Greg Stevens, Dalyle DevOps Inc.

"Once you label me, you negate me" -- James E Stirrup

Contact
  • Phone
  • +1 (403) 213-5644
Location
  • Address
  • Canada
  • Region
  • Alberta
Professional Skills Summary

🙋‍♀️ Why Greg? (🧙‍♂️ Greybeard): 🐧 23+ Years Linux, WebDev, 💼 18+ Web Agency Years, 🎹 ~130 WPM, Great Docs, 🙌 Agile Lifestyle, Kaizen, 🏋️‍♀️ Natural Leader, 🤓 Pragmatic Power User, 👷‍♂️ Processes & Workflows, 🤗 Resilent Teammate

💪 Powerlifting Competition Bests (🧒 Intermediate): ⚖ ~220 lbs Body Weight, Squat: 485 lbs, Bench: 297.6 lbs, Deadlift: 529.1 lbs, Total: 1,311.7 lbs, Total Dots: 366.39

✅ Testing & QA Automation (🐱‍💻 Master): 🥇 Insomnia REST/HTTP Tool, E2E Testing, TestCafe, Cypress, Puppeteer, Playwright

💯 Top 5% Globally on 7️⃣ LinkedIn Assesments (🧙‍♂️ Greybeard): HTML / 1.1 M, IT Operations / 944.9 K, Microsoft Outlook / 1.3 M, MySQL / 674.6 K, PHP / 2.9 M, WordPress / 1.0 M, XML / 217.9 K

💯 Top 15% Globally on 2️⃣ LinkedIn Assesments (🤯 Expert): 🐧 Linux / 4.2M, 📊 Microsoft Power BI / 600.1k

💯 Top 30% Globally on 4️⃣ LinkedIn Assesments (🤵 Pro): CSS / 1.6M, Cybersecurity / 824.4k, Git / 971.5k, REST APIs / 485.3k

🐧 Linux (🧙‍♂️ Greybeard): 🥇 Linux Sys Admin, Ubuntu, Manjaro KDE Desktop, Kali Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS 5-8, Ubuntu Gnome Desktop

🔐 Security (🐱‍💻 Master): Kali Linux, Pen Testing, OWASP ZAP!

🎓 Knowledge Mgmt & Documentation (💼 Pro): 🥇 Markdown, Obsidian, Notion, Evernote, TickTick, TickTick

🎓 Collaboration Tools (💼 Pro): 🥇 Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Atlassian (Platform), Asana, Wrike

💻 I.T. (🧙‍♂️ Greybeard): 🥇 Office 365, Azure, Consulting, Contracting, Directing, Mentoring, Processes, Linux, Windows, macOS

⛅ Cloud MSP (🧙‍♂️ Greybeard): 🥇 DigitalOcean, Linode, Azure, AWS, Vultr, WHC, Google Compute, Google Workspace

🔀 Agile Methodologies (💼 Pro): Agile Budgeting Techniques, Agile Estimation Techniques & Scales (T-Shirt, Primes, Fibonicci, etc.), Agile Methodologies, Time Tracking, Estimation, Budgeting, Selling Ideas and $$$ to Stakeholders, Kanban, Lean, Scrum, Hybrid Agile Waterfall, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), User Stories, Estimation, Tracking, Budgeting

🔁 DevOps (💼 Pro): DevOps, Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, DevOps Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Kaizen

🤖 Automation (💼 Pro): GH Actions, MS Power Automate, Bitbucket Pipelines, Ansible, Terraform, Shell Scripts

📊 Business Intelligence: Microsoft Powerapps, Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Power BI, Cube - Headless BI, Google Data, Google Analytics, Tag Manager, etc.

🌐 Modern Content Management Systems (🤯 Expert): Headless CMS, Jamstack, Static Site Generators (SSG), Hugo, 11ty, Jekyll, Mkdocs, etc., Resumed SSG, Statamic CMS, TinaCMS

📝 Legacy Content Management Systems (CMS) (🤯 Expert): Conductor CMS - Proprietary ColdFusion CMS, Concrete5, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal

👷‍♂️ Full-stack Web Dev (💄 Front-end) (🧙‍♂️ Greybeard): Full-Stack Development, Web Project Management, Websites, HTML5 / xHTML, CSS, Node.js, Laravel, ColdFusion, Lucee, Web Apps, Websites, JavaScript, TypeScript, jQuery

👷‍♀️ Full-stack Web Dev (🥼 Back-end) (🧙‍♂️ Greybeard): Full-Stack Development, Web Project Management, Web Applications, APIs, REST, Web Services, XML, PHP, Continuous Improvement, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), SQL, JSON

🖥 Web Hosting Services (🧙‍♂️ Greybeard): Email Hosting, Web Hosting, Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed / OLS

✅ Web Project Management (💼 Pro): Agile, DevOps, Agile / Traditional Hybrid, SAFe, Scrum, Estimation, Project Budget, Time Tracking

📜 The Big List of Keywords (_(Sorry, here for Applicant Tracking Systems)_): Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), People Skills, Conflict Resolution, MySQL, MongoDB, (L|W)AMP, LAMP, WAMP, MEAN, Decentralized CMS, Decentrailzed DB, Headless CMS

Work Experience

2021-10-31 to Present

Founder, CEO, Full-stack Web Developer, Hostmaster:

First time truly on my own

Over 10 months in business!

2015-05-31 to 2021-10-31

IT Director:

2011-03-31 to 2015-05-31

Lead Application Developer:

2004-12-31 to 2011-03-31

Application Developer:

2002-01-31 to 2004-12-31

Technical Support:

2002-10-01 to 2015-05-01

Consultant:

Consultant

Hostmaster

Concrete5 CMS Hosting

Clustered for Site with Traffic Explosion due to appearance on Dragon's Den Canada.

Consulting for move from shared hosting to a dedicated server

Management of Linux CentOS Server with cPanel WHM.

2002-10-01 to 2015-05-01

PC Tech:

Computer Support & Maintenance

Calgary Stampede Printer Support (HP Laserjet 4 Plus, amongst others)

2000-12-31 to 2013-12-31

IT Consultant:

Education

2005-01-01 to 2005-06-01

Personal Best Seminars

Course: Personal Growth

2011-06-01 to 2014-01-01

Dale Carnegie

Course: Personal Growth, Business Skills, Public Speaking (GPA 4.0)

Volunteering

Quest for a Better Web Industry #BetterWeb

Identified Problems with Current Web Industry Practices in Calgary, and Globally.

2018-04-01 to 2018-04-01

100% RAW Powerlifting Federation Canada

Loading/Unloading Weights

Yelling appropriately at Lifters as they approach the Platform for their attempt

JDRF Canada

2001: Family Participation at JDRF Walk for the Cure

2004: Start Helping Those Who Help Me, the JDRF

2011: Son Diagnosed @ 3 Years Old - Both Active JDRF Ambassadors, Public Speakers

Languages
  • English
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  • Markdown
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  • ColdFusion
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  • PHP
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  • HTML, CSS, etc.
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  • HTTP(S), APIs
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  • Power Query / M
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  • (My|MS) SQL
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  • NoSQL
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  • JavaScript
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  • GraphQL
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  • TypeScript
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  • Perl (hobby use)
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  • R (new)
  • Rust (upcoming)
Awards

🥈 Provincial Skills Competition (2nd)

May 17, 2024

Skills Canada, Alberta

Web Design & Development

🖼 Adobe Certified ColdFusion MX Developer (Advanced)

May 17, 2024

Adobe

"Advanced" Certification Surprise Extra for Exceeding a Certain Score

🥇 Peak Power Open (1st)

May 17, 2024

RAW-CAN

Squat 175 | Bench 110 | Deadlift 195 | Total 480 Kg

🥉 Prairie Power Open (3rd)

May 17, 2024

RAW-CAN

Squat 192.5 | Bench 120 | Deadlift 230 | Total 542.5 Kg

🥈 Prairie Power Open (2nd)

May 17, 2024

RAW-CAN

Squat 205 | Bench 120 | Deadlift 232.5 | Total 557.5 Kg

🥇 Alberta Provincials (1st)

May 17, 2024

RAW-CAN

Squat 220 | Bench 135 | Deadlift 240 | Total 595 Kg

🥇 Hub Power Open (1st)

May 17, 2024

RAW-CAN

Squat 212.5 | Bench 135 | Deadlift 232.5 | Total 580 Kg

🥈 World Championships (2nd)

May 17, 2024

RAW

Squat 212.5 | Bench 127.5 | Deadlift 230 | Total 570 Kg

🥇🥈🥉 LinkedIn Skill Assesments - Ranked Top Globally in a Dozen Assessments

May 17, 2024

LinkedIn

Please see list under the Skills section.

Personal

Bearded Dragons, My Teenage Son, Sun

Stereos, SPLs, Oil Changes, Fuel Tanks, Fuel Pumps, Oil Pans, Radiators, Body Repair & Replacements

Garage Building, Permits, Electrical, HVAC, Networking, Fibre, Landscaping, Drywalling, Finishing, Painting, Cupboards, Furniture, 😱 it doesn't stop..let it stop..please...help me!