Responsible for all future and current Cloud Architecture.

Cloud Architect

Staff Cloud DevOps Engineer

Built and maintained a large-scale AWS implementation. Petabytes of data in S3, thousands of instances, a dozen accounts, and hundreds of users. Also implemented our CI/CD pipeline.

Software Engineer, DevOps

Defined vision and roadmap for the SRE team Responsible for implementation of Dynatrace APM Troubleshooting production issues and driving root cause analysis. Load testing and capacity planning Refined monitoring and alerting to ease burden on OnCall Engineers Performed OnCall duties and participated in maintenance windows, including software deployment and infrastructure upgrades.

Quick note: This was not a great position, Verizon gutted it and I left early. Sometimes thats how acquisitions go :)

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Responsible for enhancement and maintenance of our external communications platform. Developed support for Push Notifications via iOS and Android (server side and client) Designed and implemented Debit Card Fraud notifications Responsible for migration of SBBT users to our platform after acquisition by UB Designed and implemented Commercial notifications. Served as a subject matter expert on Spring and J2EE Architecture

Senior Software Engineer

Developing backends for Rich Web Applications (Flex, Silverlight).

Software Consultant

Server-Side / Front-End Development. Used PHP, Java, ColdFusion, Javascript (Dojo, jQuery, YUI, Prototype), HTML, CSS and more. Architected our PHP framework with others. Also did database diagramming / implementation on MySQL, MSSQL, and Oracle.

Web Developer

I developed timesheet and purchase request applications with PHP and MySQL. Also assisted in reverse engineering malware

Internal Application Developer

I got to learn to the ropes of working in a professional environment and developed web based systems to streamline internal processes. I also assisted in manging our phone system, network, and servers among other systems administrator duties.

Internal Application Developer / Junior Systems Administrator

I am currently a Cloud Architect at PlayStation Network, AWS DevOps Professional Certified. Successfully lead a huge migration from on-prem into the cloud.

I perfer to work hands on with people and walk them through the concepts and then get them into code.  I have examples of automation of all AWS services and also an extreme understanding of how all the AWS managed serviuces glue together to accelerate development.

One last note, before I moved into AWS,  I have contributed to various open source projects.  I am very proficient in Java, Python, PHP, Bash, x86 Assembly, Lua, C, C++, Unix administration, Chef, Ansible, and have managed some of the largest traffic websites in the world.

Thanks for your consideration

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