Experience

Omni Federal

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Principal DevOps Engineer

  • Jan 2022 - Present

  United States Provide guidance and consistency between Omni and the client projects with regards to DevSecOps by collaborating best practices and processes between groups via bi-weekly meetings. Installed and configured Grafana dashboards to show k8s metrics and provide visibility. Researched how we can alert ourselves when code backups fail, fluent-bit fails to send logs and EBS backups fail. Scan for STIG violations on Ubuntu 20.04 and remediate. Expand pipeline to include STIG… Show more Provide guidance and consistency between Omni and the client projects with regards to DevSecOps by collaborating best practices and processes between groups via bi-weekly meetings. Installed and configured Grafana dashboards to show k8s metrics and provide visibility. Researched how we can alert ourselves when code backups fail, fluent-bit fails to send logs and EBS backups fail. Scan for STIG violations on Ubuntu 20.04 and remediate. Expand pipeline to include STIG automation checks and produce DISA STIG checklist with POAM information where appropriate. Show less



By Light Professional IT Services

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• DevSecOps Lead

  • Jul 2019 - Sep 2022

  Orlando, Florida Area Architected and implemented Ansible solution to define software deployment as code using roles and inventories. Automated creation of VMs in VMWare using Ansible. Automated CICD build/deploy of various applications to VMWare architecture. Managed Orlando data center: VMWare, Meraki and Synology NAS. Created pipeline for code to go from source to build, testing, security scans and delivery to government and commercial clients.



Aspect Software

• United States
• Software Development
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Senior SRE

  • Apr 2019 - Jul 2019

  Orlando, Florida Area Created Jenkins library to perform security scans (Clair and NexusIQ) in the CICD pipeline and architect for additional security tools to be added. Evaluate test harnesses (Spock, JenkinsPipelineUnit) and implement for Jenkins pipeline library. Updated k8s Jenkins pipeline to streamline the Jenkinsfile to require minimal effort for any team to build docker images, scan them for issues and deploy them via Helm to our k8s cluster.



Universal Destinations & Experiences

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Continuous Deployment Governance Manager, CICD Product Owner

  • Nov 2018 - Jan 2019

  Orlando, Florida Area Aligned the organization on best practices for CICD and quality gates to improve delivery quality for multiple products from dev to production. Analyzed feature requests for feasibility and alignment and added to the backlog. Groomed the backlog to prioritize work, define intent, assumptions and acceptance criteria allowing the scrum team of 6 to do their work more efficiently. Worked with Scrum Master and team to understand the technical details to align various groups… Show more Aligned the organization on best practices for CICD and quality gates to improve delivery quality for multiple products from dev to production. Analyzed feature requests for feasibility and alignment and added to the backlog. Groomed the backlog to prioritize work, define intent, assumptions and acceptance criteria allowing the scrum team of 6 to do their work more efficiently. Worked with Scrum Master and team to understand the technical details to align various groups ensuring on-time delivery and minimal blockers. Show less



QC Games Inc

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• DevOps, Build, Tools and Infrastructure Engineer

  • Apr 2018 - Nov 2018

  Austin, Texas Area In less than a week learned Quickbuild, Perforce and SteamSDK well enough to deploy game to Steam. Installed and configured a POC demo of Chef and Puppet which convinced management to support Puppet recommendation; implemented across internal unix infrastructure. Maintained the CICD pipeline for multiple environments, resolving issues as needed



Epsilon

• Advertising Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director of Digital Solutions, DevOps Lead

  • Aug 2015 - Feb 2018

  Remote Defined process improvements for our DevOps team and coached team to increase overall knowledge and drive consistency which created a more productive environment. Analyzed data following client meetings and co-wrote RFPs creating high level estimate/project plan/technical recommendations resulting in multiple project wins from Fortune 500 companies. Established internal systems and processes best practices by setting up Agile boards in Jira, automating repetitive tasks; saving… Show more Defined process improvements for our DevOps team and coached team to increase overall knowledge and drive consistency which created a more productive environment. Analyzed data following client meetings and co-wrote RFPs creating high level estimate/project plan/technical recommendations resulting in multiple project wins from Fortune 500 companies. Established internal systems and processes best practices by setting up Agile boards in Jira, automating repetitive tasks; saving time and money for team and groups across the company. Turned ambiguous DevOps requests into running scalable cloud environments via automated provisioning and custom Chef Cookbooks/Recipes in short timeframes. Allowed project teams to create POCs as part of new businesses acquisition and begin working immediately, delivering on time and on budget. Enabled maximum consistency and minimized effort in debugging by constantly removing ongoing differences between development and production code/config. Show less



AT&T

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Technical Architect and Release Manager

  • Mar 2010 - Aug 2015

  Remote Led team of 5 Release Engineers, translated business requirements into functional requirements. Collaborated and coordinated with project managers, devs, QA testers, content owners, business owners and system admins to code, test, build, and deploy code through various environments and out to production which resulted in ~12 successful releases per year. Automated build and deployment process for att.com eCare websites; moved process from hours to minutes, allowed expansion of… Show more Led team of 5 Release Engineers, translated business requirements into functional requirements. Collaborated and coordinated with project managers, devs, QA testers, content owners, business owners and system admins to code, test, build, and deploy code through various environments and out to production which resulted in ~12 successful releases per year. Automated build and deployment process for att.com eCare websites; moved process from hours to minutes, allowed expansion of tasks, enabled visibility and established consistency. Led root cause analysis in the SDLC for any issue which allowed development to continue, builds to finish, deploys to complete and production to run optimally. Show less



AMD

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Software Development & Quality Engineer

  • Mar 2008 - Mar 2010

  Austin, Texas Area Led testing aspects and significantly contributed to all phases of software development life cycle for Out of Band Management Standardization project. Migrated old disparate systems to Quality Center for release, requirement, test case, test execution automation and defect tracking which greatly improved efficiency with everything in one place.



AT&T

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Release Manager, Technical Architect

  • Jan 2007 - Mar 2008

  Bothell, WA Created new processes, incorporated new software development tools, managed servers and multiple teams to build, test and release att.com consumer and business wireless sites. Initiated and implemented security scans to the build automation, meeting audit requirements and increasing security of the web apps. Spearheaded first migration from ANT to Maven and created a template for remainders which saved build time by 50%.



EDS

• Information Specialist / Tech Lead / Software Architect / Developer

  • 1998 - 2006

  Greater Detroit Area Promoted from Java Dev to tech lead role; improved technical requirements which led to faster delivery, higher quality projects and increased client satisfaction. Implemented early build/deploy automation technology which optimized efficiency and delivered consistency.