Azure
Jason A. Mayo
DevOps Leader
Hanahan,SC
Summary
Innovative DevOps leader with a background in increasing quality, reducing costs of hosting and migrating workloads to the public cloud. Experienced in leading and supervising engineering and SRE teams. Change champion and a key stakeholder influencer through consensus building, big-picture perspective, and alignment with a broad portfolio of strategic objectives and proven with data.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Owner
Octopus Consulting LLC
Charleston, SC
08.2022 - Current
- Helping businesses grow and deliver outcomes through strategic consulting including Product Owner, Marketing, and Technical Advisory.
Director of DevOps
Blackbaud Inc
Charleston, SC
02.2017 - 03.2023
- Manage staff of up to 65 people consisting of managers, software engineers and production systems engineers, developing and supporting multi-zoned next generation software solutions architected on Azure PaaS and IaaS cloud platforms delivered utilizing CI/CD pipeline
- Accountable for all aspects of application delivery and hosting
- Skilled in navigating between engineering and operations, driving automation to increase efficiency and reliability.
- Develop and implement strategy for migrating mature applications from legacy on premise data centers to Azure and AWS
- Partner with key stakeholders to establish technical direction and derive innovative solutions to engineer reliable, scalable, supportable, and secure solutions for customers.
- Led teams in strategic and tactical planning to deliver on commitments predictably and efficiently.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or work/life balance.
- Led organization-wide technology strategy development.
- Trained engineers in standards and strategies for optimal product development.
- Built inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependence and redundancy and accelerate development efforts by integrating diverse developer voices.
- Tracked, analyzed, and executed quality and continuous improvement initiatives to hold teams accountable for performance.
- Defined project-wide performance metrics such as developmental milestones, timeline goals and required completion dates.
Manager of Application Management
Blackbaud Inc
Charleston, SC
09.2014 - 02.2017
- Responsible for Application Management
- Incident Management
- Release management
- Monitoring and Alert response
- Cultivate diverse, high-performing team (Org structure of 22 individuals)
- Scheduling, hiring, performance management
- Drove cross business tiger teams to support corporate initiatives and customer goals
- Collaborated with support stake holders to reduce cases month over month
- Largest drop was engineering solution that drove down monthly support volume by 1,500+.
Manager of Service
Dolbey Systems Inc
Concord, OH
06.2006 - 01.2014
- Responsible for Technical Support (Org structure of 6 individuals)
- Ecommerce business phone and e-mail support
- Liaison between engineering and Technical Support
- Responsible for Project Management
- Managed implementations of ecommerce-based client installations.
Education
MBA - Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 04.2020 - 07.2022
Bachelors of Technical and Applied Business - Computer And Information Systems
Kent State University
Kent, OHSkills
Agile Scrum
Cloud Hosting Framework (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS)
Application Performance
Azure DevOps
Software change management
App Services
Azure SQL, SQL MI
Citrix XenApp
Automated QA
Software
AWS
SQL
Azure DevOps
Jira
Work Availability
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Quote
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Timeline
Owner
Octopus Consulting LLC
08.2022 - Current
MBA - Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Clemson University
04.2020 - 07.2022
Director of DevOps
Blackbaud Inc
02.2017 - 03.2023
Manager of Application Management
Blackbaud Inc
09.2014 - 02.2017
Manager of Service
Dolbey Systems Inc
06.2006 - 01.2014
Bachelors of Technical and Applied Business - Computer And Information Systems
Kent State University