Engineering leadership and paved-road ownership
Platform Engineering • Engineering Leadership • DevOps • SRE • Internal Developer Platforms • Developer Self-Service • Observability • Security
Senior Platform / DevOps Engineering Leader
10+ years turning fragmented environments into scalable platforms.
Strong background across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, ECS, Terraform, CI/CD, automation, and developer enablement. Proven track record leading engineers, standardizing delivery paths, and turning acquisition-driven or inherited environments into more governed, repeatable platforms.
10+
years across infrastructure, operations, and platform engineering
5
engineers led across infrastructure, data, security, and software
3
major clouds worked across: AWS, GCP, and Azure
Self-service
platform capabilities built to reduce bottlenecks and help teams ship faster
Core Strengths
Platform leadership backed by hands-on infrastructure depth.
Platform Engineering • Engineering Leadership • DevOps • SRE • Internal Developer Platforms • Developer Self-Service • Infrastructure as Code
Cloud-native platforms and container orchestration
AWS • GCP • Azure • Kubernetes / EKS • ECS • Docker • Networking • Terraform • Helm
Standardized provisioning and repeatable delivery
CI/CD • GitOps / ArgoCD • Packer • Go • Python • Bash • Terraform • Automation
Experience
Recent roles focused on modernization, standardization, and delivery.
Proven record of leading engineers, modernizing inherited systems, and creating more consistent cloud and deployment patterns across mixed technology stacks.
January 2022 - Present
Career Certified / DevOps Manager, Lead SRE, Platform Engineer
Lead a team of 5 engineers across infrastructure, database, security, software, and data disciplines supporting multiple business units and mixed technology stacks.
- Transformed an acquisition-driven cloud environment into a more standardized, scalable platform.
- Moved legacy EC2 deployments into Auto Scaling Groups and shifted nearly all non-legacy workloads to container-based delivery on ECS.
- Helped build an internal self-service platform CLI in Go that captures requirements in YAML and generates Terraform, Helm, and Ansible artifacts from standardized templates.
June 2021 - December 2021
Bank of Oklahoma / DevOps - Platform Engineering Contract
Implemented ArgoCD as a proof of concept in the UAT environment, validating GitOps-based deployment workflows in an enterprise banking setting.
- Delivered a successful pilot that resulted in a full-time offer, which I declined to join Career Certified.
January 2014 - June 2021
McAfee & Taft / System Administrator, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Designed and supported hybrid cloud infrastructure, backup and disaster recovery solutions, and high-availability systems for legal and litigation-related operations.
- Automated operational workflows with Python and shell scripting while contributing to cloud architecture, reliability, and security improvements.
- Delivered infrastructure improvements that reduced e-discovery and litigation support costs while increasing efficiency.
Earlier Experience
Practice Evolution's and Avansic / Systems Administration
Earlier systems administration roles that built the operational foundation for later platform engineering, automation, and infrastructure leadership work.
Selected Technologies
Representative tools across cloud, runtime, and delivery.
Recent stack coverage across cloud platforms, automation, delivery tooling, and operational systems.
Cloud & Platform
AWS • GCP • Azure • Kubernetes • EKS • ECS • Terraform • Helm • ArgoCD
platform engineering
Delivery & Automation
Packer • Docker • GitLab • Jenkins • Go • Python • Bash
delivery automation
Systems & Operations
Linux • Windows Server • MySQL • DNS • Firewalls • S3
reliability and operations
- Automated previously manual deployment processes with Packer, Terraform, and EC2 user data.
- Standardized infrastructure provisioning across EKS, ECS, .NET / Ansible, PHP, and Node.js environments.
- Partner with engineering leaders to balance modernization, governance, inherited systems, and business continuity.
- Backstage remains available as the protected platform demo entry point linked from this public CV.