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Mike Madsen

Summary

A DevOps Engineer with 15 years of IT experience in technology consulting, primarily in healthcare, banking, and government sectors. A self-motivated technical consultant with experience in IT operations, project planning, solutions design, deployment automation, technical team building, training, and technical account management.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

BLUE SENTRY
06.2016 - Current
  • Company Overview: Blue Sentry is an AWS Premier partner that specializes in the deployment of cloud-native services that enable secure and scalable dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds.
  • As a DevOps Engineer, I am responsible for leading customer facing teams for the purpose of developing and implementing cloud native solutions on AWS platforms with the intent of delivering well architected, highly available, scalable, production ready application platforms.
  • Developed numerous application environments using varying multistage approaches on AWS platforms, providing customers with the ability to leverage and adopt the most appropriate AWS or third-party services in support of their production applications.
  • Translated AWS architecture diagrams into Terraform, providing customers with the ability to spin up and tear down multiple new environments.
  • Implemented tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitLab, and GitHub in customer accounts for the purpose of adopting change management techniques and code deployment processes.
  • Identified and applied methods for supporting micro services in either serverless run time environments such as Lambda or container-based systems such as Docker or AWS ECS.
  • Developed and implemented Disaster Recovery Strategies for on-premise application environments to AWS and multi-region strategies using replication tools such as CloudEndure to meet expectations based on defined RTO and RPO objectives.
  • Deployed cross region and cross account security dashboards using AWS IAM, and centralized ELK stacks.
  • Provided ongoing technical consulting in a trusted advisor role in strategic accounts for more than 3 years, by identifying, consulting, demonstrating, and integrating tools and methods to streamline operations and costs.
  • Provided ongoing cost projections and conduct right sizing reviews for cost savings.
  • Blue Sentry is an AWS Premier partner that specializes in the deployment of cloud-native services that enable secure and scalable dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds.

Technical Lead (Co-Founder)

IPLS CONSULTING
08.2009 - 05.2016
  • Company Overview: Regional solutions provider of data center technologies and managed IT services to small and medium businesses in eastern North Carolina.
  • With IPLS Consulting, my primary focus was to provide technical leadership and management with in each IPLS strategic account by creating and delivering functional production ready technology solutions that centered on new and existing virtualization techniques.
  • Developed and delivered over 40 production ready environments from bare metal based upon Dell/EMC Storage Solutions such as VNX/Unity or EqualLogic, Dell Servers, and VMWare.
  • Implemented backup and Recovery solutions based upon Dell/EMC Avamar/Data Domain, Veeam, and Backup Exec for the purpose of safeguarding critical data and adhering to governing standards.
  • Created and implemented Disaster Recovery Environments to geographically dispersed co-location facilities using replication technologies such as vSphere Replication, and or Dell/EMC RecoverPoint with the intent of providing business continuity solutions for the purpose of meeting business defined Recovery Point and Time objectives.
  • Developed and implemented aggressive remote monitoring and management using tools like LabTech, and SolarWinds for the purposes of alerting and responding to critical issues 24x7 in over 20 strategic customer data centers.
  • Provided ongoing training, documentation, and support for all new adopted technologies.
  • Regional solutions provider of data center technologies and managed IT services to small and medium businesses in eastern North Carolina.

Implementation Engineer

EMC CORPORATION
10.2005 - 08.2009
  • Company Overview: Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud computing and other products and services that enable organizations to store, manage, protect, and analyze data.
  • With EMC, I was responsible for the implementation and delivery of sold Storage and Network Attached storage systems as well as migrating all customer critical data to the sold centralized storage solution for the purposes of meeting EMC customer storage needs.
  • Responsible for the design and implementation of both storage area networks and network attached storage solutions.
  • Using industry standard best practices spanning multiple Operating System platforms, and vendor specific applications, was responsible for the planning of the fluid integration of sold solutions into customer environments.
  • Consulted on and implemented the usage of multi-tiered storage systems responsible for information warehousing, security, and cost minimization.
  • Designed fully redundant disaster recovery solution around major business applications and vital information stores to allow for minimal recovery time reducing downtime and minimizing costs.
  • Performed in depth knowledge transfers with the intent of ensuring proper management/maintenance techniques of integrated systems.
  • Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud computing and other products and services that enable organizations to store, manage, protect, and analyze data.

United States Marine Corps
07.1997 - 10.2005
  • Company Overview: Honorably Discharged
  • Honorably Discharged

Education

Master of Arts - Individual, Family, Marriage Counseling

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Wake Forest, NC
08.2025

Bachelor's Arts - Business Administration

American Intercontinental University
Chicago, IL

Leadership Training -

Marine Corps University

Skills

  • Solutions Design and Technology Integration
  • DevOps Practices and Tools
  • Thought Leadership in Strategic IT Projects
  • Technical Solutions Development and Adoption
  • Engaging Team Members and Project Leaders
  • Project Scoping, Budgeting, and Goal setting

Websites

Certification

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Other Information

United States Marine Corps, Honorably Discharged, 07/01/97, 10/31/05

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

BLUE SENTRY
06.2016 - Current

Technical Lead (Co-Founder)

IPLS CONSULTING
08.2009 - 05.2016

Implementation Engineer

EMC CORPORATION
10.2005 - 08.2009

United States Marine Corps
07.1997 - 10.2005

Master of Arts - Individual, Family, Marriage Counseling

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Bachelor's Arts - Business Administration

American Intercontinental University

Leadership Training -

Marine Corps University

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