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Reno, NV, US

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US

Incline Village, Nevada, US

Wichita, Kansas, US

Designed, prototyped and implemented Kafka and KSQL streams replacing event and batch oriented architecture with real time data ingestion and processing. As a result the data science and advanced analytics teams reduced the amount of custom code by 80% while improving data quality and reliability. Additionally the work had the potential to deprecate.

Wichita, Kansas, US

Designed, built and implemented centralized AWS account management lifecycle tools, allowing us to scale production ready AWS accounts in a few minutes. This included GitOps, networking, roles, kubernetes clusters, delegated DNS, and automatic CI/CD pipeline integration.Designed, built and implemented centralized API authorization services enabling.

Wichita, Kansas, US

Architectural lead for a highly regulated software as a service IoT platform. The project included infrastructure as code deployed using a CI/CD pipeline.Co-led a project to experiment running event driven containers on Kubernetes both in GCP and AWS for the purpose of driving adoption within the Koch Businesses.Deployed and presented an IOT mobile drone.

Wichita, Kansas, US

Designed and deployed several micro service API's for seamlessly managing automation and desired state across over 100 AWS accounts. Projects include CI/CD pipelines with over 95% code coverage, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB. During the project I designed an in memory caching solution that takes advantage of a lambda functions reuse, increasing performance.

London, GB

Was promoted to Team Lead, becoming responsible for architectural and design decisions in multiple data centers worldwide, while simultaneously providing training and guidance to other team members.Saved $1.94M in database licensing costs while dramatically increasing application performance by designing a consolidated virtual environment.Redesigned IGT’s.

London, GB

Reduced the number of physical servers in IGT’s Reno data center by 25%, creating standards for virtualization that are now in use by IGT’s data centers globally. As a result IGT now has over 75% of its servers virtualized.Led a project to redesign Active Directory, designing and building IGT’s current standards. The successful completion resulted in.

London, GB

Designed a standard for engineer and artist desktops reducing the cost per desktop by approximately $450 while simultaneously increasing productivity by 23% and reducing hardware related service calls. This resulted in an annual soft savings of $19 million in productivity and a hard savings of $525,000 over 3 years.Facilitated changing the standard.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

Performed onsite business technology analysis and recommended solutions based on business requirements.Successfully deployed supportable and scalable server solutions for over 200 businesses in an emerging market for Best Buy Co, Inc.Demonstrated in-depth knowledge and troubleshooting skills surrounding business continuity, Exchange, Active Directory.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

In-home computer system and home business technology repair, focused on building customer relationships and providing quality service.Clearly and effectively explained complex technology to non-technical customers through the use of analogies, diagrams and real world examples.Troubleshooting and repair of any and all home electronic devices presented to me.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

Ground-up audio/video, networking and electrical infrastructure installation for new and remodeled Best Buy store locations.Installation and testing of new electronic concepts, prototypes and designs in test markets around the county.RG59/6, CAT 5/6 runs, termination channel modulation, satellite tuning, home theater pc integration.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

Redesigned the layout of the store repair bench to increase employee awareness to waiting customers, increased the number of available work spaces and maximized efficiency. Provided excellent customer service while troubleshooting, repairing and upgrading customer computers.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

Participated in the opening of the Federal Way Best Buy store.Led the team in sales and service, while proving technically competent and achieving a promotion to the In-Store Technician position.Demonstrated a passion for technology and shared that excitement with customers and employees.