About

Work Experience

• Senior Network Automation, Cigna

  Apr, 2024 - Mar, 202511 months

  In my time at Cigna, I play a pivotal role in strengthening an Automation Community within my org by leading cross-team collaboration, improving automation processes, and driving the adoption of the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). In 2024, I conducted 52 bi-weekly meetings, fostering a culture of communication and technical knowledge sharing. To further support teams development, I conducted 38 technical 1:1 sessions, mentoring engineers and guiding them through automation best practices.

  A key challenge was aligning all Network Engineering teams on a common scripting languange-Ansible. With varying automation experience and tool preferences, gaining consensus required technical discussions, hands-on training, and leadership buy-in. Through this effort, teams can now develop and maintain their own production-ready automations, reducing reliance on external groups. This standardization has shortened the time from idea to operational automation, ensuring greater efficiency and scalability across the organization.

  • Migrated the automation framework to AAP, improving adoption and engagement.

  • Published 19 training documents on automation best practices.

  • Conducted 38 technical 1:1 sessions to mentor engineers and support skill development.

  • Presented four high-level architectural overviews to Senior Leadership, driving strategic alignment and informed decision-making.

• Site Reliability Engineer, IBM

  Mar, 2022 - Apr, 20242 years 1 month

  As an SRE at IBM, I focused on automating manual tasks, optimizing deployments, and ensuring security compliance across VM infrastructure. I led 20+ deployments within a Sprint-based framework, transforming complex, multi-day processes into streamlined, repeatable workflows completed in hours.

  As the team's Security Focal, I automated security compliance requirements, serving as the Technical Owner Delegate for Quarterly Security Assessments with consistently successful outcomes. I also developed automated pipelines in Jenkins for code signing and vulnerability scanning, integrating Twistlock for security validation.

  Additionally, I implemented a Netbox-driven VM lifecycle, using webhooks to automate Jira ticketing and vCenter updates, enhancing infrastructure visibility and operational efficiency.

  • Technical Owner Delegate for Security Assessments

  • Automated Code Signing Services

  • Image Scanning Automation using Twistlock during build process

  • Defined a repeatable procedure for BlueFringe Deployments

• Manager Network Development, Spectrum Enterprise

  Apr, 2019 - Mar, 20222 years 11 months

  During my time as the Manager of a Network Development Team at Spectrum, I
  worked together with a management team to transition a team of twenty
  Network Engineers into Network Developers. This included guiding many into
  unclear territory as their job functions were transitioned. Discovering a
  clear career path and building a collaborative culture were some of the
  small difficulties to overcome.

  Once our Service Reliability Engineering team was estabilished, I guided
  them to continue development of scalable Ansible Playbooks for Automated
  Deployments in our Production Environment; Building automated regression
  tests using GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins; and Containerizing legacy
  applications in Docker.

  • Established an environment with three vertical slice teams involving over twenty developers and three Area Product Owners

  • Guided my development team to automate a manual process which saved Spectrum a projected estimate of one million dollars in Capital Expense

  • Deployment automations using Ansible Roles allowing a scalable cookbook

• Sr Network Developer, Spectrum Enterprise

  Jul, 2014 - Apr, 20194 years 9 months

  At Spectrum Enterprise, our primary focus was to improve efficiencies of
  our work-order pipeline by means of automating the provisioning of network
  services. We participated in regular code reviews and followed the
  principles outlined in gitflow. Our automated build pipeline(CI/CD) was
  run through jobs executed by GitLab Runners and Jenkins Jobs. Daily
  Stand-ups ensured communication and transparency among the Scrum Team. We
  demonstrated our progress to Stakeholders and Product Owners at a per
  Sprint Iteration. This would allow a project to fail-fast and be agile
  enough to take new direction at the speed of business needs.

  As a secondary hat, I developed scalable playbooks with Ansible roles to
  systematically deploy our network orchestrator. This effort cut down
  countless human hours during our production deployments and regression
  testing.

  • Project Lead: Port Activation

  • Testing Lead: Andromeda Project

  • Development Lead: Systematic Deployments with Ansible

  • Application Development: Coffee Reports

• Network Engineer, Spectrum Enterprise

  Apr, 2012 - Jul, 20142 years 3 months

  With Spectrum Enterprise's Network Engineering team I was able to obtain
  multiple Networking and Security Certifications from multiple platforms. I
  was able to obtain a CCNP in Routing and Switching, CCNA Security, Juniper
  JNCIA, and Alatel NRS-1.

• NOC Analysist, Spectrum Enterprise

  Mar, 2011 - Apr, 20121 year 1 month

  Spectrum's Regional Network Operation Center(RNOC) Level 1 and Level 2.

• Broadband Tech, Spectrum Enterprise

  Apr, 2007 - Mar, 20113 years 11 months

  Layer 1 field installation and troubleshooting for residential customers.

• Information Systems Technician, US Navy

  Feb, 2003 - Feb, 20074 years

  My time in the Navy was a brief 4 years and arose through the ranks of
  E1-E5. I also rose to the challenge of obtaining my Enlisted Surface
  Warfare Specialist(ESWS) pin while still an E3.

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