Don Fouts

Experience

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  US Navy

  Jun 2001 - Dec 2004

  Watch Supervisor

  Watch team leader during stressful fast-paced war-time operations.Administered MS Exchange, and other communication systems in NOCHP-UX, Red-Hat, Solaris, Windows – Operations and MaintenanceLead Watch Team for 100% up time and transmittal of classified communications

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  Computer Learning Center

  Jan 2006 - Aug 2008

  Student Worker

  Administration duties for over 1000 computers with Windows 2003 ServerMaintained images with Altiris Deployment Server

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  MD-Sleep

  Apr 2009 - May 2011

  Network promoted to Systems Administrator

  Tier 3 Desktop / Server Support in person and remotely (24/7 Rapid Response support)Configure IT systems in over 50 branch locations (Desktop/phone/VPN)Design and Build Inter-department data share Web-sites (PHP/HTML/JavaScript/MySQL)Project lead NOC Relocation (30 “live” physical server migration)Administration and Technical Support for (Backups, Sharepoint, Networking)

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  EDmin.com

  Sept 2012 - Jun 2013

  Systems Administrator / Jr. DBA

  Agile software deployments of 13 products (Batch / powershell / SQL scripting / perl / php)VMware 5.1 administrator and Project lead for ESXi 3.5 to 5.1 upgrade consisting of 16 hostsAdministrator for 450+ Databases running on SQL, PostgreSQL, and MySQLLinux and Windows System Administration of Centos, Debian, Ubuntu, and Windows 2003+Backup scripts and system monitoring tools using Powershell / SQL / Nagios / Hostmonitor

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  Qualcomm

  Sept 2013 - Feb 2014

  System Engineer

  Used Powershell v3 and tSQL to automate package upgrades for 6 environmentsSupply chain management database running entirely in NVRAM, Administrative supportApplication upgrade project team: Zero downtime during upgrade on highly demanded product

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  InnovaSystems International,

  Feb 2014 - Jun 2015

  Database Administrator / Sys Admin

  Lead database administrator on our Ops SCRUM TeamDaily Administrative tasks of MS SQL Server 2008 R2, IBM InfoSphere 9 and Cognos 8Extract-Transfer- Load (ETL) Design, Development, and TroubleshootingDatabase Performance analysis and tuning within a MS SQL environment

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  Plaza Home Mortgage, Inc.

  Jun 2015 - Mar 2018

  Systems Engineer

  Dev Ops Engineer - Windows / VSO / C# environment. Automation guru ETL Developerpowershell, php, python, html, css, mulesoft

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  American Specialty Health

  Mar 2018 - Aug 2021

  Dev/Ops Engineer 2

  Created the framework to bring IaC to all teams during application workload migration to the cloudDeveloping Terraform in Azure Devops Pipelines to be cloud agnosticDeveloped (powershell) tooling or scaffold Terraform to the rest of the devops teamFounding member of the Cloud Delta Team appointed by the CIO to design and develop the “blueprint” for cloud native microservicesGrew junior DevOps team from 2 to 7 Interviewing, hiring and mentoring / coachingLead 7 System Engineers in the DevSecOps teamF5 & IIS Automation with powershell and python, SRE operations and Chatops integrationsFounder of the Devops Tribe and CAST (Corporate Architecture and Solutions Team) Mentoring junior members, defining standards and creating templates for entire stack (Dev,Sec,DBA,QA,IT)Collaboration between different Scrum teams in the entire cycle including T-shirt sizing, Road mapping, prioritization, and sprint task execution Show less

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  RTX

  Jul 2021 - Aug 2022

  Senior Azure Engineer

  Continual improvement of Azure cloud solution offeringWork with team to improve cloud platform for app development teamsReiterating the solutions / combining cloud platforms during a company merger, navigating priorities and requirements cross several dev and engineering teams.Terraform enterprise / Ansible tower IaC in Agile style developmentBuilding guardrails for app team self-serviceAzure Policy - deployed in multiple environments with terraformEvent driven auto-remediation (python / azure functions)Designing / Documentation / TrainingProviding the guidance and training required for app teams, operations engineers, and leadership on the vision and direction of the cloud platform Show less

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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Jul 2022 - Feb 2024

  Technical Account Manager

  Provide strategic advice and planning for enterprise customersAnalyze costs and usage of services to provide suggestions for cost optimization and operational improvements.Present executive level summaries of the above, to engage stakeholders and create plans for their account improvement (center of cloud excellence)Monitor and manage teams during their support issuesIdentify stagnate or critical issues to escalate when needed Orchestrate enterprise program offerings, working with small teams of SME’sDeep Dives / Service Team engagements / Gamedays / etcMigration plans and well architected reviews to advise teams on best practices and how to leverage the ideal technologies during complex projectsUtilize lamda apps, python scripts, AWS SDK command line apps, and Athena queries to monitor and investigate infrastructure across global aws resources Show less