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Chicago, Il, Us

• Built CI Pipelines in GitHub Actions using Terraform to deploy and test a distributed blockchain network onto AWS EC2 instances for my client, Provable. • Wrote bash and Python scripts to test client’s blockchain APIs, validating JSON responses.• Developed Custom Ansible actions as Python plugins.• Used Ansible to configure deployed machines with blockchain software and dependencies.• Enhanced build for React based application using CircleCI and Vercel CLI.• Optimized deployment and startup time of applications using multi-stage docker containers.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Teaneck, Us

• Conducted POC to determine what service mesh met client’s needs.• Automated deployment of Istio Service Mesh into Azure AKS using Azure DevOps o Automated Istio Install, Configure and Uninstall o Automated CSR request for Intermediate CA and complete using Azure DevOps and OpenSSL o Automated Automatic Intermediate CA provisioning for Istio CA using Venafi and cert-manager• Wrote a Terraform Provider with two resources and two data sources for Tanzu Service Mesh in GoLang• Wrote a Terraform Module with two resources that can deploy Tanzu Service Mesh• Wrote a terraform root module to deploy AKS to Azure with Tanzu Service Mesh installed.• Secured communication to AKS cluster using mTLS• Automated configuration of AZBridge allow containerized app to securely communicate over the Internet• Automated use of Dependabot in Azure Devops Pipeline• Automated the creation of complex test environments spanning multiple VMs using PowerShell DSC

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Worked as an Application Architect for one of 5 development teams on a multi-million dollar project.Duties Include:• Investigating Current State of Web Application Configuration and Architecture• Correcting Current State of Web Application Configuration and Architecture• Documenting Existing State of Web Application Configuration and Architecture• Proposing new State of Web Application Configuration and ArchitectureWork so far includes the above on:• An Application that sends HL7 Messages and CCD Messages

Chicago, Il, Us

Worked remotely for multiple clients including 10th Magnitude and Bulkmatic.• 10th Magnitude (Lead Full Stack Developer / DevOps)o Added multiple features to a microservice based web application on Kubernetes. The web application’s backend was written in C# .Net Core, SQL Server 2019 and leveraged GraphQL. The front end was in Angular 8. Troubleshot build and deployment issues in multiple Kubernetes clusters. Added database objects to source control using Redgate SQL Source Control. Updated Azure DevOps Pipelines and added a new pipeline to deploy DB changes using Redgate SQL Change Automation.• Bulkmatic (Lead Architect and Full Stack Developer / DevOps / Flutter developer)o Built a Flutter application that runs on both Android and iOS from scratch which allows workers washing trailers to relay in real time their progress of every step of the wash. This replaced a paper based process that was input manually with a lag up to 4 days. This application used many firebase features including Firestore, Storage, Authentication (Microsoft), Functions and Crashlytics.o Automated building and publishing the app using CodeMagic and Mobicontrol.o Built backend firebase functions using Typescript, and Azure functions for Azure AD authentication.o Built backend jobs to synchronize lookup and order data into the Firestore database.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Add features to an ASP.NET MVC / angular web app that is used to allow users to manage VMs and templates (vm metadata and vm image) across Azure and AWS. • Added feature to use Azure RM deployment model instead of the Azure Classic deployment model. Second biggest feature was leveraging managed disks. • Added feature to use Azure RM managed disks. • Created automation to update SSL certificate across hundreds of azure vm instances and images.• Supported dev teams using the portal, assisting when their needs exceeded what the portal could do.• Worked on a team to use Chef to automate creation of a sandboxed sized version of a customer's azure deployment, consolidating 20 nodes into just two nodes allowing the customer to provide early access to partner development teams.• Automated SSL certificate request and create process via DigiCert API and Azure Keyvault integration.• Fixed Service Bus queue based messaging issues with lost messages and replaced with Topics and Subscriptions.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Lead the City of Chicago team to improve their version control and build processes using git branching model, git extensions and team city build server. • Trained team on use of rebase workflow for feature branches. • Consolidated multiple visual studio solutions and git repositories into a single build and saved hundreds of developer hours. • Built .NET solution to migrate millions of rows and years of historical data for the City of Chicago. Wrote complex PL/SQL to validate data migration was correct. • Wrote unit tests and unit test framework to test multiple WCF Services leveraged by utilities such as ComEd and Peoples Gas.

Chicago, Il, Us

Maintained the current version and built a new version of the RateIQ product, an engine to calculate shipping pricing across multiple carriers given very complex contracts.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Oversee a 6-member agile team to design, and implement a wide array of technical solutions to address strategic business goals and objectives. • Provide division-wide application support/troubleshooting, coordinate and conductextensive software testing, debug software products, and implement new product features and upgrades. • Manage resource scheduling, review code created by development team, and train developers on a wide variety of existing software solutions and applications.Lead development of numerous customized applications designed to meet specific corporate needs, including:• Built a new LTL rating engine from the ground up using ASP.NET MVC, WCF and the repository pattern in a service-oriented architecture. This system includes multiple tiers and subsystems with different users, both internal and external. Inversion of Control and REST based services were also leveraged used in this solution.• Added new features to Echo’s Legacy LTL Rating System to increase pricing accuracy and profit on each load by adding new UI components and modifying existing business logic to calculate prices as desired by the business.• Fixed numerous defects in Echo’s legacy LTL rating system, increasing accuracy of pricing and reliability of the system.• Enhanced an existing process built with SSIS packages which imports customer order files and calculate pricing for Echo’s largest LTL customer, Archway.• Fixed numerous defects in Echo’s systems while working on Echo’s defect team.• Lead upgrade of Echo’s SQL Server 2005 Reporting Servers to SQL Server 2008, planning the deployment and installation of these new SSRS 2008 servers. Coordinated with Dundas customer support to fix a few bugs in the Dundas controls which prevented Echo’s migration to SQL Server 2008 SSRS.

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• Oversee a 6-member team to conceive, design, and implement a wide array of technical solutions to address strategic business goals and objectives. • Provide division-wide application support/troubleshooting, coordinate and conduct extensive software testing, debug software products, and implement new product features and upgrades. • Manage resource scheduling, review code created by development team, and train developers on a wide variety of existing software solutions and applications. • Counsel operations, marketing, and other business units on strategic technical plans/resources as a key member of corporate steering committee.

• An application to distribute business listings to local search platforms, exporting listings into XML and using XSLT to transform them to the specific formats required by each local search platform.• A system allowing the separate management of keyword and ad group data by vertical market as well as a backoffice application using the same data to create unique campaigns to be exported to Google Adwords or Yahoo Panama proprietary formats.• A Web application to guide users through setup of online marketing campaigns based on vertical market.• A business profiles Web site built with .NET 2.0 and AJAX 1.0 and a rewrite of an existing business profiles Web site from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0, adding functionalities including SMS messaging and real-time conversion tracking.

Brought on 10 weeks prior to corporate launch to build, implement, and take live both the customer-facing Web application and the back-end Automated Clearing House (ACH) network processing system.• Created multiple mission-critical .NET, .NET 1.1, and SQL Server 2000 applications.• Led rewrite of an ASP-based Web application in .NET 2.0.• Engineered a pay-per-click search engine tool for health savings accounts.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Created and implemented strategic technical applications enabling soldiers and civilians to rapidly and efficiently deploy key systems. Documented procedures and trained teams on Cisco and Microsoft technologies. • Upgraded 300 machines from Windows NT to Windows XP.• Enabled teachers to restore computers to known valid configurations by creating a database of ghost images and a custom application to aide the deployment of these images from a network server.

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Built company’s Web application for corporate launch, integrating it into the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation. Recruited, hired, and led a team of 5 developers and 1 network administrator to expand and maintain this proprietary Web tool. Designed numerous applications to automate and streamline data collection, report generation, and project tracking and implemented extensive infrastructure enhancements.• Designed and guided the implementation of a functional, robust, secure Web application in 1st 6 weeks on the job.• Architected a relational database optimized for storing institutional ownership data parsed from millions of flat files.• Enabled management to prioritize clients by instituting a workflow system to anonymously process work requests.• Established savings of thousands of dollars in labor by creating a back-office application to automate the generation of hundreds of custom market reports.

Developed project management and Web applications and the corresponding frameworks utilizing such tools as Cold-Fusion, ASP/SQL Server 2000, and Microsoft’s Web Application Stress Tool, and trained colleagues on application creation. Migrated applications and databases to server farm, administered Web, database, and Visual Source safe servers, setup and maintained WebTrends and RAID subsystems, and implemented web site backup systems.

Boston, Ma, Us

Supervised and trained a 3-member help-desk support team, creating procedures, prioritizing projects, and instituting continuous productivity improvements. Oversaw development support, quality assurance, field installations, and technical support for servers, desktops, and telephones for entire division.