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Work Experience

• Senior DevOps engineer, PMC (Penske Media Corporation)

  Jan, 2018 - Present

  PMC is a digital media company with an impressive portfolio of publishing sites with a heavy usage of microservices to support those sites and company infrastructure.

  • Advocated for and implemented 12 factor app methodology, immutability, automation/abstraction of workflows into our microservices architecture

  • Architected, iterated and managed company IaC across multiple cloud providers using Terraform in automation via GitOps

  • Autonomously identified weaknesses in our workflows and improved upon them

  • Dominated integrations using Terraform with external services ike cloudflare, fastly, Datadog, OpsGenie, GitHub, etc.

  • Enabled team by advocating a self service approach in our CI/CD by incorporating modularity into our pipelines

  • Established baseline CI/CD at the company defining end-to-end automated testing to the microservice application stacks

  • Maintained self-hosted LMA & ELK stacks

  • Management of microservice(s) automation and their internal networking via Terraform utilizing Rancher 1.0 on AWS

  • Modularized existing monolithic, difficult to scale patterns into a lightweight re-usable architecture format

  • Regularly met with customer/stakeholder(s) to maintain velocity of engineering team and strengthen overall DevOps culture

• Senior Software Engineer, PMC ( Penske Media Corporation )

  Jan, 2017 - Jan, 20181 year

  PMC is a digital media company with an impressive portfolio of publishing sites and a heavy usage of microservices to support those sites and company infrastructure

  • Audited and executed automation of security best practices into our codebase

  • Conducted numerous large scale data & content migrations making heavy usage of realtime database replication via data streams

  • Implemented caching layers to increase overall performance

  • Created tooling for abstracting customer data solutions using a/b testing, ad tech & analytics

  • Integrated scalable modular codebase solutions into our existing infrastructure

  • Orchestrated foundation for modularized automated testing workflows using Docker

• Senior Engineering Manager, 10up

  Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20171 year

  Managed agency engineering team for fortune 100 company projects. 10up is a high energy fast paced digital agency which caters solutions for big name brands.

  • Accurately estimated out large complex projects for big name fortune 100 companies/clients

  • Developed internal tooling for developer support using VirtualBox & docker

  • Improved overall team efficiency and attitude(s) by empowering them with implementing tools, programming conventions, workflow improvements, and training

  • Led engineering teams creating solutions for complex integrations and migrations

  • Managed a successful team of engineers to deliver highly visible websites for fortune 100 companies

  • Met with customers and vendors to ensure project(s) met technical and budget constraints

  • Provided weekly 1:1 training and mentorship to a large team of engineers

• Senior software engineer, 10up

  Jan, 2014 - Jan, 20162 years

  Finely crafting websites & tools for content creators.

  • Contributed to WordPress core and other open source projects used throughout the WordPress community

  • Developed custom content syncing software for managing content across many sites

  • Horizontally scaled WordPress on AWS by offloading media and task execution on high traffic sites

  • Regularly audited codebase(s) for security and best practices

  • Triaged data sources from various services using REST api and GraphQL to supplement content creation driven by data

• Senior software engineer, Volume Nine

  Jan, 2014 - Jan, 20151 year

  Volume Nine is Denver's top digital marketing agency, specializing in content, SEO, and social media. Build Brand. Drive Traffic. Grow Sales.

  • Developed against large dataset(s) of marketing data with heavy usage of MySQL database and google analytics platform

  • Strategized marketing/seo campaigns for client sites from a techinnal perspective

  • Worked on early stage development/testing of SkyWord solution for WordPress

• Senior software engineer, QRlicious

  Jan, 2013 - Jan, 20141 year

  QRlicious is a mobile marketing company offering a platform for users to manage and build QR codes, mobile websites, coupons, and more.

  • Hand built a WordPress framework from the ground up using DRY & semantic approach

  • Programmatically generated QR codes with custom built SVG tool(s) HTML5 canvas and RaphaëlJS

  • Embraced mobile marketing microsites trend by building a SaaS product site building tool on Rails

  • Engineered custom REST based APIs

  • Integrated with various payment gateway systems for e-comm using Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.net and others

• Senior software engineer & Graphic design, Concept Bakery

  Jan, 2012 - Jan, 20131 year

  Social media story development and telling: guerrilla & cross-media marketing. WOM on Facebook, YouTube, microsites, etc. You name it - been there done that :)

  • Solely developed ruby on rails custom CMS application to create SaaS product based on microsites and Facebook pages

  • e-commerce sales pipeline with integration of social media data of consumers

  • Campaigned on social media to market customer products

  • Frontend and graphic design heavy position creating marketing campaigns

• Consultant, Nerdatory

  Jan, 2006 - Jan, 20126 years

  Consulting firm specializing in architecture, security and best practices of software development.

  • Provided strategic engineering consulting to startups

  • Demonstrated how to predict growth and scale a product without hitting a wall in the process

  • Conducted in-depth security audits for clients identifying weaknesses in their corporate IT structure

  • Collaborated with team of engineers to architect and reconstruct their SaaS product from the ground up

  • Mentored teams in software life cycle processes using TDD, CI, code reviews, security conventions, and engineering best practices

• Founder, Silvereve Interactive

  Jan, 2002 - Jan, 20001 year 11 months

  Full service multimedia/interactive web content production company. Hand made interactive content solutions for education, games, entertainment and business training.

  • Consulted customers on business strategy of their content to encourage end user engagement

  • Developed and marketed plug n' play javascript modules for mass consumers to sell online

  • Heavily coded robust multimedia content in actionscript

  • Provided unique content including but not limited to text, photographs, and graphic design for customers

  • Retained customer loyalty through excellent service and ongoing maintenance agreements

• Founder/Trainer, Martial Arts Camp

  Jan, 2006 - Jan, 20082 years

  Intensive live in martial arts training camp in the Colorado Rockies.

  • Concepted curriculum for intensive full immersion martial arts & security training camp

  • Developed website and unique branding content ( text, photo, video, seo, marketing, etc. ) for entire organization

  • Exhaustively studied technical material and improved upon existing systems to produce the highest quality training we could

  • Led and mentored groups to maximize their potential both as individuals and as a teams

  • Trained students in curriculum physically and mentally

  • Taught skills such as tactical knife fighting, lock picking, escape & evasion, stealth and more

• Quartermaster, U.S. Navy

  Jan, 2002 - Jan, 20064 years

  The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

  • Awarded commendation by captain of U.S.S Nimitz for excellent performance and honorable service to division

  • Entrusted with top secret security intelligence information critical to operational success while underway hostile zones

  • Personally corrected over 5k navigational charts covering the globe and used for navigation in westpac operations

  • Piloted aircraft carrier U.S.S Nimitz through operation Iraqi Freedom during two westpac operations

  • Spent over 1000 hours providing navigational expertise by both traditional ( celestial ) and modern methods to bridge officers and crew

• Self Storage Assistant, Stuff-It Storage

  Jan, 1995 - Jan, 20027 years

  Storage unit facility

  • Drove large truck/trailer loads of 'stuff' to auctions

  • Inventoried and managed large lists of items to be sold at auctions

  • Investigated cost research/analysis of items

  • Maintained customer relations involving billing, theft, or property damage

  • Patrolled two locations of business premises for suspicious activity and break-ins

• Gutter Installer, Best seamless rain gutters

  Jan, 1999 - Jan, 20023 years

  Seamless rain gutters company that served the front range of Colorado

  • Estimated jobs from small houses to large residential or industrial properties and assessing risk

  • Placed inventory cost replenishment orders for materials and crew

  • Repaired leaking or damaged product

  • Serviced seamless gutter tools & equipment critical to operation such as downspout machines, trucks, saws, and other tools

  • Year round service to contracting and private builders

• Clerk/Manager, Brandons Pantry

  Jan, 2000 - Jan, 20011 year

  Convenience store in recreational area of the Colorado Rocky Mountains

  • Attended trade shows to promote business and develop relationships with vendors

  • Identified and explored potential areas of profit by monitoring daily operations

  • Inventoried product and kept track of finances

  • Provided customer information in regards to travel and tourism in the area

  • Self branded and started convenience store in recreational area

• Assistant Manager, Indian Meadows

  Jan, 2000 - Jan, 20022 years

  Rustic recreational resort in the Poudre Canyon of the Colorado Rocky Mountains

  • Cleaned and maintained a cluster of recreational cabins for camping tourists

  • Developed customized hotel booking software to manage reservations, events, billing and other daily business

  • Kept inventory and vendor relationships with wholesalers

  • Maintained property grounds i.e. landscaping, repairs, and other maintenance type work

  • Planned and catered events such as weddings, family reunions, business summits and other group events

• Navigation, Engineering, Deckhand, Motor Vessel ENDEAVOUR

  Jan, 1997 - Jan, 20003 years

  U.S.S. Endeavour was a 70ft. 69 ton Ocean adventure trawling vessel.

  • Chipped, grinded, painted & other laborious tasks to keep the vessel in working order

  • Commandeered the 69ton Naval engineered trawling motor vessel through the open seas of the Western hemisphere and the international waterways of the southern United States

  • Diligently held the comm while underway to ensure safe passage on voyages

  • Maintained & calibrated sea faring equipment critical to the safe navigation of the vessel

  • Repaired and maintained engines, generators, desalination systems, auxillary solar power systems, & other marine equipment

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