Biography
My name is Travis and I currently live in Ormond Beach, Florida with my wife and four kids. I have been in a DevOps role since 2015, experiencing something new every day. I am always willing to learn something new. It keeps me fresh with the industry standards, while keeping my skills in tune.
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Interests
- Cooking
- Biking with my family
- Hiking / Backpacking
- Kayaking
- Fishing
- Woodworking
Education
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Aeronautics, 2012
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Experience
Cloud Architect
- Architect - Cloud Accelerator IaC Open Source projects using Terraform IaC
- Architect - Ground up implementation of pipeline automation using Gitlab CI/CD, Artifactory, and Ansible for internal global telecommunications software tools.
- Architect - US team lead for the Import and parallel rebuild of AWS production infrastructure with zero downtime.
- SRE Architect - US team lead responsible for Retention and Recovery solutions using Lambda, DynamoDB, and S3. Implementation of Auth0 management using Terraform and Azure DevOps. Design and implement Python CLI for AWS RDS recovery.
- Architect - Research and Development of AWS Cloud Accelerator using Account Factory Terraform
- Architect - Adoption and implementation of AWS GovCloud for DoE client. Ground up design and implementation of infrastructure components needed for delivering their application to end users. Implemented best security practices for DoE compliance, scanned, and passed without issue. Assist with AWS Workload Migration Program (WMP) assessment.
- Architect - US team lead responsible for porting existing infrastructure into Terraform. Evaluation of infrastructure and improvement suggestions for cost savings and AWS best practices, leading to long term involvement for modernization and cost savings efforts.
- Architect - Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA) for HIPAA Migration from on premise workloads into AWS with zero downtime. Created IaC for managing underlying infrastructure and modernized database workloads to utilize AWS RDS
- Architect - Create and architect ARC Open Source IaC for the “Happy Path” initiative for the different infrastructure management scenarios. This set the standard across the organization for IaC practices and implementation.
Senior IT Systems Administrator
- Implement DevOps practices and standards for the newly formed US East teams.
- Re-wrote and modularized Terraform code for migration into a new environment.
- Python scripting for automated cleanup of legacy resources.
- Automate Azure Function releases with Ansible and Azure-DevOps.
- Configure Cloud Custodian to tag resources.
- Re-Configure Terraform resources and pipelines for several business units.
- Migrate legacy resources to cloud native resources.
DevOps Engineer
- Migrate to GitLab and re-design deployment pipelines.
- Transition the team into an agile methodology.
- Build and transition production monitoring solution to use EKS using Terraform, Helm, and Gitlab-CI/CD for pipeline automation.
- Implemented two week sprints to the team leading into daily scrum meetings which improved the overall feedback loop within the team.
- Implemented and enforced a support ticketing system for tracking all client requests to resources administered by the DevOps team.
- Re-structure the git and ticketing workflow for active / inactive work requests.
- Script redundant, manual tasks then automate using GitLab-CI/CD.
- Dockerize monolithic applications and their dependencies.
DevOps Engineer
- Helped build and configure the Development, Staging, and UAT environments as well as set up the network structure and configuration.
- Created pipelines from development to production using CI/CD tools.
- Administered Git code repository and backups.
- System Administrator for the local domain and its policies as well as enforcing security standards.
- Wrote application / web server configuration scripts using bash and PowerShell.
- Azure administrator
- Automate Azure and Vsphere resources using Terraform, PowerShell, Gitlab-CI/CD, and Octopus Deploy.
- Automate code builds / deployments using TeamCity and Octopus Deploy.
- Assisted with migration into Gitlab-CI/CD and Ansible.
- Helped implement Docker into all environments.
- Automated releases for 200+ servers.
Accomplishments
Managing Microsoft Azure Applications and Infrastructure with Terraform
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