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Work Experience

• Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud Platform Engineering, SANS Institute

  Sep, 2020 - Dec, 20233 years 3 months

  Launched in 1989 as a cooperative for information security thought leadership, it is SANS’ ongoing mission to empower cyber security professionals with the practical skills and knowledge they need to make our world a safer place. This effort is fueled by high quality training, certifications, scholarship academies, degree programs, cyber ranges, and resources to meet the needs of every cyber professional.

  • Co-led defining organization-wide baseline development standards and specifications encompassing the DevOps lifecycle; including standard minimum setup of cloud account resources, GitHub organizations, branching strategies, naming standards, pipelines, integrations, and metadata

  • Co-led defining organization-wide tagging standards for cloud resources

  • Launched and maintained an internal Developer Portal based on Backstage, and fully dockerized local development environment

  • Created templates for developers to self-service bootstrapping different projects types in the Develop Portal

  • Implemented and integrated InSpec based scorecards with Developer Portal to score projects against baseline standards

  • Implemented Makefile pattern for common entrypoints across all projects, propagating and normalizing this in nearly 100 projects

  • Leveraged as a "mercenary", being brought into other teams to audit, report, and improve their practices

  • Creating/maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release processes

• Senior DevOps Engineer - SANS Security Awareness, SANS Institute

  May, 2019 - Sep, 20201 year 4 months

  • Supported a team of 15 developers building a Learning Management System with an event-based microservice backend

  • Wrote command-line tools to improve developer experience and abstract away the more complicated parts of cloud development

  • Wrote microservices and ETL processes to facilitate migrating to new platforms

  • Rebooted the business unit's entire architecture/development/infrastructure after COVID, with two other engineers, as the only DevOps resource

  • Contributed to the architecture, documentation, and implementation that led us to SOC 2 certification

  • Wrote and maintained 10s of microservices, maintained and monitored systems, implemented and managed integrations

  • Created a data governance document, and library implementing it to generate high fidelity learning records from courseware, and report on the ETLed data through AWS QuickSight

  • Leveraged as a "mercenary", being brought into other teams to audit, report, and improve their practices

  • Creating/maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release processes

• "Ops Dev" - SANS Security Awareness, SANS Institute

  Jan, 2018 - May, 20191 year 4 months

  • System maintenance, monitoring, incident response

  • Operational support across on-prem and cloud-based systems

  • Wrote ETL processes to facilitate migration processes

  • Wrote scripts and services to bridge gaps in processes related to video muxing and transcoding

  • Evaluated Translation Management Systems for integration with our content pipeline

  • Creating/maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release processes

• Development Lead - SANS Security Awareness, SANS Institute

  Jul, 2017 - May, 20191 year 10 months

  • Supporting enterprise LMS software, and related integrations to deliver in-house curricula, and tools for a variety of end-users around the world

  • Working in a Scrum of Scrums with other leads to discuss, design, and plan work that is broken down into curated stories for sprints involving the components we are responsible for delivering

  • Creating/maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release processes. Working with QA to improve unit/functional/acceptance tests within these pipelines

  • Created and maintained VM and docker environments for developers

  • Extending/Maintaining docker environments and mock infrastructure to support development/builds/testing

  • Utilized the Atlassian product suite for product planning and tracking

• Senior Software Developer - SANS Security Awareness, SANS Institute

  Jul, 2015 - Jul, 20172 years

  • Maintained PHP/MySQL applications, added features, integrated third party & internal services

  • Built & maintained Python internal & external applications, web and cli

  • Designed & implemented workflows using docker and docker-compose

  • Expanded/maintained existing puppet configurations to support increasing application demands

  • Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo and Jenkins

• Senior Software Engineer, Problem Solutions, LLC

  Mar, 2014 - Aug, 20151 year 5 months

  • Work on Advanced Distributed Learning's tech team, with a focus on the Experience API, researching integration possibilities with emerging technologies, developing toolchains and migration paths from legacy SCORM-based software solutions

  • Wrote open-source xAPI integrations including examples, libraries, tutorials, and other contributions focused on learning experiences

  • Continued education in Google [Universal] Analytics Platform to collect data across various devices

• Lead Web Architect & Digital Visionary, Salter Mitchell, Inc.

  Mar, 2009 - Feb, 20144 years 11 months

  • Interpreted requirements from clients with the creative team, managed & developed with a web team to build hundreds of websites, facebook apps, mobile applications for creative campaigns

  • Managed [Linux and Windows] servers, networks and explored future technologies for the company to utilize

  • Setup & maintained Intranet Services in addition to general IT

  • Designed & implemented backup plan including new dedicated servers, and a bridged VPN to integrate offices

• Web Developer & Graphic Designer, VGO Software

  Mar, 2007 - Sep, 20081 year 6 months

  • Full overhaul of their website complete with custom backend and SEO

  • Created various promotion graphics

• Intern, IS Services, Staples, Inc.

  Jun, 2007 - Sep, 20073 months

  • Created Microsoft Access databases and dynamic excel documents

  • Reconciled daily changes on cross-platform servers

• Assistant Webmaster / Consultant, AllCountyJobs.com, LLC

  Jun, 2002 - Sep, 20031 year 3 months

  • Developed database driven web applications

  • Created, maintained & overhauled websites owned by All County Jobs

• Technical Assistant / Intranet Consultant, Fairfield Board of Education

  Jun, 2002 - Sep, 20031 year 3 months

  Summers 2002, 2003

  • Upgraded, networked & deployed machines throughout the school system

  • Created an intranet site for cross-department communication

Projects Experience

• Pulumi Case Study - SANS Institute

  Sep, 2021 - Dec, 20213 months

  Modernizing old terraform plans that were orchestrated with bash scripts and Rundeck into a modern solution, using Pulumi, the Pulumi automation API and AWS Native services (API Gateway, Batch, CloudWatch Events, IAM, Lambda).

• Snack Attack - SANS Institute

  Sep, 2022 - Dec, 20223 months

  Consulted on xAPI and CMI5 Data Modeling and Governance for high-fidelity metrics coming out of courseware packages served by an LMS to be reported on through customer facing dashboards. Wrote a library to generate xAPI Statements in Storyline 360 following compliance with our standard. Worked with AWS Professional Services to develop a QuickSight dashboard to report on the ETLed data to meet business requirements.

• xAPI Lab

  Sep, 2015 - Dec, 20153 months

  A sandbox for authoring xAPI statements. The learning curve to author statements is lowered by providing a form to visualize different parts of the xAPI Specification. Statements can be sent to a live sandbox Learning Record Store (LRS) hosted by ADL, and xAPI Lab works with other tools feature on adlnet.github.io.

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