Managing a team of 6 SRE and 4 Systems Engineers across the US. Coached the team on AGILE/SCRUM practices and incorporating team feedback resulting in increased execution velocityCurrently leading a re-architecture of our CI/CD implementation to improve test reliability and speed up test execution by running parallel test plansEstablished an Observability framework based on the RED/USE Methods to address gaps in SRE alerting and awarenessLead database migration project resulting in a 50% performance improvement to the platform and meeting GDPR and CCPA compliance requirementsDesigned and executed a cloud migration project for our application layer resulting a 30% faster CI pipeline and improving SLA

- Established Splunk's first IDP called "Nova". Built up services with a "self-service" or "get out of the way" approach to enabling access to infrastructure, while still instituting lifecycle management, cost reporting and accountability- Took over internal Sales Demo platform and integrated it into the Nova solution- Lead an overhaul of the Cloud Governance deploying solutions like AWS Control Tower and Organizational SCP's to enable standard AWS policy and security compliance

- Responsible for managing ~$15m in Annual AWS spend for Corporate IT and other G&A Functions.- Responsible for managing the corporate datacenter Infrastructure servicing thousands of Engineers around the world for dev/test infrastructure and QA test systems- Responsible for supporting all critical system infrastructure enabling other IT and Engineering Teams (JIRA, Confluenced, Bitbucket, Active Directory etc)

Scaled up Operations team by establishing Network Engineering and Security & Compliance teamsHelped establish on-premise HPC cluster for DNA Sequencing processing with redundant cluster in a nearby colocation facility.

Joined Counsyl to experience a new side of IT and explore the technical side of a new industry (BioTech). Working on the Technical Operations team to help scale Counsyl's growing Genetic Screening infrastructure.- High Performance Computing- Storage Solutions: Object Storage, NetApp, Samba- Virtualization Solutions: VMWare, AWS- Config Management: Puppet, Ansible- Datacenter Operations: ISP, Power, HVAC - Linux & Windows Server management

Began working at Splunk as a Senior Systems Administrator in the core IT Operations department. Became team-lead after 6-months, overseeing project deliverables, datacenter operations and engineering support.- Storage Solutions: NetApp, Violin Memory- Virtualization Solutions: AWS, VMWare, Openstack- Server Solutions: HP C7000 Blade, Cisco UCS, Nutanix- Configuration Management: Ansible, Puppet- Linux & Windows Server- Active Directory, Exchange- Atlassian Products: Hipchat, JIRA, Confluence

Systems Administrator providing support and automation for front-end web-apps and development resources.- Linux & Windows Server Management- AWS Design and Management- Front-End application monitoring- Datacenter Operations- NetApp- VMWare- Puppet & Bash

While at Proactive I helped maintain the second largest Navy training school in the US. Worked with a small team to help manage and maintain some 3,000 desktops, ensure DISA STIG compliance and roll out Citrix XenDesktop VDI- DIACAP Security- DISA Stigs, Nessus - Windows Server Management- Cisco Network support (L2, 2900 switches, 6500 switches)- PKI management and - Citrix XenDesktop

Hired at Carley as the Junior Systems Administrator, eventually moved to project based contracts. Helped Carley design Navy network and system solutions to address customer needs. Worked on both FFP Contracts and T&M projects. Acquired and maintained an active SECRET clearance.- Citrix Xen Desktop- DIACAP Accreditiation for Navy Information Securit - Windows & Linux Server Administration- Cisco L2 Switching

Desktop Support, Windows Server Support, Network Support