Over a decade of professional experience and a passion for the latest technologies, server configurations, and programming techniques. Communicates well and takes pride at being a team player. Follows best practices and can find unique solutions for any problem.
Web Development Manager & Lead Developer at The Evoke Group (January 2014 - September, 2015)
- Built consistent, scalable, repeatable, business solutions to allow our company to grow in revenue every quarter.
- Created training materials and trained all staff members on best practices for coding and responsive design.
- Architected entire company's infrastructure, from in wall networking, dev servers, to aws cloud infrastructure.
- Managed nightly backups to an onsite nas and offsite with S3 and glacier.
- Maintained developer tools such as grunt and built multiple in house tools for developers and sales
- Built over 31 and custom websites in wordpress from the ground up. No purchased themes.
Senior Systems Administrator / Dev Ops at Listener Approved (September, 2011 - September 2013)
- Built and managed Linode and AWS cloud hosting for highly scalable load balanced node.js apps.
- Setup and managed databases in MySQL, Amazon RDS, and MongoDB with redundant replication.
Consultant, Freelancer, Owner at Digital Shift Studios (September, 2010 - January, 2014)
- Consulted and provided freelance coding to multiple area startups and businesses.
Linux Systems Administrator at MBS Textbooks (May, 2010 - August, 2011)
- Managed a large apache farm that ran textbooks.com a multi-million dollar website.
- Primary support on over a hundred servers and vSphere virtual machines.
- Initial puppet server configuration rollout.
Head of IT at Communications for Research (September, 2006 - May, 2010)
- Network and systems administrator of two locations and 200 computers.
- Web developer and survey programer.
Workstation Analyst at Phelps County Regional Medical Center (March, 2005 - August 2006)
- Responsible for 1,400 users and 800 desktops.
- Managed applications and created silent msi installers for ~150 approved applications and rolled out via Microsoft SMS and Active Directory.