Cloud Architect at Kroger Technology focusing primarily on our GCP estate at the enterprise level. Subject matter expert for Google Cloud, InsightCloudSec (DivvyCloud) and Cloudhealth FinOps.

Cloud Services Team member at Kroger Technology focusing primarily on our GCP estate at the enterprise level. Subject matter expert for Google Cloud, InsightCloudSec (DivvyCloud) and Cloudhealth FinOps.

• Built automation supporting the effective management and consumption of cloud resources.• Experience with EKS, Kubernetes, Docker, and containers.• Wrote and documented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Puppet, Jenkins, AWS CLI, bash, and Xquery.• Created monitoring for all ec2 infrastructure, RDS, NoSQL, elasticsearch, and java apps in Cloudwatch and NewRelic.• Maintained cost-focus by continually optimizing EC2 use, spot use, and reservations to meet budget.• Championed programs and led infoshares to improve operational excellence among my peers: autospotting, ADFS, GuardDuty, Terraform best practices, and others.• Mentored senior-level engineers transitioning them to primary support roles on several AWS accounts.

• Responsible for designing, building, and supporting MarkLogic databases for production flagship products.• Planned and executed hardware/software upgrades for production MarkLogic databases with no downtime.• Planned and executed migration of MarkLogic databases to AWS, optimizing for uptime, performance, and cost.• Trained senior-level engineers on MarkLogic and MongoDB Databases. Primary point of contact for NoSQL support.

• Enterprise Cognos Business Intelligence Administrator• Designed and coded web interface self-service applications accessing Teradata data warehouse.• Proficient with XML, XSLT, XPATH, XSLFO, Web Services, HTML, DHTML, Javascript, VBScript, SQL.• Integrated Cognos cubes, Impromptu reports and Business Objects reports into single web interface.• Responsible for designing, building, and supporting enterprise Cognos Business Intelligence system.• Provided Level 3 support for Cognos users company-wide.• Acted as Cognos Subject Matter Expert to provide consulting to internal and external clients as needed. • Conducted on-going performance monitoring and optimization, created support documentation.

• General knowledge of hardware, operating systems, applications, upgrading, and networking. • Provided on-site and extensive over-the-phone user support requiring the diagnosing, troubleshooting, and solving of all types of computer and network problems. • Created support documentation and provided training to computer users and support staff. • Trained newly hired staff and provided on-going training for analyst peer group.• Awarded first place performance award three times in ten months out of more than 20 analysts.

• Led team of 10 students to replace over 1000 desktop computers and upgrade Ethernet campus-wide.