Authentic, creative, unoriginal champion. Mastering excellence day in, day out, to be better at helping others during my life of service. 🕵️‍♀️ Production Troubleshooter, 🦄 DevOps Specialist, 🌐 Full-stack Web Developer, Leader, 🔑 Security Researcher. 👍 Leader 🔁 DevOps Specialist ☁ Architect 🤓 Site Reliability Engineer 🎯 Father 🧔 Diabetic 💉 Lifter 💪

Skills

🙋‍♀️ 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 (8)

Oct 2021 - Current
Founder, CEO, Full-stack Web Developer, Hostmaster
Dalyle DevOps Inc.
 Okotoks, Alberta, Canada https://www.dalyle.ca/
  • First time truly on my own
  • Over 10 months in business!
May 2015 - Oct 2021
IT Director
Media Dog Productions
 Calgary, AB, Canada https://www.mediadog.ca/
0
Mar 2011 - May 2015
Lead Application Developer
Media Dog Productions
0
Dec 2004 - Mar 2011
Application Developer
Media Dog Productions
0
Jan 2002 - Dec 2004
Technical Support
Nucleus Information Service Inc
 https://www.nucleus.com
0
Oct 2002 - May 2015
Consultant
Web Your World
  • 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.
Oct 2002 - May 2015
PC Tech
PC Rent
  • Computer Support & Maintenance
  • Calgary Stampede Printer Support (HP Laserjet 4 Plus, amongst others)
Dec 2000 - Dec 2013
IT Consultant
SabreTEC
 https://www.bestinbarter.com
0

Projects (4)

🦋 RBC Jobs Scraper
Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
 https://github.com/GregSweats/rbc-jobs-scraper
  • Web Scraping
  • Power BI
  • Power Query M
  • Power Platform
  • Datasets
  • API
  • REST
  • Workday
  • Applicant Tracking System (ATS)
Randomly created to help me determine what Job Application Deadlines were. Turned into a beautiful butterfly. Full Creation Video available for free on YouTube @GregWorks. Part of a manic BI Dashboard creation phase.
  • Web Scraping
  • Power BI
  • Security Research
🍤 DevOps Contract (Oct 2021 - Mar 2022)
Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
  • NDA
  • DevOps
  • RunCloud.io
  • Obsidian w/ Publish & Sync
  • Obsidian
  • Obsidian Publish
  • Obsidian Sync
Architecture & Contracting to Migrate 20+ Websites In-House
  • NDA - Hypotheticals Only
🤖 Propane Cylinder Tracker / Deliver Forecaster for Canada-wide Retailers
Jan 2019 - Jan 2021
  • Laravel
  • AdminLTE
  • Mobile
  • Responsive Design
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Google Sheets
  • SFTP
  • CSV
  • National
  • Mailgun
Have you seen the quick-swap style Propane Tanks outside Gas Stations and other large retailers? Most come from the same company. I designed and developed a Web App to **Forecast Delivery Needs** for each location.
  • Excel to Web App
  • Multiple Data Sources
  • Multiple Import/Export Formats
📨 Peters & Co
Jan 2006 - Current
 https://www.petersco.com/
  • ColdFusion
  • FileNexus by Loris
  • Advanced Networking
  • Advanced Troubleshooting
  • Hosting
  • Website Monitoring
  • Penetration Testing
  • Investment Research Updates Emailed to Clients Every Night using Custom Tools Created a Decade Ago!
  • User Accounts synced with custom .NET web service developed in co-ordination with Peters & Co.
  • Advanced Document Search
  • Advanced Document Search: Syncs with FileNexus web services to utilize Peters & Co’s existing document library.
  • Advanced Document Search: Utilizes FileNexus advanced search services when searching for text within documents. For speed, mirrors the remote FileNexus document indexes to a local MySQL database which is queried when not using a full text search.
  • Conference Site Manager
  • I was the main account manager for Peters & Co. Role involved client relations as well as new project proposals and bidding.

Volunteer

7/1/2019  - Current
Founder
Quest for a Better Web Industry #BetterWeb
 https://www.BetterWeb.quest/
  • Identified Problems with Current Web Industry Practices in Calgary, and Globally.
4/1/2018 - 4/1/2018
Weight Loading/Deloading, Platform Spotter, Motivator, Clown 🤡
100% RAW Powerlifting Federation Canada
 https://www.rawplcanada.com/
  • Loading/Unloading Weights
  • Yelling appropriately at Lifters as they approach the Platform for their attempt
7/31/2004  - Current
Ambassador, Walk to Cure Diabetes, Community Outreach
JDRF Canada
 https://www.jdrf.ca/
  • 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

Education (2)

2005 - 2005
Course
 Personal Growth
Personal Best Seminars
  • Personal Potential
  • Relationships
2011 - 2014
Course
 Personal Growth, Business Skills, Public Speaking
Dale Carnegie
  • Personal Potential
  • Relationships
  • Sales
  • Tricks and Tools for Living Successfully

Awards

2004
🥈 Provincial Skills Competition (2nd)
Skills Canada, Alberta
Web Design & Development
2007
🖼 Adobe Certified ColdFusion MX Developer (Advanced)
Adobe
"Advanced" Certification Surprise Extra for Exceeding a Certain Score
2015
🥇 Peak Power Open (1st)
RAW-CAN
Squat 175 | Bench 110 | Deadlift 195 | Total 480 Kg
2016
🥉 Prairie Power Open (3rd)
RAW-CAN
Squat 192.5 | Bench 120 | Deadlift 230 | Total 542.5 Kg
2017
🥈 Prairie Power Open (2nd)
RAW-CAN
Squat 205 | Bench 120 | Deadlift 232.5 | Total 557.5 Kg
2018
🥇 Alberta Provincials (1st)
RAW-CAN
Squat 220 | Bench 135 | Deadlift 240 | Total 595 Kg
2019
🥇 Hub Power Open (1st)
RAW-CAN
Squat 212.5 | Bench 135 | Deadlift 232.5 | Total 580 Kg
2019
🥈 World Championships (2nd)
RAW
Squat 212.5 | Bench 127.5 | Deadlift 230 | Total 570 Kg
2022
🥇🥈🥉 LinkedIn Skill Assesments - Ranked Top Globally in a Dozen Assessments
LinkedIn
Please see list under the Skills section.

Certificates

🖼 Adobe Certified ColdFusion MX Developer
Adobe

Publications

2 Jun 2022
 Transactionator (TRXN8R) in GitHub
Greg's First Open Source Project for the Tiller 2022 Builder Challenge - 'Performance Art' - The Trippy T-Rex Bulk CSV Importer/Transformer/Deduplicator; for the TillerHQ.com 2022 MS Excel Challenge; Better than my resume for Tiller Sr. Engineering Job 😱
8 Feb 2021
 Savvy-Student-Stats / powerbi-moodle-data-source in GitHub
Using the Moodle web service, we extract Course and Grade info to feed into Power BI for pretty reports and AI insights! #ProofOfConcept #WIP

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)

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Rust (upcoming)

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Interests

Wildlife

  • Bearded Dragons
  • My Teenage Son
  • Sun

Automotive

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

Home Building & Renos

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

References

“...really knows his 💩...”
Business Analyst, Multi-Billion Dollar Corporation, 2021
“Does the work of a dozen people! 👷‍♂️”
IT Manager, Corporate Client, 2021
“Success requires aggressive pursuit, bold action, passion, fire, and most of all, perserverence. You must know your Identity... 🎤”
Billy Alsbrooks, Song: 'Blessed', 2020 (quoted, not a reference).
“📢 "KAIZEN means improvement. Moreover, it means continuing improvement in personal life, home life, social life, and working life."”
QUOTE from Masaaki Imai, Founder of Kaizen Institute on www.kaizen.com; (quoted, not a reference).