Spec sheet

I automate everything that ships or breaks: deployments, releases, certificates, failovers, hardware and software. That’s 20+ years in enterprise infrastructure, more than ten of them in DevOps and automation, mostly across Azure, AWS and the Windows systems underneath them.

What I do

• Release pipelines. Azure DevOps Classic and YAML pipelines, release definitions and REST integrations, including multi-region release pipelines into AWS. Octopus Deploy workflows from dev to test to prod.
• Reliability. Pipeline-gated failover with state-aware validation: a two-datacenter database failover cut from 35+ minutes to under 10. High availability, monitoring, alerting and root-cause work across app, network and data layers.
• Certificates and secrets. Vault-to-binding certificate lifecycle across 20+ servers, with verification and expiry alerts. PKI and TLS, service principals and secrets management.
• Build and provisioning. Server and application-stack builds driven from config files, which cut setup time 50%. 4,000+ reusable PowerShell functions for releases, load balancers, diagnostics and config validation.
• AI automation. AI coding agents held to versioned templates and gated by parser, security, lint, test, build and smoke checks. Local models, RAG and embeddings that keep sensitive data on the machine.

Highlights

• Database failover across two datacenters: 35+ minutes to under 10.
• On-prem to AWS move with a small DevOps team I led: infrastructure costs down 30%.
• Config-driven server builds: setup time down 50%.
• Local RAG search over 28,914 chunks: 21.8 s to 30–50 ms per query.
• Four peer-nominated awards in three months for automation work.

Skills

Area	Tools
Delivery and release	Azure DevOps (Classic and YAML pipelines, release definitions, REST APIs), Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, Git and GitHub
Reliability and observability	High availability, failover automation, SQL Server Always On, Azure Monitor, Datadog, Dynatrace, Serilog/SEQ, alerting, root-cause analysis
Cloud and platforms	Azure (Key Vault, Front Door, App Services, AKS, Entra ID), AWS (EC2, S3, IAM), Docker, ARM/Bicep
Security	PKI and TLS, certificate lifecycle, service principals, secrets management
Automation	PowerShell 7, Python, C#/.NET, Bash, SQL, REST APIs, UI and browser automation
Applied AI	RAG, embeddings and vector search, prompt engineering, local model serving with Ollama, AI coding agents with human review
Infrastructure	VMware vSphere, PowerCLI, Windows Server, IIS, unattended installs, PSWindowsUpdate, Chocolatey, load balancers

Community

• Active in VMUG Salt Lake City.
• Volunteer IT support for local community services.

Proof

• Multi_Install_ISO: servers built straight from install ISOs, with a hashed plan, gated apply and a receipt for every step.
• BoardScout: a portable Windows hardware, bandwidth and driver audit app: fourteen releases, checksummed since 1.1.
• Everything else on GitHub.

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