Principal Consultant Resume

SUMMARY:

I provide leadership and vision for technical operations and organizational change.
I believe that intelligent and creative people need to combine with thoughtful, efficient process to make effective technical decisions.
I’m comfortable operating with knows and unknowns in either traditional data center environments or cloud native realms.
I’m able to map situations, analyze gaps, target high leverage solutions, and evolve organizations toward standardized, or utility, infrastructure and process.

SKILLS AND STRENGTHS:

Process Creation
DevOps Strategy
Automation Techniques
Agile Methodologies
Team Building
Infrastructure Design

EXPERIENCE:

Principal Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Developed a technical strategy document for new and existing business ventures within Confidential Capital, a business and consumer insurance subsidiary to Confidential, the second largest re - insurance corporation in the world.
This included description of current best practices to develop a technology organization from three perspectives, people, process and technology.
I was part of the team which delivered, defended, and ultimately, won approval for the document to become group-wide technical strategy in front of group CEOs and CTOs.

Confidential

Program lead

Responsibilities:

Oversaw remote team of 5 doing infrastructure design and build utilizing automated provisioning (Terraform) of AWS infrastructure .
As part of this effort we migrated a legacy core application to AWS and automated code deployment and data migrations using Jenkins.
Integral coach and advisor in building Agile development organization.
Worked with multiple consulting organizations and more than 15 nationalities in achieving project milestones.
Worked with stakeholders to define the role of technology within the organization.
Worked closely with CTO to define application architecture. Presented architecture which was ultimately selected.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Provided technology and process research for third party.
This included current best practices for people, process, and technology.
Also presented methodological on how to approach and succeed with a physical to cloud migration.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Presented security process and technology research for a new cloud initiative.

Confidential

Technical advisor

Responsibilities:

Participated in product strategy discussions and business development activity.
Helped secure funding for ongoing discovery stage for company founding.

Director of TEchnical Operations

Confidential

Responsibilities:

QA increased automated test coverage by nearly 70%.
Mobile release activity was refactored and simplified.
This allowed almost 50% fewer Apple Store rejections.
IT managed laptop and environment support for over 120 people.
We moved our offices to a renovated building setting up internet, internal networks, and audio/visual capabilities.
I provided mentorship to my leads to allow at least two of them to be promoted into management roles.
I coached my managers into developing delivery strategies which did not rely on additional staff.
I maintained a low headcount while delivering on the team’s SLAs.

Manager, Devops

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Led a team of 6 DevOps in the design, build and support of a UK-based web service.
The team created a fully automated provisioning capability for our infrastructure.
This reinvented disaster recovery and saved us 70% on business continuity hosting costs.
Migrated from physical to virtual infrastructure (Rackspace Private Cloud) saving 60% and providing 7x testing capacity.
Created a bank-first categorization of a production deploy as a “Standard” change thereby reducing governance time requirement from over a week to less than 1 day.

DevOps Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

I helped design and build Chef configuration management infrastructure.
I Implemented Splunk log aggregation tool, designed alerts and troubleshooting workflow.
I worked with NOC and Technical Support to improve MTTR

Sr Linux Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

I Implemented Puppet configuration management reducing the time to build a new application environment from 9 person weeks to 2 days.
I implemented internal DNS for development, QA, and production saving countless hours.
I helped redesign front-end authentication.
I led a performance tuning group which led to a 10x improvement in the application’s capacity.

Storage/Backup Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

I was the primary administrator for 200TB of storage and the backup infrastructure.
I implemented a distributed file system (Lustre) to solve a slow backup issue of many small files writing to tape.
Improved backup throughput by at least 10x.
I performed physical and software maintenance on over two dozen NetApp heads and dozens of disk racks.
I maintained the Veritas and Bacula backup administration platforms.

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