PERSONAL OBJECTIVE A DevOps position on collaborative and innovative team, empowered by a great company culture to deliver great products to its customers.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• Over 18 years of experience in Operations and Systems Engineering focused on automation • Three years of experience with AWS EC2, RDS, S3, ELB/ALB, VPC, Security Groups, etc. • Strategic forward-thinker; advocate for technological innovations and leading-edge technology • Personable, collaborative team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills
EMPLOYMENT Site Reliability Engineer 2008–present CHG Healthcare Services Salt Lake City, Utah • DevOps Engineer embedded in two Agile Scrum teams to create and maintain CI/CD pipelines in AWS and on-premise • Develop and maintain AWS CloudFormation stacks for Infrastructure as Code • Developed more than half of the SaltStack states used in production • Help troubleshoot and extend Jenkins multibranch pipelines that incorporate full testing at each stage • Strong experience with Jenkins, GitLab, and Bamboo pipelines • Collaborate with software engineers, test engineers, and technical leads to build resilient scalable applications • Analyze application performance, errors, resource bottlenecks, and stability in AWS and VMware • Strong experience with Docker Swarm in production for two years • Monitor Docker Swarm using Grafana and Prometheus • Experience deploying AWS Lambda, Node.js, Tomcat, and Spring Boot applications • Many years of experience automating deployments, environment creations and teardowns, data replication, and resource provisioning using Salt, Python, and Bash • Centralized application and infrastructure logging to Elastic Stack (ELK) to enable all interested parties to create dashboards and monitor their apps • Introduced Rundeck to the organization as a frontend abstraction layer for unprivileged users to launch environment refreshes, application deployment, and AWS tasks without needing Operations involvement and removing bulk of manual deployments • SaltStack Certified Engineer, SSC ID 692D2D34 • Many years’ experience maintaining and upgrading F5 BIG-IP LTM load balancers • Many years’ experience with nginx, HAProxy, Apache httpd, and AWS ELB/ALB • Go-to guy to troubleshoot HTTP/HTTPS traffic through reverse proxies
Systems Administrator 2000–2008 Judge Memorial Catholic High School Salt Lake City, Utah • Responsible for technology administration and systems integration for over 900 high school students and 150 faculty/staff. • Installed and maintained Mac OS, Windows, and Linux servers and workstations. • Installed and managed campus network infrastructure, including Cisco Catalyst switches, routers, PIX firewalls, and wireless access points. • Taught Cisco Networking, Java programming, and Visual Basic .NET programming.
EDUCATION
University of Utah Completed 90 credit hours toward Computer Science B.S.