Mgr. Cloud Infrastructure & Support

• Cloud
• DevOps
• Infrastructure as Code

All things Amazon Cloud based from EC2 to S3 and Cloud Front to RDS. Trans coding triggered jobs with Lambda or maybe a DR strategy founded in Cloud Formation and OpsWorks (Chef) with auto-scaling for good measure.

Product Solutions Lead

• Development
• Leadership
• Cloud

• Initiated transition to standard infrastructure stacks with OpsWorks and custom Chef recipes eliminating inconsistencies and reducing new or regenerated instances to 10 minutes or less
• Completed comprehensive security overhaul including proper segmentation and use of Virtual Private Clouds(VPCs) resulting in requests from several clients to perform assessments of their own accounts
• Instituted build management process including Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment process for all customized or custom solutions with integrations to Jira and GitHub reducing bugs by 50% and providing project leaders insight to status
• Developed Chef recipes for custom SSO solutions based on SAML/Shibboleth including multi-source authentication and integrations with cloud solutions (MS Azure) reducing delivery time by 16 hours
• Setup and configured Jenkins for Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) with bootstrapped jobs via DSL

Application Development Manager

• Process Standardization
• Team Dynamics

• Delivered strategic goal that led to an 87% decrease in new client launch duration
• Completed a stalled migration to automated build/deployment product with cross functional team leading to an 78% reduction in deployment time for new releases
• Instituted 3 month strategic resourcing projection providing senior management and CEO visibility into staffing needs and sales pipeline bottlenecks
• Engaged and strengthened development team's skills, reliance, expertise and trust within the team and with each other through cross training, open team discussions and 1-on-1 sessions
• Performed year end evaluations including participating in a 9-box evaluation for entire IT group
• Established standard process for hiring/evaluation of applicants including base metrics

Sr. Manager Web & Portal Services

• Cross-Functional Teams
• Team Bulding
• Process Standardization

• Developed 24 month Portal Roadmap and Architectural Strategy
• Initiated Agile Implementation team consisting of 4 cross-functional groups
• Instituted department wide Release Calendar accounting for multi-team process needs, student life-cycle events and business requirements/considerations
• Reviewed and provided input to SEO initiative for external division with a successful new team launched
• Piloted several cross-functional teams incorporating multiple disciplines, with measurable success that lead to the establishment of permanent Middleware and Ops support teams
• Developed and coached direct reports’ individual and career development paths and year end reviews and talent assessment profiles

Portal & Middleware Support Lead

• Lead
• Mentoring
• Middleware

• Established and stabilized new matrix-based Middleware team including base documentation, cross training, RACI matrix and rotating support schedule for Tomcat, Weblogic, OC4J and Apache tech stack
• Coached core team and additional development teams on Agile and release cycle best practices
• Introduced Continuous Integration to Portal Team with a framework for full IT development roll-out
• Spearheaded full conversion to Hudson deployment tool with a successful transition to support team
• Actively contributed to Portal Advisory Board governing direction of functionality and features

Technical Lead - Project DELTA

• Portal
• Leadership
• Architecture
• Vendor management

• Increased daily visitor hits by 4.5 times in year over year analysis against previous through student engagement, functional services offered, faculty and staff input and iterative releases
• Standardized on JSR-168 specification leveraging both existing investments in the standard and future portability to alternative portal products
• Leveraged ability to translate complex technical solutions, patterns, architectures to peer groups and project stakeholders including Director and VP level summaries
• Conducted technical training across multi-team and department scope of new portal

Team Lead - Programmer/Analyst

• Led Web & Portal Services group (5 FTE with 2 contractors) supporting internal web applications and external Marketing Group public sites/web properties
• Provided feedback to management of training needs for individual members as well as peer-reviews and review input
• Guided team in day to day issues escalating where needed to management
• Provided issue resolution or escalation, mentoring, ensuring the tools and environments needed were available along with daily operating processes and needs
• Addressed cross functional team training needs