PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A professional, aspiring Information Technology Professional and Army Veteran leveraging 10+ years of proven experience managing complex organizational projects and customer service.
• Successful in both team and self - directed settings and proficient in a range of computer systems, languages, tools and testing methodologies.
• Effective business, quality, and predictive modeling expertise helping to identify and deliver process improvements, systems optimization, and other solutions to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and maximize organizational success.
• Built Continuous Integration and Delivery Pipelines using Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Jenkins for Agile projects.
• Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and secure systems on AWS using services such as EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.
• Experience planning and modeling the migration of onsite infrastructure to the AWS cloud using detailed diagrams.
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, and GitHub and AWS
• Generated monthly cost analysis reports and developed cost-effective alternative approaches and cloud solutions.
• Design, construction, and optimization of onsite IT resources as well as application in the AWS cloud.
• Configuring and provisioning of RDS, DynamoDB, and Amazon Aurora databases in secure, highly available deployments.
• Automated events, application logic, and resource bootstrapping using Linux shell scripts, Lambda functions, and API Gateway.
• Experience capturing infrastructure as code using CloudFormation for ongoing support and growth of AWS infrastructure and cloud applications.
• Secured VPC's and resources with Security Groups, NACL's, private subnets, Bastion Hosts, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail.
• Experience writing Lambda functions in Python for automating functionality in the Cloud.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Python, JSON, YAML, Java

AWS Services: EC2, EFS, VPC, RDS, S3, Glacier, IAM, Cloud Front, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53, SNS, SES, SQS

Source Code Management: Git, Code Commit

DevSecOps Tools: Code Pipeline, Code Build, Code Deploy, Elastic Beanstalk, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, EKS, ECS, Fargate, Burp Suite, Metasploit, sqlmap, Terraform

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

AWS Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Automated building and testing of deployments using Jenkins triggered by Git commits
• Configured Docker images as build environments for the CI/CD Pipeline and maintained build images in Docker Hub
• Automated tasks and configuration management using Ansible playbooks
• Implemented automatic scaling of compute resources to maintain Docker deployments using AWS Fargate
• Orchestrated and managed clusters of Docker containers using Kubernetes and EKS
• Implemented security tools into Jenkins and customized security tests using Red Team tools, Metasploit, and Burp Suite

Confidential

AWS Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed an API using API Gateway backed by Python Lambda Functions to implement server-side functionality and notifications using SNS and SES
• Re-created the company hierarchy in AWS to replicate existing permissions using IAM Users, Roles, Groups, and Service Control Policies
• Provided a detailed report illustrating anticipated costs for the proposed migration as well as cost effective alternative solutions
• Captured and optimized the requested cloud environment to replace the existing on-site infrastructure in a detailed virtual model
• Maintained high availability of critical EC2 instances by implementing secondary EIP and ENI for quick failovers for public and private subnet resources
• Created a CloudFormation template and captured the entire cloud infrastructure as code to simplify ongoing updates and facilitate fast deployment

Confidential

AWS Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created Elastic Compute Cloud IAM policies and roles to secure AWS resources and grant permissions
• Distributed the infrastructure across multiple availability zones to ensure high availability and distributed network traffic using load balancer backed auto scaling groups
• Routed network traffic to the intranet auto scaling groups using Route53 routing policies
• Enforced secure resource access using IAM Roles and Policies, Network Address Translation, Bastion Hosts, and secure firewalls
• Created custom CloudWatch metrics and developed CloudWatch Dashboards as well as implemented CloudTrail monitoring
• Developed automation of web server bootstrapping and server identification for EC2 instances within autoscaling groups

Confidential, Fort Hood, TX

Executive Director

Responsibilities:

• Hospital Executive Officer - Selected to additional role to use key skills in leadership, strategic planning, predictive modeling, and innovation to deliver continuous improvements and optimize organizational success.
• Primary Care Team - Spearheaded a primary care team to enhance access to primary care resulting in 29% increase in routine appointments and 22% increase for 24-hour appointments. Developed a tool to identify past access performance and predict future access to care. Succeeded in increasing patient satisfaction with increased patient access.
• Referral Management - Project lead to improve referral management that realized a 28% reduction in delinquent referral uploads in an organization that manages over one million referrals annually.
• Provider Performance - Consolidated provider performance data into one card for 12 outpatient clinics and over 100 medical providers to create one card to deliver performance data.
• COVID-19 Planning - Key Team Member to ensure continuous improvement of multiple emergency contingency plans to optimize abilities to adequately prepare and deliver optimal patient care and services during pandemic.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

AWS Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Medical Timeshare Clinic - Successfully expanded clinical reach of specialty care with opening of a clinical timeshare unit in an under-served area that projected growth on surgical services at 50%. Key member of team focused on identification of ideal location, projected rental and operational costs, recruitment of local surgical/outpatient specialties.
• Business Case Analysis - Developed a business case analysis to hire a transplant surgeon with expectation of revenue growth for the facility of $800,000 annually.
• Army Virtual Health Network Project - As a student, I worked on the Army’s new Virtual Health Network strategy map. My project was selected to be the way ahead for the Army VHN and they adopted the mission and vision I recommended on my project.

Confidential, Fort Bragg, NC

Director

Responsibilities:

• Administrator - Successfully led the largest OB/GYN clinic in the Department of Defense with over 6,000 visits, 100 surgical cases, and an average of 250 births monthly. Created an interactive dashboard to track provider production and patient satisfaction scores.
• Operations - Managed complex daily operations with leadership of over 330 administrative, nursing, and physician soldiers, plus 160 medical students.
• Fundraising - Led planning and execution of multiple fundraising events to enhance community relations and revenue growth with over $7,000 for hospital team building gatherings.

Confidential, Fort Bragg, NC

Deputy Chief Clinical Support

Responsibilities:

• Reorganization - Succeeded in turning around negative fallout from elimination of a call center with reassignment of work to referral management team, requiring collaboration with labor union to change position descriptions in accordance with new duties. Created team excellence in specific specialties.
• Reporting Errors - Identified falsely reported No-Show data that required development of a reconciliation report to eliminate false no-shows, thus reducing total no-shows by 50% and saving approximately $35,000 in no-show costs.
• Right of First Referrals -Vastly improved overall right of first refusal acceptances by over 75% over a year and reduced the right of first refusal declinations from monthly. Increased total right of first refusal acceptances by the MFT by 200 monthly. Recouped over 200 additional specialty appointments for the medical center per month.
• Referrals - Used Lean Six Sigma methodologies to improve referral time from 3 days to one day to meet business metrics requirement.

Confidential, Schofield Barracks, HI

Medical Operations Officer

Responsibilities:

• First Responder Program - Developed a first responder program to train over 200 soldiers in preparation of deployment. Planned and delivered a large medical readiness system that processed over 700 soldiers to identify medical fitness prior to deployment.
• Recognition - Earned Bronze Star during OIF with active tracking of over 1500 total patrols. Successfully improved command post SOPs and combat drills. Was part of a mobile team and was responsible for the Iraqi Army on medical supply logistics.