Employment History
DevOps Automation Engineer (Contractor)
Dec 2025 – PresentFederal Reserve System
- Created ansible playbook to manage VIPs and WIPs on F5 devices.
- Created ansible playbook to perform node pre-checks including ICMP, Socket, TLS, and mTLS checks.
- Created python service to display device inventory that auto updates.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
May 2023 – Mar 2025ShareFile
- Migrated from Elasticsearch 2.x running on EC2 instances to AWS OpenSearch alongside 2 team members.
- Created a custom management tool in Python to manage OpenSearch Indexes, Aliases, and ISM policies.
- Configured New Relic Observability Metrics using Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Deployed and configured Backstage.io as a centralized software catalog.
- Managed Kubernetes deployments utilizing Kustomize and Helm.
- Created and maintained robust CI/CD pipelines within Jenkins.
- Managed global cloud resources efficiently using Ansible.
- Participated actively in Blameless postmortems and authored engineering run-books for incident management.
- Mentored junior engineers to promote modern SRE best practices.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Dec 2021 – May 2023Penn Interactive Ventures (Barstool Sportsbook)
- Architected and managed deployments across AWS ECS and GCP Kubernetes (GKE) Clusters.
- Built on-premise Kubernetes clusters using Canonical MaaS.
- Utilized Google Anthos to orchestrate cloud management of on-premise infrastructure.
- Created and managed complex ArgoCD ApplicationSets for automated deployments.
- Orchestrated Kubernetes application lifecycles with Kustomize and Helm.
- Maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, including dedicated configurations for building iOS and Android applications.
- Managed AWS CloudFront distributions to seamlessly execute blue/green deployment patterns.
- Participated in tier-1 on-call rotations and generated incident response run-books.
Senior Engineer, DevOps
Jan 2018 – May 2021Align Technology
- Collaborated in a 4-person team to optimize environment setup, reducing new test environment creation timelines from 3 weeks down to 6 hours via a custom Python CLI tool.
- Provisioned and managed expansive AWS infrastructure using Python and Terraform (EC2, EBS, VPC, Security Groups, RDS, S3, Route53, and EKS).
- Installed, configured, and optimized the Istio Service Mesh layer.
- Automated the deployment and lifecycle of HashiCorp Consul and Vault via native APIs and Terraform scripts.
- Automated WSO2 API Gateway and IAM infrastructure deployments.
DevOps Engineer (Contractor)
Sept 2016 – Jan 2018Cisco Systems
- Handled the installation and configuration of RedHat OpenStack Director and core OpenStack Cloud environments.
- Planned and successfully executed a critical environment upgrade from Puppet 2 to Puppet 4.
- Designed and implemented a structured Puppet module release management workflow.
- Managed Jenkins-as-a-Service, automating deployments for CloudBees Jenkins and automated plugin patching.
- Developed a custom REST API to manage HAProxy backend pools, enabling zero-downtime server patching workflows.
- Developed automated workflows interfacing with Nagios APIs to dynamically configure maintenance windows.
- Configured jFrog Artifactory infrastructure to native Git Large File Support (LFS).
- Automated infrastructure state enforcement with Ansible and managed multi-tenant environments with Rancher.
- Deployed and tuned centralized logging clusters utilizing Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and logspout.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Feb 2014 – Sept 2016Jewelry Television
- Rebuilt the core Unix Engineering Team from a single engineer to a fully collaborative staff of 5.
- Integrated legacy Unix/Linux authentication mechanics natively into Microsoft Active Directory.
- Administered mission-critical NetApp and Oracle ZFS high-performance Storage Servers.
- Supported multiple distributed agile scrum teams by engineering dependable Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
- Executed day-to-day Unix/Linux systems administration (RedHat/CentOS) strictly adhering to tight PCI-DSS compliance landscapes.
- Introduced automated configuration state enforcement utilizing Puppet.
- Automated bare-metal and virtual OS installations using RedHat Spacewalk and Kickstart.
Education
ITT Technical Institute
Knoxville, TN
Bachelor of Applied Science — Electronics Engineering Technology
ITT Technical Institute
Knoxville, TN
Associate of Applied Science — Electronics Engineering Technology
Professional Training
Linux Foundation
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
In Progress
Linux Foundation
Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
Certificate #LF-8i9j5fgmdd
VMware
VMware Certified Professional
Certificate #34565
RedHat
Red Hat Certified Engineer
Certificate #110-625-324
RedHat
Red Hat Certified System Administrator
Certificate #110-625-324