Wellsky
Principal Software Engineer (SRE Architect)
Overland Park, KS
Jan 2022
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Present
Architect
Azure
SRE
AWS
Ansible
Kubernetes
GCP
Principal Architect over SRE Squad (3 Scrum Teams) for Wellsky Home Health and Hospice Product lines. Focus on Azure DevOps, On-prem deployments, Ansible, Artifactory, NewRelic Monitoring (from Sumo).
Principal Architect over SRE Squad (3 Scrum Teams) for Wellsky Home Health and Hospice Product lines. Focus on Azure DevOps, On-prem deployments, Ansible, Artifactory, NewRelic Monitoring (from Sumo). Pivot to Focus on GCP migration (On-prem/AWS).
March 2022 - Oct 2022: Interim Software Director/Delivery Manager over Feature Squad (3 Scrum Team; US, India, and Argentina) (in addition to Architect role)
March 2022 - Wellsky Home Culture Award for High Performance
Handle high priority Subpoena(s) (Grand Jury request(s))
Point person on full GCP Migration for Hospice BU, key resource for Home Health
Part of Diversity and Inclusion working group (DEI)
Point on SkyDev Studio (Learning Series) for DevOps and TechTalks (two different Studio series)
Presented multiple 15m Lighting Talk (mgmt; PunchUp, LiftDown, In Defence of Open-Source), 2 Hour Azure DevOps Workshop at DevDays 2023 internal conference, 45m talk on Scalable Tracing with OpenTelemetry, NewRelic and Dotnet
Help Azure-based BUs with updates (e.g. AKS)
Part of Personal Care SRE, Datadog Monitor, New Relic SME, Ansible AWX configurations.
CH Robinson
Principal DevOps Engineer (Cloud Solutions Architect/Devops Architect)
Eden Prairie, MN
Jul 2021
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Jan 2022
Architect
Azure
SCM
AWS
Ansible
Kubernetes
Focus on North Europe Migration Effort with Artifactory Backups and Restore. Ansible Playbook support.
Focus on North Europe Migration Effort with Artifactory Backups and Restore. Ansible Playbook support. Support for Software Teams primarily in Jenkins using Octopus. Ansible Playbooks for Operational Updates (Timezones, etc). Created and presented a course on Kubernetes to EU and US teams. Worked on APM and Logging suite evaluations for Enterprise Architects. Supported end users in Kubernetes. Engaged and worked with Cloud Team on Terraform updates (Atlantis).
Medtronic
Principal Software Engineer (Azure DevOps)
Mounds View, MN
Sep 2019
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Jul 2021
Azure
SCM
AWS
AzureDevops
Kubernetes
Support Azure DevOps for all Carelink R2 (Cloud) activities with a focus on “right side” containerization, deployment, secrets propagation, builds for .NET and Java, user support.
Support Azure DevOps for all Carelink R2 (Cloud) activities with a focus on “right side” containerization, deployment, secrets propagation, builds for .NET and Java, user support. Assist Architecture team on a variety of projects (Metrics, Dashboards). Work with other CRHF teams in their projects (Reports and Metrics for Security, Sonarqube for OneApp, builds for Rhythm). As team reduced to effectively one, sole supporter for all builds/build setup for CL R2 while liaised in with MLife Infrastructure team to support Infrastructure both on-prem and in the clouds (AWS, Azure).
Ahead
Cloud Solutions Architect and Delivery Manager
Chicago, IL
Jun 2018
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Sep 2019
Architect
Azure
Cloud
SCM
AWS
Brought in as Cloud Solutions Architect with DevOps and AWS Experience to focus on Azure DevOps and Azure microservices implementation at Medtronic.
Brought in as Cloud Solutions Architect with DevOps and AWS Experience to focus on Azure DevOps and Azure microservices implementation at Medtronic.
For first year focused on Medtronic CareLink future release including setting up Azure DevOps, TFS Migration, Kubernetes implementation and Terraform IaC support. Additionally, during this duration sought and got Azure Cloud (70-535) and Hashi Vault Intermediate certifications.
From May 2019 on, also served as Delivery Manager focusing on delivering automation solutions to Midwest region which included resource planning, contract write ups (SOW, WBS), and workshops.
This included an AKS Foundation implementation at Medline with AAD RBAC
and a similar AKS and DevOps workshop with the University of Minnesota Center for Farm Finance Management.
I’ve also lead an Azure Inno Days at Microsoft campus in the Twin Cities and been at the center of devops calls and scoping discussions with many other potential customers ranging from automotive to beauty supply companies.
ThomsonReuters
CICD Lead - Cloud Center of Excellence
Eagan, MN
Aug 2017
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Jun 2018
Manager
CCOE
Cloud
SCM
AWS
Manage 4 directs with CICD Focus utilizing AWS. Tightly connected to CO (Continuous Ops) team. 50/50 on Technical Leadership/Coding and People leadership
Manage 4 directs with CICD Focus utilizing AWS. Tightly connected to CO (Continuous Ops) team. 50/50 on Technical Leadership/Coding and People leadership (reviews, feedback, guidance).
Accomplishments:
Lead team through Agile Dojo (first in COE) to develop cloud-centric full app deployment (e.g AWS Codepipeline/ALBs).
Implement Gitflow.
First lead/manager in COE to get AWS Certified (AWS Solutions Arch Associate)..
Cloud Center of Excellence is a 30+ group focused on helping TR migrate existing infrastructure to the cloud by way of training, templates, POCs, AWS (and some Azure) expertise.
Intuit (TurboTax)
Senior SCM Engineer
San Diego, CA
Aug 2017
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Aug 2017
SCM
GIT
Maven
SCM And Tools - CICD Team (AWS) [CFN/EC2/Go/Clojure].<br/>Central Tech Organization (CTO) SCM - Build/SCM/DevOps team (reduced from 4 to 1) [Internal Cloud/P4/GIT/NODEJS/MAVEN/JENKINS]<br/>Build systems and tools to support all levels of Tax software
Novatel Wireless (now Inseego)
Staff SE (SCM)
San Diego, CA
Apr 2011
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Mar 2014
Lead
SCM
MicroLinux
MiFi Builds and Releases - All Product Lines [P4/SVN]. Supported entirely JIRA / Ticketing System migration (All). Managed Hosted Atlassian, AWS (CloudFront/S3)
MiFi Builds and Releases - All Product Lines [P4/SVN]. Supported entirely JIRA / Ticketing System migration (All). Managed Hosted Atlassian, AWS (CloudFront/S3) [backend for MiFi Updates]
PatientSafeSolutions
Software Configuration Management
San Diego, CA
Dec 2009
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Apr 2011
Lead
SCM
iOS
Android
Build and Release (migrate from Bamboo to Hudson/MVN/Ant). Migration of MySQL/Ubuntu to Postgres/CentOS, P2V.
Build and Release (migrate from Bamboo to Hudson/MVN/Ant). Migration of MySQL/Ubuntu to Postgres/CentOS, P2V. Builds and Releases: Automated iOS builds w/ simulator and dev provisioning. Enterprise distribution, OTA deployments. JIRA, Support Sales with Demo setup.
Life Technologies (Applied Biosystems)
Manager (SCM Dept) - 6m contract
Foster City, CA
Jul 2009
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Dec 2009
Manager
SCM
.NET
Contractor
Build Farms and Subversion, ESXi, Windows builds and installers. Resource Management of 4 Staff Engineers over multiple Genetic / Biotech systems (e.g. Genetic Analysis, Mass Spectrometers).
Build Farms and Subversion, ESXi, Windows builds and installers. Resource Management of 4 Staff Engineers over multiple Genetic / Biotech systems (e.g. Genetic Analysis, Mass Spectrometers). I opted to not renew/flip to move to San Diego
Vital Images (GE)
Manager/Lead (SCM)
Minnetonka, MN
Sep 2008
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Jul 2009
Manager
SCM
.NET
ESX
P4 to Subversion, Some CC UCM to Subversion. BuildForge to CruiseControl .NET/NANT. P2V systems (ESX on small in-house datacenter).
Cost Saving Migrations - P4 to Subversion, Some CC UCM to Subversion. BuildForge to CruiseControl .NET/NANT. P2V systems (ESX on small in-house datacenter). Started as Manager of Vital Infrastructure group (5+) but changed to Lead in 2009 when cutbacks reduced org and merged with Shared Services team.
PTC/Windhill
Group Lead (SCM and Tools)
Arden Hills, MN
Dec 2005
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Sep 2009
Lead
SCM
Java
LAMP
SSE of Tools, In charge of multiple SCM Tools related to CMMI/Process management in support of PDM/PLM Windchill tools (Java)
SSE of Tools, Promoted to GL (4/06). In charge of multiple SCM Tools related to CMMI/Process management in support of PDM/PLM Windchill tools (Java). Systems in PHP, Java, Perl with AJAX, MySQL (LAMP). Ticketting in Siebel CaRDS, VersionOne.
GMAC RFC
SCM Software Engineer
Bloomington, MN
Oct 2004
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Dec 2005
Contractor
Windows
SCM
Lead Installation project for AssetWise Direct, PDO Installers into Installshield X. Manage builds systems for PDO (VisualBuild,VSS, VisualStudio 6.0, VS .NET 2002/2003). Chief install guy
Lead Installation project for AssetWise Direct, PDO Installers into Installshield X. Manage builds systems for PDO (VisualBuild,VSS, VisualStudio 6.0, VS .NET 2002/2003). Chief "install guy"12/2004 to 8/2004 contractor, flipped to FTE
PTC/Windhill
Software Engineer
Arden Hills, MN
Oct 2000
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Oct 2004
SCM
Java
LAMP
SE focused on builds and releases. Perl based scripts with Makefiles
SE focused on builds and releases. Perl based scripts with Makefiles. Create Installers using InstallAnywhere and InstallShield. XML BOM file management. Java tooling
WestGroup (now ThompsonReuters)
Intern SE
Eagan, MN
May 2000
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Oct 2000
Internship
Windows
XML
ASP Pages talking with SQL Server. Moved into COM/COM+ programming with XML middle tier.
ASP Pages talking with SQL Server. Moved into COM/COM+ programming with XML middle tier. Summer Internship
ICEM Technologies (Control Data Corp)
Intern SE
Arden Hills, MN
May 1997
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May 2000
Internship
UNIX
CAD
UNIX (SGI/CD Cyber 950, IRIX 5.3/ 6.3) - ICEM DDN in Fortran 77, some C/C++. System Builds. Left after company purchased by PTC.
UNIX (SGI/CD Cyber 950, IRIX 5.3/ 6.3) - ICEM DDN in Fortran 77, some C/C++. System Builds. Left after company purchased by PTC. Internship