I hired an AWS Cost Engineer and established regular recurring cost review with finance and the top 20 teams utilizing AWS. Deployed an array of cost reporting dashboards to give workload owners insight into savings opportunities. Developed custom tooling to facilitate department cross-charging to hold teams accountable for their AWS spend.

Moved to a leadership role to build up a team to expand our IT business capabilities around AWS. Negotiated a Preferred Pricing Agreement with AWS. Enabled teams to accelerate with minimal barriers during the race to start of R1 vehicle production.

Establishing an internal MSO for AWS. Enabling success using by defining enterprise AWS policies and practices. Implementing for high growth and security using AWS Control Tower and Control Tower Customization.Established federated self-service model for AWS account vending with preventative security in place to require public ingress reviews. AWS Service Catalog for deploying approved infrastructure that needed to bypass preventative controls. Built a multi-region Transit Gateway network with hundreds of attachments.

Teaching the official AWS courses: AWS Technical Essentials, Architecting on AWS, Developing on AWS, and Security Engineering on AWS. Receiving consistent high marks from students for real-world experience and the ability to teach complex topics.

I left the corporate world to lead a startup to bring the vision of an open source world to businesses of all sizes. We are a Red Hat, CloudBees, Cisco, and Lenovo solution provider. I lead the company in addition to working consulting contracts. We help customers understand the value of open source software, define an open source strategy, and implement reliable modern solutions. We specialize in helping companies automate DevOps and Business Processes using tools like Ansible, Kubernetes (OpenShift), Satellite, and jBPM (Red Hat Process Automation Manager).

TI is a large company with many divisions and product groups. My entire career at TI was with the group that is currently called "Education Technology". This group is responsible for hardware and software solutions to meet the needs of math and science educators. This group is most well known for its line of TI-83 and TI-84 graphing calculators.I was hired (as a contractor) in late 2000 as a Perl (mod_perl) programmer to work on a web-based educational product. In the two weeks between accepting the position and starting work TI had switch strategies and would now be using Java. I studied Java extensively during the time I had and arrived prepared for the challenge.After 11 months, TI again changed strategies and canceled the project I was working on. They let all of the other contractors go but offered me a full-time job. I joined TI as an employee in October of 2001. The change in strategy at this time was a move away from web-based solutions to a pure desktop product built in Java Swing.From that point through 2008 I spent a majority of my time as the lead engineer for TI-Navigator. This is a classroom networking product including both hardware and software to allow the teacher to collaborate with students using TI graphing calculators over a wireless network. I worked extensively on all parts of the system. From debugging wireless traffic, designing proprietary network protocols, building large Java Swing user interfaces, to writing a custom implementation of the JAXB XML parsing library.Starting in 2008 I focused on future products rather than current. I was tasked with defining the technical evolution of our software products. Making decisions about which technologies for desktop and embedded software should be used in future projects.I was recognized by the TI Technical Ladder as Senior Member Technical Staff (top 6% of technical contributors in the company).

Physia was an Internet startup to provide online patient records and automated insurance filings for physicians. I was hired as one of the first developers and helped setup both the software framework and IT infrastructure. We used Perl, Apache, and Oracle to build a web based solution for doctors. I acted as a technical leader to the new developers that we're hired and maintained most of the IT infrastructure including Solaris and Linux servers, Oracle databases, and an early IP phone system.This startup lost funding and did not survive the 2001 bubble. I left shortly before this happened. One of the founders, Shahid Shah, still maintains a blog on the company's web site.

Managed a staff of 30 support analysts who handled calls from telecom operators like SBC. Hekimian (which was acquired by Spirent Communications) manufactured telecom test equipment to test mission critical T1 and DSL equipment.UNIX and AIX Systems Management

Supported unix (SCO Xenix and IBM AIX) system and ANSI terminals at all Courtyard by Marriott, Fairfield Inn, and Residence Inn hotel properties. This job was a unix support battlefield as hotel front desk staff would regularly power off unix servers and corrupt hard drives (in the days before journaling filesystems). We recovered 2-6 completely failed systems every day. I became an expert at unix filesystem operations and SysV init troubleshooting.I also developed and improved several software applications to make the process of supporting hundreds of remote unix systems easier. Many of these systems were only accessible through dial-up modems or sometimes telnet over Marriott's WAN.

Meeting room and group sales. Contacting local business and past customers to solicit business. Working with corporate accounts to negotiate annual discount rates.