About

Engineering repeatable, auditable infrastructure & automation.

I build and operate the internal platforms other teams ship on. Over 25+ years that has meant production work across AWS, Azure, and GCP — Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD at organization scale — with unusual depth in identity and PKI: OIDC federation and workload identity, secrets lifecycle, and certificate/TLS architecture carried over from seven years as a Cisco security and certificates SME. Today I own the Jenkins and GitHub Actions ecosystem behind a manufacturing-scale release process. Before that I built an Azure/AKS platform as Terraform, eliminated long-lived cloud credentials from CI, and wrote the destroy-approval gates that keep a bad plan from taking down production. Across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and media, the goal has stayed the same: make infrastructure repeatable, auditable, and safer for the next engineer who has to touch it.

Core competencies

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • Azure · AWS · GCP
  • Kubernetes (AKS, GKE, EKS/Fargate)
  • Docker · Helm · Artifactory · ECR
  • Terraform · managed databases
  • Networking · DNS/TLS · multi-environment provisioning
  • VMware virtualization

Automation & Delivery

  • Jenkins · GitHub Actions · GitLab
  • Terraform plan/apply · remote state · environment separation
  • Ansible · AWX · Argo · Mergify
  • CI/CD pipeline design and hardening
  • AWS CodePipeline / CodeBuild · Autosys · MOVEit / MFT
  • Python · Bash · Groovy · PowerShell · SQL · REST APIs

Identity, Security & PKI

  • OIDC federation · workload identity
  • Secrets management and rotation (HashiCorp Vault, 1Password Connect, cloud secret managers)
  • IAM · least-privilege patterns
  • Certificate lifecycle · trust chains · TLS/mTLS
  • SIP-TLS · SRTP · IPsec
  • Approval and policy gates in CI

Operations

  • Linux administration (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, Solaris)
  • Windows Server in hybrid / migration contexts
  • Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Datadog
  • Monitoring · runbooks · SOP authoring
  • Incident response and root-cause analysis

AI Tooling

  • OpenAI · Claude · self-hosted LLMs
  • Applied to infrastructure, CI, and log-analysis workflows

Education

  • BS in Management — University of Phoenix (Feb 2013 – May 2015)
  • BA, Graphic Design (pursued, not completed) — University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (Sep 1996 – May 1998)
  • Associate in Graphic Arts — Massasoit Community College (Apr 1994 – May 1996)

Certifications

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