Trevor Cochran

Trevor Cochran

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    DevOps Engineer at Zix

  • Education

    • University of West Florida

      2020 - 2023
      Master's degree Cybersecurity
    • University of West Florida

      2016 - 2020
      Bachelor's degree Computer Science

      Activities and Societies: • Artificial Intelligence Research Group

  • Experience

    • University of West Florida

      Aug 2016 - May 2017
      Student Assistant

      • Worked with students to accomplish advising and financial needs• Aided department heads and counselors with tasks including typing, filing, customer greeting, and appointment scheduling

    • ARMA Global Corporation, A General Dynamics Company

      May 2018 - Aug 2018
      Intern

      • Cultivated knowledge on Agile by participating in daily standups with software engineers and by using git source control, allowing my code to be reviewed by full time developers.• Generated Ansible Playbooks removing vulnerabilities from Apache Web Server conf files, allowing our customers to securely host applications on the Apache Web Server.

    • AppRiver

      Jan 2020 - now

      • Scrum Master: Showcased PowerPoint slides to stakeholders detailing DevOps vision. • Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint retrospectives, and weekly development meetings as Scrum Master ensuring the DevOps team was on track to complete objectives.• Aided in getting the Elasticsearch cluster back healthy by using the Elasticsearch API to reroute indices from Elasticsearch hot nodes to Elasticsearch warm nodes. • Upgraded Azure DevOps Server to version 2022 to allow for cross-team dependencies to be showcased on the work item release board.• Renewed 100+ web application certificates in Octopus Deploy that were due to expire.• Managed and upgraded our Chef cookbooks from version 15.x on 30+ VMs to Chef Infra Client 17.x and helped improve Chef deployment times by 50%.• Provisioned cloud infrastructure using Terraform enabling developers to host applications. Show less • Participated in Scrum of Scrums, and collaborated with other Scrum Masters where Terraform, Elasticsearch, and VM issues were discussed, eliminating development silos by 30%.• Assembled Group policy object information, software installed on VMs, and a history of updates installed on VMs for SOC 2 audit.• Decreased build deployment time by 20% in Azure DevOps by upgrading Sonarqube On-Premises from version 7.9.x Long Term Support (LTS) to Sonarqube 8.9.x LTS.• Added 15+ new developers to the Zix dev domain using Active Directory on a Domain Controller VM. • Created PowerShell script that automated Azure DevOps repository backups to allow developers to restore repositories. Show less

      • DevOps Engineer

        May 2022 - now
      • DevOps Intern

        Jan 2020 - May 2022
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • SAFe 5 Scrum Master

      AppRiver
      Mar 2020
    • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002)

      HashiCorp
      Mar 2023
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