About Me
My background, experience, and skills
Experience
Principal - DevSecOps & Release Engineering
Higher Echelon, Inc.Sep 2024 – Present · Chicago, IL
- Leading DevSecOps for $80M DHS contract across 50+ team members and 5 concurrent project teams
- Architected CI/CD infrastructure with Harness: 120+ pipelines across 7 Salesforce projects
- Reduced production deployment time from 90 minutes to 15 minutes (83% improvement)
- Shortened QA/UAT/STAGE validation cycles from 15 minutes to 4 minutes
- Automated 15+ manual processes, saving 3,000+ man-hours per year
Harness CI/CDSalesforceSF CLIGitPowerShellPython
Salesforce DevSecOps & Release Engineering
CGI Inc.Jan 2021 – Sep 2024 · Remote
- Virginia Commonwealth: Built DevSecOps framework for 55-member team spanning Salesforce, Snowflake, MuleSoft, Matilion, and Copado
- PPL Electric: Led legacy org migration with metadata and data mapping
- Texas Railroad Commission: Reduced deployment time from 3 days to 90 minutes using SF CLI and custom tooling
- Texas Office of the Attorney General: Reduced release cycles from 40 hours to 4 hours
- Austin Public Health: Implemented Copado, cutting deployment time from 12 hours to 30 minutes
- Ohio Dept. of Developmental Disabilities: Deployed Flosum, reducing 80 hours to 30 minutes with daily deployments
- Developed 15+ custom deployment tools across engagements
Salesforce CLICopadoFlosumGitPythonPowerShell
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of Science in Cybersecurity
Atlanta, GA
- Specialization in Cybersecurity
- Coursework in Network Security, Applied Cryptography, Malware Analysis
Neumont College of Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Salt Lake City, UT
- Focus on software engineering and application development
Skills
Software Skills
Software DevMobile DevWeb & Cloud DevDevSecOpsCI/CDRelease ManagementDebugging
Cybersecurity
Secure Software DevIAMNetwork Intrusion Detection & PreventionNetwork SecuritySystem & Network DefenseDatabase System DesignMalware AnalysisApplied Cryptography
Salesforce Deployment
HarnessCopadoGearsetFlosumSF DevOps CenterSalesforce CLISF DataLoaderSF DMUGitGitHubJenkins
Programming Languages
PythonJavaC#JavaScriptjQueryHTML5CSSSQLXMLJSONApexSOQLMetadata APIs
Certifications
Salesforce
Salesforce Certified AI AssociateSalesforce Certified Associate
Copado
Copado Fundamentals I SFPCopado Fundamentals II SFPCopado Fundamentals I MPCopado Fundamentals II MPCopado ConsultantCopado Robotic Testing
Additional
Dreamforce Speaker
Presented at Dreamforce 2023, Salesforce's premier annual conference
InfraGard Member
Member of InfraGard, an FBI-affiliated public-private partnership for critical infrastructure protection