About

Cloud Solutions Architect with a foundation in system infrastructure and devops.

Ten (10) years of experience with the Department of Defense (DoD). Expertise in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) on AWS and Azure hosted solutions.

A military veteran.

  • EDUCATION

    National University

    Bachelor of Science

    Cybersecurity

  • CERTIFICATIONS

  • CLEARANCE

    Department of Defense

    Top Secret

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    CLOUD ARCHITECTURE

    Eight (8) years architecting and deploying cloud-hosted solutions in commercial and impact level (IL) 5 and 6 authorized environments within these platforms:

    - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    - Microsoft Azure

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    KUBERNETES ADMINISTRATION

    Five (5) years leveraging the following container-hosting platforms:

    - Red Hat OpenShift

    - Rancher

    - Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

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    INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE

    Six (6) years utilizing IaC for automated deployment and maintenance of environments via the following tools:

    - Ansible

    - Terraform

    - CloudFormation

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    SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

    Twelve (12) years administrating servers. This includes deploying and managing the following systems-management solutions:

    - Red Hat Satellite

    - AWS System Manager

    - Microsoft SCCM

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    RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK

    Eight (8) years of expertise with Risk Management Framework (RMF) compliance. Experienced with the following publications, standards, and certifications:

    - NIST 800-37 | 800-53 | 800-73 | 800-171

    - DoDI 8500.01

    - CMMC

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    DEVSECOPS

    Nine (9) years designing and deploying DevSecOps adherent pipelines with the following toolsets:

    - GitLab, Jenkins (CI/CD)

    - SonarQube, Fortify (SAST)

    - Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP (DAST)

    - Trivy (Container Scanning)

    - OpenScap (Compliance)