- Led development managers and teams in establishing robust policies, processes, standards, and automated testing and CI/CD tools.
- Coordinated the implementation, management, and monitoring of complex infrastructure-as-code pipelines using GitLab, Artifactory, Puppet, Bolt, Splunk, and more.
- Managed multiple Puppet instances serving 20,000+ nodes.
- Designed and oversaw the best practices in a Puppet management and development ecosystem.
- Helped design configuration management strategies to facilitate cloud migrations (Azure).
- Wrote extensive documentation to support maintainable solutions and improve employee on-boarding.
- Created many reliable automation tools using PowerShell to streamline infrastructure build and configuration.
- Co-founded a popular "snack time" weekly team bonding event. 😁
- Managed the virtual application delivery platform (Citrix + Windows) for large health care organizations.
- Developed internal web applications (.NET/C# + Knockout.js) to help support engineers better track client environment configurations.
Most of my life has been defined by hard work and aggressive goals, but the primary theme of my professional career has been to identify inefficiencies and patterns of negative outcomes and to address them with process improvements and automation. I see the technology industry's Dev(Sec)Ops trend as a validating expression of my inherent instincts for code-based solutions, quick iterations, automated testing and deployments, short feedback loops, and data-driven decision making. Recently, I have focused on scaling such solutions and increasing the adoption of DevOps practices across teams at Epic Hosting, a medical software infrastructure management service provider. I am currently looking for opportunities to further explore cloud IaaS providers like Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services, platforms like Kubernetes, and provisioning tools like Terraform. I know that my leadership skills and high expectations will also help teams use those technologies effectively.
