Experience
Prestige Financial Services
Oct 2025 – Present
Cloud Architect
- Sole cloud architect owning the full Azure + AWS environment for a financial services firm — architecture, governance, security, cost, and day-to-day operations.
- Designed a greenfield Azure landing zone from scratch: hub-spoke networking, RBAC, Azure Policy, Key Vault, centralized logging, and security baselines.
- Built all infrastructure with Terraform — modular IaC frameworks supporting scalable, repeatable, audit-ready deployments across environments.
- Led cloud migration initiative end-to-end: strategy, architectural reviews, workload transitions, and blocker resolution in collaboration with engineering and security.
- Established CI/CD pipelines for IaC via Azure DevOps + GitHub Actions; provided mentorship on cloud-native design to cross-functional teams.
- Stepped into expanded IT leadership as the company wound down — directed the outsourced MSP for all day-to-day IT operations and managed Entra ID / Okta governance.
Prestige Financial Services
Sep 2022 – Oct 2025
Cloud Engineer
- Managed a hybrid AWS + Azure environment supporting containerized, mission-critical financial workloads.
- Administered Amazon EKS clusters — autoscaling, upgrades, Helm chart management, and cross-environment reliability improvements.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Pulumi (IaC); earned AWS CSA – Associate within 2 months of joining.
- Led GitHub Enterprise migration with Okta SSO integration; administered the platform ongoing — managing org policies, SAML enforcement, branch protections, and access governance.
Medici Land Governance
Apr 2020 – Sep 2022
DevOps Engineer
- Sole DevOps engineer for a global SaaS platform — owned all GCP infrastructure, GKE production clusters, and Kustomize-based GitOps pipelines.
- Managed full corporate separation in 2021: migrated Google Cloud, O365, Okta, Cloudflare, Slack, and Confluence to a new independent entity.
Accela
Nov 2019 – Apr 2020
Expert Services Engineer
- Delivered professional services for a government SaaS platform: custom SQL/Crystal reports, PowerShell automation, GIS integrations, and Azure resource deployments.
Ivanti
Oct 2015 – Nov 2019
Senior DevOps Infrastructure Engineer
- Senior infra engineer for a global engineering org — managed thousands of VMs across VMware vCenter and Hyper-V/SCVMM.
- Reduced VM deployment times 70% via automated PowerShell provisioning templates and hardware upgrades.
- Consolidated engineering footprint from 40+ racks of desktops to under 6 racks through datacenter consolidation and virtualization.
- Deployed HPE Synergy composable infrastructure + Nimble all-flash SAN; administered Commvault backup across multiple sites.
Earlier Career
LANDesk Software · 2013–2015
Product Support Engineer — Tier-3 escalation for EPM & Avalanche MDM; partnered with Engineering on defect prioritization; delivered customer training at trade shows.
EMC Corporation · 2012–2013
TSE II — Supported EMC Networker enterprise backup; top 10% case resolution; earned EMC ISM certification.
Wavelink Corporation · 2007–2012
TSE III — Promoted T2→T3 in 3 years; key account management, QA software releases, weekly Tier 2 training; built strong foundation in Windows, Linux, networking, and PostgreSQL.