• Designed, built, and supported a highly available production Linux farm hosting over 30 Java applications on JBoss• Designed and implemented monitoring and alerting practices that practically eliminated application down time and user impact• Integrated multiple backend, frontend and middleware systems to create end to end solutions• Managed server updates, change management, source control, building, testing, deploying, monitoring, alerting, and reporting for applications in a 24x7 production environment• Developed and maintained custom Bash scripts, as well as searches, reports, and dashboards in Splunk, Elastic, and Kibana• Successfully led the team Change Approval Board in reviewing and approving application changes for production deployment• Led migration of legacy Java applications to cloud architecture• Owner of team's security roles, entitlements, certificates, and service accounts• Successfully conducted application reviews and risk assessments as software application owner• Owner of team's Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plan• Recommended programming best practices as member of team’s Technology Advisory Council• Currently on the Private Cloud team, utilizing agile software development methods with Git, Gitlab CI, Jira, and Docker to develop and support applications running on Red Hat OpenShift• Part of the Automation Center of Excellence for USAA, trained in Puppet and Ansible• Provided leadership and oversight to nearshore support team of USAA contractors

• Provided conversion of legacy applications and databases from the mainframe to web applications written in either C# or Java running on Windows or Linux• Developed in-house automation tools using Java, C#, and Python• Provided onsite classroom training to customers including both lectures and hands on labs

• Worked on multiple projects encompassing the entire lineup of Software AG products, specializing in application modernization using EntireX and ApplinX• Provided training courses on modernization products to clients• Expert on multiple platforms including z/os, Windows and Unix/Linux• Contributed to several migrations of Natural/Adabas from mainframe to Unix

• Supported a large 24X7 production and development environment using MVS, CICS and TSO• Responsible for the installation/upgrade, configuration, and maintenance of all Software AG products• Administered the County’s HP-UX Unix environment