ITIL V3 Foundations

VCP5-DCV

Togaf 9.1 Certified

Introduction to Complexity

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Linux Foundation Certified Engineer

Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator

Teach Computer Science to local high school students 

Co-Teacher

Teach Computer Science to local high school students

Taproot is a volunteer organization that provides Pro Bono resources to non-profits.  By providing  professional services on a volunteer basis, Pro Bono Consultants enable nonprofits to further focus on their goals, objectives and strategic initiatives.

Pro Bono Consultant

Master’s Degree

Bachelor’s Degree

Engineering Solutions Delivery Manager
• Drive delivery of engineering and infrastructure services to development and application teams. 
• Architect and engineer technical designs and solutions
• Manage implementation of applications and systems infrastructure while adhering to tight operations, security, and procedural guidelines.  
• Collaborate with application managers to develop road-maps and delivery models to meet business requirements and long term strategy.

Director, Systems Engineering

Infrastructure Architect and Lead
Hands-on role managing the client’s systems engineering and administration teams from design to implementation.  Lead and coordinate the SOA design and integration of the technical solution.

Systems Analyst
Perform analysis of Health Savings Account application and provide client with “under the hood” infrastructure, architecture, and development deliverable assessment.  

Systems Analyst and Administrator
Filling a variety of simultaneous roles for the project, provide the client with system analysis, system configuration, and data cleanup services while supporting development in a system administration role.

Senior Consultant

Demand and Capacity Planning
• Provide data center infrastructure forecasting and planning for Visa's global computing.
• Design, formalize, and roll out infrastructure Demand Planning methodologies while adhering to existing processes and policies.
• Manage the creation, planning and execution of the over $50M annual consolidated capacity budget based on expected infrastructure demand and existing capacity.
• Perform software and data architecture design to meet Demand Planning objectives.

Staff Systems Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

Build, manage, and run Nitro's core infrastructure systems (AWS, UCS, Vsphere, Cisco routers, switches and  ASA firewalls) while driving continuous improvements in redundancy, availability, and scalability.  Eventually built the hybrid cloud (AWS) network complete with security zones implementation to allow for seamless datacenter migration.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Electronic Warfare Operator/Technician

Infrastructure reliability including auto-failover of core services, build and rollout of auto-remediation systems, and ingress/egress traffic management

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Lead Platform Engineer

Tech Lead on Cloud Engineering team while also implementing a fully automated SQL proxying service

Staff Software Site Reliability Engineer II

Backend engineer working on mission-critical vehicle / robot routing and orchestration of Nuro's autonomous vehicle fleet

Helped move to a cloud-native microservices architecture focusing on monitoring, infrastructure tooling, repeatable automation/orchestration and dynamic load balancing/proxying

Senior Systems Engineer

Provide engineering maintenance and support to the Submarine Simulator program for the US Navy.

Senior Engineering Technical Analyst

A Software engineer in San Francisco, I enjoy hiking, jiu jitsu, building, and time with family

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