Experience

Olo - Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer
March 2023 - Present
* Managed and improved Kubernetes infrastructure
* Improve experience for online developer environments
* Worked to implement more flexible Kubernetes based developer environments

Refersion - Lead DevOps Engineer
July 2021 - December 2022
* Introduced Terraform into existing environment to enable recreating environments for disaster recover and to create new environments easily
* Implemented Kubernetes in place of elastic beanstalk reducing the number of EC2 instances and streamlining developer access to running development applications
* Managed Aurora Postgres and MySQL database clusters

SugarCRM - Site Reliability Engineer
August 2018 - April 2021
* Managed Kubernetes clusters in AWS and implemented logging, alerting, and metrics
* Fostered the increased use of Kubernetes environment by other teams
* Automated process of deploying and standing up new Kubernetes clusters
* Administered Linux web environment hosting hundreds of customer instances
* Managed infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible and automated tasks with Python and bash

axialHealthcare - Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
June 2017 - August 2018
* Design, deploy and manage Kubernetes infrastructure
* Build and maintain AWS and other infrastructure with Terraform and Chef
* Administer Linux systems
* Maintain security compliance of cloud infrastructure and systems

Franklin American Mortgage Company - Linux Systems Engineer
August 2014 - June 2017
* Develop and manage key components of the automated orchestration infrastructure to for creation of dev, qa, and prod environments
* Write code in Ruby, Perl, Python, JavaScript, and shell script
* Support AWS and VMWare platforms
* Linux and Windows system administration
* Configuration management with Chef

Lockheed Martin - Systems Administrator
August 2012 - August 2014
* Administer HPC batch clusters running Red Hat Linux
* Responsible for patching, configuration and security of systems administered
* Developed infrastructure for dynamic and automated cluster node deployment

TechPort Solutions Inc. - Systems Administrator
July 2010 - August 2012
* Linux, Solaris, VMWare and Windows system administration
* Servers support thousands of DoD customers around the world
* Responsible for security compliance and reporting

April 2004 - April 2010 - Information Systems Technician
April 2004 - April 2010
* Windows System administration
* Network Security boundary protection and security compliance

Education

Community College of the Air Force - AAS, Information Systems Technology
2004-2007