Career Profile

Lead, Architect and implement innovative DevOps, automation, and security solutions that enable scalable, resilient infrastructure while optimizing performance and delivering measurable business value.

Experiences

Sr DevOps Enginner

2025 - present
Onset Financial, Draper, UT
  • Architect and implement scalable and secure cloud infrastructure solutions
  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployment
  • Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery
  • Monitor and optimize system performance and reliability
  • Implement security best practices and compliance measures across cloud environments
  • Lead incident response and troubleshooting efforts for cloud infrastructure issues
  • Mentor junior DevOps engineers and promote knowledge sharing within the team
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance DevOps processes and tools
  • Build data security and governance frameworks to ensure compliance with industry standards such as NIST, FTC Safeguards, PCI DSS, GDPR, and ISO 27001
  • Conduct regular security assessments and audits to identify vulnerabilities and implement mitigation strategies including penetration testing and vulnerability scanning

Sr Principal Engineer DevOps (Top Secret Clearance)

2025 - 2025
Northrup Grumman, Roy, UT
  • Design, implement, and manage scalable DevOps solutions for defense applications
  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and integration
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless delivery of software solutions
  • Monitor and optimize system performance and reliability
  • Implement security best practices and compliance measures for defense applications
  • Lead incident response and troubleshooting efforts for DevOps-related issues

Systems & Platform Architect / Senior DevOps Engineer

2023 - 2025
Christopherson Business Travel, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Architect and implement IT infrastructure (on-prem & cloud)
    • Azure environment managed with Terraform deploying custom apps utilizing Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, CosmosDB and Redis
  • Build and maintain all DevOps pipelines for both on-prem and cloud environments
    • CI/CD pipelines with Bamboo, Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions with Helm charts
  • Manage and maintain all IT systems and infrastructure
    • Windows (Intune), Linux (Salt Stack), Azure (Terraform), VMware Vcenter (on-prem), Kubernetes (AKS)
  • Lead and mentor IT team members
    • Agile methodologies, JIRA, Scrum, Kanban
  • Implement and maintain security measures
    • MFA, Conditional Access, SOC2, PCI DSS, GDPR, ISO 127001, NIST
  • Rebuild corporate network and WiFi from ground up using Fortinet gear and configured with SD-WAN for redundancy
  • Acting CSO responsible for security assessment questionnaires for prospective clients for responding to PCI DSS and GDPR requirements.

Director of IT / Acting CSO

2014 - 2023
Christopherson Business Travel, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Responsible for all IT systems and infrastructure
  • Developed in-house IT support and system administrator teams (Team of 8)
  • Continually streamline IT workflows and team structures to deliver the best and most efficient customer service to end-users.
  • Created organization wide Data Governance policies and procedures.
  • Developed trust center for clients to request and view security and compliance documentation.
  • Implemented and maintained security measures and compliance frameworks using NIST standards
    • MFA, Conditional Access, SOC2, PCI DSS, GDPR, CPA, ISO 127001
  • Acting CSO responsible for security assessment questionnaires for prospective clients for responding to PCI DSS and GDPR requirements.

UI/UX Manager & Lead Designer

2011 - 2020
Christopherson Business Travel, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Created and lead the UI/UX team.
  • Responsible for creating all product designs and performing user testing in order to arrive at the best design / user experience.
  • Facilitate business requirements for new solutions.

IT Systems administrator

2011 - 2014
Christopherson Business Travel, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Responsible for all IT systems and infrastructure.
  • Built and maintained all IT systems and infrastructure.
  • Responsible for all IT systems and infrastructure.
  • Managed outsourced IT desktop support team

Project Manager / JIRA Administrator

2011 - 2023
Christopherson Business Travel, Salt Lake City, UT

Implemented project management software and constantly building better workflows and processes to create highly efficient Agile teams.

Web Designer / Developer

2009 - 2020
Christopherson Business Travel, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Designed branding, corporate websites and other marketing materials.
  • Developed corporate websites and web applications

Web Designer / Developer

2004 - 2008
Engage Thoughtware, Bountiful UT
  • Designed logos, branding, custom websites and other marketing materials.
  • Developed custom websites and web applications including e-learning training modules

Recent Projects

  • Architected and implemented secure auto-scaling Azure cloud-native application utilizing Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, ServiceBus, SignalR with Zoom integration for real-time communications.

  • Built CI/CD automation pipelines for greenfield applications using Azure DevOps with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments.

  • Built data security and governance frameworks to ensure compliance with FTC Safeguards using NIST

  • Created organization wide Data Governance policies and procedures.

Skills & Proficiency

Docker & Kubernetes

Shell Scripting

Server Administration

Network Management

HTML5 & CSS

Graphics & Design

Databases

CI/CD

Cloud Computing

Terraform

Helm

Hypervisors

Security & Compliance