Cybersecurity-minded, code-quality enthusiast with a passion for bleeding-edge tools and frameworks, test-driven development, secure coding, and infrastructure automation.
Brought business perspective to the software product backlog by representing all stakeholders, internal and external, to the development team.
Created product vision and designed product roadmap
Managed, minimized, and provided clarity to the product backlog
Functioned as a liaison between product stakeholders, the government, and the team
Organized, held, and sometimes presented in team meetings
Assisted other leaders in developing and enabling teams to remain productive offsite during the COVID-19 pandemic by developing a separate remote backlog and scrum board, virtualizing all meetings, and facilitating new methods of communciation.
Maintain middleware and enterprise systems, integrate Open Source Software, provide support for Fortify source code scanning, software tools and tool integration, test automation, and the Atlassian tool suite.
Acquired Secret Clearance
Wrote and assisted in writing several tools in Java to automate the STIG process and enforce an enterprise-wide standard convention
Wrote an automated RPM package build tool in Go
Worked as administrator for JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye Crucible, and SonarQube
Assisted development teams in resolving Fortify scan errors and educating developers in proper build tool integration with the Fortify suite
Specialized in secure coding practices and test-driven development
Presented training courses to developers to stress the importance of secure coding practices and educate them on effective integration of security best practices
Presented training courses with a workshop teaching test-driven development best practices
Authored many shell scripts to streamline workflow
Actively participated in SCRUM & Agile software development
Utilized a “standard toolbox” of code quality tools including but not limited to: Coding convention, code complexity, code quality, security, and code coverage
Collaborated with teams across the enterprise to educate developers on automated testing principles and increase code coverage
Participated in a CI/CD pipeline team to improve DevOps workflow
Worked on modernization, automated testing, and feature development of an Oracle OAM authentication plugin written in Java
Modernized front-end HTML and CSS to HTML5 and CSS3 along with table-less web design
Created a modular middleware deployment architecture utilizing Ansible to deploy baselined configurations and software to any network and system in the building
Contracted through Modis to provide general IT support where needed
Remote desktop support
Network troubleshooting
Image PC's and laptops
Encryption with Bitlocker
Utilized PowerShell to automate zero client swapout procedure
Troubleshoot hardware face to face with clients
Dispatched to physical locations for troubleshooting tickets
Maintenance of printer queues and network printers
Maintained a logical naming scheme of network devices
Utilized Active Directory to add permissions for new users
Patch in users through Cisco routers and switches
Quickly and accurately diagnose technology issues and create robust solutions as needed.
Setup and configuration of new computers
Worked with a wide variety of operating systems including mobile systems like Android and iOS
Provided support for end-users network/drivers/software/hardware/upgrades/troubleshooting
Data recovery
Malware identification and removal
General system maintenance and optimization
Designed and implemented an operations checklist to ensure quality and consistency
Open Source Minecraft Server
Authored and maintained 13 server-side plugins
Most successful of the 13 achieved 350,000 downloads
Responded to user questions, issues, and implemented new functionality based on user feedback.
Wrote code that was accepted into a project with over 1.7 million downloads
Authored several utilites for console users
Wrote a friendly and colorful dotfile repository syncing agent in BASH
Created a network manager in Java
Created a network manager in BASH
Wrote an IRC bot heavily leveraging an SQL database