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
    • 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

  • JavaScript
  • HTML/CSS

Backend

  • Kubernetes
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • MySQL/MariaDB

AWS Services

  • EC2
  • Route53
  • IAM
  • Lambda
  • S3
  • CloudFormation
  • DynamoDB
  • Aurora
  • SQS
  • SES
  • EFS

Education

  • Computer Information Systems
    Cape Fear Community College
    2002 - 2006

Interests

  • Cooking
  • Kubernetes
  • Beer