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About me

Proven Configuration Management leader with 17+ years of experience in large-scale projects from design through implementation. I bring a wealth of experience in evaluating, developing, and maintaining critical components of business applications environments. I have consistently played a pivotal role in optimizing infrastructure, minimizing downtime, and ensuring seamless operations for all animation productions in one of the most successful media companies.

Leveraging a diverse skill set that spans system architecture, cloud technologies, and continuous improvement methodologies, I am committed to implementing and maintaining robust, scalable, and efficient hybrid cloud-agnostic systems.

If you're looking for an innovative leader driving transformative change, cost savings, revenue growth, and high-performance teams, please connect with me.

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• December 2020 - Present

  Principal Engineer

  Paramount Skydance

  · Full-time · Hybrid

  Burbank, California, United States

  In my current role, my responsibilities encompass successful collaboration with cross-functional teams, implementing best practices, and deploying innovative solutions to address complex reliability challenges for the animation productions at Nickelodeon.
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Harnessing the power of Terraform to design and implement scalable and resilient infrastructure across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring the reproducibility and maintainability of our deployments for our hybrid render farm and inhouse tools.
  • Leveraging Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Argo CD to automate build, test, and deploy processes across Kubernetes clusters, streamlining workflows and reducing time-to-market for animation productions.
  • Architectural Design
  • Design cloud-agnostic and hybrid architectures for migrating projects from on-premises to cloud environments.
  • Migrate and upgrade on-prem FileMaker database servers multiple times, with plans to transition to a cloud-based solution.
  • Managing version/asset control environments through application servers like Perforce and Flix, that leverage compute, database, caching and storage solutions.
  • POC testing and production implementation of remote desktop solutions such as Teradici, HP Anyware, Zscaler, and Jump.
  • Asset management systems like Autodesk Flow with red/green environments leveraging compute, database, caching and load balancing services in cloud platforms, supporting 40+ animation productions and 1000+ users.
  • Architect Kubernetes clusters for containerized workloads, ensuring scalability and high availability for render farm services.
  • Lift and Shift - Migrate application software license servers from on-premises VMs to cloud-hosted instances.
  • Continuous Integration and Deployment
  • Develop and implement robust CI/CD pipelines using Chef Progress, Jenkins, GitHub runners, and Argo CD, integrating automated testing and deployment process for seamless delivery across multi-cloud tenants.
  • Implement Docker containerization for microservices and internal tools enabling portability and efficient resource utilization.
  • Strategic Leadership
  • Provide strategic vision and technical leadership, aligning technology solutions with business goals and driving innovation across the organization.
  • Automation
  • Create plugins hosted on a windows VM to process files and write log data to monitoring platforms.
  • Develop custom Python libraries to integrate with Autodesk Flow, Deadline, and internal tools, improving automation and data workflows.
  • Create render farm environments with hundreds of compute nodes that are utilized across different tools.
  • Monitoring/Reporting
  • Build dashboards and reports created for upper management to show details of render farm usage, access and use of tools, etc.
  • Implement observability solutions for hosts and synthetic monitors.
  • Flask Server to host internal website to show data related to Flow and Deadline render farm.
  • Documentation/Collaboration
  • Create comprehensive documentation for implemented solutions and conduct training sessions to empower team members with the skills necessary to navigate and contribute to our CI/CD and DevOps landscape.
  • Visual collaboration with Syncsketch for animation editors and producers.
  • Wrike/Asana projects to track and monitor tasks and procedures.
  • Airtable database to interact with Filemaker database to track inventory of over 400 hardware/software for users.
  • Identity Management
  • SSO Integration - Okta identity integration into Autodesk Flow and other internal applications.
  • Configure GitHub.com access through Oauth.
  • Full administrator capabilities for Active Directory.

• November 2015 - December 2020

  Pipeline Technical Director

  Viacom Inc./ Nickelodeon

  · Full-time · Hybrid

  Burbank, California, United States

  • Technical expertise and ownership of application debugging for all departments.
  • Providing world-class software/hardware/database support for the day-to-day operations of the studio and its initiatives.
  • Analyze issues and create solutions for HW and SW problems.
  • Work with System Engineers and Architects on projects in support of studio initiatives.
  • Manage all aspects of software license installations and servers.

• November 2007 - December 2015

  Senior TSR/Casper Administrator

  Viacom Inc./ Nickelodeon

  · Full-time · On-site

  Burbank, California, United States

  • Dedicated production tech leadon the IT team at nickelodeon Burbank.
  • Oversaw technicians for 20 high level executivesand team, as well as 3 animation productions.
  • Casper Administrator - Managed over 1000 Mac’swith JAMF policies and deployable packages.
  • Participate in, and/or run preventative maintenance tasks.
  • Creating and maintaining documentation related to the windows/mac support of the studio.

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