Performing the role of an architect and scrum master and leading a team of 7 we transformed the Cloud business. Through enablement we developed solutions using industry best practices that scale to 1,000's of automation and deployment events per day. We focus on DORA metrics to improve velocity, agility, MTTR and error budgets. Working with the cloud developer community at the company I've seen standardized development transform. * Partnered with the team to design and develop CI/CD & CD tooling to enable GitOps workloads enabling 200+ employees to deliver pipelines and automation quickly at scale.* Built a microservice task engine with AWS ECS Fargate with containerization that enabled consistency throughout the entire software development lifecycle.* Established SDK's and API's for the first time at the company to enable collaborative and responsible code sharing by fully integrating the companies toolchain. This enabled 40+ engineers to collaborate in a single codebase for the first time at the company.* Lead DevOps integration of CI/CD for the company's serverless acceleration for developers. Combining Application, IaC and Pipeline code we've been able to standardize how products are developed.

Lead the implementation of the toolchain for all of Cloud by applying principles of DevOps and SRE. Shaping the technology stack used by Cloud we deliver self-service tools and frameworks used by multiple teams across the organization. Together we have automated the maintenance of over 20,000 EC2 resources and thousands of other artifacts and resources on the Cloud platform. We work with the full AWS service suite from SDK to a finished product aimed at solving business problems and automating away from handoffs.

Responsible for designing and building systems to manage cloud across APAC, LAC, USA and Europe regions. Using DevOps methodology maintain CI/CD tooling to enable at-scale deployment and operations. Recent Highlights; Designed and built CD tooling to enable GitOps workloads for 200+ employees to deliver terraform and Ansible for all cloud clients. Designed cloud agnostic tooling to enable CI/CD for the Cloud Engineering and the business to deliver network, infrastructure and application services at-scale to over 200 AWS accounts. Diving deep into tooling with; Docker, packer, DataDog, Jenkins, python, bash, powershell, java, groovy, terraform, Ansible, chalice and bitbucket. Cloud services on AWS; IAM, API Gateway, Step Functions, Lambda, Route53, ECS, ECR, SSM, Secrets Manager, Organizations and EC2.

Responsible for implementing cloud native solutions using integration and delivery methodologies. I offer key applied architecture and design principles to the way we work, so we can accelerate. Projects:Ansible & ContainersMicroservice integration and delivery using ECS Fargate to provide a method to implement ansible to achieve desired state. This enables teams to code ansible yaml into the project without having to know the underlying platform and security integration required to perform the task. The microservice is integrated using Jenkins multi-branch DSL to deliver a functional ECR container image for ECS throughout the SDLC. The security is integrated with AWS using IAM roles, policies and resources at every level to ensure safe operation and use of secrets. Developers can commit a single yaml change and the pipeline builds, integrates and tests before deploying the ECR image through development, staging and production.Technology StackCI - using 3musketeers pattern to build and test Docker container used to drive all integrations with a python entrypoint. Posting container image to ECR and pulling down from developer, ECS or pipeline.CD - using gitops deployment model to provide configuration management integration throughout delivery. This enables teams to commit configuration changes that go into production seamlessly. Terraform - worked with tool that dynamically generates hcl to plan/apply changes in production for AWS (IAM, VPC, SecurityGroup, S3, EC2, ECS, ACM, Route53, ELB, RDS, Aviatrix and Directory Service)Ansible - built continuous delivery mechanism with ECS to enable secure client specific ansible execution using dynamic inventory and IAM security in the ECS container to run Ansible from a pipeline, developer PC or gitops delivery.Designed JSON based Jenkins wrapper that eliminated the need to write Groovy/DSL to drive GitOps implementation.

Assisting in the overall delivery of solutions for Cloud Services. Providing technical deep dive consultation for internal and external clients. Participating in service catalog maintenance, optimization and documentation. Ask me how Cloud Services can help your institution!

Responsible for Implementing Ellucian SaaS Applications in the cloud on AWS.

I provide Information Technology consulting services for Higher Education, for profit and not for profit clients with a wide range of expertise. I use my experience with Strategic Planning, Team Building, ITIL implementation, Project Management, Programming and System Administration to help my clients solve problems. I have extensive experience working with Ellucian's Colleague Information System on a SQL/UniData platform and developing web applications. I work with clients to ensure success with a conscious effort to reduce budget.Clients:Hillsborough CC, FL (44,000 total students unduplicated)Southeastern CC, NCDelta College, MISouthwestern CC, NCRoanoke-Chowan CC, NCPiedmont CC, NCPitt CC, NCSouth Piedmont CC, NCFayetteville Tech CC, NCSwann Point Marina, NCLiberty Inn, NCLink-Systems, FLEIS Data Systems, NCExecu-Sys, NYOnslow Christmas Cheer, NCSpirit Web Development iData Inc., VAAMSimpkins & Associates (LingK adapter), SCCampusEAI Consortium, OHProjects: Colleague SQL Migration (2), Custom Self-Service 2.10 Finance Billing View (C#, MVC4), Florida State API integration (Unix C to C#, MVC), Custom SSO integration with Florida Library system online (C# service), Cloud Sencha JS CRM for Christmas Cheer, Colleague and Active Directory Sychronization (Full), Integrated Self-Service Password Manager (Google, Colleague, Active Directory)., PHP UniData web service RESTful API, Java UniData Web Service API, C#.net UniData API, Web Site Development (front/backend), eCommerce web configuration, Degree Audit FA enrollment workflow.

Managed several projects and day to day operations for the Enterprise Applications Team.

Responsible for directing the enterprise applications team in the support of; ERP, Student/Faculty/Staff/Alumni Portal, e-learning, Website internal/external, and various departmental software applications. Working to ensure student success for an Ellucian client site that serves ~40,000 students, alumni, and constituents in the Great Lakes Bay region of Michigan.Migrated Ellucian Colleague from AIX on UniData to Windows on SQL. Moving 126 million records as well as; Self-Service, WebAdvisor, eCommerce, Data Orchestrator, ELF imports, UI4, Nelnet, R25, FA~Link, and several more integrated products and services. Query Builder was replaced with SSRS on SharePoint 2010 integrated. I got the team back on track and turned the migration into a successful project.We recently developed an SSRS report based on the same code used for the Billing Statement in Self-Service Finance. The goal was to leverage the same platform technology that Self-Service is built on to deliver continuity for the user experience. The school is now considering replacing the registration statement with the Student Billing Statement. Used Microsoft Project to estimate a 6 month timeline for a project that was delivered on time. Employed Kanban PM to manage user stories for several projects with a loose adherence to the agile scrum methodologies.Recent Completed Projects:Unix to SQL Colleague migration Self-Service Student Planning 2.5.1Ellucian Mobile with Registration Module 3.6.1eTranscriptsLegacy Silverlight to responsive C#.NET Web AppEllucian Portal 4.1 on SharePoint 2013 with SSO integrated with; ADFS/WAP, O365, Self-Service, UI.Colleague High Availability migration with SQL 2014

Provide Direction and Collaborate with System Administrator and Programmer. Manage and maintain Enterprise Level Systems Infrastructure. Was responsible for helping the college to recover approximately $300,000 in expected losses by mining data.

Provide leadership to System Administrator and Programmer. Integrate third-party systems with the college ERP system. Provide top level support to end users and IT staff. Maintain systems infrastructure. Maintain Colleague system backup and integrated snapshot system. Maintain Colleague Envision customization's.

Provide technical support, training, analysis and specification development for the college information processing systems (CIS) used at the 58 Community Colleges and at the System Office of North Carolina.

Migrated Ellucian's Colleague ERP system from SunFire V880 to SunFire T5220 - saving the college $17,000. Implemented ZFS snapshot backup strategy to replace FalconStors' IPStor snapshot backup system - saving the college $86,900 in the first year and $8,000 in maintenance fees annually. Implemented VMware Virtual Infrastructure - saving thousands of dollars in hardware expenses. Provided technical expertise in implementing system automation techniques. Used program development expertise to analyze business requirements.

Implemented Disaster Recovery solution for Ellucian's Colleague ERP system. Upgraded Colleague OS from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 with a fast paced schedule to meet requirements set by the State System Office. Developed software application that interfaced with Google for Student and Staff portal - used to manage LDAP and Gmail accounts. Was a key player in implementing VMWare Virtual Infrastructure - saving thousands of dollars in hardware expenses. Used program development expertise to analyze business requirements.

Migrated over 60 Computed Columns from Colleague R17 to R18. Developed and implemented web-based closed class list application using UniObjects for Java to replace legacy program. Designed Campus Cruiser Portal using HTML/CSS. Used program development expertise to analyze business requirements.

Troubleshoot, update and maintain College desktop computer hardware and software.