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New Mexico, United States

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

(ParkMobile is a part of EasyPark Group.)

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Site Reliability Engineer for a Fortune Global 100 company, helping a market leader in the transportation vertical lift and shift operations from the traditional datacenter to AWS.Continued on in an SRE capacity after the migration, serving as the liaison between SREs, developers, and DBAs in ensuring availability of the primary line-of-business application, serving 26 million users. Architected and deployed Development, QA, and Staging environments via Terraform.Built monitors, dashboards, parsers, indices, and agent configurations in Datadog, and added zero-touch deployment via Octopus Deploy.Set up software deployment via AWS Systems Manager Distributor.Wrote scripts to assist in various engineering tasks in bash, Windows batch, Python, and PowerShell.Profiled systems performance and provided data analysis and recommendations, and provided cost estimates and capacity forecasting.Led numerous zero-downtime maintenance events and assisted in incident response on various facets of infrastructure and applications.

Product Lead and PHP developer for an effort to modernize a PHP5-era wiki platform as Free Open Source Software. This involves not only the modernization of the code to PHP 7 (Laravel 8.x), but modernizing the deployment and infrastructure. Created repeatable AWS deployments with Terraform. Created CI/CD workflow with Github Actions, building and deploying to AWS ECS, fronted by Cloudfront. Instituted mandatory HTTPS and certificates for arbitrary domains via Traefik edge proxy. Triage feature requests and bug reports and plan roadmaps for three backend developers and two frontend developers. Integrated monitoring, logging, and observability with Datadog. Manage internal and external communications and updates.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Facilitated technical aspects of buying and selling automotive dealerships. Facilities and technical infrastructure planning for renovations and remodeling. Controlled dealer management system access, maintenance, and contracts. Managed day-to-day hardware and software concerns for 17 dealerships across three cities and two states. Oversaw Windows 10 migration for all automotive group operations.

Ensured availability of server and network infrastructure. 75+ virtual servers, 15+ physical servers, and routing, switching, and wireless for 700+ employees at 27 field offices.Architected and deployed Nutanix hyperconverged appliance to consolidate 10 VMware hypervisors and an EMC Clariion SAN to one pane of glass.Architected and deployed Role-Based Access Control for file access for the agency.Planned and oversaw migration of core switching and routing from main office to state datacenter.Managed two systems administrators and one network administrator.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Building up new servers and networks and maintaining existing ones for small businesses and non-profits in the Albuquerque area. Responsible for managing quality of service by myself and two junior technicians.

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

Build and maintain server and networking solutions, primarily with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Small Business Server 2011, and Dell SonicWALL security products. Serviced residential PC issues as well, virus removal, etc.

Knowledgeable and friendly answers in computers, digital imaging, MP3, home theater, car audio, appliances, and all points in-between. Also answer questions on Twelpforce, Best Buy's social media endeavor to connect and serve via Twitter, as well as mentor new Twelpers.

Rewrote an aging set of database manipulation tools in PHP, adding automation that reduced time involved in some tasks by as much as 99%. Also manned a 6-line phone and helped customers ranging from individuals to IT Directors for multi-billion dollar corporations both by phone and email.

Quickly became a specialist with printers and digital cameras, giving our store the edge to draw organic growth by word of mouth from customers having good experiences with us.

Computer Engineering And Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Triangle Fraternity (pledged), Freshmen L.E.A.D., Speed School Student Council, L-Raisers

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