Round Rock, Texas, United States
Specialties: - Agile Coaching, Life Coaching, NLP - Scrum and Agile Practice / Coaching - Testing and Quality Assurance - Object Oriented Design - Python - Perl - Unix - Static Code Analysis - Process training/mentoring and documentation - technical interviewing (All content shared is my own opinion and not representative of my employer)
Private music lessons. Stringed instrument setup and repair. Tube amplifier builds and repair. Design and construction of custom guitar pedals, guitars and ukuleles, and amplifiers.
Manage multiple distributed teams: - R & D Labs including Data Center and Cloud - Infrastructure Architecture - Engineering Tools - Builds and Support - India, Romania, and US Seat on Cloud Governance and Artificial Intelligence Usage committees
Managing member of Pathways2Coaching, LLC which specializes in Agile Coaching and Technical Screening.
Music instructor for music theory, guitar, bass, mandolin, ukulele and banjo. Some vocal, keys, etc. at introductory level.
Lead for Engineering Resources (Internal R&D) Scrum Teams, crossing infrastructure automation, architecture, and lab. Key Skills - Languages: Python, SQL, Bash scripting - Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, MacOS - Platforms: On premise physicals, KVM, VMWare ESXi, Hyper-V, Openstack, Docker, AWS, Azure - Other: Routers, switches, TCP/IP networking, Cloud, Agile Methodologies Responsibilities - Responsible for leading projects and internal products from conception to delivery - Responsible for architecting solutions and maintaining internal product architectural integrity using industry best practices - Responsible for running Agile ceremonies - Responsible for understanding customer needs, getting feedback, and scoping and prioritizing that work - Responsible for consolidating 5+ labs hosting nearly 10k resources in order to save power, footprint, and centralize support - Responsible for identifying unused and underutilized resources and removing them and/or virtualizing them
Lead/Developer on Solutions Automation Architecture Team Scrum Master for Automation Architecture Team - design and development building automation libraries for external and internal customers - design architecture, develop reference implementations, and mentor teams as they build automation - educate users regarding best practices and new technologies - organize sprint artifacts, meetings for team moving to Agile - organize brown-bag seminars, hack day events, innovation and IP brainstorm sessions for our office Key Technologies Used: - languages: python, c# - data formats: json, yaml, xml - tools and frameworks: Openstack, heat, Docker, Jenkins, TestRail, sphinx, readthedocs, pytest, pip, devpi, kvm, libvirt, virtualenv, ELK, salt, robot framework, Jira, Bugzilla, iceScrum,