Candidate ID: #38
Location:Leesburg, VA

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY

• Current/Most Recent: ~1 year (2023 – Present) as a systems engineer and DevOps engineer supporting classified DoD and Intelligence Community programs — enhances CI/CD pipelines for automated build, validation, and deployment of containerized Kubernetes applications, integrates Ansible playbooks for configuration management, automates project storage metrics reporting via APIs, implements agile toolchain integrations (linking repository activity to issue tracking), manages virtualized Linux development environments (lowside/highside), and authors technical workflow documentation

• Past: 10+ years of progressive systems engineering, DevOps, cloud platform, and IT infrastructure experience across DoD, intelligence community, healthcare, and enterprise hardware sectors, including roles as cloud/ops platform engineer, DevOps engineer, junior systems engineer, lead IT technician, and server build technician — deep experience spanning AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, configuration management, requirements analysis, full lifecycle systems engineering (including counter-UAV systems), and enterprise IT administration

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Cloud Engineering & DevOps Automation – Engineered CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and Jenkins to automate builds, AMI creation (via Packer and GitOps), and deployments for containerized Kubernetes applications; provisioned and configured AWS infrastructure including EC2, RDS, VPCs, S3, and ELBs via CloudFormation; managed IAM roles and policies; integrated Ansible and Puppet for configuration management and version upgrades; and managed virtualized Linux development environments using Vagrant and AWS WorkSpaces to improve engineering workstation consistency
• Systems Engineering & Integration – Supported full lifecycle requirements analysis, design, testing, and deployment for a government counter-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) system; translated mission requirements into technical specifications catalogs aligned with cost and schedule constraints; conducted functional and trade-off analyses to evaluate performance for purchasing decisions; and researched and provided technical recommendations for migrating legacy systems to the cloud
• Enterprise IT & Infrastructure Administration – Executed upgrades for enterprise applications (Jenkins, Confluence, Jira) across staging, test, and production cloud environments; built, tested, and validated enterprise server hardware to support stringent cloud uptime standards; managed Active Directory accounts, user provisioning, and group distribution lists; and provided comprehensive hardware/software installation, imaging, and troubleshooting support via customer-facing ticketing systems
• Technical Documentation & Process Improvement – Designed and documented proof-of-concept procedures for cloud-based software upgrades, guiding successful production deployments; authored technical documentation supporting team workflows, integrated environment deployments, and toolchain configurations; implemented API integrations linking repository commits, branches, and merge requests to issue tracking systems for improved team visibility; and scripted automated project storage metric reporting tools to deliver artifact size data directly to the team

CREDENTIALS

• B.S. Business Administration (minor in Computer Science). CompTIA Security+; FAA Remote Pilot (Part 107).