Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States
Technology professional offering well-developed skills in DevOps and system engineering. Recognized in creating, delivering, and implementing technological solutions that align with business strategies and objectives, improve business performance, and generate revenue. Highly accomplished in conducting research, building technological architecture, product and business development and delivery. Adept in strategic and tactical planning, cloud-based services, systems and network administration, database administration, data analytics, object-oriented development and agile development practices. AREAS OF EXPERTISE Devops Engineer, Systems Engineer, Linux Administrator, Audio Engineer, Video Editor, Director of Operations, Risk Remediation, Network Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure, Business Intelligence, Strategic Leadership, Organizational Design, Performance Management, Critical Incident Management, Quality Assurance, Resource Planning, Risk Analysis, Cost Control, Customer Service, Risk Mitigation, Project Management SKILLS Logging, Monitoring, Team Collaboration, Training and Development, Business Development, Communications, Technology Architecture, Cloug Computing, DevOps, Web Services, Technology Operations, Leadership, Agile Methodologies, IT Support, Change Management TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, SharePoint, Adobe Creative Suite, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Bridge, Social Media, Communication Software, Slack, Google Chat, Google Duo, Yammer, File Sharing Software, OneDrive, WeTransfer, Google Docs, OSX, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, Google, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Python, Bash, FedRAMP, Red Hat Linux, Windows Server 2010, PowerShell, Chocolatey, Java, Go, JavaScript (NodeJS), C++, Ruby, Jenkins, Docker, AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, SaltStack, Jira, Stash, Confluence, Git
Senior DevOps Engineer As a Senior DevOps Engineer, I play a pivotal role in orchestrating the seamless integration of development and operations, ensuring efficient and reliable software delivery. Leading a team of three dedicated professionals, I am responsible for both strategic oversight and hands-on engagement in projects. My multifaceted role involves setting project goals, fostering collaboration with engineering teams, and addressing issues proactively to enhance overall system performance. Leadership and Team Management: Successfully manage and lead a team of three DevOps specialists, providing mentorship and guidance to foster a collaborative and high-performance work environment. Set clear project goals and objectives, aligning them with the overarching business strategy. Monitor team progress and ensure timely delivery of project milestones. Implement agile methodologies to enhance adaptability, responsiveness, and efficiency within the team, resulting in improved project outcomes. Collaboration with Engineering: Act as a bridge between DevOps and engineering teams, engaging in regular communication to anticipate team needs and proactively address potential challenges. Fostered a culture of open communication and collaboration, ensuring a smooth integration of DevOps practices into the software development lifecycle. Issue Resolution and Proactive Maintenance: Demonstrate a proactive approach to issue resolution by swiftly identifying and addressing challenges during the development and deployment phases. Engage in ongoing troubleshooting efforts, utilizing technical expertise to diagnose and rectify issues promptly, minimizing downtime, and optimizing system performance. Implement robust monitoring and alerting systems to detect potential issues before they impact production, ensuring a resilient and reliable infrastructure.
Assemble, Sync, Design, Mix and Manage projects for SBTR. A non profit film company.
• Increased collaboration and business performance by managing business relationships and transitioning the company’s old infrastructure to new over the course of 3.5 years, ahead of schedule and under budget. • Recognized as subject matter expert (SME) with significant input on where dollars were spent in regard to maintenance and system transitions and upgrades. • Leveraged strong analytical skills to execute successful project delivery and sourcing projects including strategy development, benchmarking, supplier negotiation, award recommendation, business case presentation, risk management assessment and contract negotiation. • Expertise in understanding industry trends, impact of external and internal forces affecting business planning and execution, and competitive environment. • Streamlined and resolved all issue escalations for infrastructure issues/outages by effectively • Provided active and assertive leadership on key projects designed to simplify processes, reduce expenses, and propel ZMAGS into the future. • Oversaw and managed all systems in AWS and in office operations, following a strict 2 week spring and release schedule. • Created, documented, implemented, and maintained infrastructure utilizing Jira, Stash, Confluence, Jenkins, Git, and chef. • Successfully updated old servers and wrote entirety of new automation code.
• Implemented one config management system, unifying the infrastructure and bringing datacenters into alignment with company goals and future deployments. • Restructured monitoring system and applications, updating for the usability for production and multiple department alerting. • Initiated the partnership of logstash and kibana to allow frontend and backend teams access to logs resulting in higher efficiency and accuracy of problem resolution. • Reduced company costs through centralizing management of hosts, which also increased efficiencies and decreased delays. • Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the transition from Internap Managed Hosting to AWS, resulting in minimal downtime and the ability to keep existing production environments online. • Increased team collaboration and adaptability through the development of robust and scalable problem solutions.