Senior DevOps Engineer

• Nov 2021 - Present

Principal - Cloud, DevOps, & Security

• Jun 2021 - Nov 2021

• Designed, sold, and led a $1+ million multi-phase Cloud Adoption Program. The program consisted of a team of nine, broken into four work streams focused on Cloud Platform, Data, Security, and Communications. Worked with the client to apply for AWS Migration Assistance Program funding for each phase of the project. Identified and kick started multiple pilot projects. • Hired a direct report, and managed a number of project teams of 2-5 technical resources. • Led a team building a proof of concept AWS Batch Processing system for a BioTech Research and Early development team. The POC was built and managed using Terraform, Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Gitlab CI. The project reduced a process from 3 months on-premise to 3 weeks Show less

Solution Architect - Devops

• Mar 2020 - May 2021

• Architected and built a DevSecOps pipeline for the creation of hardened AWS accounts and AMIs. Using security-specific unit, functional, and performance tests, infrastructure-as-code, and container and OS vulnerability scanning. These accounts and AMIs were deployed for 10+ teams working on biomedical diagnostic applications. • Designed and built a proof of concept for a HIPAA compliant, Serverless, long term storage platform (Data Lake) in AWS. The platform was designed to store 3+ Petabytes of medical research data and handle 1+ Terabytes of transactional data monthly. Utilized tools such as Lambda, S3 Glacier, DynamoDB. • Designed an AWS landing zone for an educational platform, with 500K+ monthly active users. Migrated the platform from a data center into the landing zone. Moved over 20 separate applications, creating 3 environments across AWS accounts. Utilized AWS native tools such as Cloud Formation, Auto Scaling groups, Lambdas, S3, Route 53, and many more. ◦ This work resulted in Slalom’s certification as an AWS Service Delivery Partner for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, Aurora MySQL, and Aurora PostgreSQL. Show less

DevOps Consultant

• Dec 2018 - Feb 2020

In my first year at Slalom I consulted for a variety of companies across industries and sizes. I assisted a national retail chain in assessing their cloud readiness for a migration to Microsoft Azure. I used Ansible, Cloudformation, and a number of other tools to architect and migrated over 20 applications from on-prem to AWS for an ed-tech company. I helped an agriculture company to evaluate the scalability of their GitLab implementation and ensure their CI/CD could handle internal demand. Most recently, I designed a DataLake for long term storage of Petabytes of data in AWS using S3, Glacier, Lambda, DynamoDB, and more for a Med-tech company. Show less

Cloud Transformation & Migration Consultant

• Jan 2017 - Nov 2018

Technology Analyst

• Oct 2015 - Dec 2016

Intern: Washington University Investment Management Company

• May 2014 - May 2015

Implement Backstop Solutions for the University Endowment. Collect and organize our current contacts, creating all new reports on investments, working as a system administrator for the new software.A variety of minor research projects in real assets, venture capital, and other areas.Attend manager update and pitch meetings.

Residential Advisor: Office of Residential Life

• Aug 2013 - May 2015

Manage a residence hall floor of about 30 diverse undergraduate students. Organize monthly events to help students succeed personally and academically, role model positive behavior.Participate in 168 hours of training on diversity, crisis management, University policy, etc. Along with 3 hours of weekly continued training.

Lead Student Technology Coordinator

• Apr 2012 - Sep 2014

Promoted to develop, coordinate and manage the ongoing STC training, programming, and recruiting activities.Maintain a computer lab and printer.Hold office hours to help students with technology issues (e.g., Internet, cable TV, and general computer problems).

Matlab Teaching Assistant

• Jan 2013 - Dec 2013

Hold weekly office hours to help students with coding projects as well as grading assistance for the lead instructor.