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Redwood City, California, Us

Provided strategic direction and remained hands-on to accomplish our mission to enable and engineer a secure, reliable, performant, and extensible platform to ensure consistent value-delivery with velocity to internal and external customers at scale:SRE and Platform:- Cloud infrastructure automation, architecture and design, provisioning, and configuration- CI/CD, build and release management, delivery platform configuration, engineering-wide enablement, and automation of feature deployments- Solutions-oriented remediation of business risks/concerns (i.e. information security)- Collaborate with the wider engineering organization to ensure we leverage production standards for safety, security, scalability, and reliability- Evangelize future-forward guidance to ensure customer value with resiliency and longevity- Platform engineering and self-service enablementShared Services:- Building and composing robust services and capabilities purpose-built to provide extensibility, reusability, performance, scalability, and reliability- Maintaining a consumable "catalog" of patterns, modules, components, packages, services, etc. to provide platform-level capabilities- Guidance in architecture and design of new features and enhancements in foundational elements of our product(s)- Education, empowerment, and enablement of engineering staff to accelerate value delivery to end-users with confidence, reliability, and velocityCloud Operations:- Manage cloud systems with a focus on capacity management, resource planning, consistency, integrity, monitoring, and dashboarding related to health, security, access, cost, etc.- Monitoring systems for performance issues or failures. - Fault detection and failure mode analysis for infrastructure planning.- Maintain systems with routine updates, upgrades and evaluate planned system changes.- Diagnose system faults, digging deep into the inner workings of cloud infrastructure and systems to fix/remediate systems issues.

Chicago, Il, Us

Partnered with our application, infrastructure, and data groups to design and deliver service offerings that directly contributing towards being named Microsoft’s Global Datacenter Migration Partner of the Year, and Microsoft’s Global DevOps Partner of the Year for 2019.Provide thought leadership to internal delivery team members and clients to migrate, automate, and operate enterprise applications in the cloud and to improve their capability using modern technologies and techniques. Design and implement core principles of DevOps and cloud operating models.Responsibilities:- Plan, analyze, design, and deploy enterprise scale Azure infrastructure & application delivery solutions- Review and manage technical requirements and business functional requirements for establishing platform capabilities- Design for scalability, reliability, visibility and delivery of infrastructure and application components - Design, build, and support advanced cloud automation workflows - Master tools used to support pipeline automation, integration, and delivery- Provide guidance and direction to client teams to realize core DevOps tenets- Lead, educate, and partner with client throughout cultural and technical transformation

Chicago, Il, Us

Partnered with our infrastructure group to design and deliver service offerings that directly contributed to becoming Microsoft’s Global Open Source Applications and Infrastructure on Azure Partner of the Year, as well as Microsoft’s US Apps and Infrastructure – Datacenter Transformation Partner of the Year in 2018.Provide thought leadership to internal delivery team members and clients -- drive discovery of requirements to inform and propose an architecture and delivery plan, as well as direct a team to deliver the solution. Directly support the demand team to pursue and close opportunities, delivery management to align timeline and budget, and growth to ensure engineering resources are well-equipped to deliver success.Responsibilities• Ownership of technical envisioning, scope and execution of effective application modernization solutions on Microsoft Azure • Present solutions to clients tailored to their business challenges and then follow through in execution of proposed solution(s)• Diverse, cross-functional background including infrastructure, automation, and SRE knowledge• Extensive experience with diverse application workloads and strong understanding of infrastructure, operations, data residency, and dependency management • Strong understanding of cloud service delivery models – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, serverless, cloud native, etc. • Design and develop cloud-native, secure, and distributed applications founded on cloud architecture best practices including but not limited to: microservices, REST, API Gateways, RDBMS / NoSQL backends, messaging design patterns• Proficiency in SDLC and software delivery best practices namely: artifact and release management, continuous integration, continuous delivery, etc.

Chicago, Il, Us

Tripled headcount of the engineering organization in 18 months. Increased service revenue from $1m to over $20m in 24-months leading to equity investment from Pamlico Capital in late 2016. Worked to obtain Microsoft Gold Application Development status for the practice as a key cloud partner for Microsoft and worked in tandem with our Cloud Infrastructure practice to become Microsoft’s US Hybrid Cloud and Infrastructure Partner of the Year for 2017.Responsible for building, growing, and leading a cloud application development practice. Provided leadership to both demand and delivery organizations to effectively align and deliver cloud application-focused services. Partnered with numerous teams to further enhance the practice and its offerings -- HR to provide career development, mentorship and growth opportunities; recruiting to interview and attract talent; executives and demand to align on messaging, strategy, build and curate sales material, and to augment upcoming tactical initiatives; growth for vendor and partner alignment.Informed by market demand and trends and with a goal to accelerate cloud adoption strategy, developed service offerings with a primary focus on application workloads and best practices therein:- Cloud-native applications - containerization, orchestration, tooling- Service delivery models - PaaS / SaaS / Serverless- Data service/resource design, integration, migration- Hybrid / Connectivity – IaaS / Networking- Identity, AuthN, AuthZ- DevOps, SRE principles – automation, artifact and configuration management, CI, CD, etc.- SDLC, methodologies - Agile, Scrum, Kanban, 12Factor- Enablement, developer experience

Redwood City, California, Us

Led a team to migrate Workboard's flagship SaaS application from AWS to Azure. Assessed, designed, automated, and migrated from IaaS VMs to a cloud-native, container-based solution on Kubernetes. Automated infrastructure provisioning of a hub-and-spoke Azure residency with Terraform; implemented CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for infrastructure management, configuration management, as well as application build and deployment. (Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, PHP, Apache, CentOS Linux, Terraform, Azure - AKS, Container Registry, MySQL, KeyVault, DNS, Application Gateway, Data Migration Service, Networking, IaaS, Azure DevOps, Github Actions)

Wood Dale, Il, Us

Led a team of on and offshore resources in the design, development and deployment of features on a repair, inventory management, and reporting application. Updated application delivery pipelines and implemented key customer-facing features to deliver the application to a stable environment for testing and demonstration. (Kubernetes, Azure – AKS, Container Registry, Azure DevOps)Assessed several internal applications for migration to Azure as well as candidacy on 10th Magnitude’s Cloud Deployment Manager platform. Performed a gap analysis to produce effective target deployment models for each based on current and future requirements. (Angular, NodeJS, Java, Kubernetes, Azure – IaaS, PaaS, AKS)

Liberty, Missouri, Us

Framingham, Ma, Us

Led a team to build and automate into a service offering a catalog of Azure capabilities and best practices focused on engineering enablement, governance and operations, security guardrails, and automation. Worked with countless stakeholders to define effective solutions and patterns that were easy to consume, easy to understand, easy to extend, and directly addressed the needs of engineering teams looking to leverage the cloud in a safe, reliable, and secure way. (Python, Ansible, Packer, Jenkins, Azure - AKS, KeyVault, Application Gateway, Monitor / Log Analytics, IaaS, Networking, Python SDK)

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Led a team to architect, design and implement a platform to accelerate cloud engineering enablement; this platform lets HAVI’s development teams focus on developing and delivering features to HAVI customers, and less on platform-level concerns— infrastructure, operations, build and release pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, Azure services, etc. The platform was built on IaaS / PaaS components in a hybrid model for connectivity to on-premises assets. Best practices were built-in around containerization, CI / CD, deployment targets, operational readiness, monitoring, metrics, and logging. (Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Azure – AKS, Container Registry, Web Apps, Application Gateway, KeyVault, Service Bus, API Management, PostgreSQL, AzureSQL, DocumentDB, DNS, IaaS, Networking, ExpressRoute, Azure DevOps, App & Services - ASP.NET Core, EF Core)

Houston, Texas, Us

HalliburtonDesigned, automated, and migrated client and shared infrastructure model from AWS over to Azure. Focus for the engagement was on the automation and operational enablement to accelerate, reliably deploy, and secure both tenant and shared infrastructure for Landmark’s iEnergy / DS365 customers. (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Ansible, Packer, VMWare, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure – Application Gateway, IaaS, Networking, ExpressRoute, Monitor, Log Analytics)

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

Led a team to accelerate First Reserve’s cloud strategy and adoption through the heavy use of operational tooling and automation. Completed discovery and design of a model that augmented their operational approach; leading technical design and overall solution delivery. Built multi-region hub + spoke model in Terraform and established Chef foundation and cookbooks to further extend infrastructure management capabilities. Partnered with the First Reserve team to educate and equip through regular knowledge transfer sessions and workshops, as well as mentored an up-and-coming resource on both Chef and Terraform. (Terraform, Chef, Azure – Backup, Monitor, Log Analytics, IaaS, Networking)

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Led an effort to assess, design, and deploy two internal applications, as well as automate the configuration and management of network security groups and security rules. (Terraform, Azure - Traffic Manager, Web App, Application Gateway, API Management, SQL Server, IaaS, Networking)

Redmond, Washington, Us

Converted ARM-quickstart templates over to official Terraform examples, and defined a model to be used as a template for each example. Mentored an up-and-coming engineer on Azure Resource Manager, Terraform, continuous integration, automation with GitHub/TravisCI, and best practices therein. (ARM, Terraform, GitHub, TravisCI)

San Francisco, California, Us

Led an effort to troubleshoot and enhance Mesosphere's official ARM template deployment of DC/OS to Azure. (ARM, Mesosphere DC/OS)

Austin, Tx, Us

Led a team to design, automate and deliver a hub-and-spoke Azure landing zone to house a data-centric workload. Implemented Chef and wrote cookbooks to manage configuration and change. Automated provisioning and Chef runs for Talend, Shiny, as well as domain controllers with Terraform. (Chef, Supermarket, Terraform, Jenkins, Nexus Sonotype, Talend, Shiny (RStudio), Azure - AppGW, SQL DW, Monitor, Log Analytics, IaaS, Networking, ExpressRoute)

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Evaluated Nintex's engineering organization against developer experience (DevEx) and DevOps best-practices-- performed a gap analysis centered around source control management, artifacts (creation, deployment and release), environment provisioning, tooling, validation and testing, diagnostics and operations, and culture. Identified and presented to executives: findings, several options to address gaps, and roadmaps for the team.

Chicago, Il, Us

Led a team to architect, design, implement, and deliver-to-production a self-service, SaaS web application to automate the configuration and provisioning of IaaS-based instances of Relativity's flagship SaaS product. The application provides deployments for internal product development teams, certification exams, training classes, sales demos, as well as annual events incl. Relativity Fest, Legaltech, and others. Key features include scheduling, health checks and state visibility, reporting and attribution, and external API for extension. (Azure - Web Apps, Web Jobs, Application Gateway, Service Bus, API Management, SQL DB, Redis, App Insights, App - ASP.NET MVC 5, WebApi, AngularJS, integrations with Auth0, Okta, ADFS, Salesforce, BitBucket, Octopus Deploy, Jenkins)

Chicago, Il, Us

Led a team to assist SAVO Group's Agile and DevOps transformation. Introduced, cultivated, and educated SAVO's operations group on core principles and best practices around operational capabilities and software delivery-- including configuration management, branching strategy, infrastructure as code, source control, and infrastructure delivery platforms. (Chef, Azure DevOps, GitFlow, OpenStack)

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Refactored, extended, and improved a sales enablement SaaS platform to have additional integrations, greatly improved end-user experience, additional customer features, and superior DB and front-end performance. (.NET MVC, KnockoutJS, Entity Framework, MS SQL)

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Architected, designed and technically led application development on a diverse application portfolio for customers as small as startups to members of the Fortune 500 including Mercer, Aon, Dotomi (Conversant), TTX. Project teams varied in size up to 18 engineers and analysts. Applications built were for desktop, web, and mobile, and were hosted on-premises as well as in Azure.Technologies leveraged: ASP.NET C#, MVC, Razor, HTML5/CSS3, Bootstrap, JS, jQuery, AngularJs, TypeScript, Underscore.js, Dundas, HighCharts, D3.js, Simple Injector, StructureMap, Web API, REST, WCF, Entity Framework, nHibernate, Automapper, Aspose, SSRS, SSIS, Workflow Services, SharePoint, NUnit, RhinoMocks, MS SQL, Xamarin, Objective-C, and Azure.

Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Led a team to define, develop, and release a poker tournament management mobile application for iPhone/iPad. This application gave its users the ability to create, manage a poker tournament including chip denominations, chips issued, table positions, push notifications, and more. (WP8, .NET MVC 5, EF6, WebApi)

New York, Ny, Us

Worked with a team to define, develop, and launch several major and minor releases of Mercer’s “Workforce Intelligence Network” platform; features included benchmarking, searching, reporting, importing/exporting of key market survey elements (jobs, employees, etc) as well as internationalization for Spanish, Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese-speaking users. (.NET MVC, WCF, nHibernate, MS SQL 2008, WPF)

London, Gb

Enhanced an internal benefits management portal for their clients, as well as built a survey management portal for completed benefits surveys. (.NET WebForms, Entity Framework, Linq-to-SQL, MS SQL 2008)

Chicago, Il, Us

Defined, designed, implemented, tested, delivered, and supported an application to automate the collection of web pages’ tracking and other specifics to provide invaluable information for Dotomi to identify both competitors and potential customers. (.NET 4.5, WPF)

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

Enhanced a reporting application for rail car repairs. Worked with stakeholders and product owners to identify and refine requirements. Remained engaged through the completion of user acceptance testing November and launch in December. (.NET WebForms, MSSQL Server, WCF)

Des Plaines, Il, Us

Managed client requests from submission to completion including design, development, QA, and deployment to production environments. Allocated and lead resources to accomplish these tasks in a timely manner by coordinating efforts with project managers and delivery team leads.

Des Plaines, Il, Us

As a full stack developer, developed custom web applications, built administrative user interfaces allowing users to manage data, functionality, generate reports, and view various metrics within dashboards.