I'm an engineer passionate about building software that people love to use and building cultures that engineers love to work in.
Ultimate Software 2018-12-03 —
Cloud Engineer III
Focused on implementing SRE standards and best practices.
Highlights
- Created services to manage SLAs, SLOs, & SLIs and derive error budgets from associated application metrics
- Developed a unified UI to consolidate deployment tooling and metrics into a single interface
- Developed SRE career progression path
- Implemented SRE interviewing standards
DellEMC / Virtustream 2016-04-18 — 2018-11-30
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
In this role, I lead a team of software engineers with a focus on delivering software-defined infrastructure services.
Highlights
- Lead design, development, and implementation of a storage provisioning and management platform
- Coached and mentored engineers of all skill levels
- Lead efforts to standardize and streamline software development practices
- Implemented objective interview practices for engineering applicants across our organization
- Implemented and lead technical interview panel
- Lead major POC efforts regarding software defined infrastructure
Walmart 2015-09-14 — 2016-04-15
Technical Expert
In this role, my main focus was driving implementation of modern technology practices in a legacy environment.
Highlights
- Planning, design, and proof of concept for a distributed container platform to support all Walmart distribution centers
- Implemented CI/CD systems and processes to facilitate hundreds of users contributing to centralized configuration management of over 50,000 Linux systems
- Drove the use of configuration management testing patterns by creating easy to use repository templates that could be distributed across the company
- Champion of software defined infrastructure to internal business units
EMC 2014-04-14 — 2015-09-09
Principal Software Engineer
Highlights
- Helped deliver object storage service that was over 2 exabytes in size and supported millions of users
- Team won the President's award, which is the highest honor given by EMC
- Implemented three US VMWare clouds to support internal EMC IT workloads
- Deployment automation including bare-metal provisioning, platform configuration, and shared services (NTP, DNS, Tacacs+, etc..)
- Created the initial designs and POC environments for API driven compute, network, and storage services leveraging Openstack, Ceph, and Cisco ASRs
Cerner Corporation 2011-01-10 — 2014-04-11
Software Engineer
Highlights
- Developed bare-metal provisioning systems to enable real time system deployment or reclamation. The overall process time for deploying a physical server went from 3 months to 18 minutes.
- Created a system leveraging SNMP trap handlers to invoke auto-remediation for infrastructure devices
- Implemented higher level APIs above infrastructure endpoints to enforce business rules, provide unified identity, and support audit logging
- Developed an in-memory Linux distribution that supported dynamic inventory and component auditing of physical servers
- Designed and implemented a system for provisioning and configuration of F5 Virtual Edition (Early form of LBaaS)
- Created a storage and network mapping solution to support provisioning and impact analysis
- Implementation of software tracking platform to help reduce TCO of virtualized software installations
- Designed system to discover unused resources in corporate data centers so they could be reclaimed or decommissioned
J.B. Hunt Transport 2010-07-19 — 2011-01-07
Warranty Coordinator
Highlights
- Created highly optimized SQL procedures to assist with data mining and analytics
- Database management of SQL server clusters
Arkansas Tech University 2009-01-12 — 2010-05-15
IT Intern
Highlights
- System support for faculty, staff, and students
Arkansas Tech University 2004-08-16 — 2010-05-15
Information Technology
Bachelor of Applied Sciences
Leadership
- Communication
- Motivation
- Focus
- Delegation
- Coaching & Development
Development
- Python
- Flask
- Django
- Node
- Express
- React
- TypeScript
- Angular
Cloud Infrastructure
- Openstack
- OpenContrail
- Ceph
- Apache Mesos
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- VMWare vSphere
DevOps
- Ansible
- Saltstack
- Chef
- Puppet
- Jenkins
- Team City
- Git
- GitHub
- Gitlab
Cloud Architecture
- Solution Design
- R & D
- Capital Planning
- BC/DR
- High Availability
System Administration
- Debian/Ubuntu
- RHEL/CentOS/Fedora
- Bash
- Patching/Upgrades
- Repository Management
- Package Management
Database Management
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- MySQL/Maria
- PostgreSQL
- Cassandra
- MongoDB
English
Native speaker
Tech
Golf
Boating
Games
Upon Request
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