Manager, DevOps

• Oct 2021 - Present

Senior DevOps Engineer

• Apr 2021 - Oct 2021

DevOps and Cloud Engineering Manager

• Mar 2015 - Apr 2021

Assumed all on-site IT/Cloud engineering duties and responsibilities from corporate Unix Server team replacing all full time local IT staff, including: • All Amazon AWS infrastructure and services including complete infrastructure lifecycle management • Administration and operation of all source control repositories (Subversion), Maven artifact repositories (Nexus), and YUM/DNF RPM artifact repositories • Administration and operation of Bamboo build automation and CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous delivery) system • Administration and operation of JIRA change management server • Administration and maintenance of all PostGreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and MariaDB Amazon RDS • Shared ownership of release and change management processes with Director of Engineering • Management of production code deployment process and deployment automation • Triage, troubleshoot, and resolve production software issues for Java applications stack (Maven, JBoss, Tomcat) • Hire, manage, develop, and challenge devops/cloud engineers in support of overall engineering organization needs Highlights: • Migrated and consolidated 260+ virtual machines (web app servers, network file shares, database servers, infrastructure services, etc.) from 2 physical data centers to AWS resulting in annual cost savings of over $700,000 (including infrastructure and staffing) • Reduced monthly AWS costs by over $9,000 through automated business hours scheduling of resources, migration to ALBs from Classic ELBs, and proper resource sizing • Reduced AWS storage costs by 1/3 through shifting to EFS and S3 from EBS backed NFS shares • Implemented infrastructure as code processes for provisioning of AWS resources and services using Terraform and Ansible • Developed disaster recovery strategy using EBS snapshots and automated backups to remote S3 storage with lifecycles • Implemented security auditing practices for AWS resources using open source tools (Lynis, RKHunter, OpenVAS) and automation Show less

DevOps Engineer

• Sep 2014 - Mar 2015

Administration, maintenance, and oversight of source code and version control, dependency management, software configuration, build automation, release management, continuous integration, and continuous delivery systems and processes.• Design, manage, and maintain software deployment and release processes and artifacts. • RPM packages, Ansible playbooks. • Administer and maintain Oracle and PostGreSQL databases and servers.• Amazon AWS EC2 cloud server infrastructure, Amazon RDS cloud database infrastructure• SVN repositories (Subversion and ViewVC), Maven server repositories (Nexus), YUM RPM artifact repositories.• Bamboo and CruiseControl continuous integration and build systems.• JIRA defect and change management server.• Triage, troubleshoot, and resolve production software issues for Java applications stack (Maven, JBoss, Tomcat). Show less

Senior Software Engineer - Operations and Production Support Team

• Jan 2010 - Sep 2014

Triage, troubleshoot, and resolve production software issues for Java applications stack (Maven, JBoss, Tomcat). Administer and manage custom content management system, digital asset management system, customer catalog management portal, and various asset processing workflow systems. Provide development for internal and customer facing web applications using ColdFusion, SQL, XML, Javascript, and other web technologies. Develop e-commerce web applications for mobile and small form factor devices. Provide domain knowledge and training for new engineers across the organization. Show less

Product Manager

• Sep 2009 - Jan 2010

Produced and managed product planning documentation, customer facing product and service collateral, and various project tracking artifacts for dedicated web hosting product line. Produced and managed product planning documentation, customer facing product and service collateral, and various project tracking artifacts for dedicated web hosting product line.

Technical Product Manager

• Mar 2009 - Jun 2009

Under guidance from CTO and CEO, developed the first formalized product management processes for LibreDigital, moving from software engineering to lead newly formed product management team under CTO.Defined and implemented product management processes which included new product R&D, market and business analysis, executive and stakeholder buy-in, requirements gathering and synthesis, documentation responsibilities and artifacts, feature prioritization, release and iteration planning, acceptance criteria, and product review.Defined and implemented product development process which included gated phases for ideation, opportunity assessment, synthesis and design, development, testing, release, and improvement.Produced and managed product roadmaps, strategic roadmap, product catalog, marketing portfolio, product vision, market and business requirements, product requirements, user experience designs, feature prioritization plans, release plans, release notes, and other artifacts for various internal and external applications, services and processes. Show less

Software Engineer

• Feb 2006 - Mar 2009

Developed and administered custom content management system, digital asset management system, customer catalog management portal and various asset processing workflow systems using ColdFusion MX, Oracle 9i/10g and other web technologies.Joined informal employee-led process management committee to evangelize and adopt Agile development practices within Software Engineering team.

Consultant - ColdFusion Developer

• Jul 2005 - Jan 2006

Developed four publicly accessible environmental quality applications for state agency using ColdFusion MX and other web technologies. Developed four publicly accessible environmental quality applications for state agency using ColdFusion MX and other web technologies.

Consultant - Senior Web Developer/Workgroup Manager

• Apr 2005 - May 2005

Managed restricted access intranet application and document storage system. Developed public site and restricted access site in ColdFusion MX and other web technologies. Administered workgroup systems. Managed restricted access intranet application and document storage system. Developed public site and restricted access site in ColdFusion MX and other web technologies. Administered workgroup systems.

Software Engineer

• May 2004 - Feb 2005

Developed and administered e-commerce web application and content management system using ColdFusion MX, Oracle 9i and other web technologies. Developed and administered e-commerce web application and content management system using ColdFusion MX, Oracle 9i and other web technologies.

Consultant - ColdFusion Developer

• Oct 2003 - Dec 2003

Migrated COBOL application to the web using ColdFusion MX, Oracle 8i and other web technologies. Migrated COBOL application to the web using ColdFusion MX, Oracle 8i and other web technologies.

Consultant - ColdFusion Developer

• Nov 2002 - Jun 2003

Migrated MS Access application to the web using ColdFusion MX, Oracle 8i and other web technologies. Migrated MS Access application to the web using ColdFusion MX, Oracle 8i and other web technologies.

Webmaster

• May 2001 - Nov 2002

Developed and administered five e-learning web applications with e-commerce, corporate web presence, and content management system using ColdFusion 5.0/MX, MS SQL Server 2000 and other web technologies. Developed and administered five e-learning web applications with e-commerce, corporate web presence, and content management system using ColdFusion 5.0/MX, MS SQL Server 2000 and other web technologies.

Technical Editor

• Jan 2002 - Aug 2002

Technical Editor for the book "Inside ColdFusion MX", published in August of 2002.

Peer Reviewer

• Jan 2002 - Jan 2002

Peer Reviewer of proposals and manuscripts for un-named ColdFusion MX project. Offered Technical Editor position after project defined.

Contract Engineer, Web Development

• Feb 2001 - Apr 2001

Developed administrative application for web server appliance using HTML and JavaScript. Developed administrative application for web server appliance using HTML and JavaScript.

ColdFusion Developer

• May 2000 - Mar 2001

Developed and administered three B2B and B2C auction web applications with e-commerce, corporate web presence, and one mobile web application using ColdFusion 4.5/5.0, MS SQL Server 7.0 and other web technologies. Developed and administered three B2B and B2C auction web applications with e-commerce, corporate web presence, and one mobile web application using ColdFusion 4.5/5.0, MS SQL Server 7.0 and other web technologies.

Graphic Artist/Lead Web Developer

• May 1997 - Apr 2000

Developed and administered company web presence and various client web applications using ColdFusion 4.0/4.5 and other web technologies. Developed and administered company web presence and various client web applications using ColdFusion 4.0/4.5 and other web technologies.