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• Architect, deploy, optimize, document and support reliable, secure, flexible technology infrastructure to be a force multiplier and innovation center of my organization

• Transformed engineering departments by advocating for Kubernetes and Cloud Native ecosystem, including creating custom built training programs and infrastructure tooling
• Designed, implemented and supported multiple VMWare deployments, including championing virtualization of over 1000 application and infrastructure servers
• Directly saved the company over $300k/year by taking initiative to devise and implement monitoring and reporting for problematic products

• Kubernetes/Cloud Native Ecosystem, Continuous Intetgration/Delivery, GitOps
• Prometheus/AlertManager/Grafana Stack
• Amazon Web Services/Terraform/Cloud Formation Templates
• Go/Python/PHP/PERL/Javascript
• VMWare vSphere/vCloud Director/Lab Manager/Microsoft Powershell
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning

• Subject matter expert, architect and key contributor to improving developer experience, including a CI/CD process based on Gitlab, Gitlab-CI, ArgoCD and Kubernetes
• Transformational leader across multiple engineering teams, prioritizing empathy with and leveling-up of individual contributors
• Lead leadership through business conversations with focus on aligning decision making for strategic advantage, positioning engineering to more aggressively pursue Site Reliability and Platform Engineering aspirations
• Challenged and improved legacy decisions that hindered innovation
• Facilitated and nurtured a book club, initially focused on Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps

• Launch out of stealth an early stage startup, greenfielding the latest in Cloud Native innovations including ArgoCD, Vault, Terraform, EKS, Traefik, Prometheus, focusing on scalability, reliability, security, maintainability and observability
• Lead engineering to “shift-left”, leveraging and contributing to the GitLab CI ecosystem
• Guide development to create reliable code that capitalizes infrastructural capabilities
• Collaborate with and enhance capabilities for all teams across the organization including Sales, Product and Corporate IT

• Return Path was acquired by Validity in May, 2019
• Subject matter expert for on-site (VMWare) and cloud (AWS) Kubernetes clusters, including cluster lifecycle management tools Kops, EKS, Terraform and Cloud Formation Templates
• Responsible for reliability, reporting and complete migration of multiple datacenters
• Tested and deployed an in-house Kubernetes powered framework based on CoreOS, CentOS 7, BigIP F5 and VMWare
• Lead multiple digital transformation efforts, dramatically reducing datacenter footprint by architecting, deploying, documenting and maintaining VMWare vSphere installation
• Took initiative to devise scripts to identify and prove product performance, directly saving the company $300k/year

• Network and security administration for 50 user satellite office
• Managed backups, Windows-based services, network security and desktop support

• Create student government, including officers, policies, procedures, governance
• Propose and solicit student-based solutions for approval from University officials and administration
• Initiate curriculum reform initiatives and procedures
• 1 year term of office completed in May of 2006
• Provide the foundation for the continued success of official student governance offices