Bert Smith - CTO, EdwardBrooke Services Group, Inc.

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Startup Founder

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United States

Work Background

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Senior Consultant, Public Sector, Team Lead – AWS Professional Services

Apr. 2022 - Jun. 2023Sr Consulting Lead for client facing team. • Achieved 10/10 Customer Satisfaction Score for engagement. • Led/completed full infrastructure build and cloud migration of industrial IoT AI/ML based vision inspection system leading to projected cost savings of ~$25M for leading auto manufacturing supplier. • Consulted both Federal and State agencies on implementation of containerization strategies. • Member of the Container Area of Depth/Subject Matter Experts. • Member of Containers Technical Field Community. • Managed training for DevOps team members, pushing average team skill from 2.8 to 4.2 out of 5 in 60 days. • Mentor for on-boarding Junior team members.

TaxActPrincipal, Engineering Manager, TaxAct

Nov. 2017 - Apr. 2022Irving, TexasLed DevOps transformation of Consumer Tax Business (TaxAct) and migration to the public cloud. Partnered with an implementation partner to move 100% of both production and non-production environments to AWS in less than 6 months. • Built DevOps engineering team from non-existent to 10+ FTEs with many contract resources based on project loads. • Implemented CI/CD with Azure DevOps (Formerly MS Team Foundation Server), migrated all repos to git (23 teams, 117 projects). • Built robust logging and alerting utilizing Splunk and DataDog for tracking items such as application performance, infrastructure health, etc. • Managed containerized application infrastructure, ECS/EKS on Fargate and EC2. • Serve as Corporate SME for DevOps Architecture. • Multiple company awards including Spotlight award (given only to 2 employees annually).

EdwardBrooke Services GroupChief Technology Officer

Jun. 2017Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

TavantSr Technical Architect

Oct. 2015 - Nov. 2017Charlotte, North Carolina AreaSenior Technical Architect advising for multiple FinTech clients. Provided advisory support to sales team during C-level discussions, describing projects, project scope, design and implementation strategies in audience appropriate terms. Project duties included, but not limited to: • Developed and implemented comprehensive cloud strategies (AWS). • Developed pipeline strategies, implemented with products such as Jenkins and OpsWorks. • Developed and implemented data storage and replication strategies utilizing NoSQL based alternatives such as AWS DynamoDB and MongoDB • Migrated many on-prem RDBMS based data stores (MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) to AWS RDS. • Designed and implement new shared service architecture for communication exchange with other financial institutions. • Led development of micro service architecture, deployed on ECS Clusters utilizing Docker containers.