Objective

Highly motivated software and devops engineer seeking a challenging senior individual contributor position, where I can utilize my expertise in cloud-native and microservice architectures and extensive experience in delivering quality solutions to Fortune 100 customers.

Experience

rearc

A boutique cloud engineering and devops consulting company.

Lead Cloud Engineer | August 2021 - Present

Lead customer engagements designing and implementing cloud-native and microservice architectures. Throughout multiple customer engagements:

  • Designed and delivered an end-to-end SaaS authentication and authorization system using OAuth 2.0 and OIDC. Delivered user migration plan and tooling to allow the customer to migrate users with minimal end-user impact.
  • Implemented continuous delivery pipelines for infrastructure as code and application components and migrated customer to trunk-based development.
  • Designed and delivered an application architecture to re-platform a traditional on-premise application to EKS.
  • Implemented a robust test orchestration platform for a customer’s shared IaC module and data platform using AWS Step Functions
  • Mentored customer engineers and internal engineers

Pacific Medical Data Solutions, A LifePoint Health Company

Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management and Provider Compensation Services

Director of IT & Engineering | May 2017 - August 2021

Designed, developed, and launched a new SaaS product in the healthcare provider compensation space, creating a technology department to support the Revenue Cycle Management business, establishing a Software Engineering department. Implemented a continuous deployment pipeline using Azure Pipelines, Octopus Deploy, Helm, and Azure Kubernetes Service, and trained team members on Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. Grew software engineering team from myself to a team of five, defined and implemented an SDLC, executed a hiring plan, and created, maintained, and executed product roadmap.

IDMWorks

Identity & Access Management and Integration Consulting Services

IAM Engineer | September 2016 – May 2017

Provided Client with SailPoint Identity IQ implementation and development expertise using Java, Beanshell, SQL and other tools. Installed SailPoint Identity IQ based on client requirements, developed custom connector logic to tailor IIQ connectors and integrations to the needs of the client.

Hosting.com

Managed services and hosting provider (dedicated, private/public VMware cloud, AWS, and Azure).

Technical Lead | February 2016 – September 2016

Designed and developed products to enrich managed service offerings, while providing tools for managing infrastructure in shared, dedicated, private/public VMware cloud, AWS, and Azure environments. Provided guidance regarding technical decisions and mentored team members to develop skills and best practices.

In addition to previous responsibilities:

  • Mentored team members in best practices for web services, automated testing, and design patterns
  • Participated in technology selection process based on software design needs
  • Interviewed and assessed candidates for open positions

Software Engineer | July 2014 - February 2016

Design and develop managed services products to provide customers tools for managing their infrastructure in shared, dedicated, cloud public and private, AWS, and Azure environments.

  • Member of DevOps team responsible for deploying releases, managing build/test/deploy infrastructure as well as championing continuous improvement in practices and processes
  • Worked as a member of an agile team to plan current and future work and develop customer facing web applications and services
  • Designed and developed the following web applications to:
    • Allow customers to view monitoring data for servers, firewalls, load balancers, etc in customer portal
    • Provide easy registration for email notifications via SendGrid when certain monitoring events (e.g. CPU > 90%) occur
    • Provide self-service firewall policy and address managemen

Raymond James & Associates

Security Developer and Team Lead | May 2012 - July 2014

Lead the IAM Services team to design, develop and deliver an in-house user provisioning system to replace legacy COTS product and increase provisioning accuracy from 20% to 95%.

  • Tech/Team Lead for Identity and Access Management Services. Responsible for Sprint and Release planning as well as Code and Design Reviews and backlog grooming
  • Designed, developed, and led team to implement an automated user provisioning system to add/remove/modify permissions of employees based on HR events
  • Certified Scrum Master responsible for leading and improving scrum-based project processes
  • Provided 24x7 on-call support for custom and COT IAM systems including Courion, SailPoint, RSA SecurID, and ClearTrust
  • Assisted in implementation of SailPoint IAM solution

Security Access Analyst Level 1 & 2 | May 2007 - May 2012

Manage user permissions on a manual basis to ensure employees have appropriate system access to perform their jobs.

  • Manage and audit permissions to internal applications including Active Directory, trading systems, SQL, and HP NonStop
  • Work with compliance to audit and provide periodic reports on user permissions for SEC/FINRA/SOC audits
  • Automate tasks with PowerShell and SQL
  • Manage and annually review department process, procedure, and standards documents
  • Designed and maintained Roles Based Access Controls
  • Assisted in design and implementation of Raymond James integration of Courion User Provisioning

Intern | May 2006 - August 2006

Assist QA team in performing test cases and recording/reporting their results to the implementation team to ensure successful implementation of user provisioning system.

  • Automated Provisioning Software Testing

Skills

Languages

  • C# (versions 3-9)
  • SQL
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • Java
  • PowerShell
  • Bash

Frameworks

  • Entity Framework (4+ and Core)
  • .NET (3-4.8, Core, 5-7)
  • Angular (2-14)
  • react

Public Clouds & Certifications

  • AWS
    • Solutions Architect Associate
  • Azure

Tools

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
    • EKS
    • AKS
  • Helm
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD
    • Azure DevOps
    • GitHub Actions
    • GitLab CI
  • git
  • Octopus Deploy
  • nginx
  • IIS
  • MS SQL Server