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Saratoga Springs, Ut, Us

Leesburg, Va, Us

-Refactored terraform infrastructure which decreased run times by 50%. -Built 5+ custom Jenkins pipelines to run AWS Cli commands, run terraform, and unit tests-Upgrade multiple terraform environments, resolving deprecation issues, and upgrading AWS providers, which allowed us to use modern libraries, and resources.-Refactor Kubernetes mainfests to resolve deployment issues, pod issues, and enhance performance.-Manage 8 windows instances, added enhancements, security fixes, and updates.-Refactored and modernized infrastructure defined by terragrunt.

Seattle, Washington, Us

-Decreased loan interest rate publishing from 1 week to 5 minutes through building pipelines in Azure Devops.-Built 10+ pipelines to publish Lambdas, run Terraform, and run security scanning tools. -Built 3 Elastic Container Service clusters from scratch using Terraform to run Prometheus, Grafana, and other tools.-(New management laid off with the ENTIRE software engineering department. Though I was lucky to have 2 job offers in 10 days).

Park City, Utah, Us

-Migrated self-hosted Kubernetes to Amazon's EKS.-Managed 1 other DevOps engineer.-Interviewed multiple DevOps engineers to fill open roles. -Wrote automation scripts to reduce friction with managing our infrastructure-Upgraded Jenkins, plugins, and Jenkins pipelines.-Working with Arm processors, and writing scripts for working with multi-architecture docker containers (AMD64 and Arm64)-upgraded our ingress controller (contour), and refactored our ingress objects to use httpproxy instead-Gained my AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification, and am working on my Certified Kubernetes Administrator cert.

Park City, Utah, Us

-Decreased AWS yearly spend by $72,000 through removing old servers, volumes, and storage, and right-sizing new infrastructure. -Increased service level availability (SLA) from 99.5% to 99.997% by upgrading and improving mysql infrastructure. -Managed 4 Kubernetes clusters running on AWS. Managed or provisioned 80+ servers through terraform.-Used Ansible to provision 4 database clusters for production. -Monitored high-availability services in New Relic, Prometheus, Scalyr, Grafana, and App Dynamics. -Worked with AWS, auto-scaling groups, EC2 instances, ECS, and CloudWatch.-Wrote custom python and bash scripts for various tasks. -Provisioned new customer accounts, using custom scripts, MySQL multi-cluster, and more.-Was part of an on-call rotation through OpsGenie.

-Provisioned new Linux servers in the cloud such as AWS, Azure, and Vultr.-Configured Linux servers and created automated provisioning scripts. -Created and managed automated deployments using tools like Rocketeer. -Created custom web applications using Laravel and Vanilla JavaScript. This includes delivering multiple greenfield projects from wireframe to deployments-Designed and created custom databases with MySQL-Worked closely with clients to understand business needs, and transform those needs into working software.

-Built a custom management system that had multiple modules. Notable items were file uploads, image galleries, facility management, customer management, and managing advertisements (2015).-Built a document tracking system that saves users 10 hours of work each week. This system enables users to track items for a given list, and attach files, comments and other data to those items. It allows for delegation, commenting, and more. Best of all it runs on AWS is fast. (2015).-Built a custom tow tracking application that saved the company 5 hours of work per week (2015).-Designed a custom website for Dr. Kent Godfrey to enhance his consulting practice (2015 - docgodfrey.com).-Designed custom website for Vision Masters (an Optometry group in Denver, Utah (2014)).-Created custom reports for an education company that helped management make better decisions (2013).-Built an automated reporting system that saved client services 416 hours per year. -Processed custom payroll for an education company. I took data from 4 different information systems, combined it, filtered it, and prepared it for the accountant. This saved them 20-25 hours every month (2013).

Highland, Utah, Us

-Configured 30+ Linux servers (RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS). -Created custom bash scripts. Solved an unique problem using ssh and git to fulfill a project worth $140,000.-managed code deployments using Capistrano-Designed 2 Virtual Private Clouds on Amazon Web Services (AWS).-Used bash to prepare a linux server for a custom project worth $180,000.-Setup and maintained 2 Elasticsearch clusters-Managed multiple ETL projects for enterprise level clients.-If you are wondering why only 8 months at this role? Simply put the company ran out of money and laid all of us off. No hard feelings though.

-Taught 380 students beginning and intermediate Excel.-Demonstrated how to work with formulas, charting, solver, advanced modeling, statistics, and goal seek. -Managed 3 teaching assistants, and ensured the quality of their service.

-Awarded best paper at ICIS - the track had 100+ scholarly applicants.-Created multi-part survey in Qualtrics with we used to assess the skill level of 283 undergraduates.-Assisted in statistical assessments, including CFA, EFA, and Cross-Factor Loadings via SEM. -Assisted in data cleaning, removing outliers, and erroneous records.-Wrote a significant portion of a scholarly article - targeted at the journal CAIS.-Wrote the introduction, literature review, and theory section for a paper targeted at ICIS.

Orem, Utah, Us

-Repaired broken databases quickly for priority customers.-Saved clients more than $10,000 in recurring costs due to downtime.-Mastered the software twice as fast as the average employee (as once told by my manager).-Resolved escalated issues that tier 1 could not solve.-Tested code to find bugs, and worked with developers to get them fixed.

Provo, Ut, Us

Created custom websites using CSS, XHTML, and some PHP.Worked with directors and high level management to determine website needs.Configured IIS to run their websitesPerformed server maintenance if needed.

Provo, Ut, Us

While working for the Plant and Wildlife Sciences department I created custom websites using CSS and XHTML. I created websites first in notepad, and then transferred my code into a custom made content management system. I also worked on creating forms and database tables to store the entries that were collected from the forms.

Provo, Ut, Us

Primary task was updating the Insurance list for Special Collections in the Harold B. Lee Library. This list contained thousands of items that had to be located, inspected, and then added to the list if they met certain specifications. I also worked on making flowcharts of the processes of Special Collections, and then posting these flowcharts on the library Wiki.

Master Of Science (Ms), Management Information Systems, General

Bs, Information Systems