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SmartTrader President and CTO
Jul. 2021United StatesWelcome to the newest chapter in my life! I always feel compelled to write something thoughtful, but judging by the endless messages I get from people on here. They haven't read a single word of it. That being said, I will just leave you with a few of my favorite quotes. If I can't inspire you, maybe someone else can. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know—it’s me!” John G Miller, QBQ! “Not finance. Not Strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is powerful and so rare" Patric Lencioni - 5 Dysfunctions of a team. "Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply" Stephen Covey "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
Market Traders Institute, IncChief Technology Officer
Apr. 2020 - Jul. 2021Orlando, Florida, United StatesI am always excited for a new opportunity to be on the for front of transformation. Helping people grow their skills, navigate large scale change and ultimately come out more passionate. It's the trust, relationships and focus that allows a company to plant itself high on the shoulders of those who helped build it. I am excited to be working with MTI and I look forward to developing and implementing the next generation of technology.
OneClickPoliticsCTO
Mar. 2019 - Apr. 2020Charlotte, North Carolina AreaI am developing and managing a team to enhance our delivery, security and scalability of our cloud based SaaS offering. As we move into new international markets, I am expanding our open source footprint to deliver sustainable features and breaking down the monolith. We do this by leveraging new technologies and process. We put automation and containerization first. I use my creativity to develop Agile and Git tagging/branching methodologies to fit a team of remote developers, located all over the world who are collaborating to deliver the best user experience available.
EmpoweredDevOps Director
Feb. 2017 - Feb. 2019Charlotte, North Carolina AreaI manage and implement the DevOps team at Empowered. We currently have a hybrid cloud environment between AWS and on prem infrastructure. We also have production elements within Azure. The application side is Java, Angular and Perl, while the infrastructure side is a full Linux stack, centos, nginx, FreeIPA etc. The DevOps team supports the the entire company. Helping teams develop their processes and implement their strategies and building/create custom tools for automation. We develop and maintain the Infrastructure as Code SaltStack/Ansible. We are responsible for developing and supporting all things container related. We have several container pipelines both on prem and in AWS (Rancher, Openshift, Swarm, Kuberneties, etc ). We are also responsible cloud infrastructure and cloud automation. We manage and develop a wide variety of tools across the pipeline including Jenkins, Artifactory, Sonatype, Bitbucket/git, Ansible, SaltStack, Jira, AWS, Azure, Rancher and Docker. I develop all web apps in Ruby on Rails, All scripting done with Python and Groovy, whatever works. The devops team also develops portable containers that are easily accessible to the company. This makes it easy for developers to start interacting with tools via a controlled container. For example, we have an AWS container that auto logs individuals in as themselves and assumes roles into sandbox roles when the container starts. It comes with quick custom commands for spinning up AWS infrastructure on the fly for rapid prototyping. No special set up needed. We are an "In House" team. Meaning we can develop as well as any developer and we have talented SysAdmins on one team. Meaning there are no tickets, no network teams to reach out to. This means we can do it all in house and move very quickly. We also support our older styles of deployments and windows deployments in Azure with Octopus deploy. Want to know more? Shoot me a message.
Red VenturesDevOps Architect
Oct. 2015 - Jan. 2017South CharlotteWe use Node, Python, C#, PHP, Scala and Golang for things like APIs, interacting with SaltStack during our custom deployment methods etc. We architected and developed all our own in house deployment methods. We use Nagios, Elastic Search and Grafana (to name a few) and SaltStack for our configuration management/orchestration. We use Vagrant with vagrant plugins, git and shell for developer vm's. We also use docker and windows parallels for our .net container development. We use apache-mono (kinda) for .net containers on linux and IIS with IIS Shared Configs and DFSR, as well as Octopus Deploy for .Net apps. We deploy containers using Kubernetes and our custom Open Source LB I wrote for dynamic LB called (balance) on docker hub. I write all possible code in Python, although most recently (as of now) a GO app to hijack OpenStack RPC calls to automate load balancing, which later switched into cloud init hooks(Dope lol). I do a ton of networking with OVS, bridges, tap devices veth pairs, subnetting, supernetting (fixed and variable). I do all things build with Jenkins and bamboo. I am a git, jira and bit bucket aficionados as well as a Certified Red Hat System Administrator and System Engineer. Oh and Certified WebSphere Pro too. I work with OpenStack and AWS. We are standing up our second production OpenStack inside lxc containers using ansible. We are cloud first so we do use AWS a lot. I do a lot with IAM roles, policies, ACL's, S3 Buckets and automating tasks with Lambda. I know all to well about 12 factor apps, micro services and cloud stuff in general. My current passion is OpenFlow. OpenFlow being open source protocol for interacting with the Control Plan to switches, which can be interacted with via software to control the flow of network traffic. I also enjoy Overlay Networking and rich api's like Cisco. Basically SDN. That in conjunction with Python white hat hacking, and anything DevOps related.
IBMRational Build Forge & Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere
Oct. 2009 - Mar. 2015Littleton, MA
IBMSoftware Engineer
Jan. 2009 - Mar. 2015Littleton MassachusettsWebSphere Application Server, Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere and Plugin Developer of WebSphere and WebSphere Portal for UrbanCode Deploy.
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