PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Agile/DevOps Digital Transformation

Responsibilites:

• For a company with 20+ acquisitions without an Agile, DevOps based engineering infrastructure. With a massive & growing customer driven backlog, (Covid driven Bank Real Estate issues), work with the CIO to assess, recommend, roadmap, then assist in template build of an urgent digital transformation of engineering to a common EngOps, SecOps, DevOps platform: Azure based (Azure DevOps, Kubernetes (AKS+Istio), Azure APIM) template system for the most critical banking & finance applications. Strong focus on maximum near term velocity improvements of the Agile transformation.

Confidential

DevOps/SRE Lead

Responsibilities:

• Focus on AWS Pilot - to-Production to increase delivery capability & success: support P2P mini-projects from proposal to delivery, develop practice material focused on P2P success, leveraging AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeCommit. Agile best practices workshops (although they actually have a good Agile mentality in the company)DevOps/SRE
• As part of the digital transformation & modernization engagement, lead the Application Site Reliability Engineering team responsible for DC’s to Azure + GCP. DevOps lead implementing Chef, Docker, Kubernetes, Git. in a multi-cloud environment: moving web and app tiers to Kubernetes over Azure AKS + GCP K8S, work with management to identify smaller “pilot to production” ready projects: Web presence VM efficiency, improve Machine Learning application trust, GCP Velostrata, GCP Anthos, GKE On-prem.
• Rebuild the SRE capabilities of client services after it’s destruction as a Bentonville driven cost savings measure: assess tech debt/mitigate, rebuild best practices, advise & consult to the Project Management Office around quality and processes in digital transformation. Improved UX of customers, helped turn Walmart Online into quantifiably (developed specialized Splunk Enterprise & Security & Medusa reports to prove it) better UX, move Walmart Grocery to a (much) better UX.
• Lead the SRE efforts for Digital Transformation: data centers to Azure + Google’s GCP: Customer Web Site (4.5M transactions/minute, next generation private label, joint ventures & advertising AI, bring Walmart ShippingPass (Walmart Prime free shipping competitor) online with zero defects, enhanced placement Machine Learning, Walmart Grocery
• Performance tuning and instrumentation (Java, GoLang, NodeJS). Added responsibility to assure the stable scale up of all to support Covid-19 accelerations. CI/CD, Kubernetes, Helm 2/3, Docker, Solr, Splunk Enterprise, Terraform, Splunk Security, Medusa, Kafka, Looker, Apache Tomcat, MemCached, Cassandra, Snowflake.
• SAP Supply Chain integration to Cassandra via Kafka. Added responsibility to assist the BlockChain team (supply chain IBM centralized Hyperledger) project.
• DevOps: VM to Kubernetes/Container replatforming: RHEL/CentOS Linux 8 from 6.3 (entire tech stack, including Apache Tomcat, Jboss, Splunk, Medusa Enterprise & alerting, Kubernetes, K8S CNI, secrets, Docker compose, containers, performance improvements, stability under extreme load, multi Azure availability zone/regions, test hybrid AKS, GKS.). Work with dev team to rearchitect app into microservices, enhance service discovery, monitoring (K8S and java app), etc. Able to reduce costs by 15% at (10,000 pod) scale
• SRE/PM: Pilot to Production model to improve slow AI/Data Science applications: work to accelerate AI projects to move to production in Azure, GCP. Leverage Azure Kubernetes, AKS Cloud Scheduler: resulting in higher quality suggestions, better ad insertion fees, 15% increase from partner ad revenue. H2O.ai (ML DevOps, Driverless AI), Looker. Azure ML, GCP BigTables, BigQuery, CloudSQL. ATP, Supply Chain. SAP integration (R/3, SCM, CM, BW).

Confidential

DevOps/SRE Practice/Digital Transformations

Responsibilities:

• Azure Transformations: SRE/DevOps lead across 12+ engagements (Azure, AWS, GCP), supporting the cloud transformation/modernization of Microsoft customers in their Agile/DevOps migrations to Azure. Work with various practices to move from large win to Pilot to Production type engagements of complex landscapes.
• Range of customer from medium enterprise through Fortune 100. From system/network/storage configurations to Terraform/Chef/Puppet, Docker (Azure Container Services), Terraform, Azure Kubernetes, Helm, GCP Kubernetes, AWS Kubernetes & Helm, and IoT/DataLake, Azure Service & IoT Buss, etc.: Kubernetes (Cloud Manager, complex CNI, etc.)
• Jenkins & GitLab CI/CD, Docker, microservices (Azure APIM), Big Data DevOps: UX quality and velocity. Developed the Azure practice via Pilot to Production engagements to such an extent that Confidential took it over, reducing Avanade to a captive staff augmentation role.
• Confidential SAP Technical Practice SAP DevOps Technical Lead: SAP on Azure, SAP on AWS, SAP on GCP. Pilot the SAP validation (AKS) of Web & App servers on Azure Kubernetes. Develop (Ansible, Terraform
• Docker containers) automated Kubernetes scaling & deploy (non-production environments). Help develop the practice to include SAP DevOps and Basis Technologies offerings: Help clients improve web customer UX by increasing the too-slow SAP UX velocities. Built the relationship with Basis Technologies. Extensive Python, Terraform, Bash, PowerShell, some GoLang. Developed the Azure practice via Pilot to Production engagements to such an extent that Confidential took it over, reducing Avanade to a captive staff augmentation role.

Confidential

DevOps Transformations Lead

Responsibilities:

• For a consulting firm helping small and medium sized clients to move to Agile and DevOps for CI/CD, provide DevOps design and implementation, Agile Best Practices, and Pilot to Production support, growing Phoenix’s Digital Transformation DevOps practice Agile coaching & and evangelist/doer, DevOps/Agile/CB/CI/CD for UX improvement and velocity.
• Work with clients to develop roadmaps, select and lead teams, teach clients, moving clients from waterfall to cloud based Agile continuous delivery, introduce & deploy engineering for testability and for monitoring processes. Focus on DevOps/Agile (Java, Python, Bash, Terraform) digital transformations.
• I consider this one of the more enjoyable parts of my career. (I left because our client base was becoming Texas oil patch: I was not willing to relocate to Houston and Phoenix engagements could not cover the travel overhead)

SKILLS

• Architecture Software SAAS subsidiary
• Cell Phone Manufacturer
• Surveillance Video
• Mobile banking provider
• Petroleum Pipeline & Storage Services
• Petroleum Company: Seismic Imaging
• Petroleum Services Company
• Search Engine/Satellite Imaging Acquisition (GCP/Google Cloud)
• Search Engine/self driving car acquisition
• Video Enhanced Security
• PIX Engineer
• Azure DevOps