AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Certified Developer – Associate
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Well-Architected Proficient
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Experienced professional and military veteran with 15+ years of progressive, first-hand, systems architecture and engineering experience; Extensive virtualization (VMware) experience, and excellent knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Specialize in virtualization technology, cloud and converged infrastructure, as well as all aspects of Microsoft operating system engineering and support. Outstanding written and oral communication skills and project management experience.
SKILLS
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)
Technical Curriculum Architect
April 2020 - Present
- Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in AWS Architecting and Migrations and use this knowledge to influence curriculum strategy, design, and creation for new and existing AWS educational content
- Dive deep into AWS technologies, such as Networking, Big Data, Migration Strategies, Storage, Well Architected Framework, Security, and other solutions areas to understand the services and develop effective training for customers
- Directly contributed to AWS's 3 flagship courses which collectively train over 50,000 students a year and generate an average of 17 million dollars in revenue
- Respond to changes in products/features by revising content and hands on labs at an extremely high pace
CHRISTIANA CARE
Senior Systems/Cloud Engineer
May 2010 - April 2020
- Led and delivered the infrastructure capability transformation for 1500 internal systems to the AWS cloud with a focus on multi account strategies, hybrid connectivity, security, and HA/DR strategies
- Performed large scale migrations of over 250 systems to AWS in a 6 month time frame
- Planned and conducted a enterprise wide, systems consolidation effort reducing the physical and virtual server footprint yielding a ROI of just over 15 million dollars
- Automated repetitive, manual tasks to save the organization over 200 hours of manual effort each month
- Mentored junior engineers and new hires to better improve the competency and efficiency of all infrastructure staff
CAPITAL ONE
Senior virtualization Engineer
March 2008 - May 2010
- Managed, designed, and maintained all aspects of the company's virtual infrastructure and served as primary subject major expert for all VMware technical issues and questions
- Re-architected the businesses Development and Quality Assurance (QA) Virtual Infrastructure, completely isolating these environments from production. Cutting system downtime across the infrastructure by 76%
- Delivered VMware Capacity Planning Assessments, VDI Assessments and VMware Health Checks then translated results into ROI/TCO analyses to assist the business in financial justification of their virtualization projects
- Participated in customer facing conference calls and delivered presentations
CHESAPEAK UTILITIES
Enterprise Systems Administrator
July 2006 - March 2008
- Revamped the company's entire disaster recovery solution. Project manager on a $350,000 project consisting of VMware virtualization in conjunction with SAN replication, Distributed File System (DFS) and media backup
- Responsible for supporting communications and infrastructure spanned over five branch offices and seventeen remote sites up and down the east coast
- Provided planning, acquisition, implementation, support, tuning, and performance monitoring for central server architecture components and operating systems
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
Senior Technical Trainer - Combat Communications
March 1998 - July 2006
- Supervised an 11 member IT staff during high stress operations. Oversaw Help Desk, Network Security, and Systems Administration departments
- Lead Technical Trainer and curriculum developer for all field communications (Microsoft Server and VMware) training
- Managed all functions of technology training, including developing a core curriculum of blended classroom solutions