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Patrick Lane

Arlington

Summary

I am an experienced cloud automation engineer and former United States Army officer with a proven record of successful leadership in stressful situations. My goal is to join a high-performing cloud team where I can contribute to cutting-edge solutions to problems faced by regular people. I hold an active DoD TS/SCI security clearance and am 8570 IAT Level II certified,

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Engineer

Owens & Minor
02.2023 - Current
  • Engineered the migration of an application with $25M annual revenue into Google Cloud via Terraform, managed all infrastructure-as-code via Git, and employed CI/CD pipelines to reduce deployment times for cloud resources by 30% and significantly improving reliability.
  • Designed and implemented application monitoring, synthetic tracing, and alerting within Dynatrace (and earlier, DataDog), allowing our team to reduce incident response times by half and increase application availability to 99.99%.
  • Managed the networking infrastructure, routing, and firewall policies for nearly 200 customer-facing VPN tunnels to enable access to a highly-available, medical logistics application.
  • Intimately familiar with both Google and Azure cloud platforms, particularly with IAM/PAM, Windows and Linux virtual machines, serverless functions, storage, database solutions (PaaS and IaaS), and load balancing.
  • Trained junior engineers on company networking solutions, cloud infrastructure, application monitoring, and DevOps/Agile methodologies.

System Administrator

AFV Partners
05.2022 - 01.2023
  • Administered Microsoft 365 for an international organization of more than 200 employees, including but not limited to: Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
  • Administered a global network of routers and switches from multiple vendors including Cisco; configured DHCP with static IP reservations for select devices; established router-based VPN to support complex access to remote revenue systems; configured dynamic routing protocols including OSPF.
  • Improved organizational security posture by using Nessus scans to identify vulnerabilities and working with development teams to reduce identified vulnerabilities in AWS and VMware clusters and increase organizational secure scores by 30%.

Infantry Officer

United States Army
07.2009 - 05.2022
  • Led the Texas Military Department COVID-19 response where I organized logistical efforts to man mask-making facilities, build field hospitals, staff food pantries, set up and run testing sites, and provide other community services for the entire state of Texas.
  • Deployed to Afghanistan where I advocated my unit’s needs to the higher echelon and led numerous key leader meetings with Afghan government officials in support of the counterinsurgency mission and the 2014 Afghan elections.

Education

Master of Education -

Southern Methodist University
Dallas
08-2017

Skills

  • Infrastructure automation
  • Linux operating system
  • Monitoring and logging
  • Containerization technologies
  • Google and Azure cloud platforms
  • Computer networking

Certification

CompTIA Security+ CE (SYO-601)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Timeline

DevOps Engineer

Owens & Minor
02.2023 - Current

System Administrator

AFV Partners
05.2022 - 01.2023

Infantry Officer

United States Army
07.2009 - 05.2022

Master of Education -

Southern Methodist University

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