Robert Half

Robert Half Strategic Account clients are primarily Fortune 1000 companies with consulting, recruiting, and staffing needs throughout the US and Canada. Robert Half specializes in candidate placements in the accounting, finance, information technology, legal, creative and administrative sectors.

Vice President, Business Development

National Director, Strategic Accounts

Selligence

At Selligence we are pioneering autonomous predictive intelligence.

Our technology organizes the world’s information to connect users with the right information, at the right time, for the right reason.

Talent Ticker is Selligence's first go-to-market product, which has leveraged the unique autonomous predictive engine to predict the future of your staffing and talent markets and has quickly become the go-to solution for forward-thinking staffing organizations, worldwide.

Sales Manager

SkyBridge Resources

Strategic business development & account management for national and multi-national organizations. 

Liaise with recruiting and consulting teams to deliver successful staff augmentation engagements & project solutions. Interact with internal teams both USA based and offshore to maximize flexibility and value for SkyBridge’s Clients.

Responsible for guiding corporate communications and branding initiatives.
Assist with training and organizational development for local and regional offices.

Director, Business Development

In 2005, SkyBridge Resources (SBR) was established with the intention to redefine the recruiting process. SBR was built on the foundation of connecting people, simplifying business processes and leveraging technology. By building long-lasting relationships with top talent; directly and referral based, SBR quickly acquired a strong reputation of trust and success within the industry. These qualities stay true to this day.   

Today, SkyBridge Resources works in an array of industries including Information Technology, Professional Services, Engineering, Aviation and Healthcare. Located in Tampa & Orlando FL, Louisville KY, Denver CO, and Atlanta GA, SBR can provide recruiting capabilities nationwide. SBR also can provide offshore capabilities through our office in Hyderabad, India. 

Through our sister company, SkyBridge Global (SBG), we offer Project and Managed Services, specializing in Enterprise application implementation, integration, migration and upgrading services.  Industry specialties: Retail, Entertainment, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Life Sciences & Clinical Research, Engineering, Financial, Telecom, Higher Education and State & Local Governments

Business Development

Recruiter

University of Tampa

Used Professional recording and editing equipment to produce CDs and DVDs of concerts held at the University of Tampa

Audio/Video Recording Staff - Music Dept

The University of Tampa

Working with a team of Lab Technicians to install software and maintain the school's computer labs.

Individually responsible for the maintenance of a lab on campus

Computer Lab Technician

Brock Mangus

Confidential

Varieties of implementations for problem solving technologies in burgeoning industries, ranging from brick-and-mortar to Web3.  Exploration & execution of buzzworthy industry tooling: 
- Integration of private & open-source Artificial Intelligence models for Start-ups and Small Businesses 
- Hybrid Cloud modeling for cost cutting and privacy/security hardening (AWS, OracleCloud, IONOS, Linode, more...)
- Database Engineering for scaling up from Alpha and Beta Schemas (MongoDB to PostgreSQL migrations)
- Systems Design Architect for OnPrem Virtualization (Hardware Selection, Networking, Dell & HP BM Hypervisors: XenServer, ESXi, libvirt, Hyper-V, more...)
- Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Data Analysis (Portfolio Tracking & Tax Reporting)
- Cryptocurrency Payment solutions (Mobile Kiosks, microtxs)
- Custom Design Implementation of AI-assisted Software Development Models (Greenfield)
- Terraform to OpenTofu Migrations (Future-proofing IaC)
- Kubernetes (Implementations & Upgrades (updating K8s APIs to v1.2+, Kustomize, Flux, more...)
- GitOps Engineering (GitLab CI/CD, Github Actions, custom self-hosted, more...)

Freelance ventures with focus on taking advantage of the latest innovations in software and tech to add value and increase ROI efficiencies.

Founding Engineer

Raft

- Kubernetes (Kustomize, AWS EKS with some OpenShift and Borg/Cloud Foundry "migrations")
- Terraform (+Terragrunt, Packer + AWS AMI, etc)
- DevSecOps (NIST CSF and other Security+ FWs)
- GitOps (ArgoCD with GitLab CICD)
- Docker + CRI-O with AWS ECS + GitLab Container Registry / CI Pipelines
- Identity Access Management (IAM, AWS Cognito & other various "MFA/Token Auth tooling")
- Developer and Engineering Technical Support & Guidance
- Agile Sprint/Scrum tracking via JIRA, GitLab & GitHub
- "Compliance & Security" Testing, Reviews & Maintenance

Principal Platform Engineer

AlefEdge

AlefEdge is the leader in the Edge Internet, which allows us to physically locate products and services closer to users. Alef’s innovative architecture allows Network Mobility solutions leveraging Private 5G Networks and CBRS for Enterprise, creating such possibilities as: 5G applications over 4G, Industrial, Automotive, Energy Sectors and many more unbounded potential use cases. New and existing networks benefit from our Edge architecture. In addition to its Edge overlay and enablers, Alef develops in-house Edge solutions and works with an array of partners to build the world’s first Edge applications that leverage and realize Virtual and Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, InternetOfThings (IoT), Gaming and beyond.

This “From the ground-up” opportunity provides me yet another “from scratch” Infrastructure Architecting & Development opportunity using bleeding edge tech & processes for a completely automated, multi-tier, multi-environment Platform Engineering Solution.

Platform Management to support Hybrid Edge & Cloud Platforms (EdgeNet):
- Architect of Multi-faceted Software Systems & Network Designs
- Manage & Coordination of multiple global teams and Contractors
- Team Building through Support Engineering
- Automation & Deployment using Terragrunt (enhanced Terraform, see: Gruntwork.io)
- Kubernetes Platform Development & Maintenance (Kustomize, K8sLens.dev, Helm, Docker)
- Packer 
- Ansible 
- Configuration, Deployment, Management & Maintenance of varied Cloud & Vendor-managed Services
- Kong Enterprise API Deployment, Configuration & Administration
- Multi-tiered Security, IAM & Access Management
- Database Administration & Engineering (MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB & PostgreSQL)
- Network Engineering & Administration
- Systems Monitoring
- Central Logging System Architecture
- CI/CD Pipeline Automation & multi-tiered Orchestration 
- Bash, Python, Go, Node.js & PHP
- Cloud Services (Lambda, RDS, Atlas, Route53, GitLab/GitHub)

Manager Service Platform Operations

Spathe Systems

Database Engineering Instructional course materials development & instructional presentation of DevSecOps training intended to provide Database Engineering knowledge for modern software development. Teaching Cloud, & DevSecOps Database & Data management principles for delivery of data solutions, database design for relational/non-relational modeling, securing & prototyping /w emphasis on:
- SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL/MSSQL/AuroraDB/RedShift)
- NoSQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB/Redis) 

Refine & support Software Development, Cloud, & DevSecOps standards for Brownfield & Greenfield software development of applications including Azure, AWS & other vendor environments utilizing Containerization with Kubernetes orchestrated PaaS for nuances of Database design/admin of common & popular products/vendor platforms.

Convey scalable techniques to develop & document data standards, design, development & testing via efficient design techniques that meet or exceed solution specs. Helping intergovernmental customers architect secure, scalable, highly available application solutions leveraging cloud services through leading database design & modeling of various highly-secured applications. 

Provide conceptual training for design, building and administration of logical data models to foster skill development for staff & partners for modern database management. Convey microservices architecture by utilizing Agile bleeding-edge software development & DevSecOps paradigms. 

* Tools/Concepts/Vendors Taught: 
- SQL (MySQL & PostgreSQL w/ AWS RedShift | AuroraDB)
- NoSQL (MongoDB + Atlas, AWS DynamoDB, Red Hat OpenShift, Redis) 
- CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, custom bash/shell & Python scripting)

* Containerization/Virtualization Platforms:
- IaC (Ansible, TerraForm)
- Docker (+Swarm), Quay (Red Hat), Amazon ECR, GitLab Container Registry, BM
- Kubernetes: OpenShift (Red Hat / Oracle), AWS EKS
- Bare Metal (BM): Dev/Test/Deta/Staging & Custom-Secured on-prem environments (w/ XenServer, ESXI, etc)

Database Engineer (DevSecOps) / Instructor (Educational Design) 

TekPrepper  Solutions

Department Manager of a startup company with 5 direct reports. Managing a blended skill set of Mid-level Developers & a remote contracting partner of offshore developers for multiple projects leveraging a blended mix of Node.js + PHP v7.x back-end environments for tandem-developed & symbiotic multi-phase cryptocurrency projects.  
 
Git VC (GitHub Enterprise & VSTS/Azure DevOps) with 2 teams of 8 developers, 2 System Engineers & collaboration between 2 teams (mix of on-site & remote). Azure DevOps Build & Deployment pipeline automation oft combined with Ansible for leveraging CI/CD principles (Red/Black) for use with 3-tiered SDLC environments (On-Premises Test, Staging, Production) for code review, integration testing & data integrity best practices. Docker containerization leveraged where it makes sense (primarily in QA/UAT & development processes)

 

DevOps & SysAdmin management for multiple applications (& versions) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) & credentials management (IAM) for EC2 (Ubuntu & Red Hat), EBS, RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, AuroraDB), S3 storage & innovative performance solutions pertaining to Cloudflare Stream Transcoder behind NAT-ed VPC virtualized infrastructure leveraging bastion VMs with HAProxy Load Balancing connected to On-Premises bare metal hardware for maximum cost savings, resilience & redundancy.

Senior Software Development Manager

Symphonic Distribution

Leveraging AWS services & Cloud-based Infrastructure components. Technology stack consisted of applications built on Linux Red Hat using the traditional LAMP stack & also Ruby / Serverless applications. 

Management of 2 small team of local & Off-Shore Developers in tandem efforts to build a v2 of the original product while C-level continued to enhancing the existing platform... Utilizing ffmpeg for audio processing & S3 Fuse (s3fs - https://bit.ly/2vueFu1) for managing user supplied content, transcoded audio formats created for delivery to Partner Stores (Spotify, iTunes, Beatport, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Google Play, YouTube, Shazam & many more) with the appropriate validation mechanisms for content metadata in various custom XML & DDEX formats. 

Server Side: PHP v5.6.x & v7.x (Zend v1.x + Yii v1.x Frameworks + Composer); MySQL 5.6.x & Apache Web Servers 

Client Side: jQuery (jQueryUI, Datatables.js, Filepond), Bootstrap (CSS layout) & HTML5 

AWS Infrastructure: Multiple Virtual Private Cloud (VPCs from CloudFormation) instances backed by Linux Red Hat AMI EC2 Instances (VMs) on Elastic Block Store (EBS), Cloudwatch (Logging), S3 Object Store, Elastic File System (EFS), Cloudfront (CDN), Elastic Transcoder, Route53 (DNS), Identity Access Management (IAM) / IAM Roles & Security Groups.

DevOps Specialist / Technical Lead / Software Architect

K&S Wholesale Tile

A commercial and retail wholesaler of fine tile flooring products in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Complete website rewrite with a custom CMS solution as tool for marketing and customer retention to provide client with interactivity and social media integration. The project consists of HTML5/CSS3, jQuery / JavaScript, API integrations, Git Version Control, Full LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, PHP5, MySQL), and ADOdb5 for versatility. The Project was upgrade to PHPv7 with PDO. Upon departure, I replaced the company website again with a “Social Media-rich" WordPress configuration for simply content management by non-technical staff. The “Go To Person” for tech. 

  

The original building location of nearly a decade was sold and relocated multiple times in a few short years. New Marketing campaigns deployment with personal direction and assistance. Multiple contract extensions due to Hurricanes and unforeseeable relocation issues.  Heavy focus on SEO and Marketing with components of Digital Presence, Customer Outreach, Inventory Management, Sales Tracking and Accounting.

Head Of Technology

Tech Data

Full Stack Development using custom templating system, jQuery, PHPv5.6, MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL & MongoDB. 
 
Git Version Control with a team of 5 developers, 2 System Engineers, 2 Database Administrators, 2 Project Managers, & collaboration with other development departments for interaction with SOAP / RESTful APIs & heavy use of AJAX. 

Refactoring inefficient business logic used to create “B2B & B2C shopping cart type experience” for software licensing of nearly every Microsoft product. This product was named "StreamOne" & was the only PHP-based software product at Tech Data Corporation. The product was ultimately discontinued & replaced with a .Net Stack.

Senior PHP Software Engineer

AT&T

“True Full Stack Software Development” for the oldest telecommunications company in the world. The position has intense focus on the development of tools that are the AT&T International Corporate Standard for usages such as trouble ticketing systems (Unified Desktop), workflow processes for customer service representatives (SASHA & TaskMaster) & the automation of common resolution steps to correct outages (GOLIATH/ETHAN & TQI), service interruptions, & general troubles in the vast & ever expanding AT&T landline & wireless network for voice & data.

Position requires heavy use of Git Version Control for managing 20 repositories with a team of 20 developers, 4 System Engineers, 2 Database Administrators, 3 Project Managers, & collaboration with 4 other development departments for interaction with SOAP / REST APIs. Extensive QA & bug tracking for VERY poorly written SOAP Web Services delivered by IBM & continuous development of completely custom RESTful API calls for use with Mojolicious (Perl) & Ember.js frameworks.

Blended code base with mostly Perl & PHP, with some intensive refactor required from antiquated platforms (such as older IBM products like Java iLog). Support, development & enhancements to AJAX (jQuery) with Perl & PHP on a blended back-end with mostly MySQL, & significant MS SQL, DB2, Sybase & Oracle data sources. 

Networking, SysAdmin & DevOps duties using multiple Development environments, Staging/UAT/Test Servers & load-balanced Production servers for the various applications. Command line from PowerShell, PuTTy, Git Bash & Cygwin for using NPM + Bower & hypnotoad (Ember.js), remote Linux (Red Hat) servers for all tiers of code release. CLI for Perl Debugger is essential for checking formats & deciphering poorly documented business logic & functionality to get the job done right.

The experience gain of working for #11 of the Fortune 500 is extraordinary for my career development &technical confidence as a Software Engineer & Application Developer.

Full Stack Engineer

Empower Network, LLC

3 month contract for general bug fixes, HTML and CSS page edits, PHP and Javascript feature development and modifications, and MySQL database troubleshooting. Updating outdated code base with jQuery implementations and depreciated PHP functions. Worked on projects handed down directly from "The Dave's" (the 2 company founders) and other general customer support issues. Agile environment supported by Atlassian On-Demand Product Suite leveraging JIRA with Greenhopper and BitBucket (Git) for code management. Personally maintained and released code on 8 Production and multiple development servers. Assisted with code migration from SVN to Git (BitBucket) as well as tested Atlassian Products such as FishEye, Crucible, and Bamboo (local installations). Created testing environments with MS Hyper-V and VirtualBox on Windows Server 2008, running multiple flavors of Linux CentOS 5.9 - 6.3 with SSH access (PuTTY).

Web Application Developer

A seasoned Platform Engineering Manager, SRE and DevOps Engineer with Full Stack/AppDev origins. 20+ years experience backed by college degrees (B.S. Engineering & MBA). Highly capable creator of logical and viable business solutions in the virtual or brick and mortar environments. Skilled problem solver and leader from concept to implementation with proficiency in multiple PLs, Tech Stacks, platforms, databases, laC/Automation, reporting and metrics. A thoughtful and creative technical provider of a variety of standard and custom stacks, platforms and API solutions.

With proven conceptualization talents for scaling projects to any target market, I have worked the full spectrum from early startups to established corporate environments. I retain my passion for continued learning to acquire new skills and building on his extensive knowledge base of the most innovative and emerging JavaScript frameworks, libraries and APIs. Over a decade of experience with automation and cloud have provided me with a depth and breadth of knowledge, experience and capabilities. 

Passionate about bringing Automation and SRE/DevOps "dreams to life" with warmth and ability to build and direct a sustainable team culture which through servant leadership, wisdom and grit.

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Cloud Engineering: AWS; Azure; Oracle Cloud; Linode; Digital Ocean & others  

DevOps/SRE: Terraform / OpenTofu (w/ Terragrunt), Packer, Ansible (AWX, Tower, RunDeck), AWS CDK/CF 

CI/CD & GitOps: GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, FluxCD, ArgoCD 

Linux: RHEL (& CentOS, Rocky, Alma, Fedora); Debian (Ubuntu, Mint, etc); Alpine, Nix,  

Web Servers (& related): Apache, nginx, lighttpd, IIS; “CORS magician”; SSL/TLS certificate management 
Virtualization: VMware ESXi, XenServer, xcp-ng, Hyper-V; (& ProxMox, VirtualBox, libvirt for Internal/Dev) 

Containers: Kubernetes (K8s, AWS EKS, Oracle OpenShift) + Helm, ECS, GitLab CReg, Dockerhub, Quay 

RDBM Databases: MySQL; MariaDB; Percona; Oracle; MS SQL; PostgreSQL; SQLite  

NoSQL Databases (& KV stores): MongoDB; DocumentDB; DynamoDB; Redis; Memcached; etcd 

Scripting/Back-End: Bash (Shell scripting); PHP; Perl (CGI); Python;   

WebDev: JavaScript/HTML/CSS/XML; Node.js; JS FWs: Ember, Angular, Vue, React 

API Development: Kong + Insomnia; Postman + Swagger/SoapUI; REST/XML(SOAP); Fiddler 

Observability: ELK (Elastic), OpenSearch Stack (AWS), Fluentd / Fluent Bit, Logstash, Datadog

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