Summary:
I am a strategic, detail-oriented, energetic, senior lead platform engineer managing an enterprise environment of F5 Networks BigIP deployments and solutions for a Fortune 500 financial corporation. My field of experience is diverse spanning 20+ years. I lead a team of cross-functional engineers providing business solutions, participate in both architecture and engineering roles, modernize platform infrastructure, standardize processes, and present senior leadership with attainable objectives and key results. One of my strengths is the ability to distill engineering objectives into conversational bullet points.
Skills:
F5 Networks, LTM, GTM, DNS, APM, Viprion, Vcmp, BigIQ, AWS, Compute, Storage, Network, Public Cloud, NTP, CCNA, Python, Bash, Linux, Ansible, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, JIRA, Confluence, Product Owner, ServiceNow, Microsoft, Visio, Critical Thinker, Individual Contributor, Troubleshooting, Debugging, Incident Resolution, Security, Audits, Project Management, Solution Engineering, Solution Architect, Ability to travel.
Qualification Highlights:
- Consult and influence platform engineering and architectural governance standards.
- Engineered and deployed multi-data center enterprise platform infrastructure.
- Delivered hundreds of complex highly resilient application solutions.
- Influence best practice skills for more consistent change management and application standards.
- Manage a diverse team of contractors and employees.
- Broad skill set of associated infrastructure services and concepts; networking protocols, authentication mechanisms, encryption methods, security concepts, provisioning, high availability, load balancing, topology models, performance testing, functional testing, DNS, Proxy and Firewalls, AWS cloud.
Work Experience:
Capital One Financial | January 2014 - Present
Senior Lead Platform Engineer, Senior Manager - Enterprise Engineering.
- Subject matter expert for F5 Networks platform services
- Delivered architectural and engineered solutions for application delivery.
- Evangelized next generation hardware and software solutions.
- Manage internal team workflow.
- Provide troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
- Analyzed platform vulnerabilities and deployed remediation actions.
- Provide mentorship, collaboration and training to junior engineers.
- Call upon for operational support 24x7x365
Verizon Business Services | September 2011 – January 2014
Lead Consulting Engineer - Managed Network Security Services – Contracted to Capital One Financial.
- Subject matter expert for F5 Networks platform services.
- Supported Enterprise infrastructure services
- Participated in routine troubleshooting engagements.
- Provide project management skills to deliver new customer requested services
- Provided operational support 24x7x365
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Network Services | July 2010 – September 2011
Enterprise Network Services | Technology Consultant III – Contracted to Bank of America.
- Subject matter expert for F5 Networks platform services.
- Deployed new LTM and GTM solutions.
- Participated in routine troubleshooting engagements.
- Provided routine maintenance, monitoring, instability remediation, migration and on-call critical application support.
- Provided operational support 24x7x365
Tek Systems, Richmond, VA | March 2007 – July 2010
Enterprise Network Services | Technology Consultant III.
- Subject matter expert for F5 Networks platform services.
- Deployed new LTM and GTM solutions.
Education:
- Associate in Applied Science, Computer Technologies - Magna Cum Laude
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate:
- AWS DevOPS Specialization:
- Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner:
- F5 Networks Certified: LTM, DNS
- F5 Corporation – BigIP LTM Essentials & Advanced, GTM/DNS, APM, ASM, and Troubleshooting.
- VersionOne - Agile Scrum & Kanban training
- Microsoft MCP Certified:
- Cisco CCNA Certified:
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