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Montgomery, Alabama, Us

Columbia, Maryland, Us

Columbia, Maryland, Us

A Certified and SAFe trained Scrum Master leading teams to greatness. Inspiring teams to work together, problem-solve, and focus on delivering amazing value to customers. Facilitating agile events including daily scrums, inspect and adapt, retrospectives, and planning workshops. Utilizing Atlassian products including JIRA and Confluence and dashboard tools for status and visualization. Helping large teams tackle challenges head-on while removing impediments.

Columbia, Md, Us

DevOps team member leading charge in modernization of existing cloud infrastructure and site reliability including Chaos Engineering. Analyzing CI/CD pipelines to find possible improvements to processes and recommending changes and tools based on client needs. Bringing all teams together to foster a DevOps culture. Writing chaos engineering experiments to test resiliency of existing architecture and documenting results to make improvements in the way that the systems respond to outages.

San Diego, California, Us

Actively training teammates on project onboarding processes and entry level teammates on basic cloud navigation and tool suites for each project. Created AMIs on cloud platforms for development and testing purposes. Team member responsible for modernizing the design of government computer systems supporting both new and legacy software. Automating pipelines to containerize applications for hardening and portability. Assisting in the design of intuitive pipelines for company wide use that were suitable for both cloud and physical computers; Avoiding duplication of effort, and streamlining development processes. Installed container management platforms including Openshift 4.2, and 3.11. Worked with Hashicorp and Atlassian product suites to provision infrastructure and track progress of ongoing projects.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Agile project team member and DevOps engineer for new billing software development project. Responsibilities include configuring and automating CI/CD pipeline from Gitlab version control to deployment. Builds architecture in AWS GovCloud and AWS Commercial environments. Integrates tools used for version control and testing with Jira for transparency of workflow processes. Anticipating costs associated with various cloud services and maximizing cost savings when possible. Listens attentively to customer needs and gives realistic timeline estimates for sprint tasks to be completed. Provides documentation and diagrams for networking, resource architecture, and application architecture. Configures testing environment setups for responsive bug tracking and vulnerability free applications.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Member of Operations team responsible for system and data job load monitoring. Assisted with large-scale migration of on-premise resources to cloud environments. Consistently provided on-time deliverables and performed troubleshooting of any job failures and made recommendations for correction. Configured timing of automated spin-up and take-down of cloud resources servers based on historical run times resulting in monthly cost savings. Configured and automated alerting software to contact operations support in the event of job failures or system overload potential. Wrote step-by-step technical process documentation applicable to system administration, DevOps processes, and new team member onboarding tasks. Trained team administrators on CloudFormation stack creation scheduling and procedures for tiered outage resolution.

Consulted with software development start-up companies to understand business needs and challenges and devised technical solutions for system architectural design. Crafted strategic plans for small businesses including website hosting and cloud services. Set up Administrator, Users roles, and Policies in AWS for development projects. Assisted in building automated pipelines in AWS CloudFormation and configured developer notifications of test phase passes, failures, and rollbacks. Provided overall assistance in network administration and hardware set up. Exposure to both Chef and Terraform automation tools.