Chad Brill

Experience

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  Curbell Medical

  Oct 1998 - Feb 2012

  Handled all compliance related issues, projects and support; both internally and externally. Designed variations of existing products and assisted design engineers in new product development. Provided customer and internal support for all products.

  • Compliance Engineer

    Jun 2005 - Feb 2012

  • Application Engineer

    Oct 1998 - May 2005
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  Erie County Sheriffs Office

  Feb 2012 - Jul 2015

  DEPUTY SHERIFF

  Enforce rules and regulations to maintain safety, security and good order of facility.

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  Synacor, Inc.

  Aug 2015 - Nov 2016

  Software Configuration Engineer

  - Configures software builds and deployments to non-production and production environments.- Troubleshoots build breaks and application configuration issues in lower test and production environments and helps to ensure packages have been installed properly and the environment is configured correctly.- Participates in integration calls with vendors and clients- Test configuration changes to ensure they are working correctly.- Work with various computer programming languages and templates on a regular basis which include php, perl, css, html, twig, yaml, and json.- Handle the IDM team’s release builds and deployments to the following test environments ci, qa, uat and pre-prod.- Work with saml and metadata on a regular basis to set up new client integrations for CloudID product -Set up clients so that their users can properly be configured for authentication and authorization Show less

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  Willis Towers Watson

  Dec 2016 - now

  • Maintain CI/CD and security tooling platforms which includes the following pipeline tools: Artifactory, Concourse, GitHub, Octopus and TeamCity• Maintain infrastructure of our pipeline tools by using Terraform.• Maintain internal security audit tool known as the artifact-integrity-monitor tool.• Participate in rotational on-call schedule.Key Accomplishments:• Have written Sumo Logic queries to pull log information from in-scope servers.• Integrated Sumo Logic with Pager Duty so that Pager Duty alerts are triggered if Sumo Logic queries return certain information.• Developed ability to navigate within the Azure portal for azure related activities. Show less Have gained experience in the following:• Creating Build and Release definitions in VSTS• Configuring builds, creating releases and deploying to multiple testing and production environments through VSTS• Perform software branching activities for our release cycle• Working with git source control and VSTS which includes branching, merging and tagging• Troubleshooting deployment issues which includes logging into servers as needed to go through configuration and log files to find/solve an issue• Reading, writing and understanding power shell scripts• Basic understanding of asp.net MVC 5 and C#• Release Manager responsibilities• Manually running database scripts and moving around within SQL• Working with IIS Manager and Event ViewerSome Key Accomplishments:• Point per for our team in the absence of the Release Manager• Transferring Octopus Release definitions over into VSTS release definitions• Converting reporting releases from being manual deployments into automation deployments• Played a key role with other release team members in creating a release team website that provides features and release information to our clients.• Was the lead release engineer on adding a feature to our release team website that allows for our clients to have a formal way to submit minor release and bugfix requests.• Created and maintaining step by step deployment instructions and a troubleshooting document where we documented issues during release deployments and what actions we’re taken to resolve them• Developed the skills and communication to be a go to person on the release engineering team for other teams to come to with questions and issues• Worked with other teams to get stand alone services deployed to all release team environments Show less

  • Site Reliability Engineer

    Jul 2020 - now

  • Senior Release Engineer

    Dec 2016 - Jul 2020