Work Experience

• FinOps Data Analyst, State Farm

  Sep, 2022 - Present

  • Builds and defines financial observability and operation tooling for our cloud platforms.

• Infrastructure Engineer, State Farm

  Jan, 2019 - Sep, 20223 years 8 months

  • Led a team of engineers as a Product Owner that created and prioritized epics, features, stories, timelines, and OKRs for the architecture and implementation of 2 Observability platforms.

  • Adopted Terraform and created modules to automate and manage resources in AWS, Datadog, and Dynatrace to increase security, reliability, optimize cost, and reduce hundreds of lines of code.

  • Provided leadership with forecast numbers to obtain the best contact for our Observability Platforms by utilizing existing metrics and trends to estimate our Public Cloud footprint for the next 2 years.

  • Technical evangelist who is experienced in promoting tools and best practices at summits and through various communication channels.

  • Researched and learned multiple AWS capabilities to help engineers design dashboards and monitors to utilize metrics, traces, and logs across their cloud infrastructure to identify root cause up to 80% quicker.

  • Provides mentorship, technical guidance, and training on topics such as; AWS, Terraform, Git, Datadog, and other DevOps topics to increase my team's level of support and skill set.

  • Implemented standards, best practices, and threshold alerting for logging to reduce non-critical logs and log spikes which led to over $1 Million in annual savings.

  • Developed showback reports that categorizes log volumes and other billable services utilizing tags. This allowed our users to understand their total cost within our platform and provided steps to optimize cost.

  • Used API’s and Python that leverage CI/CD pipelines to improve security, extend functionality of our tools, and automate user submitted requests.

• IT Operations Analyst, Discount Tire

  Mar, 2018 - Jan, 201910 months

  • Used Automate Scheduler to automate workflows from various tools to decrease manual tasks by 30%.

  • Created knowledge articles to reduce ticket escalation and produced templates to automate ticket resolution notes.

Projects Experience

• Spotify Playlist with Terraform

  - Present

  • Created a Spotify playlist by using Terraform

• Personal Website using MkDocs

  - Present

  • Created a personal website using MkDocs. This website utilizes a ci pipeline to publish changes.

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