Employment History

United Wholesale Mortgage

585 S Blvd E Pontiac, MI 48341

5/26/2018 - present

Title: Systems Engineer

Major Business Impacts

  • Designed and implemented infrastructure template builds with Hashicorp Packer automated provisioning of new infrastructure with Hashicorp Terraform. This created massive business impact in the following ways:

  • Infrastructure is now automatically patched, scanned for vulnerabilities, and deployed in a codified, scalable and automated process. New infrastructure can be deployed when newly built software is deployed to ensure that applications are running on the most secure and up to date infrastructure.

  • Designed and implemented self generating documentation easily accessible inside the infrastructure as code (IaC) repositories.

  • Designed, implemented and maintained code development pipelines with automated documentation, unit, integration and mutation testing processes

Certifications

  • Puppet Certified
  • Hashicorp Vault Certified
  • Hashicorp Terraform Certified
  • Hashicorp Packer Certified
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Certified

Technologies

  • Ansible
  • Puppet Eterprise
  • Hashicorp Vault
  • Hashicorp Terraform
  • Hashicorp Packer
  • Hashicorp Nomad
  • Octopus
  • Jenkins
  • Harness
  • ArgoCD
  • Bitbucket
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Artifactory
  • BigIP F5
  • Dynatrace
  • AppDynamics
  • Jira
  • Team Foundation Server (TFS)
  • Team City

Languages

  • Puppet
  • Ruby
  • Powershell
  • Python
  • HCL
  • Golang

Responsibilities

References

Ken Meservy

Hall Financial Group

888 Big Beaver Rd. Troy MI

5/26/2017 - 5/25/2018

Title: IT Systems Architect

Major Business Impacts

  • Developed new employee onboarding process and automation
  • Negotiated and secured vendor contracts
  • Developed custom plugins for Encompass LOS systems
  • Azure Active Directory
  • Microsoft 365 Administration
  • Designed, implemented and maintained firewall policies
  • Designed, implemented and maintained employee internal portal
  • Designed, implemented and maintained application deployment strategies and automation
  • Designed, implemented and maintained Wordpress site automation for generating new sites for company partners and associates
  • Designed, implemented and maintained marketing lead buy and distribution automation software

Workforce Software

888 Big Beaver Rd. Troy MI

5/26/2016 - 5/25/2017

Title: IT Systems Architect

Major Business Impacts

  • Developed new automation

Automatic Data Processing ADP

175 Jackson Plaza Ann Arbor, MI 48103

5/26/2016 - 5/25/2016

Title: IT Systems Architect

Major Business Impacts

  • Developed new automation

Reason for leaving

Nortern Michigan University

1401 Presque Isle Avenue Marquette MI, 49855

5/26/2010 - 5/25/2015

Title: Senior Helpdesk Analyst

Major Business Impacts

  • Developed new automation
  • Developed and maintained new employee training materials
  • Developed and maintained Knowledge base and wikis
  • Developed workflow automations

Education

Northern Michigan University

1401 Presque Isle Avenue Marquette MI, 49855

1/15/2008 - 12/15/2015

Major: Computer Science

Minor: Mathematics

Menominee High School

123 Some St. Menominee MI, 49858

1/15/1999 - 5/5/2002

Electives: Computer Science, CIS, Business Information Systems