Experience

Director Platform EngineeringApril 2023- Present

FiscalNote, Remote

Led transformation and growth of centralized platform team serving 20+ product lines, expanding from 2 contractors to 6-person hybrid team. Spearheaded technical roadmap and cloud infrastructure modernization initiatives.

Key Achievements:

• Reduced annual cloud costs by 30% ($100K+) through optimization and architecture improvements
• Established quarterly planning process, achieving 90% of OKRs across platform initiatives while maintaining agile response to emerging business needs
• Optimized organizational spend through strategic vendor consolidation and implementation of annual budgeting process
• Decreased monitoring costs 80% by migrating from Datadog to Signoz
• Implemented enterprise-wide secure CI/CD pipeline and HashiCorp Vault secret management
• Established GitOps practices using ArgoCD, enabling self-service deployment capabilities
• Built and mentored high-performing team, focusing on AWS/EKS expertise and DevOps best practices

DevOps Manager/Lead EngineerOct 2021- April 2023

Slingshot Aerospace, Remote

Built and led DevOps function from ground up, establishing cloud infrastructure standards and automation frameworks. Led team of 5 engineers while modernizing technology stack.

Key Achievements:

• Implemented enterprise-wide IAM solution with Okta SSO for AWS and applications
• Migrated core application to EKS, improving scalability and reliability
• Established Infrastructure as Code practices using Pulumi
• Created automated AWS account provisioning system
• Enhanced security through DevSecOps initiatives and modern VPN implementation (Twingate)

DevOps LeadJune 2020 - 2021

Epic Games, Cary NC

Led DevOps and Hosted Services team managing enterprise-wide Atlassian suite and cloud infrastructure across 25+ AWS accounts. Established technical standards while mentoring IT teams in cloud practices.

Key Achievements:

• Built and led cross-functional team of DevOps engineers, SREs, and developers
• Implemented AWS/Terraform standards and Jenkins deployment frameworks
• Created comprehensive cloud training programs for IT organization
• Architected secure cloud solutions through InfoSec partnership
• Provided technical leadership for company-wide AWS migrations

Global Director of Operations & Development → Senior Cloud Engineer | Xylem 2017 - 2020 | Durham, NC

Global Director of Operations & Development (2019-2020) 

Led global DevOps transformation across US, India, Singapore, Sweden, and China.

• Unified dispersed teams into cohesive global DevOps organization
• Established multi-cloud infrastructure framework and enterprise-wide standards
• Guided 20+ development teams in adopting global DevOps practices
• Architected multi-cloud Kubernetes deployment strategy

Senior DevOps Manager (2018-2019) 

Led 8-person team driving enterprise-wide containerization and automation initiatives.

• Orchestrated enterprise Kubernetes migration: 200+ apps across 37 projects
• Implemented global artifact management with JFrog Artifactory
• Streamlined CI/CD by migrating from Jenkins to Bitbucket Pipelines
• Created global DevOps training program and embedded engineering model

Senior Cloud Engineer (2017-2018) 

• Spearheaded cloud infrastructure standardization and automation.
• Established Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform
• Modernized monitoring stack (Sumo Logic, Datadog)
• Created reusable deployment framework for rapid application onboarding
• Led greenfield application DevOps implementation

Senior DevOps Engineer 2016 - 2017

On-Site, Durham  NC

• Led cloud migration and DevOps modernization initiatives.
• Orchestrated dual datacenter migration to Google Cloud using Terraform
• Implemented containerization strategy with Docker/Rancher
• Modernized monitoring stack (Datadog, Logstash) and expanded on-call coverage
• Established secrets management with Vault/Consul

Publishing Engineer 2013 - 2016

Zenimax Media, Remote

• Led DevOps for Elder Scrolls Online MMORPG.
• Developed automated publishing system for game client patches
• Built authentication and web services deployment pipeline
• Created configuration management system using Chef

Engineering Services Architect 2011 - 2013

CA Technologies, Cary  NC

• Reduced server provisioning time from 2 weeks to 1 hour through automation
• Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Python
• Designed redundant process automation solution for development teams

Earlier Experience: 

Senior Middleware Engineer 2006 - 2011

Blue Cross Blue Shield NC, Durham  NC

• Managed 235+ AIX servers and middleware applications
• Implemented automated inventory system and redundant application clusters

Unix Security Administrator 2002 - 2006

Cincinnati Financial Corp, Cincinnati  OH

• Managed security compliance for 130 Unix systems