Michael Boardman
Ladera Ranch,CA
Summary
Forward-thinking DevOps Senior Manager with over 5 years experience in leading diverse, geo-located teams across the U.S. and India. Proven track record in enhancing operational efficiency, implementing CI/CD pipelines and driving automation initiatives. Adept at fostering collaboration across cultures and ensuring successful project delivery in fast-paced environments.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manger, DevOps
Consilio
11.2022 - 10.2024
- Lead geo-located DevOps team of 6 FTE across U.S. and India, enhancing collaboration and ensuring project alignment across time zones.
- Spearhead implementation of CI/CD practices, resulting in 60% reduction in deployment times and improved release frequency.
- Implemented and developed operational standards, policies and procedures.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by introducing automation tools that increased operational efficiency by 50% and reduced manual errors.
- Executed appropriate staffing and budgetary plans to align with business forecasts.
- Established performance goals for employees and provided feedback on methods for reaching those milestones.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Pacific Life Insurance
11.2019 - 03.2021
- Led SDLC automation efforts, transitioned from manual to automated deployment process, reducing operational overhead by ~50%, and increasing deployment frequency by 100%.
- Design and Automated CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Git and Visual Studio/VSCode to
deploy application and database code (SQL Server) to both on-prem and AWS environments. - Manage code delivery to all database environment from DEV to Public Production
Environments for multiple databases (SQL Server for on-prem and AWS RDS SQL Server and
MySQL) - Work closely with Snowflake and in-house project teams to integrate Snowflake Cloud DB
within Pacific Life. Develop and execute POC on how we can use Snowflake within the
organization to Business Teams.
Supervisor - Data Integration
Pacific Life Insurance
02.2017 - 11.2019
- Managed 3 full time employees and 2 contractors for Data Integration and ETL data delivery for both on-prem and AWS Cloud.
- Managed 3 full time employees and 2 contractors for Data Integration and ETL data delivery
for both on-prem and AWS Cloud. - Utilize PowerCenter to perform ETL tasks from Mainframe to target SQL Server Environments
for all environments (Dev thru Production) and multiple databases. - Worked with my team to research and implement latest Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
(IICS) offering from Informatica and perform POC for data migration to cloud. - Build and operate project to determine project milestones and work with development team
to implement POC. - Research and implement latest MetaData Management (MDM) offering from Informatica.
Develop and execute POC on how we can use MDM within our organization for Data
Governance Teams and Business Teams. - Implement and train Data Integration Team to leveraging PowerShell for Database
Administration tasks. - Build and implement CI/CD pipelines for data migration and data loads to ensure they meet
service-level agreements (SLA's) and internal service-level objectives (SLO's)
Senior Application Developer
Pacific Life Insurance
03.2015 - 02.2017
- Lead developer in majority of projects within Data Services and with internal business partners. Work closely with PMO to plan, schedule and execute projects.
- Responsible for managing team of software developers in planning and overseeing entire software development process for projects assigned to Data Services Team.
- Work with team to prioritize and assign current projects and releases in order to meet their
scheduled deployment dates. - Work with business to understand project requirements and to provide technical solutions to meet business requirements.
- Ensure project deliverables meet service-level agreements (SLA's).
- Manage database migration projects from SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2015
- Responsible for process improvements to increase quality of code deployments to Production. This includes creating and implementing Application Approach documents, Code Review Process and Deployment Checklists.
Senior Database Developer/ Database Administrator
Pacific Life Insurance
01.2013 - 03.2015
- Implement Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) to replace/migrate existing source code management system. Lead effort to introduce new SQL development practices with Visual Studio 2008 R2 Database Projects.
- Designed and developed training materials for our internal team to educate and introduce new development life cycle using Visual Studio 2008 R2 Database Projects.
Senior Application Developer
Pacific Life Insurance
01.2000 - 01.2013
- Designed and implemented SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS), resulting in efficient management of over 300 reference tables for largest operational databases, improving data accuracy by over 80%.
- Automating previously manual processes and reducing processing time and delivery of data while enhancing data integrity.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
University of Phoenix
Costa Mesa, CA07.2004
Skills
- Over 6 Years of SQL Server Development and Administration, data vault, data architecture and data migration
- Over 3 Years of experience using Azure DevOps creating CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) creating SQL Server and MySQL RDS instances and DMS
- Experience with Snowflake Administration, Data migration and deployment automation
- Experience with designing and deploying AWS Services using CloudFormation, YAML, Elastic Compute (EC2), Storages (S3, EBS, EFS, Glacier and AWS Storage Gateway) and RDS
- Experience with Docker containerization in Development environments (running SQL Server, MySQL databases on Linux)
- Experience with PowerShell for CI/CD Pipelines automation, database administration and data migration
- People management skills: Experience with managing small teams with the ability to engage and motivate a team
- Experience with Scrum/Agile software development (eg Jira)
References
References available upon request
Personal Information
Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Timeline
Senior Manger, DevOps
Consilio
11.2022 - 10.2024
Lead DevOps Engineer
Pacific Life Insurance
11.2019 - 03.2021
Supervisor - Data Integration
Pacific Life Insurance
02.2017 - 11.2019
Senior Application Developer
Pacific Life Insurance
03.2015 - 02.2017
Senior Database Developer/ Database Administrator
Pacific Life Insurance
01.2013 - 03.2015
Senior Application Developer
Pacific Life Insurance
01.2000 - 01.2013
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
University of Phoenix
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