With 10 years of specialized expertise in Cloud Architecture and DevSecOps, and over 20 years of experience in software development, professional services, and product delivery, I drive the design and implementation of robust cloud-native solutions. My strengths include leading containerization initiatives, automating infrastructure deployment, implementing security hardening best practices, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and managing the full lifecycle of modern applications to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing systems.

I've successfully architected and implemented cloud solutions on AWS, Azure, and OCI for key Federal Agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Transportation Security Administration.

A career highlight was representing Matillion at AWS re:Invent 2016 conference in Las Vegas, where I had the privilege of presenting to a global audience on cloud data integration.

Technologies Overview

AWS Proficiency:

• EC2 / Load Balancing / Auto Scaling Policies

• S3 Life Cycle and Replication

• Security Group Management

• VPC Management

• IAM Management

• DynamoDB

• Route 53

• Redshift Data Warehouse

• ECR / ECS / EKS

• Lambda

• SNS / SQS

• CloudFormation / Terraform

• CodeDeploy

• Key Management Services

• CloudWatch

• Bash Scripting

• GitLab / Jenkins

• GIT Source Control

Azure Proficiency:

• Active Directory Management

• App Services

• Traffic Manager

• Application Gateway / Front Door

• Function Apps

• CosmosDB

• Redis Cache

• Resource Manager Templates

• Data Factory

• Application Insights / Workspaces

• Automation Accounts

• SQL Server

• Key Vault

• Virtual Machines

• Availability Sets

• Scale Sets

• Azure DevOps

• C#

• Powershell Scripting

Work Experience

Specialist Leader

Deloitte, Charleston SC, June 2021 - Present

Serving as the DevSecOps Lead Architect for a DoD client, I provide strategic guidance and hands-on implementation of DevSecOps best practices. My responsibilities include designing cloud architectures, optimizing system configurations, and driving automation initiatives. I also lead the development and management of CI/CD pipelines supporting approximately 200 applications across multiple Rancher Kubernetes environments in Oracle Cloud, ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient operations.

Senior Cloud architect

Booz Allen Hamilton, Charleston SC, January 2019 - June 2021
Through many decades supporting the Federal Government, Booz Allen Hamilton blend in-depth mission understanding and digital technical expertise with a consultative approach. As a senior cloud architect, I help architect and migrate client applications and infrastructure to Azure and AWS cloud native solutions. My position also aligns to consulting on a complete DevOps culture and automating infrastructure and code delivery pipelines.

Senior Cloud Engineer

Omatic Software, Charleston SC, May 2017 - January 2019
Omatic Software is redefining the Integration Platform as a Service for non-profit organizations. As part of a new cloud-focused engineering team, I provide overall architecture design of Azure services, focusing on minimizing infrastructure management by utilizing server-less resources for platform design. As part of a small team, automation and scripting of resource creation and configuration management is paramount in designing an automated CI/CD build and release pipeline across dozens of independent services and multiple environments. I also continuously refine our monitoring and alert functionality to proactively identify and address platform and application errors, rolling back to stable states when necessary. We ship new features multiple times per day with a philosophy of break things fast.

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Matillion, New York City NY, November 2016 - 2017
Matillion provides fast, modern and powerful ETL/ELT tool for Amazon Redshift.  As the first hire for their US office, I have the pleasure of evangelizing the product in pre-sales demos, presenting at national conferences, creating digital content, and providing additional support for our clients.

Solutions Architect

Equifax Workforce Solutions, Remote, August 2013 - November 2016
Lead developer and subject matter expert for the award winning Affordable Care Act Management Platform. Serve as liaison between professional services and product development. Team lead responsible for training and mentor/support new team members. Tech consultant for complex enterprise clients.

Principal Consultant / Consultant manager

Blackbaud, Charleston SC, May 2006 - January 2013
Enterprise technical consulting group team lead for the Blackbaud Enterprise CRM platform. Responsible for the team growth and resource allocation. Integration of offshore development team. Lead developer of internal proprietary team toolset. Technical consultant serving enterprise customers and solving complex implementation challenges.

Information Systems Manager

Durand-Wayland, LaGrange GA, August 2003 - May 2006
Applications developer quickly promoted to information systems manager. Responsible for all systems, networks, and servers operations. Key decision maker creating and reviewing RFP and working with external technology vendors.

Education

Clemson University

Bachelors of Science, Computer Information Systems, 2003