Work Experience

ESnet — Computer Systems Engineer

January 2020 - Present

  • Led a team of 4 Computer Systems Engineers managing critical production systems including GitLab, Ansible Automation Platform, GitHub Enterprise, Artifact storage, Google Cloud Platform integrations, and Kubernetes environments.
  • Managed team project lifecycle from ideation to implementation, product purchasing and renewals, and employee hiring and onboarding.
  • Built and scaled Kubernetes based container platform for IPv6 native environments. Implemented GitOps based workflow for deployments using ArgoCD.
  • Implemented centralized authentication infrastructure using Keycloak, integrating over 25 applications.
  • Created and implemented CI/CD pipelines to build, test, and publish container workloads through GitLab CI and deployment with Ansible Automation Platform, enabling engineers to deploy critical workloads including ESnet’s network orchestration platform.
  • Deployed and maintained Unix based systems including Ubuntu, RHEL, and Debian using Infrastructure as code tools including Ansible, Terraform, and Packer.
  • Configured, deployed, and productized container based applications using Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud native tooling like ArgoCD and Rancher.

Veterans United Home Loans — Technical Architect

June 2019 - December 2019

  • Aided development teams in all aspects of software development, from project design to implementation.
  • Organized, promoted, and engaged developer teams for new product initiatives and projects.
  • Collaborated with product owners and software development teams to translate business objectives into technical solutions.
  • Advanced department goals of increased developer productivity by adopting new tools such as API Gateway, Service Orchestrators, and Business Process Model and Notation engine.
  • Created proof of concept applications to prove design and tool viability.
  • Used tools like Camunda and BPMN to capture business processes into executable workflows.

Veterans United Home Loans — Web Application Developer

August 2015 - June 2019

  • Developed backend and customer facing software using the .NET platform, C#, JavaScript, and PHP.
  • Aided product delivery goals via close collaboration with product owners, technical architects, and business leads.
  • Used pair programming and extreme programming principles to implement features from whiteboard to keyboard.
  • Fostered team growth by mentoring new team members.
  • Utilized Agile techniques to encapsulate new and existing work.

Veterans United Home Loans — Web Administrator

November 2014 - August 2015

  • Used F5 Big-IP devices to provide fault tolerant access to internal and external web applications. * Contributed to automation efforts using Ansible and PowerShell. * Moved veteransunited.com web servers from Rackspace to internal hosting, including the configuration of a highly available storage backend using Gluster.
  • Supported CI/CD efforts using Capistrano and Jenkins.

University of Missouri — Linux Systems Administrator

August 2009 - November 2014

  • Reduced bespoke system build procedures to standardized configurations using Puppet and Foreman.
  • Constructed highly available network and storage configurations for mission critical systems using multipath storage devices and network teaming.
  • Automated system and storage usage reports by implementing a Python based auditing service and API.
  • Installed and configured physical hardware across the University of Missouri’s data centers.

University of Missouri — User Support Analyst

December 2006 - August 2009

  • Provided technical support for College of Education faculty, staff, and graduate students.
  • Performed hardware/OS maintenance and repair for Windows, Linux, and OS X systems.
  • Vendor warranty repair - replaced laptop LCD displays, motherboards, and hard drives.
  • Supported faculty, staff, and students via phone, walk-in, and email.
  • Active Directory management of groups and computer objects.
  • Developed documentation for internal and customer use.

Education

University of Missouri - Columbia — Bachelor of Science, Information Technology

August 2005 - December 2011