It Specialist Resume
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Richmond, VA
SUMMARY
- Experienced DevOps/Cloud Engineer and Software Developer with a wide variety of technology skills and a background in large, medium, and small - sized corporate environments.
- Strong technology skills across a wide variety of platforms
- Broad range of experience in DevOps and Cloud Computing (Azure and AWS)
- Skilled .Net (VB, C#, and ASP) and PHP developer
- Expert at automating MS Office (Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
- Custom database development (Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, and MySQL)
- Skilled at web design and web application development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap)
- Excellent written and oral communicator
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Richmond, VA
IT Specialist
Responsibilities:
- Computer operations, technical support, database management, application development
- Design/develop/support commercially available productivity applications developed in VB.Net and ASP.Net which implement a variety of learning strategies aimed at students.
- Designed/developed/support application in VB.net that captures data from Woodcock-Johnson educational assessment scoring program, populated SQL Server database with client profiles, and automatically generated client feedback reports in MS Word.
- Design/develop/support website and web applications that consist of custom PHP input forms/PHP data processing/PHP output reports including PHP graphs/charts.
- Skills: VB.Net, ASP.Net, SQL Server, MYSQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, PHP, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook), Quark Xpress, QuickBooks, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver
Confidential, Richmond, VA
IIS Administrator (DevOps Engineer)
Responsibilities:
- Member of an Agile Scrum DevOps team.
- Helped manage a collection of high-profile class-action settlement claims administration websites, such as NFLConcussionSettlement.com.
- Documented existing I.T. infrastructure and processes.
- Diagnosed a wide variety of process and infrastructure issues impacting the stability of applications.
- Implemented a highly effective IIS improvement plan to stabilize existing applications.
- The plan consisted of monitoring solutions (New Relic and Selenium), detailed issue tracking, and other systems/resource/process optimizations.
- Performed a series of IIS hardening activities to tighten application security.
- Performed IIS administration duties and application code deployments.
- Performed SQL Server database administration duties and SQL deployments.
- Designed workflow for new development leveraging Azure App Services and Azure SQL databases.
- Created Proofs of Concepts to demonstrate Azure cloud migration strategy to senior management.
- Migrated existing applications/infrastructure from local datacenter to Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) App Services and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Virtual Machines (part of a small team that handled Production migrations and served as lead on non-Production migrations).
- Implemented source-code control in Visual Studio Team Services/DevOps including automated deployments via Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) build definitions for a C# codebase.
- Skills: Microsoft Windows Server (2008, 2012, 2016), Microsoft SQL Server (2008, 2012, Management Studio), Microsoft IIS web server, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Team Services/DevOps, C#, PowerShell, Azure PaaS App Services and IaaS Virtual Machines, Selenium, New Relic
Confidential, Richmond, VA
IIS Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Contractor at Confidential PLC - converted to full-time after contract (see Confidential PLC above).
Confidential, Richmond, VA
Associate Platform Engineer (DevOps Engineer)
Responsibilities:
- Member of an Agile Scrum DevOps team.
- Supported multiple Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that consisted of a set of open-source tools including Subversion (source code repository/version control), Hudson/Jenkins (continuous integration), Maven, MSBuild, and Nexus (binary repository).
- Served as Build Engineer for Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) performing builds and releases for various in-house .Net applications.
- Served as Team Foundation Server/TFS administrator for the enterprise.
- Served as Subscription Manager for the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Licenses.
- Skills: Windows Server, Linux (Red Hat), Microsoft Team Foundation Server, IIS, Visual Studio, .Net, Subversion, Hudson/Jenkins, Maven, MSBuild, Nexus, NuGet, HP Service Manager (HPSM)
Confidential, Richmond, VA
Systems Specialist
Responsibilities:
- Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) development of project status report templates for multiple divisions with built in error checking/data validation as well as a data aggregation tool which consolidated 600-800 status reports into large master management reports including custom metrics and dashboards for senior management.
- VBA development of various forecasting tools to assist in managing IT infrastructure capacity/demand as well as managing human resource allocated/actual hours.
- VBA development of headcount tool that tracked resources and bandwidth across organization of between 150-200 resources. Optimized resource allocation across teams in organization.
- VBA development of Network Resource Supply/Demand tool to prioritize projects due to network resource constraints.
- Skills: Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, CA Clarity
Confidential, Richmond, VA
S.E. Coordinator
Responsibilities:
- Contractor at Capital One - converted to full-time at Capital One after contract (see Confidential above).
Passion Projects
Confidential, Richmond, VA, Owner
Responsibilities:
- Designed/developed/promote/support a web application that supports the fading memories of patients living with memory impairment, such as dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
- Favorable press in the December 2014 Alzheimer's Disease Information Network's Monthly E-News published by Univ. of California San Diego and “6 Best Ways to Stimulate Memories through Photos” on Alzheimers.net website.
- Skills: Amazon Web Services/AWS (ec2, s3, rds,…), HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, Responsive Design, MySQL, Selenium, HootSuite