Career Summary
Long-term AWS Certified Solutions Architect with most recent years being applied to starting my own company, utilizing experience gained from previous employers. Over 15+ total years experience in the information technology field, focusing on infrastructure design, data center migrations and consolidation, virtualization and rapid server deployments. Experienced in front-end and back-end web, api and data storage and administration. Both management experience, and technical expertise has always proved beneficial when working and communicating between departments, management and clients.
Work Experience
Owner / Manager
Carolina Brew Supply
Apr 2021 - May 2023
- Designed and hosted POS software, integrated with e-commerce site.
- Integrated credit card processing with POS and e-commerce from Triton Processing.
- Integrated loyalty, marketing and rewards system from RewardPads.
- Designed fault-tolerant and self-healing intrastructure using AWS CloudFormation
- Designed and implemented AWS SQS for internal printer operations between POS system and kitchen ticket printers
- Used AWS SQS queues for automated print operations of shipping labels and pick tickets for e-commerce orders.
- Integrated DoorDash and Google Maps to custom e-commerce delivery module to estimate delivery prices and times for same-day delivery option
- Utilized CloudFormation, SNS, SQS, EC2, Route53, EBS, EFS
Contractor: CloudOps Engineer
EverOps / Zendesk
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
- Used Jenkins, Kubernetes and Ansible for large scale deployments of software and infrastructure updates.
- Worked with 100% remote team across multiple timezones
Contractor: Senior Automation Engineer / Cloud Architect
Levvel
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
- Worked with a government defense contractor to automate deployments of systems and software for U.S Navy battleships to meet their goal of becoming "war-ready" in less than 24 hours.
- Used multiple AWS GovCloud accounts, VPCs and networks to emulate government SIPR and NIPR networks.
- Automated builds of cloud infrastructure and installation of commercial software through Ansible and Jenkins pipelines.
- Used JIRA, Jenkins, Ansible Tower, Nexus repository, OpenShift and AWS software and servers.
Senior Automation Engineer / Cloud Architect
Citco
Jan 2017 - May 2019
- Automated builds of cloud infrastructure and installation of commercial software through CloudFormation and CodePipeline.
- Used CodePipeline to automate deployments with approvals of multiple environments from development to production
- Created and used CodePipeline and custom IAM roles for cross-account deployments
- Automated VPC creation and vpn connections for a transit VPC with hub/spoke network model
- Automated Setup of CloudWatch metrics and alarms to trigger SNS topics and lambda functions for integration with onpremise monitoring/alerting software
- Designed CloudFormation templates with custom parameters and conditions that allow for cross-region fail-over and recovery
- Built a server provisioning portal with php/mysql to allow teams to build servers in VMWare
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- Portal integrated with 3rd party apps, including: Ansible, VMWare, AWS, IPControl, Spectrum, ITAM, Active Directory
- Portal also provided a REST API for callback features in Ansible
- Migrated several on-premise applications to AWS to help facilitate a datacenter shutdown
- Created Ansible playbooks to automate server configuration changes and enforcement
- Team lead for a group of 3 remote engineers
Skills & Tools
Frontend
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JavaScript
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HTML/CSS
Backend
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Kubernetes
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PHP
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Perl
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MySQL/MariaDB
AWS Services
- EC2
- Route53
- IAM
- Lambda
- S3
- CloudFormation
- DynamoDB
- Aurora
- SQS
- SES
- EFS
Education
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Computer Information SystemsCape Fear Community College2002 - 2006
Interests
- Cooking
- Kubernetes
- Beer