John 'Mike' Egan
5950 Grand Pavilion Way #308, Alexandria,VA
Summary
Seasoned cloud infrastructure team lead with progressively more responsible positions spanning 15 years across multiple U.S. Government agencies. Champion for DevOps principles and Agile project management to deliver consistently reliable and peformant cloud services to internal mission partners.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC
08.2018 - 01.2024
- Directed the cloud infrastructure team that provides cloud hosting and engineering services to mission partners.
- Directed and mentored junior colleagues, fostering a safe environment conducive to continuous learning.
- Collaborated with the CTO to formulate out-year technology roadmaps for cloud adoption.
- Developed and briefed senior leaders on implementation plans to support the CIO's vision and objectives.
- Enabled testing of open-source intelligence capabilities by providing commercial Azure cloud services.
- Provided direction to the contractor team responsible for daily cloud infrastructure operations across three networks.
- Led the team that developed acquisition strategies and work statements for cloud providers and engineering services.
- Managed cloud FinOps for hosting costs, forecasted spend, and advised customers on reserved instance purchases.
- Aggregated cloud usage across a multi-account AWS organization to appropriately staff, and accurately plan application migrations to AWS GovCloud.
- Implemented AWS prescriptive guidance for cloud migrations.
- Maintained cloud service levels for critical platform teams running Kubernetes, GitLab, Jenkins, and Artifactory.
- Ensured that 200 cloud tenant applications received reliable cloud services across multiple networks.
- Advocated for customer feature requests and escalated service desk tickets.
- Oversaw and guided efforts to secure cloud resources on multiple networks, as preparation for Cyber Readiness Audits.
- Performed value stream analysis to ensure fast flow and feedback for an agency-wide software delivery pipeline.
- Advocated for the maximum use of customer self-service tools for cloud infrastructure provisioning, as an enabler for application teams to innovate rapidly.
- Served on a hybrid cloud working group developing technology roadmaps and hybrid-cloud architectures for future CIO infrastructure service models.
- Prototyped multiple hybrid cloud applications, ensuring local learnings became global learnings shared with hybrid cloud architecture working groups.
- Led the application rationalization effort to retire or rehost over 100 applications to modernized, hyper-converged infrastructure.
- Utilized Agile project management, stressing small-batch work in process, to focus the team on objectives.
- Participated in blameless post-mortems and retrospectives to turn local learnings into global lessons.
- Managed cloud engineering services contract execution, monitoring cost, schedule, and team performance.
- Co-authored a multi-year contract for DIA's Private Cloud initiative, based on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
- Facilitated the DIA Private Cloud technology transfer to further DIA's classified network modernization.
Computer Scientist
U.S. Army Geospatial Center
Alexandria, VA
09.2010 - 08.2018
- Co-led effort as system integrator for a Marine Corps web and mobile application hosted in AWS GovCloud.
- Adopted product-focused team topology to integrate efforts across software development, cyber, and system administration.
- Conducted cyber self-assessments for DoD authority to operate (ATO) readiness.
- Created ATO-required system documentation including Security Control Traceability and System Design Description (SDD) (i.e., DoD Architecture artifacts, UML diagrams, sequence diagrams, state diagrams, communication diagrams)
- Delivered the System Administration Manual, Software User Manual, and System Security Plan
- Co-lead engineer for AWS GovCloud operations.
- Designed and maintained AWS IAM, security groups, NACLs, route tables, EBS backups, AMI creation, EC2 monitoring, CloudWatch metrics and cloud FinOps.
- Co-lead engineer for OS-level administration of RHEL 6.5 and Windows 2008 Server to include: monitoring OS-level metrics, horizontal / vertical scaling, and YUM / WSUS repository administration, and OS patching
- Performed regression and user-acceptance testing following code releases.
- Served as Government technical representative to the Contracts Office on various projects writing work statements, conducting market research, evaluating proposals, and devising contract acquisition strategies.Worked with the Army Corps of Engineers Geospatial Research Lab on a rapid prototype app for worldwide water security
- Assisted environmental scientists with creation of a conceptual taxonomy and ontology for deeper understanding of global water security.
- Translated the ontology/taxonomy into a logical data model and physical database.
- Worked with IBM to create automated unstructured text analytics and sentiment analysis using IBM Watson Explorer on open-source data.
Education
Master of Science, Software Engineering -
George Mason University
Master of Business Administration -
Texas A&M University-Texarkana
Bachelor of Business Administration (Information Systems) -
Western Kentucky University
Skills
- AWS certified
- AWS architecture design
- AWS FinOps
- Azure fundamentals
- Data / app migration
- Cloud automation
- DevOps principles
- CI/CD principles
- Bash
- IaC / Terraform
- Git
- Cloud migration strategies
- Project planning
- Virtualization technologies
- Docker
- Kubernetes administration
- Helm
- Confluence / Jira
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, 2024
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, 2024
- Microsoft Certified - Azure Fundamentals, 2021
Websites
Timeline
Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
08.2018 - 01.2024
Computer Scientist
U.S. Army Geospatial Center
09.2010 - 08.2018
Master of Science, Software Engineering -
George Mason University
Master of Business Administration -
Texas A&M University-Texarkana
Bachelor of Business Administration (Information Systems) -
Western Kentucky University
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