About

Engineering repeatable, auditable infrastructure & automation.

I make infrastructure and automation repeatable, auditable, and safer for engineering teams. My career started in enterprise Cisco UC at Cisco TAC and grew into modern platform engineering — Terraform and Ansible at scale, Kubernetes baselines, CI/CD with OIDC/workload identity, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog), and gated production deploys across any cloud, on-prem, or hybrid. I keep scope tight, document what I build, and make things easier for the next engineer who has to touch them.

Core competencies

Cloud, Infrastructure & Networking

  • Azure · AWS · GCP · any cloud
  • On-prem · hybrid environments
  • Kubernetes (AKS, GKE, EKS)
  • Docker · Helm · containers
  • Managed databases · networking · DNS/TLS

Automation & Delivery

  • Terraform (plan/apply, remote state, env separation)
  • Ansible · AWX / AAP · Argo
  • GitHub Actions · Jenkins · GitLab CI
  • n8n workflow automation · webhooks
  • Python · Bash · PowerShell · SQL

Operations, Security & Observability

  • Secrets management · OIDC / workload identity
  • IAM · least-privilege patterns
  • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Datadog
  • Linux admin (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, Solaris)
  • Cisco UC (CUCM, UCCX, Unity, CUBE, SIP)
  • Incident response · SOP authoring · runbooks

Education

  • BS in Management — University of Phoenix (Feb 2013 – May 2015)
  • Associate in Graphic Arts — Massasoit Community College (Apr 1994 – May 1996)

Certifications

  • CCNA — 2013
  • CCNA Voice — 2013
  • VMware VCP — 2014
  • CompTIA A+ · Network+ — 2000 / 2002