Experience

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  N/a

  Mar 2007 - Jun 2019

  Technology consultant

  As an independent consultant, I have offered my services and expertise to many home and small business clients, most notably Raisin Da Bottom Productions. Some of my responsibilities in this role have included:- Small Office/Home Office IT Support- Training and educating users in topics including Video Editing and Cryptocurrency- Providing AV setup and editing services to individuals and small businesses- Front-End Web Development services including mobile-browser optimization- Recording Audio and Video of live entertainment performances- Editing footage for DVD/Online distribution- Creating props for live theatre skits Show less

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  Gamestop

  Apr 2010 - Jan 2013

  Full-time retail management

  In the capacity of a retail manager, I ran day-to-day store operations on a 5 store rotation in the Philadelphia PA area and a High-Volume store in Arlington VA. - Promoted to management staff in 1 year of employment- Awarded recognition for excellent Customer Service Experience (August 2010)- Achieved above-average Net Promoter Score and sales performance numbers while managing day-to-day projects- Trained seasonal staff for 2011 and 2012 holiday seasons

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  George mason university

  Jan 2013 - May 2013

  Computer technician

  As a support technician for the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, I supported Faculty and Administrators, as well as the student body enrolled in programs from Undergrad to Doctoral. - Provided Tier I Technical Support with BYOD environment, including Linux, Windows, Apple- Configured and supported TI Code Composer Studio, Energia, Arduino, and Notepad++ IDEs- Restricted end user permissions with Faronics Deep Freeze- Imaged machines with Norton Ghost- Provided AV Support for Faculty and Students Show less

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  Ceb global

  May 2013 - Jul 2015

  It senior hardware technician

  In this role, I was responsible for preparing, tracking, and supporting IT hardware for a user base of 3000+ in 12 main offices and remote staff across North America.- Imaged and deployed Windows 7, 8.1 Operating Systems- Trained IT staff and interns to ensure that they employed the best professional methods, practices, and standards for all services they delivered- Provided Tier II Support for remote staff and offices across North America- Deployed and supported Windows 7 and 8.1 devices using SCCM 2007/2012 OSD and Norton Ghost - Managed Computers with PowerShell and SCCM 2012- Managed IT Purchasing and Vendors for US IT Department- Maintained CMDB of 5,000+ IT hardware assets in order to maintain an accurate inventory of corporate assets- Ensured IT equipment requests were accurately budgeted for and met SOX and ISO compliance standards Show less

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  Cerner corporation

  Jul 2015 - Jun 2019

  Here I was a part of the Soarian Financials DevOps team. - Created and maintained build scripts with PowerShell and Groovy- On-boarded software engineering new hires as a DevAcademy facilitator- Managed Jenkins CI Pipeline and other Jenkins admin tasks- Identified and executed opportunities for automation and improvement in build process- Educated and Enforced IT Best Practices for Development and Operations- Active Directory Administrator Some of the projects I worked on here included:- Continuous Deployment and automation of a highly customized and proprietary apply process. The cost savings to the company from automating this were over $70,000 per year Show less I was part of the team responsible for installing and troubleshooting Cerner's Soarian Software, as well as maintaining the development environments used by internal testers and live client environments. I was also the primary developer for an application used to gather and analyze metrics for the same application. My experiences in this role were:- PowerShell/Batch Subject Matter Expert- Windows Server Subject Matter Expert- Troubleshooting for Java applications on Apache Tomcat and IBM WebSphere platforms- Installed, configured, and provided 4th level support for Soarian Financials- Maintained, configured and provisioned Virtual Server environments- Created and maintained video and written documentation for technical staff- Complied with ITIL change management standardsOne of my projects in this role was to completely eliminate manual steps in gathering application install metrics, which resulted in the Argos system. This system did the following:- Gathers metrics from H2 and SQL databases, WMI, XML and log files- Displayed metrics on custom dashboard built with Node.js, Express.js, Mssql.js, and amCharts.js- Reduced incorrect data input by 90%- Allowed for capturing of more granular data, such as start time per JVM- Reduced cost of metrics gathering by over $15,000 per year by reducing employee hours to gather data Show less

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Sept 2017 - Jun 2019

  • System Engineer

    Jul 2015 - Sept 2017
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  Techsnips

  Feb 2019 - Oct 2022

  Contributor
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  Children's hospital of philadelphia

  Jun 2019 - now

  Infrastructure engineer iii - devops

  - Architect, maintain and secure research infrastructure with Terraform, AWS, PostgreSQL, Docker- Led projects to reduce operational cost of AWS resources resulting in over 120k in operational savings per year- Trained and educated personal on AWS best practices- Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Github Actions- Develop and maintain internal applications and tools with Python- Helped achieve NIST 800-171 compliance- System administration and support for internal tools, including Google Workspace, JIRA Cloud, RStudio Connect, GitHub, Auth0, Asana, Drata- Manage +5 PB of genomic research data across several NIH-Funded grants- General technical and engineering support for the Kids First Data Resource Center (https://kidsfirstdrc.org/), The Children’s Brain Tumor Network (https://cbtn.org/), and the Include Data Coordinating Center (https://includedcc.org/) Show less

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  Pluralsight

  Nov 2019 - now

  Course and lab author
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  Developintelligence, a pluralsight company

  Sept 2021 - Sept 2023

  Technical instructor
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  Drexel university

  May 2023 - Jun 2024

  Adjunct professor

  Teaching the following graduate-level classes:- DSCI 632: Applied Cloud Computing