Curtis Davis
Ann Arbor,MI
Summary
Focused Systems Engineer with excellent verbal communication skills. Well-versed in developing, testing and managing infrastructure. Meticulous and dedicated with proven history 15+ years of successful industry experience.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Homecare Giver
Dorothy Slay
09.2022 - Current
- Provided emotional support and care during my mother's cancer treatment and eventual passing.
- Coordinated medical appointments and medication management for my mother.
- Facilitated communication between family members and healthcare professionals.
- Managed legal documents and financial matter related to my mothers estate's administration.
- Developed resilience, empathy, and the ability to navigate complex situations with sensitivity and professionalism.
- Demonstrated dedication, commitment, and compassion throughout the caregiving and estate management process.
Sr. Systems Engineer
Modivcare Solutions LLC
06.2021 - 04.2023
- Collaborated with executive team to define business requirements and systems goals.
- Checked for accuracy and functionality during implementation of new systems.
- Responsible for designing, building, and managing cloud-based applications and services using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Lead Cost Optimization improvements.
- Cl/CD pipelines Gitlab, Jenkins.
- User administration and onboarding.
- AWS access key management.
- Security best practices implementation.
- Terraform, Kubernetes and, AWS command line scripting. EC2, S3, Route53 and VPC creation. ECS/EKS and cluster creation and management.
- Improved and deployed billing automation, accounting and real-time reporting and analytics capabilities.
Sr. Systems Administrator
Empower Financial Group
12.2019 - 06.2021
- Responsible managing new SFTP/FTP setups in MovelT application.
- Troubleshooting existing client file transfer issues. Using MovelT, Autosys, Fxfer, and gpxfer.
- Ongoing support and smoke testing for Release management team for all Empower Websites and Participant Web products.
- Support of the underlying infrastructure using Unix/Linux and Windows servers.
- Responsible for encryption key creation and implementation for clients.
- SSH client key exchange and file management.
- Salesforce, Remedy, Confluence, Weblogic, FS, DMZ Server administration, AppDynamics and MoveIT
Systems Engineer (Contractor)
ADT Security
01.2019 - 07.2019
- Collaborated with executive team to define business requirements and systems goals.
- Checked for accuracy and functionality during implementation of new systems.
- Completed software updates and assessed security patches for optimized computer use.
- Responsible for file transfers to AWS and management servers.
- Automation of application restarts and monitoring of system health.
- Ansible, Jenkins, Splunk, Graphite, Jasper.
Staff Engineer
DIRECTV
05.2016 - 01.2019
- Responsible for supporting Linux and Windows servers and applications.
- Systems upgrades and troubleshooting.
- Cronjob scripting and log rotation.
- SME for Failed VOD encryption issues, CMS Ad's
- Supported 10 applications including, Aspera, Baton . SPS, XTVE, VSPS/VTPS, CON, CMS, CMSE,CQS, and PSS upgrades/updates.
- Server restarts and troubleshooting.
- SQL scripting.
- Working directly with Development and Architecture Engineering to implement systems enhancements and configuration updates.
- Documentation of all new processes in Confluence. Automation of regularly used processes and Micro-service restarts.
Education
No Degree - SQL/PLSQL Unix Fundamentals
Red Rocks Community College
Denver, COAssociate of Science - Computer Science And Programming
Parks Junior College
Thornton, CO06.1986
Skills
- AWS Cloud Engineer Certification 2022
- SQL, PL/SQL, Bash Shell, AWS, Kubectl and command line scripting
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Dev-Ops Engineering Coursework AWS-Cloud Guru
- Accomplished RHEL OS troubleshooting
- Agile/Scrum methodology
- Documentation and training SME
- Team building/sharing
- Active Directory, Jenkins, Ansible, Graphite, Jasper, Kubernetes, RHEL Remote Desktop
- Dependable and Responsible
Certification
AWS Cloud Associate Architecture Training - Certified 2022
Timeline
Homecare Giver
Dorothy Slay
09.2022 - Current
Sr. Systems Engineer
Modivcare Solutions LLC
06.2021 - 04.2023
Sr. Systems Administrator
Empower Financial Group
12.2019 - 06.2021
Systems Engineer (Contractor)
ADT Security
01.2019 - 07.2019
Staff Engineer
DIRECTV
05.2016 - 01.2019
No Degree - SQL/PLSQL Unix Fundamentals
Red Rocks Community College
Associate of Science - Computer Science And Programming
Parks Junior College