Senior cloud engineer.
Hands on by default.

Travis County Central Health

Senior Systems and Cloud Engineer

• Brought in to transition Central Health's cloud infrastructure from external contractors to internal ownership, completing the technical handoff and developing the Terraform, architecture, operational, and institutional knowledge required to independently manage the environment.
• Assumed hands-on responsibility for infrastructure including landing zones, networking, identity integration, infrastructure-as-code, Linux and Windows workloads, security controls, operational documentation, and production support.
• Planned and executed the migration of cloud workloads and supporting infrastructure from South Central US to Central US, coordinating Terraform changes, network dependencies, application validation, data movement, and production cutover activities.
• Designed cloud landing zones, deployment workflows, network boundaries, identity controls, and infrastructure standards to support the separation of Sendero from the Central Health environment.
• Established a disaster recovery environment in US East 2, including recovery architecture, infrastructure provisioning, data protection requirements, failover planning, operational procedures, and readiness documentation.
• Led the OvalEdge data governance platform implementation from initial planning through production maturity, including infrastructure design, vendor coordination, Linux and application support, backups, monitoring, security integration, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Implemented an internal AI-assisted knowledge system capable of answering operational and technical questions using approved organizational documentation as its reference corpus.
• Created cloud security, NIST control, and threat visibility dashboards to centralize compliance evidence, infrastructure findings, operational risk, and remediation status.
• Supported security investigations involving cloud activity, system access, audit records, authentication events, network behavior, log correlation, and preservation of technical evidence.
• Repurposed existing server and domain infrastructure to build an internal OpenStack private cloud for private workloads, infrastructure testing, and reduced dependence on public-cloud resources.
• Partnered with an AI technology vendor to design and stand up a production Kubernetes environment, including cluster architecture, networking, access controls, storage, deployment coordination, operational readiness, and Helm-based application configuration.
• Operate hybrid workloads spanning Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, OpenStack, VMware, Kubernetes, and traditional Linux and Windows infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules, Azure DevOps pipelines, GitHub Actions workflows, architecture standards, runbooks, and technical training materials supporting repeatable and auditable operations.
• Administered several hundred Linux systems across cloud, on-premises, and LightEdge data center infrastructure, primarily Ubuntu and Rocky Linux, supporting OvalEdge, PAM services, databases, document management, medical applications, Kubernetes infrastructure, and internal platform services.

TEKsystems

Cloud Database Engineer

Provided cloud engineering, database, automation, and platform services across enterprise client engagements including Paychex, Cisco, and Ford.

• Designed and provisioned MongoDB Atlas, PostgreSQL, and supporting cloud infrastructure using modular Terraform configurations operating under formal change-control and CAB processes.
• Used Terraform across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and MongoDB Atlas providers to create repeatable infrastructure and database deployment workflows.
• Supported Linux-based database, automation, and application infrastructure across public-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Performed database engineering and administration for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL platforms.
• Developed Python automation to extend infrastructure capabilities where native Terraform providers or platform APIs did not meet project requirements.
• Built and maintained delivery workflows using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Harness.
• Supported containerized workloads running on AKS, GKE, and EKS, including deployment troubleshooting, infrastructure integration, configuration management, and limited Helm chart maintenance.
• Integrated Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, and Google Cloud Run into automated delivery workflows.
• Applied OpenStack networking, compute, and storage concepts to distributed application and data-platform designs.
• Worked with application, database, networking, security, and platform teams to troubleshoot complex production issues across multiple infrastructure layers.

Rackspace

ERCOT

Linux System Administrator

• Performed Linux system administration primarily within the RHCSA/RHCSE scope, with heavy use of Active Directory, vSphere, Infoblox, Likewise, and UCS Director for new builds.
• Migrated more than 1,000 servers from on-premises infrastructure to cloud.
• Managed more than 1,300 servers and participated in a weekly on-call rotation.
• Used Ansible, Puppet, and pdsh for orchestration and automation.
• Completed a Node.js dashboard proof of concept using blessed-contrib and built TIBCO failover scripts in Python.
• Managed Kubernetes clusters for several application teams.
• Served as Linux primary for a 500-plus server physical-to-virtual data center migration involving RHEL 5, 6, and 7 systems, and trained additional staff on the migration procedures.
• Completed a proof of concept replacing PowerBroker with realmd and LDAP.
• Authored or contributed to team documentation on Ansible, P2V migration, realmd, and LDAP.
• Assisted in training a new Linux system administrator.

Kestra Financial

Technology Analyst

• Provided firm technical consulting and internal and owned-firm help desk support using Jira and Salesforce ticketing.
• Supported applications, browsers, web hosting, MX records, and SPF records.
• Led conversion and administration to Mimecast for all firms and provided general cryptography consulting.
• Administered Active Directory and vSphere.

IGT

System Administrator

• Monitored and troubleshot the Texas Lottery infrastructure.
• Provided internal help desk support and served as the escalation point for field technicians.
• Performed systems administration including upgrades, LDAP access management, and failovers.
• Ensured overnight ETL jobs completed successfully and supported the business intelligence pipeline.

Eagle Eye Networks

Technical Support

• Performed network troubleshooting locally and between the home data center and sites around the world.
• Provided Linux troubleshooting.
• Contributed to testing and quality assurance.
• As the first technical support employee, trained new technical support hires.