Dynamic and highly motivated professional with 10+ years of experience in a wide range of areas: system software development, IT infrastructure, and help desk operations. Consistently demonstrates a forward-thinking approach via proven leadership and problem-solving skills. Recognized as a visionary and creative thinker (technical solutions) – problem resolution expert with strong interpersonal and multi-tasking abilities. Respected IT professional with the ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies. Provides technical leadership to resolve issues or defects and often called upon to solve complex issues. Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience dealing with international partners. Equipped with an excellent work ethic and a strong sense of responsibility.
Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance. Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution within Azure DevOps. Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance. Wrote code and developed custom tools and integrations to meet cross-platform user needs for terraform IaC processes. Designed and supported Azure architecture in high-throughput systems.
Responsibilities include implementing and managing full development & deploy lifecycle, troubleshooting production issues, monitoring application performance as well as deployment efficiency. Other responsibilities include upgrades through various phases of the deploy lifecycle including source code migration from PlasticSCM to GitHub enterprise, IIS web hosting to Azure web hosting, Teamcity deployment pipelines to Octopus Deploy as well as Azure pipelines.
Designed and managed complex production systems over their life cycles. Preserving time and resources through automation solutions via Jenkins, Powershell Scripting, Python scripting, and Selenium automation software. Managed and aided in the implementation of monitoring utilizing technologies such as ELK stack, Nagios and Orion. Managed over 200 servers in a VMWare cluster environment across 3 data centers. Responsible for deploying, monitoring, and troubleshooting production applications in a fast-paced, high-availability environment. Planning, documenting and supporting high availability, data replication, business persistence, and fail-over.
Completed contract work for several outside vendors by utilizing knowledge of Object-Oriented analysis and design. Experience in a wide array of front-end GUI development – using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Proficient in creating responsive web-based environments that scale efficiently.
Scripting - Powershell
Windows Server Management
Azure
Terraform
Collaboration
Monitoring
Automation
CI/CD design & Implementation
Source Code Control
MS-SQL Server