Offering leadership experience and technical expertise in Continuous Integration, DevOps, and Platform Engineering. Focus areas include containerization, infrastructure as code, security and compliance (SoC/PCI/FedRAMP), observability, and cloud-native architectures. Passionate about building reliable, cost-effective platforms and mentoring teams.
References and details furnished upon request.
April 2024 - Present
Lead a team of engineers delivering cloud-native platform features across multiple government clients. Maintain and operate 120+ EKS clusters using GitOps tooling (Flux/Helm/TF), design secure, auditable CI/CD pipelines, and provide program-level roadmap guidance.
September 2023 - April 2024
Designed and operated cloud and on-prem infrastructure with strong emphasis on networking and security. Implemented automation, observability, and platform tooling; supported daily operations for hybrid multi-cloud environments.
July 2019 - June 2023
Owned AWS perimeter, cost governance and compliance posture. Led platform engineering, mentored team members, and implemented observability and DevSecOps practices across the stack.
November 2008 - July 2019
Managed cloud migrations, infrastructure, and a team of operations staff. Evangelized DevOps methodologies and enforced PCI/DSS compliance across production environments.
May 2003 - November 2009
Led daily operations, inventory, and staff training while supporting business development and vendor relationships.
2004-2009
BBA Computer Information Systems, Zicklin School of Business. Minor: History.
In progress: Studying to obtain CKA.
When I am not working, I enjoy technical and mechanical hobbies. Below are images pulled from my Instagram (filtered for cars, bicycles, and activities).
Let me help you get out of the brick and mortar datacenter and into the "Cloud." Whether its AWS, Azure, GCP, or an self hosted solution, I'll do my best to help.
Let's use the industry best practices to containerize a workload while keeping an eye on portability, monitoring, and security best practices to ensure success.
Using years of managing and evanelizing scalable cloud architecture, we can ensure a human readable top down view of your application while keeping TCO low and avoiding unnecessary complexity.
If you are interested in a tech professional who is ready to address a multitude of asks in todays ever changing environment, please drop me a note/text/DM/VM.