CV / Resume

Worldline – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Sr. DevOps / Cloud Engineer – August 2022 – current

  • Create shared automation libraries, tooling and services regarding system operational availability
  • ownership of high availability, low latency, fault tolerance, cost effective multi-region systems
  • Provide thought leadership to the larger organization regarding cloud operational excellence

   Tools: AWS , CI / CD / CR (Jenkins/Gitlab), Containers (Docker/Podman), Git, Linux (Fedora), Terraform

Miro – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – DevOps Engineer – January 2021 – July 2022

  • Deploy, administer, monitor, and optimize global IT cloud resources in AWS and on-prem.
  • Participate in on-call rotation in support of critical production alerts
  • Provide thought leadership as organization migrates to modern development practices
  • Create CI / CD tooling and services to increase deployment velocity for client app teams
  • Development team support migrating and deploying services into Kubernetes cluster

   Tools: AWS , CI / CD / CR (Jenkins/Gitlab), Containers (Docker/Podman), Git, Linux (Fedora), Terraform, Prometheus Stack

Tenerum – St. Petersburg, FL. USA – Infrastructure Engineer – July 2019 – December 2020

  • Deploy, administer, monitor, and optimize enterprise cloud applications on Google Cloud Platform
  • Design and Provision system infrastructure in support of business services and growth goals
  • Coordinate with development regarding project system requirements and operational load
  • Created CI / CD tooling and services to accelerate commit to production velocity
  • Provide thought leadership as organization migrates to modern development practices

   Tools: AWS , CI / CD / CR (Jenkins/Gitlab), Containers (Docker/Podman), Git, Linux (Fedora), Terraform, Istio, Helm

Accenture – St. Petersburg, FL. USA – Automation Engineer – July 2018 – July 2019

  • Support client application teams on board to a standardized CI / CD process as mandated
  • Create, administer, and update multiple Jenkins & Jenkins pipeline jobs as required
  • Create CI / CD tooling and services to increase deployment velocity for client app teams
  • Troubleshoot client service applications inter-connection issues
  • Educate client app team on modern CI / CD designs and best practices
  • Leverage software background in recommending engineering best practices to legacy app teams

   Tools: CI / CD / CR (Jenkins/Gitlab), Containers (Docker/Podman), Git, Linux (Fedora), Terraform, SonarQube, Veracode

Sourcetoad, LLC. – Sr Software Engineer / Tech Lead / DevOps – Tampa, FL. – Feb. 2014 – March 2018

  • Mentor and train junior engineers in software engineering best practices
  • Pioneer the testing, justification, and implementation of new technologies and processes
  • Develop multiple RESTful API services for land and ship based systems
  • Technical Lead on multiple projects; from rapid prototyping MVPs to ongoing enterprise support
  • Participate in team based projects to produce deliverables per documented specs
  • Assist in maintaining internal tool set to keep abreast of industry evolution

   Tools: Agile. AWS, API, Bash, CI/CD, Docker, Git, Jenkins, Leadership, PHP, SQL, SDLC, REST

Tech Data – Sr. PHP Developer (6mo. contract) – St. Petersburg, FL. USA – Nov. 2015 – Mar. 2016

  •   Reduced `fix it` ticket handle time by 80% by developing an internal web utility
  • Coordinate with business teams to implement value add features: SSO, vendor integrations, etc.
  • Assist Lead Application Architect with project planning, feature requirement, mentoring and training
  • Assist DevOps teams with migrating legacy systems to modern architectural standards

   Tools: API, Agile, BitBucket, Git, Leadership, PHP, MVC (Symphony 2.x), SDLC

HealthPlan Services – Developer – Tampa, FL. USA – Aug 2012 – Jan 2014

  • Produce and maintain team management tools
  • Interface with system specialists to produce useful reporting tools
  • Improve on existing code base using industry recommended best practices

   Tools: API, Git, PHP, MVC (inhouse), SQL

Traderplanet.com – Jr. Developer – Wesley Chapel, FL. USA – Sept 2010 – Feb 2012

  • Implement site wide enhancements and patches as dictated by project roadmap
  • Apply efficiency and optimization to code base as opportunity are presented
  • Interface with project stakeholders to facilitate feature change requests
  • Migrate web video broadcast system to handle larger user live cast video engagements

   Tools: API, Scrum, CSS, Git, HTML, JS, PHP, MVC (CakePHP 1.x)

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