SUMMARY:

• I’m a passionate developer and architect with over 15 years of development, enterprise architecture and solutions design experience.
• Lately I have been leading several enterprise Dev OPS initiatives with a focus on automation, continuous delivery, pipeline development, legacy application refactoring and implementing self service solutions.
• I regularly interact with the line of business and executive management to ensure focus on cost reduction and keeping deliverables in scope.
• I am very hands and look to own and drive my projects from inception to completion.
• As a self - ascribed “technologist” I love exploring new ideas, collaborating with others and developing positive team synergy.
• There is always a new challenge and I crave learning, sharing and discovery

EXPERIENCE:

Core Skills: Coding / Programming, Application Development, Automation, Technical Architecture

Business Focus: Disaster Recovery, High Availability Planning, Root Cause Analysis, Technology Reuse, Strategy Planning, Project Management

Languages: Python, GO / Go-Lang, Scripting, Bash, PowerShell, Perl, PHP, C++/ Java, CSS, JSON, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, React / VueJS

Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, VMWare, Docker, Linux / Unix (RHEL, Centos, Ubuntu) and MAC OSX, Windows Server (2012+), Cloud and Virtualization Technologies

Tools: CHEF, Jenkins, Packer, Terraform, Nagios, ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence, GIT, Gitlab

Applications: Mongo, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Redis, Tomcat, NGINX, Apache, IIS

Networking: Firewalls, Routing, Load Balancers, Cloud Infrastructure, Application and Platform Security, Content Delivery Networks, SAN and Storage

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Confidential, Ohio

Technology Architect

Responsibilities:

• Amazon Web Services Cloud Engineering Specialist (AWS) for greenfield projects. I focused on migrating enterprise applications to the cloud, resource sizing, cost planning and feature enhancement
• Automation developer providing ‘scripting’ solutions to streamline application delivery and code updates. We leveraged Chef, Packer, Terraform and Jenkins on a daily basis.
• Project Management and end user training. I work closely with the business to propose a solution, develop a proof of concept, unit test and train end users. I wear many hats and am hands on with multiple tools. I encouraged migration away from legacy languages (java, PowerShell) and adopting modern approaches based on python and Golang, Chef and Terraform
• Participated in peer and code reviews.

Confidential, Florida

Dev OPS Lead

Responsibilities:

• CHEF implementation specialist for 3,000+ node Linux/Windows environment
• Automation engineer utilizing python, Go, PowerShell and bash scripts
• Tomcat, JBOSS troubleshooting. Worked with developers daily and provided code reviews
• Java to REST migration specialist (we looked to re-implement with React, Vue or Angular before spending time patching legacy code)
• AWS Implementation and lift and shift engineer
• VMWare systems support and troubleshooting
• Proof of concept engineer for Mongo, Docker and Mysql application development. This was to reduce licensing costs of Oracle and SQL Server
• Monitoring and reporting engineer (we leveraged, Sitescope, Nagios, Cloudwatch, Splunk and Kibana
• Lead author for writing infrastructure readiness and knowledgebase documentation

Confidential, Florida

Application Development

Responsibilities:

• Lead developer for Confidential Self Service Web application, to enable end users the ability to lookup order and transaction history. I wrote, deployed and trained use of this application
• Lead Angular, NodeJS GO Lang developer for Self Service transaction metrics dashboard
• Primary Service Now Engineer for ITIL Strategies and CMDB implementation
• Consultant for Chef Cookbook engineering and collaborated with legacy Puppet engineers. Our goal was to consolidate and settle on a unified approach for migrating applications to Amazon Web Services
• Unix and Linux Engineering Services Team Lead (900+ servers within production)
• Lead Docker projects and proof of concepts
• VMWare platform engineer. I supported the legacy environment and troubleshooted performance issues as they arose
• Systems consultant for business data warehousing proposal. We looked at multiple approaches and I participated in defining the difference between “warehousing” and long term storage and retrieval
• WordPress consultant for designing knowledgebase. We worked with WordPress and Sharepoint regularly

Confidential, California

Dev OPS Lead, Release Management

Responsibilities:

• Release Management engineer for the Online Store team. I contributed to the REST based service delivery platform as both a developer and project consultant and lead
• Lead SVN to Git Migration and branching strategy
• Lead Linux migrations (from legacy OSX Server platform which was being depreciated
• Lead early Chef cookbook development and consolidating numerous manual processes around backend service support and troubleshooting the legacy J2EE platform (things like JVM’s and garbage collection)
• Lead engineer for Confluence implementation of production support knowledge base. We looked to move away from an older twiki platform and loosely organized wordpress plugins
• Lead dashboard development and reporting. I leveraged Go, Python, Angular and NodeJS to provide additional visibility into the environment we supported

Confidential, California

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 Confidential, 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

Confidential, Ohio

App Development and Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineer for Windows Server production support 8,000 servers (supporting Teller and Customer Connections Applications)
• Lead .NET developer for Confidential Platform Installer. This was our primary software delivery solution
• Lead Engineer for Unix and Shared Services support (10,000 servers)
• Lead multiple Project Management efforts (leveraging Six Sigma Confidential approach)
• Offshore Production support Team Lead (9 direct reports)
• Lead Engineer for J2EE Java and Confidential application integration
• Lead PHP Developer for Teller and Connections site performance dashboards

Confidential, Ohio

Systems Engineer and Production Support

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