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Here are some highlights from my career. Company names are omitted where appropriate, but the outcomes are real.
Platform Engineering and Developer Experience #
Certification Program Development (cloud provider) Technical lead and reviewer for multiple professional certification exams from inception to delivery. Built tooling that enforced content standards (98% customer satisfaction) and saved 2,000+ hours per year in development time.
Agentic AI for Content Development (cloud provider) Implemented strategic initiatives using AI agents to accelerate content development workflows. Resulted in a 60% improvement in delivery speed.
Service Availability Impact Detection (cloud provider) Reduced the time to detect downstream impact from service availability changes from weeks to minutes.
Platform Center of Excellence (sports/entertainment) Led an internal community of practice to increase AWS fluency across the engineering department. Grew team AWS certifications by 300% in under two years.
Serverless QA Automation (sports/entertainment) Architected an AWS serverless-based test automation system to replace on-premises solutions. Reduced total cost of ownership by 60%.
CI/CD Modernization (sports/entertainment) Migrated mobile app build and deploy pipelines to GitHub Actions. Reduced cycle time and cost by 70%. Replaced Jenkins with AWS CodePipeline and CodeBuild across the org.
Artifact Management Migration (sports/entertainment) Initiated and completed migration to AWS CodeArtifact, reducing total cost of ownership by 98%.
Compute Cost Optimization (sports/entertainment) Optimized cloud compute costs by 30% through Reserved and Spot Instance strategies.
Promotional Event Platforms (sports/entertainment) Developed serverless websites for promotional events serving 100,000+ users during peak load.
Merchant Reporting Platform (payments) Built a public-facing single-page application from beta to general availability. Served reporting data for 300,000+ merchants.
PCI Compliance Automation (payments) Automated PCI DSS-required security control assessments in release workflows, removing 30 hours per month of manual work.
Zero-Downtime Deployment (payments) Received employee recognition for developing zero-downtime deployment strategies for a multi-service payment platform.
Publications #
Technical Reviewer AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Study Guide: Associate (SOA-C03) Exam - Wiley Sybex, August 2026.
Co-Author Inside Look at the New AI and ML AWS Certifications - AWS Training and Certification Blog, August 2024.
Speaking and Presentations #
AWS Global Events Delivered talks and workshops to 1,000+ attendees across multiple events. 94% speaker satisfaction rating.
National Council on Measurement in Education (2024, 2025) Built and presented a hands-on lab for performing psychometric analysis on AWS. Attendees used real tools to analyze assessment data.
Internal Workshops (multiple companies) Prepared and delivered workshops on AWS CDK, platform tooling, CI/CD patterns, and team onboarding. Focused on hands-on learning, not lectures.
Awards #
- AWS Legend Award (2023) for producing extraordinary customer outcomes
- Department Awards: Customer Obsession (2022), Invent and Simplify (2023), Bias for Action (2024)
- IT Employee Recognition for zero-downtime deployment strategies
Mentoring and Community #
- Code You (2025): Mentor for Python Data Analysis cohort
- Code Louisville: Mentor for full-stack JavaScript and frontend development cohorts
- DevBookClub: Founded a Louisville tech reading group that grew into a community meetup