Brian

Consulting for small and large businesses for architecture/software development of greenfield projects primarily focused on the cloud. Led multiple teams of on and off-shore developers through the end-to-end SDLC. Built an entire Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and Security in Azure for Silicon Valley Bank’s FinTech startup platform 0 to 1. Contracted as Vice President for a startup to develop a go-to market engineering team alongside Google engineers, MIT engineers, and joint venture capital.

• Re-architecture to AWS Kubernetes w/containers
• Consulted for software architecture and build for Silicon Valley Bank FinTech Startup
• DevOps / Architecture improvement for all of Microsoft’s Azure certification programs enabled ephemeral Infrastructure and Coding Environments “Cloud Slices and Lab Development hands-onents”
• Assisted in planning for initial go to market strategy for Azure hands on lab certification solutions for Google
• Lead technology and transformation during Venture Capital investment and private investment for a 40 million dollar a year company
• Architected DevOps Observability patterns, implemented app observability for over 150 microservices

Technologies:  DevOps, Azure, C#, .NET, Microsoft MVP, Microservices, APIs, CI/CD Pipelines, GitLab, Python, Agile, Azure DevOps, SQL, JSON, AWS, GCP, Cloud Native, Java, Android, Kubernetes

Developed standardized re-usable CI/CD pipelines for over 400 applications and over 200 teams. Implemented a new offering to allow onboarding to Kubernetes for teams easily. DevOps and Architecture transformation for a firm with over 295,000 employees.

● Promoted and received awards for improving Customer Centricity by CTO
● Developed a solution to allow teams to use clusters rapidly CLaaS in Rancher with GKE
● Onboarded culturally diverse teams from 6 continents for over 200 teams
● Introduced serverless functions to the platform allowing a 40% adoption increase
● Owned Python-based DevOps improvements and implementation team resulting in reduced cost, increased
quality, and increased speed
● Service Bus Architecture and Delivery which resulted in support for Azure, GCP, and AWS for all teams
● Vastly exceeded expectations for application onboarding goal was 50, achieved an astonishing 476
● Architected and consulted for project blue sky with IBM to enable leveraging PwC Cloud for GoLang, Python,
NodeJS, and C# Containers as a Service offering in partnership with PwC
● Trained Container as a Service teams / Cluster as a Service engagement team and developed enablement
tooling with GitOps.

Technologies:  CI/CD Pipelines, DevOps, Rancher, GKE, Python, Azure, GCP, AWS, GoLang, Node.js, C#, Containers, PwC, GitOps, .NET, Java, React, Angular, MySQL, SQL Server

Greenfield re-architecture of the Global Tax Platform to use Microservices with C# in Azure, resulting in over a $2 billion revenue growth per year. Member of the AKS steering committee with Microsoft and directly contributed to Azure Key Vault code in C#.

• Mentored and lead company-wide discussion forums with over 3,000 in attendance for global technical
  challenges
• Automated and increased security standards removing all critical security flaws and reducing medium findings by
  100% developed container AquaSec security gates to proactively prevent security risks
• Lead implementation of Kubernetes enabling CI/CD for 60 teams over 90 Microservices and 16 Kubernetes
  clusters for a Big 4 consulting firm with over 250k employees

Technologies:  Azure KeyVault, C#, CIO/CD, Kubernetes, .NET, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML, CSS, SASS, Angular, ASP.NET, Microsoft MVP, IdP Authz, Serverless, Data Warehousing, APIM, Hashicorp, Containers, Docker, Terraform, Linux

Developed in over 6 languages per month at a rapid growth startup; lead multiple technical consulting teams. Direct point of contact consultant as the owner of up to 5 client engagements at a time speaking directly to multiple C-suits.

• Increase quality by architecting CI/CD DevOps migration with gated checks and code reviews resulting in 85%
  test coverage
• Lead strategic roadmap for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS solutions resulting in a record-breaking 90% sales closure rate
• Programmed in 8 languages in one month as a polyglot
• Developed large cloud native eCommerce solution for Startups in C# / Azure.

Technologies:  .NET, Java, Python, React Native, Xamarin, jQuery, Android, Hadoop, Unity, Django, Flask, Spring, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, GCP, AWS, Azure, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Oracle, Node, iOS, Swift, Objective-C, C#, DevOps, HTML, CSS, WordPress, PHP

Architected and developed for multiple government agencies including DHS, DoD, FBI, Secret Service, FEMA, President Obama / JSOC, and DOJ. Led federation and greenfield re-architecture of Homeland Securities classified request system. Contributed to situational awareness mapping tool used to identify smuggling, wildfires, terrorism, and other layers of government concern for the United States of America.

• This work is publicly acknowledged.
• Passed 2 FBI Agent background investigations, trusted with national security
• Re-architected and developed an extremely high visibility situational awareness live map frequently used by the President of the United States in the “Situation Room” resulting in freeing human trafficking victims, preventing terrorism, and helping with wildfires
• AWS EC2 Migration of the system as well as migration to Angular, Linux, .NET Core, and CI/CD
• Led Federation and re-write of complex classified requests system written by Silverlight author
• Built real-time notifications decreasing response times to 2 seconds from 3 minutes

Technologies:  .NET, JavaScript, React, Xamarin, jQuery, GCP, AWS, Azure, Angular, ArcGIS, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, Silverlight, Linux, CI/CD, EC2, MVVM

• Cloud Managing Consultant at Belmont Software Services (2012-2015)
• Software Engineer at Camping World (2012)
• Linux Admin / Software Engineer at Hitcents, Inc. (2011-2012)
• Systems Engineer at Fruit of the Loom (2010-2010)
• System Architect at Western Kentucky University (2007-2010)
• Linux Security Admin/Web Developer  at Linux Admin/Web Developer (2005-2008)
• Customer Service / Technician  at Verizon Wireless/Afni (2007-2009)