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About

Hi, I'm a well seasoned Site Reliability and Software Engineer with experience in Cloud Migrations, Observability, and Software Development.
I specialize in solutions for Retail and HCM software delivery.

Consulting

CI/CD

I have experience writing custom CI/CD pipelines for GitLab to automate tests, deploy helm charts, and build docker images. I architected pipelines for a large organization's config as code repository to handle automatic deployments to non-production and production environments.
I also have extensive experience with Jenkins and currently act as application owner and SME for Jenkins at a large ecommerce organization. I've accomplished multiple large-scale Jenkins projects such as custom UI/branding, configuration as code, job DSL conversion, and dependency resolution/CVE mitigation.

Cloud Migrations

I have engineering and project management experience leading cloud migrations from on-prem to cloud providers. I have led multiple lift and shift migrations ranging from commerical off the shelf software to home grown product solutions. I have led the migration of over 150 compute instances and more than 20TB worth of data containing mission critical systems such as PostgreSQL, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, Wildfly/Jboss, Atlassian stack, and Apache Camel.

Contact Center Analytics

I have deployed and supported mid and large size installations of Cisco UCCE deployed to contact centers. I have worked with Workforce Management teams to develop custom CUIC reporting and dashboards to track metrics such as calls, length, SLAs, SLOs, KPIs, etc. I have managed multiple instances of CUIC and setup replication to external reporting databases for external reporting. I also know the underlying infrastructure of Cisco Finesse and have supported mid-size installs.
— Wrote custom integrations for Cisco Finesse to connect with third-party SaaS platforms.
— Wrote custom integrations for Cisco Finesse to connect with internal applications to provide pop-up information.
— Wrote a custom thick client to handle call control for Cisco Finesse in .NET - connected directly to CTI server over XMPP/BOSH.

Observability

I have led initiatives and assisted with the training of NOC engineers with multiple Observability product stacks such as NewRelic, Dynatrace, Nagios, Zabbix, qRadar, Splunk, SCOM, and Telegraf/InfluxDB/Grafana.
— Deployed and lead adoption of Telegraf/InfluxDB/Grafana stack to provide coverage of gaps.
— Wrote custom integrations/collectors for Nagios.
— Moved an organization's APM, log ingestion, and alerting from legacy on-prem solutions to NewRelic.
— Wrote custom Terraform to automate the generation of NewRelic Dashboards and Alerting Workflows.
— Integrated automated NewRelic dashboard performance snapshots to QA CI/CD pipelines.
— Wrote custom integrations for NewRelic, such as metrics polling for IBM MQ, JMX monitoring, and PostgreSQL data collection.

Identity Access Management

I have done Identity Access Management onboarding work ingesting from sources such as major HCM providers, CSV lists, Active Directory and automated account creation/termination. I have handled access for databases such as PostgreSQL and OracleDB along with the management/creation of Active Directory objects and schemas. I have experience with deploying and managing SailPoint IdentityIQ - a RBAC provisioning system that supports custom Java integrations with countless other programs, SaaS providers, and systems. I have experience writing custom schemas for SAML integrations along with initial setup and troubleshooting.

Custom Software

I have wrote custom software solutions to resolve organizations' business critical issues. This was always done with minimal supervision and at times without a team. I work with organizations to ensure my software solutions allow them to be setup for success and always provide support via flexible licensing contracts. I have also handed off solutions to organizations and provided documentation to internal development teams to support internally.
— Conversion of legacy Batch scripts to Powershell
— .NET Application to act as a single screen for a company's serivce desk - fully integrated with multiple internal systems via RESTful APIs, COM APIs and SQL.
— Python applications used to compliement CI/CD pipelines such as consolidating information from multiple systems, custom integrations with providers, custom tailered reporting.

Contact

Need to get in contact with me regarding assistance with a personal or commerical project? I can be reached on the following social media platforms:

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