My Experience

Cloud Agnostic Architecture

In the modern scene of systems infrastructure, it’s important to provide highly available services. One of the prime technological decisions is to divide up service sites amongst many providers. By utilizing the advantages of AWS, Azure, and other Cloud Service Providers (CSP), I’ve architected and built crucial enterprise services with high availability in mind.

Large-scale Enterprise General Support Systems (GSS)

When they first adopt cloud workloads, it is common to see enterprises developing individual cloud sites per application workload. This raises the costs of management, maintenance, and consumption due to redundant resources being deployed. To combat disparate cloud visions, it is important to consider and design a unified cloud platform for the organization.

In my experience, I’ve designed, developed, and built large-scale GSS to provide a resilient hub and spoke core to reduce cost and improve application performance. These systems have support core pillars of operations, and spanned across data centers and cloud providers.

Infrastructure Modernization and Automation

The technology behind implement infrastructure in the modern world has grown in complexity. As such, sophisticated technologies have been developed to improve the ability to adapt, integrate, and deploy resources in the cloud. By utilizing tools like Azure ARM and Terraform, I’ve built large libraries of infrastructure as code to automate the deployment of resources. This in turn reduces the level of effort to evolve application workloads going through the modernization process rapidly.

 

Active Directory (AD) & Azure Active Directory (AAD)

AD is the core backbone of any Windows-based infrastructure. When paired with Azure, many powerful tools are unlocked. From identity management to conditional access, a secure, robust AD implementation is a requirement in most modern enterprises.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

In the modern world, national infrastructure is constantly evolving, allowing more workers to work from home. To support this growth, I’ve built numerous instances of Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) and Citrix VDI to support organizations with thousands of users.

System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Intune

As enterprises grow larger, it becomes more difficult to manage devices and keep them compliant with patches and application deployment. Using tools like SCCM and Intune streamlines the ability to automate patch and application compliance, even when introducing bring your own device (BYOD) policies.

 

Agile and DevOps

The best software developers understand that modern development never ends. The best way to suss out bugs and malfunctions is to approach development in quick, iterative Agile cycles. Pair this with an efficient DevOps pipeline and enterprise application maintenance becomes much more manageable.

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

OOP allows complex enterprise apps to be broken down into components in order to improve maintainability. With over 10 years of OOP experience in languages like Java and C#, I can quickly build application skeletons and flush them out into prototypes.

Procedural Programming

Sometimes a script is all a solution needs. Or, perhaps a solution does not require a fully built app. In these cases, I turn to languages like Python and PowerShell to build simple but powerful IT tools.

 

My Positions

COO
Lowman

As business at Lowman continued to develop, I stepped into a senior leadership role to ensure that the organization's operational goals were being met.

Tasks aligned to a few major goals:

  1. Promote growth in our staff in both breadth and depth of technical and business skills

  2. Provide resources to build top-of-the-line technical solutions for our customers

  3. Support the research and development of future-forward technologies in the Information Technology space (ex. DevSecOps modernization to define enterprise environments through code)

Senior DevSecOps Engineer, Systems Engineer
Lowman

Served as a senior DevOps engineer and a Systems Engineer to support a diverse collection of cloud and on-premise infrastructure and lead teams of junior and mid-level engineers. From supporting Federal customers to fortune 500 companies, to building relations with local businesses, we focused on supporting the community that helped build us up.

Senior Cloud Engineer
Simple Technology Solutions (STS) & Applied Information Services (AIS)

Worked as a contracted engineer to support federal contracts for cloud adoption, design, and maintenance. My role allowed me to develop and maintain FedRAMP high-compliant GSS for federal agencies. I also had the opportunity to serve as a security architect for a federal enterprise data warehouse project.

 
 

SCCM Engineer, Systems Engineer
Cloudforce

Worked with many private and local government organizations to establish, improve and maintain their SCCM infrastructure. Additionally took on infrastructure planning and migration to Azure resources, including SQL DBs, WVD, and Azure backup services.

Partner IT Engineer
CDW

Served as a core IT Engineer focused primarily on delivering Azure infrastructure to customers across the United States. From cyber security incident recovery, to data center migrations, to cloud proof of concepts, I served customers of all sizes from the private and government sectors.

IT Admin and Manager
STEMexCEL LLC

Worked to support operations and infrastructure for an organization that provided after-school education programs for schools across Northern Virginia. From Loudon to Alexandria, my managed devices and infrastructure supported the education and introduction of elementary students to science, art, and engineering principles.