Corey Ward Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲: Responsible for Continuous Delivery Service that enables 100,000+ production deployments per month of 100+ applications. This decreased value delivery time from months to hours.
• 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Architected and implemented system that automatically identified failures, categorized, and created tickets for 2,000+ incidents a month
• 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Reduced incidents by 50% by targeting high impact areas denoted by incident categorization
• 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Created suite of tools that reduced support burden by 20+ hours a weekTools/Technologies:
• New Relic
• Terraform

Greater Chicago Area

• 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲: Responsible for Continuous Delivery Service that enables 25,000+ production deployments of 60+ applications. This decreased value delivery time from months to hours.
• 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: Automated change request creations for 40+ applications, reducing deployment cycle by 2-3 days per application
• 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Engineered zero downtime of Azure function and Jenkins agent rotation saving 2+ hours of downtime a week
• 𝐀𝐏𝐈 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: Developed API endpoint that services 6 million requests a week
• Lead knowledge talks to ramp team up on product ownership and support
• 𝐏𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: Continuously modified and improved CI templates and libraries used in 400+ pipelines

Greater Chicago Area

• Created PowerShell provisioning script that created 1000+ Hyper-V testing environments a day
• Maintenance and development of CI/CD frameworks
• Configuring servers using Chef
• Image templating using Packer
• Provision infrastructure with Terraform
• Monitoring and support for Bitbucket, TeamCity, Jenkins tools, Proget, etc

• Mounting, installing, and replacing technological equipment and software
• Dismantling servers/server rooms and relocating them

• Taught 120 Computer Information System students
• Planned and facilitated three-to-five study sessions each week per class.
• Assisted students in the development of appropriate study skills.
• Created study materials to aid students in learning course material.

• Facilitated learning as a guide and coach to assist the student to become a successful, independent learner.
• Performed needs assessment for students.
• Conferenced with students to indicate and strengthen areas of weak cohesion and unity.
• Integrated study and learning strategies to promote independent learning and maximize the tutee's potential for academic progress..

Greater Chicago Area

• Lead research team to produce deliverables in a time efficient manner.
• Designed, executed, analyzed, and evaluated biological projects.
• Delegated tasks to researchers based on their individual skills to increases productivity.
• Collected and organized data to produce viable information related to topic.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Created multiplayer tank fighting game.

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Computer And Information Sciences, General

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa