Yale University

DEVOPS TURNAROUND SPECIALIST * AUTHOR * CAREER + ENTREPRENEURSHIP MENTOR * 10 HAITIAN FLAG DAY SCHOLARSHIPS & COUNTING

●	For Lam Research: 
o	Regularly connected and negotiated with IT leadership about Disaster Recovery posture
o	Created Disaster Recovery policies, RACI for DR exercises, etc. Achieved scale within 18 months
o	Architected Disaster Recovery Plan for legacy and cloud-native software applications (Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, Azure Service Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure fileshares, Event hub, etc)
o	Architected workflow automations with options for ServiceNow, PowerAutomate, and JIRA
o	Refined infrastructure and cloud DR exercise process. 
●	For Halliburton: 
o	Met aggressive delivery deadlines during pandemic, which caused numerous disruptions
o	Led 1st team to migrate applications for 13 product service lines (PSLs) to the Azure cloud 
o	Led 2nd team to provide daily operational support for the 13 subsidiaries 
●	For KAR Auction Services 
o	Presented my cloud migration strategy to 2 dozen architects of 17 subsidiaries 
o	Devised different options for legacy, modern, and cloud native dev teams 
●	For Ernst & Young: 
o	Reduced 350 hours of recurring work to 15 minutes. Millions saved by repurposing expensive staff’s time 
o	Worked on coding, build automation, release automation in agile fashion, incorporated Test manager 
o	For Fiserv: 
o	Established Center of Excellence to resolve conflicts for teams in 3 states 
o	Increased Configuration Engineering team’s capacity to better support 5 lines of business 
o	Created and delivered custom training to Dev QA, Configuration Engineering and DB teams  
●	For ADP 
o	Resolved long-standing and recurring deployment issue on day 1 
o	Delivered credible and workable roadmap after company spent $240k without desired results 
o	Reintroduced agile practices for efficiency

DevOps Advisors

Founder and Principal Consultant

●	Transform IT culture, matured and stabilized practices
●	Proficient in digital, cloud-based wealth management and automated cost-basis products
●	Established relationships with owners, executives, and peers to better understand product offerings 
●	Created roadmap that met industry regulations and high availability for market trading hours
●	Created strategic vision and tactical plans
●	Initiated weekly lab sessions for current & new staff
●	Guided agile practices, reduced chaos and increased reliability and transparency

Scivantage

VP, Configuration Management

●	Trained tech organization on TFS, application and environment monitoring 
●	Took over another critical project from another department
●	Trusted advisor to CIO’s right-hand man; advocate for tech team
●	Productivity strategies and tools customization of TFS and Visual Studio 
●	Supported several teams involved in building a digital version of an existing applications
●	Update and migrate toolset and TFS components
●	Early adopter & contributor, AppDynamics invited me to demo my work to their clients
●	As tool did not meet needs out of the box, I architected an alternative solution
●	Amended dataflow protocol to meet ISO27001 requirements and metrics hosted on AWS 
●	Refactored JavaScript injection to centralize monitoring strategy
●	Installed Tomcat to host our own geo-location server 
●	Mapped 90 subnets to enable data visualization for all global offices on APM portal
●	Scaled system configurations to available resources

Russell Reynolds Associates

Platform Architect (Consultant)

●	Eliminated buying a $150,000 tool that carried an $18,000 annual support price tag 
●	Automated process to create for 150+ software applications
●	Resident expert on version control and CICD. Drove research & selection of less complex automation tools 
●	Hired for 1 team and went on to support Open Systems (5 Java and .NET Dev Teams)
●	Leading voice in architectural decisions; effective stakeholder manager
●	Restored strained relationships with other teams
●	Provided technical training, introduce productivity tools
●	Enforced code analysis and security standards; upgrade toolset
●	Worked with system engineers to resolve infrastructure issues
●	Created solution architecture documents to re-engineer and automate deployment processes
●	Introduced vast efficiencies to non-functional requirements, automate deployments.

NJM Insurance Group

Build Coordinator

●	Consultant to an SVP to build a Center of Excellence
●	Created and implemented strategies to build & deploy signature project for Barclays Bank
●	Environment supported by 400+ technical staff, 7000 users, and daily transactions exceeding $10B 
●	Took over global release management for the project
●	Stabilized workforce and project costs; brought routinely late deployments to be on-time
●	Got buy-in for my strategic vision
●	Increased developer productivity by 12+ hours/week. Reduced code freeze frequency. Stabilized processes
●	Co-authored Continuity of Business Escrow Process
●	Led verification exercise for all teams to ensure chain of custody

Citigroup

Release Manager (Consultant)

●	Produced 36+ software releases in record time
●	Standardized requirements.  Significantly improved user interaction
●	Negotiated release timeline and change requests
●	Developed test plans and assigned various resources
●	Helped QA managers develop, prioritize and automate test cases
●	Helped R&D teams restructure shared source code base
●	Reported on milestones in SCRUMs and release meetings
●	Contributed to SWOT analysis meetings

Infragistics

Software Engineer in Release

●	C-level report. Interacted with high net worth (HNW) clients, Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) & broker-dealers
●	Managed data warehouse for hosted financial performance measurement and attribution products  
●	Improved the financial market data warehouse, recruited talent, and reduced labor costs

Bullrun Financial

Database & Change Management Analyst (Company acquired)

●	Created CICD pipelines to the PAM line of financial software products
●	Responsible for source code, access  control to servers and environments, including production
●	Grew more knowledgeable about institutional investors, hedge funds, securities, mutual funds & mortgages
●	Facilitated training sessions for internal staff, and staff of spinoff company upon launch
●	Authored user manuals, guidelines for version control, security, build management, releases, SDKs 
●	After 9/11 attack, got involved in business continuity activities
●	Prepared presentations for SSAE 16 audits
●	Participated in proofs of concept for hardware and dev tools

Princeton Financial Systems

Software Configuration Specialist

AP/AR support; enterprise-wide configuration, training and deployment of additional modules of Fourth Shift ERP software.

Freedom Vertical

Accounting Assistant/ IT support

Series 6 Registered rep; marketed full line of financial products including mutual funds, insurance (life, health, disability, dental)

Kareen Kircher