Summary Of Experience

• Accomplished, hands-on, senior dev-ops engineer with particular expertise in contemporary private and public cloud technologies IaaS: Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, PaaS: Applogic, OpenShift, Heroku, Node.js . Skilled in operational change efforts including migration of critical IT infrastructure to newly, or dynamicly provisioned cloud resources. Strong emphasis and understanding of building and implementing automated processes and configuration management capable of making the migration and continuous evolution/support of software development lifecycle frameworks achievable. Lifelong learner who enjoys keeping pace with the latest in technology and contributing to innovation through the creation of patentable ideas.
• Founder of myDev-Ops.com
• Cisco Certified Professional CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, CCDP
• Microsoft Certified Professional MCP
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional CISSP

Technical Skills - Dev Ops

• Infrastructure specialist experienced with:
• Automation frameworks: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, CA LISA Release Automation Nolio/ITKO
• Platforms PaaS : CA Applogic, OpenShift, Heroku, Node.js
• Infrastructure IaaS : Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, VMware vCloud Suite
• RedHat Enterprise Linux
• Amazon Web Services API automation - expert in converting critical globally accessible bare metal machines to virtual machines and then onto cloud technologies - example - Dell Hardware with Windows Server converted to VMware instance, and finally turning into AWS instance complete with attachable storage and variable infrastructure based on performance tuning, seasonality and other constraints.
• Openshift virtualized PaaS provider - useful in automating the provisioning of commodity computing resources for cost and performance efficiency. Used Chef, Puppet, Ansible to assist in building automation policies.
• Languages: Bash, PERL, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra RESTful Services
• Web: Wordpress, Search Engine Optimization SEO , HTML5, CSS3, JSON, RSS, XML, SQL, SSH, Apache
• Source Control: SVN, CVS, RTC, Github
• Build tools: Maven, Ivy
• Design: Adobe CS6 - Photoshop, Flash, Creately.com

Agile Program Management Skills and Experience

• Extensive experience working in an Agile development environment
• Heavy experience with IBM Rational Team Concert, Zendesk, Eclipse, and Sublime
• Light experience with Pivotal Tracker, Planbox, and VersionOne
• Expertise in converting teams, comprised of 5 - 110 members, from waterfall to agile methods
• Skilled in Test Driven and Agile Development
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical, organizational and interpersonal skills

Technology and Consulting Experience

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Consulting with companies to build upon their existing software solution build/packaging procedures towards a continuous integration model. Assisting in evaluation, implementation and testing of SDLC, version control, automation, infrastructure, and platform tools/services based upon 20 years of enterprise software experience.

Confidential

Architect

• Facilitating improvements to attorney and local small business brands and reputations holistically using proven and cutting-edge technologies and certified local vendors to encourage sustainability of the local economy.
• Technologies used: VMWare, RHEL, Apache, AWS API , Rackspace, Zendesk
• Charged with converting a static software development cycle waterfall into a fully dynamic/automated devops environment agile while reducing cost of monthly expenses related to hosting 60k per year
• Exported VMWare images and Rackspace instances to AWS VPC containing EC2 instances with S3 storage.
• Automated the scaling of grouped EC2 images based on follow-the-sun operating schedules Engineering, QA . Leveraging the AWS pricing models to quiesce under-utilized instances.
• Educated staff and converted team interaction to leverage the benefits of SCRUM and RUP agile methodology.
• Brought total expenditure to < 100 per month operating/hosting costs 1200 per year a savings of 98
• Additionally used SEO technology and techniques to renew growth for several small businesses and attorneys 20 or greater revenue increase compared YOY by improving search results related to positive reviews.

Confidential

Principal Architect Software Engineering

• Challenged with developing an operating environment capable of supporting automation of agile software development methods smoke builds, nightly builds, triggers, etc to normalize and consolidate manual, time-consuming, inconsistent product lifecycle processes.
• Directed teams in multiple international locations to leverage VMWare, AWS, and other cloud automation technologies to produce highly efficient, low cost environments using RHEL, Python, Perl, Bash, AWS API, HTML, CSS, and RESTful interface technologies.
• Reduced the time needed to build and deploy solutions for testing from a week or more, to just under a few hours.

Director, eTrust Consumer Product Development

• Challenged with architecting and engineering a consumer-targeted security suite capable of protecting personal computing devices from web and media bourne operating system threats.
• Directed a team of 50 engineers in 6 locations New York, India, Australia, London, Herndon and Milwaukee to develop, test, and support CA Internet Security Suite. An integrated software solution consisting of firewall, anti-spyware, anti-virus, anti-spam, parental control, anti-phishing and backup functionality.
• Implemented department-wide transition from waterfall to an agile software development lifecycle reducing time from inception of new features and development of bug fixes, to customer delivery.
• Contracted third-party vendors to augment development, testing, support and hosting functions maintaining critical release deadlines.
• Collaborated with Product Management, Sales and Marketing to create direction and prioritize enhancements and bugfixes to satisfy increasing levels of customer needs. Incorporating cost and time to market analysis for decision support.
• Successfully released and supported several versions of products and packaged solutions to channel partners, service providers, resellers and consumer markets.
• Improved quality and sales of solutions by 25 over a period of one year based on support queue metrics and revenue reporting .

Manager, eTrust Consumer Product Development

• Collaborated with BMW Germany to create IREMA proof of concept in-vehicle telemetrics exposed vi iDrive
• Engineered Patch Management IPM software used to distribute patches over a network in a secure manner.

Manager,

Confidential

Network Engineer

Confidential

Integration Architect,

Confidential

Professional Services

Confidential