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CEO/Co-Founder

Brainfog

Bloom Network

Building a modern social change focused community portal and social networking platform, enabling integrations between the web3 and social change communities.  Created SDLC process and supporting technical cloud systems to enable continuous improvement with a small team.

Fractional CTO & Full Stack Developer

Onix Networking Corp.

Head of Cloud Enablement

Continuous Innovation Manager

Infrastructure Services Manager

Infrastructure Services Team Lead

Sr Cloud Solutions Architect

2015-2016: Designed, developed, and documented Cloud Formation / Puppet based provisioning system for elastic AWS JBoss/Tomcat deployment.  Successfully completed system allows for a complete deployment in any AWS region, from scratch, including Core Shared Services and fully provisioned nodes in under 3 hours.

Previous: Lead Solution Architect for a large financial account; responsibilities included Architectural Design; Development and Implementation of stateful performance counter tracking and reporting for 1000+ Windows and Various Unix/Linux systems.

Sr. Solutions Architect

•	Automated System administration tasks using Powershell, C#/.NET, Visual Basic, PowerCLI, PowerGUI, Batch, Perl, CSH, and BASH, SQL queries, etc  for large enterprise (3500+ servers, Windows, VMware ESX, AIX, and Linux)
•	Automated and maintained large ESX environment, 2000+ VMs with 100+ hosts in numerous clusters
•	Own/maintain Powershell, vbs, perl, C#/.NET repository
•	Developed applications based on internal/external team specifications
•	Mentor team mates on design and automation best practices
•	Design and code custom reporting tools for account leadership
•	Design complex systems (ERP, payment processing, Lifecycle management, various BU related systems, SAP, others)
•	Review and approve Engineering Specifications from Engineering Integration team
•	Advise Operational staff during Major Incidents / Automate environment wide solutions
•	Design proof of concept proposals for new product offerings
•	Own Windows server build, decommission, and lifecycle processes
•	Technical lead for Projects Implementation team

Architect / Developer / Tech Lead

•	Managed fulfillment requests and projects effort for team of Senior Engineers and System Administrators.  
•	Handled escalations, driving customer satisfaction and quality.  
•	Provided technical and process leadership and career mentoring to other engineers.  
•	Acted as Project Manager, driving small Service Requests up to Medium/Large Rigor projects – Directly Managed 20-35 projects simultaneously.
•	Drove negotiations with Client for server build and decommission cost/effort estimation
•	Managed capacity in VM, and physical server spaces, utilizing best practices from VMware, Microsoft, Dell, and others.  
•	Drove compliance with Service Level Agreements and client policy. 
•	Drove process improvement projects for ITIL/Change, server estimation, and technical processes.

Projects Team Lead

FleetCor

•	Planned and executed a 200 server datacenter consolidation using swing replication methods, maintaining 99.99% or higher business critical application availability.
•	Fully documented an intricate enterprise network, comprised of Redhat, HP/ux, Solaris, and Windows servers running internally developed authorization and settlement systems.  
•	Mapped application interconnectivity, including service connections, process/script flows, and system level dependencies.  
•	Diagrammed and illustrated network model using Visio and automated network mapping utilities.  Assisted in planning datacenter consolidation utilizing swing and replication methods.

Sr Unix Engineer

•	Led the effort to deliver service requests in a timely and cost effective manner.  
•	Delegated and tracked projects based on resource availability, working within budgetary and timeline constraints.  
•	Acted as a Change Planner, driving quality in Change Controls, following ITIL best practices.  
•	Consolidated three major North American datacenters into one, moving or virtualizing 3500 servers.  
•	Maintained a 99.99% or higher application availability for production critical systems during the consolidation, using swing, SAN replication, and virtualization methods.  
•	Developed and documented processes and procedures utilizing ITIL and industry best practices.  
•	Provided project management for high budget, business critical projects.  Mentored and assisted with the technical development of junior staff.

Network Administrator, Senior Professional

Cargill, Information Technology Services

•	Acted as a project lead for multiple high visibility, high budget deployments on tight timelines.  
•	Worked with Project Managers and multiple technology verticals to develop quotes, project plans, and architectural requirements for complex environments, utilizing server and application virtualization technologies.   
•	Assisted application owners and business analysts in determining proper hosting requirements for numerous externally and internally developed hosted applications and middleware.  
•	Managed a large corporate Active Directory forest.  
•	Patched and maintained 3500 servers, performing regular large scale software deployments.  
•	Followed ITIL and industry best practices, while maintaining and adhering to service level agreements.

IT Analyst

Kansas Hosting

Chief Technical Officer and lead developer for 2 site Data center and Co-Location facility.  Joined when it was a single small office space, helping grow the portfolio to over 200 Enterprise customers.  Transitioned to the corporate sector for exposure to new scaling challenges.

I love building things.  Applications, Games, and Cloud Infrastructure are a few of the things I love to build.  I've worn various hats in software development and infrastructure automation over the years, and love digging into new technology anywhere in the stack.  Currently working on something new... Stay tuned!

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