Where I’ve been

1. 

   Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   @ QGenda

   Jul 2025 - PresentRemote [Atlanta, GA]

   QGenda bought New Innovations and I joined as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer.

   Highlights and Skills

   • Transitioned from New Innovations to QGenda

   Skills

   
2. 

   Senior DevOps Engineer

   @ New Innovations

   Aug 2024 - Jul 2025Remote [Uniontown, OH]

3. 

   Senior Site Reliability Engineer

   @ DraftKings

   Apr 2020 - Jun 2024Remote [Boston, MA]

   Led critical infra for the Gaming vertical—designing reliable systems that kept the fun online, even on the busiest nights.

   Highlights and Skills

   • Built and operated on-prem Kubernetes from zero to production
   • Rolled out AWS EKS to support scalable cloud workloads
   • Architected the new Gaming vertical and launched a net-new Gaming Studio
   • Grew and mentored a 7-person team for the Gaming org
   • Owned the ELK/observability stack, tuning it for signal over noise
   • Standardized CI/CD and kept delivery humming by running Jenkins at scale

   Skills

   
4. 

   Senior DevOps Engineer

   @ Kaseya

   Jun 2019 - Apr 2020Las Vegas, NV

   Turned a manual-heavy DevOps setup into code-driven automation with a bias for speed, repeatability, and fewer 2 a.m. surprises.

   Highlights and Skills

   • Introduced Chef and codified formerly manual ops
   • Rebuilt Jenkins pipelines for consistency and much faster runtimes
   • Added Packer to tame long-running Windows server builds
5. 

   Cloud Engineer | DevOps Engineer

   @ General Electric

   May 2016 - Jun 2019Cleveland, OH

   Contributed to large-scale cloud migration and automation, keeping a globe-spanning fleet of servers healthy and moving to AWS and Azure.

   Highlights and Skills

   • Created and maintained Chef recipes and Ansible roles for AWS and Azure migrations
   • Wrote Jenkins pipelines using Packer to create and deploy servers to AWS and Azure
   • Designed autoscaling Kubernetes clusters
   • Built full CI/CD workflows to support cloud migration
   • Owned and maintained 1,000+ Linux/Unix servers across global sites
   • Fleet distributed across 5 continents, 80% virtual / 20% physical
   • Supported and maintained SAP environments
   • Introduced new patching and control solutions
   • Supported 100+ applications and their owners
6. 

   Linux Server Administrator

   @ PNC Bank

   Apr 2015 - May 2016Cleveland, OH

   Supported a major datacenter migration by leveling up server infrastructure and automating deployments to improve efficiency.

   Highlights and Skills

   • Created and provisioned Linux servers for a datacenter migration
   • Established best practices for the whole team
   • Built deployment automations that wrapped the contract early
7. 

   Systems Administrator | Team Lead

   @ iStreamPlanet

   May 2013 - Dec 2014Las Vegas, NV

   Led a small team running highly virtualized environments and helped deliver large-scale media streaming—including the 2014 Olympics.

   Highlights and Skills

   • Deployed and maintained Ubuntu and CentOS Linux servers
   • Operated a highly virtualized stack with Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Azure, and AWS
   • Supported streaming using HDS, HLS, Smooth, and MPEG-DASH
   • Created and maintained automation scripts
   • Designed, deployed, and maintained an in-house SaaS product
   • For the 2014 Olympics, partnered with NBC and Microsoft to deliver a stable, redundant, automated platform that streamed to millions

8. Previous Roles

   @ Various

   Mar 2008 - Mar 2013Varied

   Unrelated roles and companies

   Highlights and Skills

   • Apple Retail
   • Microcenter
   • Play 'N Trade

Things I reach for

The craft