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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
Implemented project management software and constantly building better workflows and processes to create highly efficient Agile teams.
- Designed branding, corporate websites and other marketing materials.
- Developed corporate websites and web applications
- 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.