Career Timeline
Appvia
2023-12-31 -
AWS Principal Consultant
Leading a team of 5 DevOps Engineers in building out secure gateways (both public and private) for the UK government. Responsible for rearchitecting, coding, implementing a solution to replace virtual machines with cloud native services to increase reliabilty, decrease complexity, and save money.Compurama
2023-09-30 - 2023-11-30
Director
Contract work with Appvia before switching to permanent.Publicis Sapient
2021-12-31 - 2023-10-31
Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Lead a Cloud Acceleration Program (CAP) which accelerates the development of secure and compliant cloud-based applications on Azure, AWS, & GCP. Its modular design, pre-built templates, DevOps pipelines, and built-in support for monitoring and logging enable faster and more reliable application development. Regularly mentored engineers and designed solutions fulfill customers' requirements.Contino
2020-05-31 - 2021-12-31
Principal Consultant
As the SRE Lead for a team of engineers, provided secure solutions for a government agencies. Worked with stakeholders to gather requirements and manage delivery outcomes. As an individual contributor, wrote reusable IaC code (terraform) and DevOps pipelines to execute technical solutionsDaveOps Ltd
2014-04-30 - 2020-05-31
Director
Contracted as a consultant providing custom continuous integration, continuous delivery, IT automation, ecommerce, and AWS engineering.Fujitsu UK
2019-06-30 - 2020-04-30
Cloud Native Technologist
As the DevOps Team Lead for a team of engineers, migrated legacy applications and databases from an on-premise datacenter to the Azure cloud.Equal Experts
2017-04-30 - 2019-05-31
Senior DevOps Engineer
Focused on continuous improvement of systems using DevOps principles. Projects: INTERSECTION - NEW YORK I stabilised the build and deployment of the client's fleet of IoT devices spread across New York City. Tools used included Ansible, Datadog, fpm, python, aws cli, etc. SIEMENS HEALTHCARE - GERMANY As the DevOps Lead on a DevOps transformation project, I setup a continuous delivery system to deploy containerised applications on kubernetes clusters in Azure. THREE - READING This was a fun project. Within 2 months, I setup the frontend and backed in AWS from scratch for a mobile app loyalty program. I used all cloud native tools (AWS cloud build, AWS Cloudformation, AWs ElasticBeanstalk, etc) to accelerate the development build and deploy pipelines. HMRC - CANARY WHARF/MANCHESTER I was a member of twelve person team responsible for the running of the tax platform consisting of over 800 microservices.Wickes
2016-06-30 - 2017-03-31
Platform Lead
Designed and implemented the company's greenfield migration to the AWS cloud from parent company's on-prem infrastructure. One of the outcomes was a stable delivery pipeline for building and deploying AWS machine images for an integration middleware product (WSO2 EBS).Government Digital Service
2016-03-31 - 2016-05-31
DevOps/WebOps
Wrote puppet code to manage the GOV.UK websiteSalmon
2015-09-30 - 2016-03-31
Solutions Architect
Designed Hybris and Magento ecommerce solutions using DevOps best practices. Wrote ansible playbooks and Chef inspec code to comply with the automotive client's security requirements and audit trail.Equal Experts
2014-04-30 - 2015-09-30
WebOps Engineer
Wrote idempotent puppet modules and deployments as well as python and ruby code to maintain HMRC's digital tax platform consisting of a hundred containerised microservices, elasticsearch, mongodb, etc.Monitise
2014-04-30 - 2014-07-31
DevOps Engineer
Contracted to automate developer desktop builds with ansible.MedicAnimal Ltd.
2013-03-31 - 2014-03-31
Devops Engineer/Senior Systems Administrator
As the lead systems engineer, migrated the company's web infrastructure to the cloud (Amazon Web Services) and consolidated 4 brands under a new e-commerce platform. We were able to reduce our release deployment time from 4-6 hours to as little as 20 minutes through automation and increased service visibility through central logging and custom metrics.Mind Candy
2012-07-31 - 2013-03-31
Systems Administrator
As a DevOps engineer, was responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining the systems infrastructure for the web-based kids' game Moshi Monsters.NetApp
2011-11-30 - 2012-06-30
Engineering Support System Administrator
I worked in NetApp's Global Dynamic Lab with over 2,200 racks of equipment which operated on a 24x7 basis to support multiple timezones. Our phenomenal break/fix team was responsible for troubleshooting and fixing hardware, software, and infrastructure problems within 72 hours.Bandwidth.com
2011-05-31 - 2011-11-30
Systems Administrator
As the lone system administrator, managed approximately 100 production Linux servers, PostGreSQL databases, and monitoring system for a busy VOIP company providing the backbone for Skype and other providers.NESCent (National Evolutionary Synthesis Center)
2005-05-31 - 2011-05-31
Computer Project Manager
Highlights: Designed and relocated Center’s IT infrastructure (twice). Developed scripts to create and maintain a MediaWiki farm of approximately 90 wikis, with shibboleth authentication (NetID) enabled.University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2002-04-30 - 2005-04-30
Systems Specialist
System Administrator (Windows and Netware) for large server farm. Managed 600+ Windows desktops with Novell Zenworks.AIC
2000-11-30 - 2002-03-31
IT Manager
Highlight: Relocated entire networking, telefony, and computing infrastructure between buildings (over Christmas break).Duke University Medical Center
1999-09-30 - 2000-11-30
System Administrator
Managed Netware servers and Windows NT desktops for the Medical Center Library. Zenworks expert.Beginning!