Senior DevOps Engineer at Data Perceptions

Providing business strategy execution, technology, and operations consulting services. Led infrastructure automation and cloud modernization efforts including Bicep scripting for Azure DevOps Pipelines and design of pipelines for rapid VM deployment; coordinated automatic certificate renewal; implemented Azure Container Apps environments.

IT Operations Manager / Quality Manager at Maerospace

Responsible for all IT, Operations, and Quality Management. Built Network Operations Centre in Waterloo offices. Managed budgets and purchasing. Performed regular quality audits (ISO9001). Responsible for issue management, incident management, and change management. Designed monitoring and alerting infrastructure for all environments. Administrated VMWare environment (Four ESX hosts, >100 VMs). Responsible for networking and VPNs.

Senior DevOps at Adentro (Formerly Zenreach)

Care and feeding of AWS environments primarily using Terraform. Redesigned build process (Jenkins) to better handle gating issues. Converted RDS in all environments to fully encrypted while minimizing downtime. Developed utilities for team members to perform complex tasks. Mentored junior team members.

Senior DevOps at Dejero

Provided 24/7 support for production environment as well as leading the DevOps initiative to lift-and-shift to Microsoft Azure. Designed and implemented IaC primarily using Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub with the ability to easily promote code through (Dev → QA → Staging → Production). Coordinated with Development to ensure Best Practices in the cloud environment. Architected granular monitoring and alerting dramatically improving response time. Implemented Docker Swarm environments.

Senior Technical Consultant at CGI

Technical Lead for Acxsys/Interac; responsible for requirements gathering and solutions design for major projects; oversaw all operational activities in a nation-wide highly available environment. Designed and implemented a new virtual environment strategy to enable rapid development and ease of implementation. Led technical integration of third party solution for Interac Tap infrastructure across multiple data centres. Coordinated DR planning for Production environments.

Principal Technical Analyst at OpenText Corp

Providing B2B support services for a range of enterprise level products. Coordinated regular meetings with various development departments as well as premier level customers. Implemented Solaris containers for OS level virtualization. Developed web-based ticket monitoring and reporting tools. Mentored junior technical analysts on Unix / Linux. Created and approved Knowledge Base articles. Provided 3rd level support evenings/weekends.

Infrastructure Engineering Specialist at Research In Motion

Bridged the gap between R&D and Operations; designed and automated cloud environments; organized deployment documentation; provided 3rd level support; mentored new hires.