PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Over 25 years of experience in Information Technology and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), most of which is in architecture and design of software projects including Requirements Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Recruiting, Mentoring and Coaching Teams for Internet - focused and Web-based Applications predominantly using Microsoft platform tools and the Open Source stack.
• Capable team builder and leader with excellent interpersonal communications. Adept at drawing user and system requirements and building consensus among business people at every level.
• Broad, real-world track record of Solutions Architecture, Application & Data Design, Coding Standards, and Project Execution.
• Solid, proven professional communication skill set, with a track record of public and corporate intefraces - ranging from C-level relationships to Department of Defense round-table discussions, and from one-on-one sales presentations to speeches for hundreds.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Amazon Web Services: (AWS), Verizon, Heroku

Languages: Python, Ruby (& Rails), Java, SQL, Javascript (jquery, ember, nodejs, coffeescript), JSON, HTML, PHP, Visual Basic/VBA, Perl, bash, CSS, RESTful APIs, XML, C#

Open Source: Apache httpd, Nginx, Unicorn, Phusion Passenger, bind, postfix

Amazon AWS: API Gateway, CloudFormation, CloudFront, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, Lambda, KMS, RDS, S3, SES, SNS, SQS, VPC DevOps, CI, CD ansible, awspec, chef, git, jenkins, packer, puppet, serverspec, svn

Database: mySQL, PostgresSQL, DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 10g

Virtualization: VMWare ESXi, Xen, KVM

Test Rails: Unit, rspec, capybara, cucumber, guard, siege, factory girl, pytest

Operating Systems: Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora Core, CentOS, Apple OS X, Apple iOS, Windows Server (NT-2008), UNIX, Google Android

Hardware Intel x86 32 and 64: bit platforms, Apple Mac/iPad/iPhone, Cisco

Software VMWare, Parallels Plesk 8: 10, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, OmniGraffle, Adobe Flash, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk AutoCAD, ffmpegx, Darwin Streaming Server, Wowza Media Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, St. Louis, Missouri

Senior Solutions Architect, Cloud

Responsibilities:

• Consulted on design and implementation of tooling and automation for new version of internal automation and orchestration platform
• Maintained source for cloud-scale batch reporting and job manager
• Jointly developed Lambda-based infrastructure for orchestrating cloud platform elements integrated with CloudFormation

Environment: Amazon Web Services: Lambda, EC2, VPC, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, IAM, S3, KMS, Config, DynamoDB, ElastiCacheRoute 53; Python, Linux, Cloud, git, packer, ansible, splunk

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Solutions Architect, Cloud

Responsibilities:

• Led project to implement enterprise git solution in place of SVN, including product selection and negotiation, operations support planning, and cloud agnostic technology implementation
• Lead architect for developing enterprise configuration management platform on Puppet

Environment: Amazon Web Services, puppet, Linux, Ruby, Cloud, git, python

Confidential, Alpharetta, Georgia

Chief Engineer / Automation Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided development and software/automation architecture support for Commercial Cloud team.
• Created toolset to integrate chef, AWS, ServiceMesh, and more via central scripting automation API endpoint.

Environment: Amazon Web Services: EC2, IAM, RDS, S3, chef, ServiceMesh, Linux, Nginx, Unicorn, Sinatra, Ruby, Rails, RSpec, Cloud, HTML, Javascript, CSS3, git, Jenkins

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Development

Responsibilities:

• DevOps: Worked with chef, Engine Yard, Heroku, and Amazon Web Services for test, staging and production environments.
• Provided daily and periodic reporting via Agile development process

Environment: Amazon Web Services: EC2, RDS, S3, chef, Engine Yard, Heroku, Linux, Nginx, Unicorn, Ruby, Rails, RSpec, mySQL, jQuery, Cloud, HTML, Javascript, CSS3, git, Jenkins

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Associate Director

Responsibilities:

• Project lead for website initiatives for two Confidential website projects.
• Oversaw development staff in local and remote offices in development of software solutions

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Development

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for research and development of the platform for the sponsorship marketing start-up.
• Restructured technology processes and team to provide measurable, quantifiable deliverables that allowed senior management to understand and communicate upcoming features and platform changes.
• DevOps: Selected chef / AWS for staging and production deployment after test runs with Capistrano and AWS’s own toolsets.

Environment: Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft IIS 7, Microsoft .Net 3.5/4, Visual Studio, C#, Amazon Web Services: EC2, RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, chef, Linux, Nginx, Unicorn, Ruby, Rails, RSpec, Rack/Sinatra, mySQL, jQuery, Cloud, HTML5, Javascript, git

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Development

Responsibilities:

• 3-month contract for the implementation of a mobile-app-to-web page integration based upon a leading mobile news aggregation platform.
• Delivered initial project scope at approximately 60% of budgeted schedule, allowing for intentional scope expansion.
• Simple interfacing with DevOps systems using bamboo and chef.

Environment: Linux, Ruby, Rack/Sinatra, jQuery, Cloud, chef, HTML5, Javascript, svn

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Founder / Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Collaboratively developed architecture roadmap for client with Chief Software Architect at billion-dollar investment advisory firm
• Managed a development team of 24 IT staff, engineers, developers and architects (in-house, on- and off-shore).
• Retained by Confidential Pharmaceuticals to produce a web-based lookup tool to allow users to register then search for health care providers within the company’s database.
• Retained by Confidential to review development practices and to provide counsel on architecture and development strategy.
• In 2006, Confidential launched MinistryBox to serve the church and non-profit market by providing donation, member management, event planning, communications, and web/email hosting tools at an affordable monthly price.

Environment: Hosting/Cloud, Ruby on Rails, Phusion Passenger, mySQL, SMTP, CSS, Javascript, HTML, SQL, CentOS (VM host), Ubuntu Linux (host and VM), Xen virtualization, Mac OS X, Darwin Streaming, OpenOffice-as-a-service, Real Networks, svn, Social Media Integration (facebook, twitter)

Confidential, Roswell, Georgia

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated software development strategy with CEO and COO, Identifying and Developing new technology solutions to existing client challenges
• Created ConstrucTalk, Confidential ’s XML dialect, to allow interchange of data between organizations - later patented.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Systems Administration/Level IV Support

Responsibilities:

• The administration and support team for the Sales Support operations center provided computing services and support to the regional sales staff for Confidential .

Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server/Workstation, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) 1.0, HTML, Javascript SQL, Sun Solaris, Apache

Confidential, Roswell, Georgia

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential provided systems and support for architectural and engineering firms working using Computer Aided Design systems.
• These systems included hardware, CAD and document management software.

Environment: Microsoft Windows NT 3.51/4 Server/Workstation, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL, Visual Basic, Autodesk AutoCAD R11 - R13, Autodesk WorkCenter, PC Docs