SUMMARY:

• With more than 15 years of experience, I consider myself a technology and engineering secret weapon and the ultimate coding machine I’ve been a software engineer and technology architect for the better part of my career.
• Most of my focus has been on coming up with solutions, a lot of problem solving and designing best practices with the given toolset.
• I consider myself technology agnostic and process proficient. I’ve also put focus on my soft skills and big picture planning/thinking to better quantify the often rapidly changing tech stacks my team and I have had to implement.
• Whether its Cloud Development, Automation, DevOps, Project Management or Support I feel I’ve become a leader in the area of focusing on end user experiences, properly leveraging my team talent and minimizing risk.. (Which to us engineers is always some form of downtime )
• I crave challenges, promote positive energy and encourage work life balance among my peers At the end of the day I strive to focus on service delivery and process improvement

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Core Skills: Coding / Programming / Development / Automation / Technical Architecture / Disaster Recovery / High Availability Planning / Root Cause Analysis / Data Analysis / Strategy Planning

Languages: GO Lang, Python, Scripting, Bash, Powershell, C# .NET, Perl, C++, CSS, Javascript, Angular JS, Jquery, JSON, XML, Bootstrap, Google Material Design

Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, VMWare, Docker, Linux (RHEL, Centos, Ubuntu) and MAC OSX, Windows Server (2008+), Cloud and Virtualization Technologies

Tools: CHEF, Jenkins, Nagios, Puppet, Ansible, ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence, ZendeskApplications: MongoDB, Microsoft, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Redis, Tomcat, Weblogic, NGINX, Apache, IIS, CDN s (content delivery networks,) Load Balancers, SAN and Storage technologies, GITHUB, SVN, Wordpress

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Florida / Remote OH

DevOps Engineer / Technology Lead

Responsibilities:

• CHEF implementation specialist for 3,000+ node Linux/Windows environment
• Automation engineer utilizing python and bash scripts
• Tomcat, JBOSS troubleshooting engineer
• Java to Angular/GO Lang application migration specialist
• AWS Implementation and automation engineer
• VMWare systems and troubleshooting engineer
• VMWARE to AWS/Cloud migrations engineer
• Proof of concept engineer for Mongo, Docker and Mysql application implementations
• Nagios, Sitescope and monitoring troubleshooting engineer
• Lead author for writing infrastructure readiness documentation
• Lead author for confluence and knowledgebase documentation compliancy
• Lead .NET and SQL developer for VHT Call Center deployment application

Frontend Developer / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead developer for 2CO Self Service Web application, to enable end users the ability to lookup order and transaction history
• Lead Angular, NodeJS GO Lang developer for Self Service transaction metrics dashboard
• Primary Service Now Engineer for deployment, ITIL Strategy review and CMDB implementation
• Consultant for Chef Cookbook engineering and cross integration with Puppet run team Lead Engineer for Disaster Recovery Strategies and Amazon Web Services Integration
• Unix and Linux Engineering Services Team Lead (900+ server production support)
• Lead Docker integration engineer
• Tech Architect for VMWare ESX Server and host consolidation effort with misc python and bash scripting tasks
• Systems consultant for business data warehousing effort and SQL query metrics reporting
• Technical Architect for Wordpress Knowledgebase development and SharePoint / Confluence integration

DevOps Engineer / Technology Lead

Responsibilities:

• Release Management engineer. Performed developer Java code reviews SVN version refactoring, GIT integration and new feature deployments
• Lead Linux engineer for Apple Online Store infrastructure migration effort (to linux)
• Lead early Chef deployments and configuration management best practice implementation
• Lead engineer for Wordpress and Confluence Knowledgebase integration.
• Lead Angular and NodeJS and GO Lang developer for designing release management reporting tool
• Lead developer for JVM platform monitoring dashboard

DevOps Engineer / POS Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineer for Point of Sale Linux Development. Migrated legacy Windows environment to Linux in a project that affected 3,300 servers in Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic Stores
• Lead Engineer for PCI Compliancy efforts
• Lead QA and integration test engineer
• Lead Chef and Nagios deployment engineer
• Developed Angular, NodeJS store kiosk management interface
• Lead VMWare engineer for 300+ physical to virtual migrations
• Lead developer for server hardening and automation. Improved day to day productivity by 70%
• Developed the Server Reconciliation and Reports Web Dashboard. This app visualized daily metrics on server migrations and hardening efforts
• Developed IPAD app to assist floor personnel with inventory management

Developer / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineer for Windows Server production support 8,000 servers (supporting Teller and Customer Connections Apps
• Lead .NET developer for ARGO Platform Installer
• Lead Engineer for Unix and Shared Services support (10,000 servers)
• Project Management for new feature implementations on the Argo platform (utilized Six Sigma DMAIC)
• Lead engineer for onshore development and offshore workflow management
• Lead Engineer for J2EE Java and Argo application integration
• Lead PHP Developer for Teller and Connections site performance dashboard

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead 24/7 On - Call Production Support Engineer Web and Unix services in 700+ server environment
• Lead Java and Weblogic administrator for production and development environments
• Lead perl, php and scripting developer for Transfer XP software. Used for 3rd party data transport and designed for Sarbanes Oxley compliancy
• Lead Disaster recover specialist working onsite at Sunguard PA
• Primary datacenter migration engineer for Manufactured Housing (migrated 200+ middleware applications from New York to New Jersey)
• Lead Unix and VMWare infrastructure engineer for multi-server consolidation effort

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Designed diverse web applications for 100+ subscribed site members
• Systems administrator for production, testing and development environments
• Provided second tier tech support (DNS, FTP, Email account management)
• Developed the GO Antiques Customer Inventory Management System
• Developed disaster recovery process and lead testing efforts