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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

- Subject matter expert for Azure- Subject matter expert IaC / Terraform- Leading and Mentoring cross functional platform and engineering team- Green-field cloud datacenter migrations - Architect and design cloud native applications and infrastructure - Agile and Scrum methodologies implementation

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Subject matter expert (SME) for a wide variety of Microsoft Azure Services, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and Github. - Engineered IaC templates for internal teams to consume using Terraform, Yaml and scripting - Implemented and Supported Azure Security Policies - Provided professional guidance and architecture for driving the cloud initiative - Automated traditional release management - Implemented CI/CD templates and configurations using Azure DevOps (ADO) - Architected and lead migration to Azure from datacenters for multiple application teams - Lead effort for automating SSL and Certificate requests in Azure using Digicert - Collaborated with clients and cross-functional teams to assess their technology needs, defined roadmaps, and designed, implemented, and deployed cloud-based solutions. - Successfully lead and mentored team of 10 - Lead One on Ones, Standups and Agile ceremonies (stand in Scrum Master) - Executed SAFe practices such as PI planning - Created run books for onboarding, deployment and operations surrounding our products - Organized and attended multiple trainings for the team

Alexandria, Va, Us

- Automated ETL Pipelines for data processing and ingestion into PostgresSQL with Azure Pipelines - Created and automated ElasticSearch Azure WebApps with Terraform - Automated/ utilized Docker instances with Azure Container Registries - Created CI/CD Pipelines for Azure WebApps - Wrote extensive documentation for project DR in Confluence - Volunteered for AWS on call rotation, set up new on call rotation and plan with Pagerduty - Streamlined Agile/Scrum methodologies in team (pointing, sprints, stories, scrum) using Azure DevOps - Implemented and maintained Azure Batch for scalable workloads - Managed and maintained Azure Cloud

Bellingham, Wa, Us

- Planned, implemented, tested and deployed an Azure cloud based datacenter through infrastructure as code, using Terraform, ARM, Bicep, and Terratest technologies successfully delivering push button environments - Lead effort in migrating our primary physical data center into Azure - Assisted in planning and implementing a reorganization across three teams (SE/SRE/DevOps) whom had drifted in skill and job description. Successfully realigned job roles with titles. Reestablished coordination and communication across teams - Lead effort in implementing, configuring and maintaining Application Security Module for BigIP F5, adding security for CSRF and OWASP Top 10 (XSS, SQLIA) policies to meet pentest findings and federal requirements - Lead effort in implementing Test Drive Development and DevOps best practices for the IT org - Assisted in leading planning and leading scrum efforts, stand up meetings and sprint planning, including creating and maintaining Azure DevOps projects, repos, pipelines, and scrum boards - Automated web server configuration using PowerShell Desired State Configuration - Decommissioned Jenkins Server and subsequent tasks including CI and code build into Azure DevOps Pipelines - Implementation of SaaS and IaaS logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting systems tied into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines utilizing Datadog - Lead effort in planning and conducting interviews, and hiring team members of various skill levels for my org. - Managed and maintained a small kubernetes cluster

Bellingham, Wa, Us

- Pioneered, Built, Tested and Automated CI/CD pipeline transforming using Azure DevOps Pipelines - Integrated CI/CD pipelines with automated rotation of environments to keep in sync with deployment cycle, Blue Green Deployment. - Scripted web server and database configuration setting stage for IAC sing powershell, bash and ARM - Maintained, serviced, deployed, and updated 10+ production environments including Web Servers, SQL Databases, WAFs and F5 load balancers - Lead Incident Response Team resulting in coordination, mitigation, and triage of events - Utilized Azure Cost Training to conduct analysis, training, and procedures leading to the implementation of a $140K+ annual cost savings policy - Successfully navigated a multitude of IRT type events in and outside of work hours with zero downtime - Setup, maintained and audited government complaint FedRAMP production environments - Automated health checking and deployments of government STIGs against production environments - Successfully deployed and maintained F5 LTM firewalls/load balancers in a HA state - Lead and managed helpdesk holding SLAs for response/triage time with Zendesk - Automated many buisness processes with PowerShell including, dashboards, health checks with remediation, monitors, code deployments and logging - Managed and maintained CMS solution for marketing resources via WordPress - Implemented and maintained certification management tool for SSL certificates across many environments and domains - Setup and integrated on call technologies into deployments and monitoring with PagerDuty and Azure DevOps - Successfully migrated entire customer base of 200+ customers from system to system with minimal downtime refreshed old processes and procedures resulting in higher efficiency of implementations of product - Worked with government project managers to ensure that product met compliance

I make coffee for strangers and make their day. The Bean Stop is a small 2 shop business where all 11 employees are treated like family.

At the Sportsplex, I taught people how to skate, attended to injuries, score kept for hockey games and helped out with day camps. This was a very rewarding position and you got to have a positive impact on your community and the next generation.

New Albany, Ohio, Us

I worked as a stock associate, shipping receiving, making sure the floor was stocked, and the stock room was clean and organized.

This seasonal position taught me a lot about scheduling, budgeting, customer service and managing other people.

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Network Administration And Security

Associate’S Degree, Computer Science And Network Security