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San Francisco, California, US

Portland, OR, US

• As a Cloud Platform Engineer (2016-present)* Set up and managed a Docker Swarm Mode cluster in production, then later led a subsequent migration to AWS EKS.* Led an internal Vacasa `vc` CLI automation tool through.
• Implemented a background-worker system using Supervisord (and eventually Docker) allowing the front-end PHP website to offload long-running tasks.* Converted the administration backend to use an RBAC hierarchical.

Providing consulting services to various organizations, with an emphasis on web development and design.Assisted with and/or developed numerous products, employing PHP or Python with the standard front-end HTML/CSS/JS languages and hosting in shared environments, RackSpace Virtual Servers and the DotCloud PaaS infrastructure.

Worked remotely to train my replacement for Analyst/Programmer III and secondary, teaching them the intricacies of the CoTS product I had managed. Lead training sessions twice or more a week while documenting technical details on the in-house MediaWiki product that I managed.Developed a number of web products including a web-based interface on top of.

Assigned as technical lead to the ARMS project, a records management system based off of the Niche RMS being implemented to replace the paper-based incident tracking system currently in use. Set up the product infrastructure, XSLT-based reports and client deployment packages including in-house update functionality using a WCF web service and a C#.

Anchorage, AK, US

Taught CS109 SQL, providing instruction to students taking 100 level courses in Computer Science. Developed a curriculum, projects and exams that challenged students to critically think about their course topic and encouraged them to experiment with advanced queries.Taught CS201 Programming Concepts I, the entry-level class for students in a Computer.

Anchorage, AK, US

Developed and implemented the new UAA DenaliView website theme used by all department and institution pages. Created new elements and form fields within the CMS to support department content creation.Designed and developed the UAA IT Services Call Center Dashboard, an internal web application used by all Call Center technicians throughout the University of.

Anchorage, AK, US

Assisted lab patrons with software and hardware issues. Performed maintenance on the various IT Open Labs around campus.

Anchorage, AK, US

As Lead Maintenance Technician, performed routine and special maintenance on client sites and trained new technicians.As Programmer, developed web sites for various clients and kept those sites up to date with routine content updates.Also acted as primary consultant on all Apple assets.

Anchorage, AK, US

Assisted lab patrons with software and hardware issues. Performed maintenaance on the various IT Open Labs around campus.

Anchorage, AK, US

Performed research on using a genetic algorithm to optimize wavelet coefficients for use in compressing images.Employed use of Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, using their Matlab facilities.