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Bloomington, IN, US

Bloomington, Indiana, United States

• This project encapsulates a comprehensive array of services and deliverables aimed at being the sole dissemination platform of data to the U.S. government and the public. It involves managing over 200 bare metal and.
• Promoted a culture of openness, accountability, trust, and automation; promoted to ProdOps Lead within six months of joining the project.
• Implemented automated process for manual processes such as post patch system checks, daily system checks, and processes needing to ensure systems remained stable and secure.
• Promoted documentation of processes and procedures be developing a wiki from the ground up.
• Developed self-imposed best practices in change management, incident management, and problem management that required detailed documentation, communication, and approvals which decreased failed changes and increased.

Bloomington, Indiana, United States

Bloomington, Indiana, United States

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• The Indiana Public Retirement System is a greater than $40 Billion pension fund serving over 1,200 employers and 500,000 public workers. Managed a complex Oracle Linux, Fusion Middleware, OSB, OEM, BPM, PeopleSoft, and.
• Lead and mentored a team of five practicing servant leadership and promoting a DevOps culture within the organization.
• Migrated the entire environment from RHEL 7 to OEL 7 with Ksplice in the cloud providing a savings of $50,000 a year in licensing costs and providing reboot free pathing of the OS kernel and services.
• Implemented accelerated automated patching schedules that have significantly lowered vulnerability risks to less than 1/3 of industry counterparts.
• Led three large projects over that improved the visibility of application performance using cloud based monitoring, advanced security initiatives in our cloud environment, improved customer service, and lowered costs.
• Employed a requirement to use CIS controls to the Oracle Linux hosts and partnered with the Director of Security in planning and implementing security improvements as a base template for new cloud builds.

Fishers, IN

• Hired as an ECM engineer, then promoted to practice manager after five months leading all of IBM’s ECM Cloud Federal business. Managed a group of five contractors and full-time employees while still participating in.
• Spearheaded efforts to incorporate automation for all technical aspects of the business utilizing Docker, Ansible, and Rundeck.
• Directed efforts to ensure all hosts were CIS compliant while implementing TLS certificates, encrypting host data, encrypting backups, and maintaining firewalls.
• Created variables for all entries, which made the scripts reusable and quickly adaptable for any customer. Initiative also reduced time required to develop a new client’s environment by more than 50%.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Operated in a mixed Windows and Linux environment while managing Windows server 2008-2016, RHEL 5-7, Centos 7, and Oracle Linux 7 environments. Key Initiatives:
• Implemented the usage of Jenkins, Rundeck, Docker, and SaltStack to automate software deployments and lower the number of repetitive manual tasks performed.
• Developed and led a monthly DevOps workshop between Dev, Ops, QA, Security, and the Service Desk to show off new tools and develop ideas between groups.

Indianapolis, Indiana

• Key Initiatives:
• Drove several large and small projects, including UAT for a customized PeopleSoft installation, Historical Data Conversion, custom time tracking implementation, and improvements to a custom Oracle ADF web application.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Key Initiatives:
• Operated as project manager on a multiyear custom Oracle ADF web application while leading the creation of use case and requirements gathering, working breakdown structures, defecting meetings, and overseeing managed.

Field Artillery Tactical Data Systems Specialist / Indiana Army National Guard, September 1999 – December 2010. Served in Iraq between 2005 and 2006.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Project Management

Bachelor'S Of Science Degree, Informatics