SUMMARY

• Dynamic, results - driven DevOps engineer with demonstrated experience in software and infrastructure deployments, as well as architecting specialized solutions that meet diverse client needs.
• Provide excellent communication back to the business as the voice of the customer and establishes strategic partnerships with key stakeholders and executives to drive milestones that results in revenue for the business.
• Strong communicator, able to articulate the features and benefits of products and services for technical and business audiences.
• Promoted to positions of increasing authority and responsibility because of strong leadership skills, teamwork, customer service and overall performance.
• Created build configurations in Team City and Jenkins as well as scripting out CI/CD pipelines.
• Powershell development to support deployment activities and QA automation activities.
• Created a green field implementation of Terraform Enterprise and translated environments into Infrastructure as code in Azure and deployed them for use.
• Implemented and maintained various monitoring solutions including ELK/Elastic stack, Prometheus and Grafana, Azure Log Analytics. Implemented Powershell Universal Dashboard to collect and visualize system health and APM metrics.
• Deployed flight information displays and public address systems for airports and train stations, traveling to customer sites up to 75% of the time, provided level 3 software support.
• Proficiently designed and implemented a multi-site testing environment for passenger information display systems and paging at Amtrak’s QA labs in Washington, D.C.
• Configured and deployed servers that ran directory boards and advertising for hundreds of Hertz rental car facilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Applications: TeamCity, Jenkins, Git, Terraform, Azure, Octopus Deploy, Elastic Stack, Chef, Kubernetes, Docker, Office365, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Adobe Creative Suite, Notepad ++, Android Studio, IntelliJ

Database: Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Microsoft Access

Programming/Scripting: Powershell (Primary Scripting Language), C#, Java, Javascript/NodeJS, Python, Kotlin, XML/JSON, XSLT, HTML, SQL, CSS

Servers/Web Servers: Azure WebApps, Azure SQL Server, Azure Storage, IIS Server, Apache, Windows Deployment Server, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 (Active Directory, Group Policy, DHCP, DNS, WDS, MDT, SCCM, WSUS, Linux (Various Distributions)

Virtualization: VMWare vSphere (ESXi), Hyper-V, Veam, vMotion, vCenter.

Other: Scripting, Virtualization, DSP configuration Bi-amp, London BLU DSP’s, Failover Clustering, Recovery Techniques, Microsoft Message Queueing, SANs, iSCSI, NFS, HBA’s, SCSI, Cisco Switch Configuration, Routing, Layer 3 switching, Firewalls, Wireshark Packet Capture Analysis, Software Integration, System Deployment, Network Administration, Active Directory, WAIK, MDT, WDS, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Cobranet and Dante audio protocols.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, OH

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created initial Terraform codebase to deploy resources to Microsoft Azure.
• Authoring Azure Runbooks and Desired State Configuration.
• Created Jenkins files and configurations to build software that was then packed up and sent to Octopus Deploy.
• Wrote a console application for automatically applying database updates and tracking database schema.
• Configured Octopus to apply database migrations and schema changes on deploy of the Azure WebApp.
• Configured slotted deployments for quickly rolling back and continuous delivery.
• Configured Octopus to deploy Azure WebApps, Function Apps, Azure SQL Server and Azure SQL Databases.
• Created custom tooling to make-up for gaps in current tooling provided by Microsoft and Hashicorp.
• Created Azure DevOps deployment pipeline for releasing Terraform configurations to a workspace in Terraform Enterprise.
• Created DevOps workflows for a completely automated build pipeline, with infrastructure as code as the base.
• Assisted existing team members in getting up to speed with PowerShell to facilitate automating manual tasks.
• Improved existing release pipeline and build configurations.

Confidential

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Continuous integration and deployment; configured builds in a large Team City instance with hundreds of different configurations and build agents.
• Scripting and writing deployment tools in Powershell.
• Proof of concept of multiple solutions for system monitoring for the Elastic Stack and Azure Log Analytics.
• Implemented Powershell Universal Dashboard to collect and visualize system health metrics.
• Created XML files for generating automated documentation using Powershell scripts.
• Deploying .NET applications and websites in RackSpace, and on-prem Datacenter.
• Datacenter migration, moving from Rackspace to virtual machines at the parent company’s headquarters.
• Working with QA to deploy automated testing tools and adding enhancements to those tools.
• Code was subject to a code review process before check-in, as was deployment plans.
• On-call software support on a rotational basis between two engineers.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Promoted to positions of increasing authority and responsibility because of strong leadership skills, teamwork, customer service and overall performance.
• Utilize extensive technical skills to deploy flight information displays and public address systems for airports and train stations, traveling to customer sites up to 75% of the time.
• Proficiently design and implement a multi-site testing environment for passenger information display systems and paging at Amtrak’s QA labs in Washington, D.C.
• Effectively deploy flight information display systems and paging upgrades for major US airports.
• Configure and deploy servers that run directory boards and advertising for hundreds of Hertz rental car facilities.
• Receive code from development, and proficiently modify and configure it to deploy in production per requirements defined in a set of customer business rules.
• Gather business requirements, effectively analyzing what the customer needs and communicating the requirements to all levels of the organization.
• Consolidate technical documentation into an easily searchable site to enhance organizational efficiency.
• Provided exceptional customer service while delivering first-level, second and eventually third level support for airport FIDS and Paging systems.