Building high-availability, automation-first infrastructure at Salesforce - where uptime, security, and repeatability are the baseline.
Systems and DevOps engineer with 15+ years across enterprise on-prem, hybrid, and cloud. I replace fragile, hand-tuned environments with idempotent automation, hardened release pipelines, and runbooks teams can actually follow at 3 AM.
01 // Professional Record
Senior Systems & DevOps Engineer
Salesforce
- Built and maintained automation for 45+ server tiers across 16 environments to standardize deployments and operational stability.
- Led migration from Chef/Cinc to reusable, idempotent PowerShell modules, replacing 60+ legacy cookbooks.
- Standardized Jenkins CI/CD with environment-driven parameters, Git-tag promotion controls, and safer release workflows.
- Strengthened security and compliance via runtime secrets handling, service-account automation, TLS hardening, and validation gates.
- Implemented InSpec and Pester checks to verify system state before production promotion and improve audit readiness.
- Coordinated infrastructure changes - server builds, DNS/NTP/proxy, load balancer, firewall - across pre-prod and production.
Operations Engineer
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- Monitored enterprise production systems and responded to alerts in real time to support high availability.
- Triaged complex Windows/Linux incidents end-to-end with engineering teams for rapid resolution.
- Conducted root-cause analysis and documented corrective actions to drive continuous improvement.
- Owned issues from intake through remediation with clear communication and complete ticket records.
Data Center Engineer
Roche Diagnostics
- Maintained day-to-day health and uptime of production data center infrastructure.
- Resolved service-impacting incidents quickly, coordinating with internal teams and vendors.
- Performed server hardware installs, relocations, maintenance, rack-and-stack, and structured cabling.
- Produced operational documentation and change records to improve support consistency and audit readiness.
System Administrator & Support Specialist
Belcan Corp & Enerdel (contract)
- Provided Tier 1/2 support for 300+ users across three buildings.
- Administered Windows Server / Active Directory: accounts, Group Policy, backup, VPN.
- Built VMware infrastructure on HP ProLiant (ESXi, vSphere, vCenter, Veeam) and converted 25 physical servers to VMs.
- Deployed Symantec Endpoint Antivirus and an OCS Linux-based inventory system.
02 // Core Capabilities
Cloud & Virtualization
AWS (networking, IAM, security groups), VMware vSphere/ESXi, Hyper-V, VDI, and hybrid cloud / on-prem architectures.
Automation & CI/CD
PowerShell, Bash, Python, Jenkins pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, idempotent modules, versioned deployment and rollback workflows.
Identity & Security
Active Directory, Group Policy, PKI/certificates, runtime secrets handling, TLS hardening, patching, vulnerability remediation, audit & compliance ops.
Networking & Operations
TCP/IP, DNS, NTP, proxy, VPN, routing/switching, firewall and load balancer coordination, WAN/LAN troubleshooting, Splunk, SCOM, runbooks.
03 // Beyond the Terminal
Family
The system that matters most. Husband, dad, and the reason the on-call pager gets handled properly.
Investing & Crypto
Long-term investor and self-custody crypto holder. Comfortable with cold storage, hardware wallets, and on-chain mechanics.
Home Automation
Home lab running automations, sensors, and self-hosted services - practical infrastructure for the people I live with.
Personal Security
Threat-modeling for everyday life: physical security, digital opsec, password hygiene, and family preparedness.
Indiana LAN Heritage
Ran and competed in the Indiana PC gaming scene back when 'BYO tower + Cat5' was the cover charge. Built the muscle for networking, hardware, and showing up on time.
05 // Education
Purdue University
B.S., Computer & Information Technology
Certificate in Network Security
06 // Secure Inquiry
Open to senior systems / DevOps / SRE roles and infrastructure consulting.