Experience

Octave Bioscience

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  Cloud Infrastructure design and IaC development supporting computational analysis for datas insights focused on diagnostic reporting pipelines in biomarker, neuroimaging, wearable sensors, and medical claims evaluations, as well as operational support of a patient/physician care portal, and supporting internal tooling for the data science team at Octave Bioscience. Cloud Infrastructure design and IaC development supporting computational analysis for datas insights focused on diagnostic reporting pipelines in biomarker, neuroimaging, wearable sensors, and medical claims evaluations, as well as operational support of a patient/physician care portal, and supporting internal tooling for the data science team at Octave Bioscience.



Slalom Build

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Engineer, Cloud DevOps & Security

  • Sep 2019 - Feb 2021

  _build: Where what's next is built now. Build as a Service. CI/CD Infrastructure as Code as a Pipeline. _build: Where what's next is built now. Build as a Service. CI/CD Infrastructure as Code as a Pipeline.



USCIS

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant, DevSecOps Engineer

  • Jul 2019 - Feb 2021

  Contractor in Government Technologist role requiring security clearance for accessing a large legacy automation system in AWS GovCloud supporting multiple government services within USCIS. Currently modernizing a microservice application into a robust containerized CI/CD ecosystem utilizing AWS ECS to substantiate cross-department infrastructure automation. A recent accomplishment and my initial role on this government project was technical lead on a critical security Operating System update in a mixed-OS legacy pipeline. This upgrade was the primary driver in a larger SRE effort of our team to take over maintenance, enhance automation of deployments for reduced service outages, improve security compliance of virtual systems and guide the eventual retirement of this legacy stack. Show less



Slalom Consulting

• Advertising Services

• Engineer, CDS

  • Apr 2018 - Sep 2019

  Cloud, DevOps & Security Engineer for Slalom Consulting at the Seattle Headquarters. Currently focusing on building out Cloud Enablement/On-Prem automation solutions utilizing Jenkin's / Ansible Pipelines for Infrastructure as Code deployment using modern cloud provisioning toolsets like Terragrunt, Terraform, Vault and Consul cluster tools for secure and HA secrets encryption and authentication security. Cloud, DevOps & Security Engineer for Slalom Consulting at the Seattle Headquarters. Currently focusing on building out Cloud Enablement/On-Prem automation solutions utilizing Jenkin's / Ansible Pipelines for Infrastructure as Code deployment using modern cloud provisioning toolsets like Terragrunt, Terraform, Vault and Consul cluster tools for secure and HA secrets encryption and authentication security.



F5 Networks

• Computer Software
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant, DevOps Engineer

  • Apr 2019 - Jun 2019

  Cloud Migration and full CI/CD automation of a properitary networking stack that provides customers with WAF and other Managed Application Security APIs into a distributed, Highly-Available AWS hybrid cloud / F5 data center environment. Cloud Migration and full CI/CD automation of a properitary networking stack that provides customers with WAF and other Managed Application Security APIs into a distributed, Highly-Available AWS hybrid cloud / F5 data center environment.



First American

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant, DevOps Engineer

  • Sep 2018 - Mar 2019

  Cloud Migration and DevSecOps Transformation of proprietary application hosting in hybrid-cloud AWS/Azure/VMware environments as well as a Agile coaching and standing-up a DevOps Dojo practice. Extended for a second project involving a poc AWS Landing Zone initialization based in Cloud Formation. Cloud Migration and DevSecOps Transformation of proprietary application hosting in hybrid-cloud AWS/Azure/VMware environments as well as a Agile coaching and standing-up a DevOps Dojo practice. Extended for a second project involving a poc AWS Landing Zone initialization based in Cloud Formation.



Petco

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant, DevOps Engineer

  • May 2018 - Jul 2018

  Cloud Migration and DevOps CI/CD Transformation of corporate Data Center to AWS hybrid-cloud / on-prem vmware stacks using Hashicorp suite of Terraform/Consul/Vault for infrastructure deployment. Cloud Migration and DevOps CI/CD Transformation of corporate Data Center to AWS hybrid-cloud / on-prem vmware stacks using Hashicorp suite of Terraform/Consul/Vault for infrastructure deployment.



End Point Corporation

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Linux Engineer

  • Aug 2012 - Apr 2018

  Interactive Experience Design and Systems Engineering for the Liquid Galaxy project - a Google project involving the porting of Google Earth and Google Maps technology as well as other three dimensional visual applications across Chef managed and Nagios monitored networks of multi-node Linux clusters that render viewsynchronized, interactive and immersive virtual experiences. This immersive environment is based on peripheral calculations of spatial geometry for each screen that in sum present a curved on-screen representation of the projected perspective of physical reality; ie immersive VR without the headset. Show less



City University of New York

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Registrar

  • 2011 - 2012

  Providing exceptional front desk student services in troubleshooting of enrollment and CUNY Academic Policy compliance in addition to undergraduate and graduate degree auditing while performing administrative duties and database management of official university student records. Providing exceptional front desk student services in troubleshooting of enrollment and CUNY Academic Policy compliance in addition to undergraduate and graduate degree auditing while performing administrative duties and database management of official university student records.



American Red Cross

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Laboratory Technician

  • 2009 - 2010

  Production and quality control testing for FDA regulated compliance procedures of medical transfusion products for American and International Relief Services. Production and quality control testing for FDA regulated compliance procedures of medical transfusion products for American and International Relief Services.



OohLaLa, Mfg

• Electronics Assembly

  • 2006 - 2008

  I was one of two electronics assemblers for this boutique analog effects-pedal company. I assembled and installed the electronics into the hand-built enclosures while also being in charge of the testing and troubleshooting each pedal prior to shipment. I was one of two electronics assemblers for this boutique analog effects-pedal company. I assembled and installed the electronics into the hand-built enclosures while also being in charge of the testing and troubleshooting each pedal prior to shipment.



State of North Dakota

• United States
• Government Administration
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Department of Public Health - Epidemiology Intern

  • 2005 - 2005

  I had this internship during the 2005 summer. I was in charge of collecting and managing data about the presence of West Nile Virus within the state and informing the public about safety precautions to prevent West Nile Virus infections. I had this internship during the 2005 summer. I was in charge of collecting and managing data about the presence of West Nile Virus within the state and informing the public about safety precautions to prevent West Nile Virus infections.