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Managed group of release engineers that supported video encoding. Wrote Python Lambda scripts to shutdown Ateme video encoders when not in use. This saved the company 15 thousand a month. Managed group of two release engineers that support Atlassian products across the company. Moved Splunk offsite to AWS. Architected new cluster of indexers and search.

Managed a team of six DevOps engineers and six systems engineers. Supported AWS infrastructure buildouts. Managed and implemented 10G direct connects with redundant connections. AWS Services used: IAM, Beanstalk, EC2, S3, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Lambda, Batch, Direct Connect, EFS, Storage Gateway and Snowball.

Managed a team of five application support and release engineers to build, deploy, and support all external websites, cloud services, monitoring for Starz. Brought in and implemented Splunk to help Developers and other groups leverage logs into meaningful data. Migrated several applications to AWS using services such as EC2, S3, Beanstalk, CloudFront.

Managed a team of five application support and release engineers to build, deploy, and support all external websites, cloud services and monitoring for Starz. AWS Services used: Beanstalk, CloudFront, S3, EC2, IAM, VPC, Beanstalk

Performed POC on moving some backend processes from a private hosting provider to Amazon Cloud. Mentored junior team members on best practices for build and release of software. Migrated builds to new Atlassian Bamboo Server. Implemented Rails environment for new SVOD Override tool. Implemented new Tomcat servers then moved JBoss applications over to new.

Created unified build infrastructure for J2EE applications. Created Clustered Weblogic environments for development integration environments. Implemented CruiseControl with clover (code coverage), Checkstyle, and Findbugs. Mentoring other staff on build and release best practices, Linux, and BEA's environment.

Created Pre-Production environment which consisted of IIS, BEA Weblogic Portal, and SQL Server. This was a short-term contract to create a pre-production environment that would be used as training and knowledge transfer.

Was responsible for the configuration and deployment of applications into a highly-available production environment: a two-machine configuration running clustered instances of WebLogic Server (hot deploys). Created all build scripts from scratch for new J2EE project. Created centralized build environment to build and deploy applications. Implemented.

Created all build scripts from scratch for new J2EE project. Was brought in to create a unified build infrastructure across all new J2EE applications. Implemented continuous integration using CruiseControl. Created a automated Weblogic domain creation scripts for development staff. Implemented best practices on legacy applications that were not J2EE based.