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Blake Shaver

Blake Shaver

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Infrastructure Engineer certified in Ansible, RHEL, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, and AWS

  • Education

    • Carthage College

      2005 - 2009
      Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics 3.94

      Minors: Information Systems

    • American College of Education

      2017 - 2019
      Master of Education - MEd STEM Leadership

  • Experience

    • The School District of Beloit

      Jan 2010 - Jan 2012
      System Administrator

      - Manage several software systems and databases used in the district for students, staff, and community- Migrate on prem systems and databases to cloud providers (Novell to Google, Blackboard to Skyward)- Extract and automate reports to local, state, and national systems to maintain and achieve compliance and funding- Train staff and listen to their requests to improve support and district and student performance

    • The School District of Beloit

      Jan 2013 - Jan 2017
      Computer Science Teacher

      - Taught all computer science and technology courses to high school students- District Technology Coach & Technology Incubator Lead Instructor- CompTIA Academic Partner, Project Lead the Way Certified Instructor- New staff mentor, cross country coach, Wisconsin Mathematics Council

    • School District of Milton

      Jan 2017 - Jan 2022
      Computer Science Teacher

      - Taught both AP Computer Science courses to high school students- Grew the computer science program by adding classes, doubling students, and improving performance on standards and AP scores- Formed a robotics and coding club. Attended competitive programming competitions with students throughout Wisconsin

    • Discover Financial Services

      Jun 2022 - now
      Infrastructure Engineer

      - Team that manages infrastructure and automation tools such as Ansible Automation Platform, Chef, and VMware vRealize Orchestrator which build both on prem and in the cloud- Create automation pipelines utilizing Jenkins, Git, Vault, and Nexus- Perform migrations of Chef, Ansible, and VRA servers to latest versions including RHEL updates and upgrades- Create and maintain custom containers and playbooks for AAP- Use monitoring tools to help create event driven playbooks to automatically respond to events before adverse effects to system- Regularly engage customers through biweekly office hours, documentation updates and creation, team incident and change support- Risk and compliance management through vulnerability mitigation, testing in dev environments, and following change procedures- Rotational on call to support tools 24x7 Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications