Skills

Projects

DevSecOps Engineer, Lead Systems Administrator • Jun, 2022 — Current

Deployment of infratructure to AWS using Terraform. Created and managed 7 enterprise forested active directories within AWS. Deployed and controlled underlying infrastructre for multi region deployments of managed AD, and replicas through Terraform. Deployment of AWS Workspaces through terraform, to centralize ingress to the 7 environments.

Lead DevSecOps Engineer • Nov 2020 — Jun 2022

Deployment of Ansible Scripts to install custom RPM packages to deployed RHEL servers. Create and edit Ansible scripts to continue development of the pipeline.

Lead DevOps Engineer, Systems Administrator • Mar 2020 — Jun 2022

Idemia partnered with Capgemini to accomplish a few goals; To achive full Real-ID compliance by 2020, and to have full server based system and upgrade from their mainframe.

MuleSoft API Developer • Jan 2019 — Mar 2020

This insurance company partnered with Capgemini to translate legacy mainframe IBM message queing to a modern REST based API. Lead developer for a team, and was responsible to helping architect the platform, which encryption schemas to use and how the message queing would work in the system post cutover.

Lead Apigee API Developer • Sep 2019 — Dec 2019

Panera Bread Co. partnered with Capgemini to develop a resful API for their fleet of service vehicles and external meal delivery systems. Lead Developer over 4 team members; quality checked their work to build 250 endpoints. Was responsible for 150 on my own and successfully delivered the API's on time to the client.

Researcher • Mar 2019 — Sep 2019

World War II Facial Recognition Program. This program will utilize OpenCV and Caffe to parse video files into still images. It will then take the still images and search for faces and crop the images to a ROI (region of interest) for the model to match. The model will take the know faces and names and attempt to match the still images to the names, creating a database of names and time stamps. This will allow the user to know where in each video each person appears

Experience

Kopis

DevSecOps Engineer • Jun, 2022 — Current

Development Operations and automations engineer. Working for both Kopis and Clients to help automate builds, deployments and "infrastructure as code".

Capgemini

Senior DevSecOps Engineer, Senior Software Engineer • Sep, 2019 — Jun 2022

Staffed as a contractor to multiple projects where we would operate as an extension of the client. Helping solve technical problems by architecting solutions. API developer on Apigee, MuleSoft, and DotNet. DevOps engineer for Idemia responsible for creating CI/CD pipelines and infrastrucutre as code.

USC RCi

Systems Administrator, Research Assistant • Mar, 2019 — Sept, 2019

Administrator for 250+ Node High Performance Cluster - Hyperion. Developed a CNN for high performance image processing, Facial recognition, detection, and matching.

Express Computer Service

Systems Administrator, Lead Tier 3 Support • May, 2014 — Mar, 2019

Family owned start-up company with a focus on small business clients. Developing technical solutions for a wide range of problems; large file storage, access control, server and patch management, and remote support.

Recognition

AZ 900, 104, 304

Microsoft Azure • 2019

This individual has met the requirements to develop solutions on Azure.

Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services • 2019

The individual has met the requirements to develop solutions on AWS.

Apigee Certified Security and API Developer

Google Cloud Platform • 2019

The individual has met the qualifications necessary to develop API's on Apigee and secure them using advanced key, and token authorization.

L1 Mentor

EngineerKit • 2023

The individual has met the requirements to operate as a mentor in the EngineerKit training program.

L0 Architect

Capgemini • 2021

The individual has met the requirements to architect an application and implement that solution for an active project.

Outside Interests

  • HomeLab and Automation using OpenTofu
  • OpenSource Projects such as HomeAssistant, Jellyfin, and Seafile
  • 3D Printing, additive manufacturing
  • Machine Learning, object detection and recognition
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