About Me
Engineer with 5 years of experience in AWS, software development, operations, problem solving, and capacity & performance analytics. Passionate about application reliability and automating everything. Enjoy working on a variety of different projects and try to continuously improve systems and processes to drive business success.
Projects
AWS Account Vending Machine
- Architected a scalable solution while contributing as a lead developer on the team
- Created Jenkins pipelines to orcasterte the deployment
- Wrote Python scripts to interface with multiple systems by leveraging RESTful APIs
- Wrote Data Driven Terraform modules to deploy standard resources like VPC, Lambdas, EC2, Subnets, Security Groups, ACLs, KMS
Serverless Files Processor
- A scalable app to process hundreds of files with thousands of rows
- App utilizes DynamoDB, Lambda, S3, and SQS - written in Java
- Wrote Terraform modules, Jenkins pipelines, Java based Lambdas
- Trained team members on how to utilize Terraform, Vault, and CICD Tools
Networker 9.x
- Architected, budgeted, tested, implemented, and troubleshoot net new build of Networker 9.x from start to finish
- Data Collection Automation — Capacity and Performance - TransUnion
- Wrote PowerShell and Python scripts to extract analytical data points from multiple systems located in different countries by leveraging RESTful APIs to showcase metrics in Tableau / Splunk
Cisco Call Manager 9.1
- Tested, implemented, and troubleshoot new build of Cisco Call manager 9.1
Experience
Solving 21st century problems by diging holes and making game changing solutions
- Architected and built a scalable solution to create an AWS Account Vending Machine from the ground up
- Built a serverless application within AWS - DynamoDB, Lambda, S3, SQS,
- Wrote Terraform modules so multiple application teams can utilize them to deploy common resources
- Upskill clients by providing 1:1 training on Python, DevOps, IaC, and AWS
- Worked with Product Owners to groom backlogs and gather requirements
- Developed automation and deployment utilities using Powershell, Python to minimize delivery times of monthly capacity and performance reporting from 3 weeks to 2 hours, increasing productivity by 70%
- Wrote documentation on best practices in the team about writing code, deployment, and bring in knowledge of new technologies or tools
- Utilized Splunk for performance analytics to scale environment for growth
High performance Delivered
- Evaluated and implemented new storage technology in production which lead to capacity cost savings of $20,000/month and meet SLAs
- Designed, Tested, and Implemented a net new build of Networker 9.x
- Actively managed, improved, automated, and monitored multi-Region AWS hosted environments, including backups, and scaling
- Performed collaborative root cause analysis of production issues
- Managed remote operational resources across geo data centers
- Front-line troubleshooting, Level II/III application support, Active Directory, SharePoint 2013, RightFax 10.6, Cisco Call Manager 9.1, Cisco Unity, URL filtering via Palo Alto, and mapping department drives to facilitate day-to-day operations
- Microsoft SharePoint analytics to identify unused SharePoint sites, archived and deleted from production SharePoint 2010 servers to reduce vulnerability risk, and increase security within the infrastructure
- Monitored and managed network devices via Cisco Prime, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), SolarWinds Orion to evaluate branch performance
- Implemented CRM into the company’s’ infrastructure to track client orders and relationship
- Conducted research on technology products to gain a deeper understanding of mid-market offerings for backup/recovery and unified storage solutions as well as key features of Data Domain, Avamar, and VNXe
- Designed, created, and implemented survey for employers to report employment information regarding UW-Parkside students and alumni to understand community employment needs and predict future needs
- Updated database information, analyzed data, compiled reports, and created statistical charts to display results for administrative purposes
Education
University of Wisconsin - Parkside
BS Computer Science
2012 - 2016