Dave Alexander

Seattle, WA

 614- 264-4290

Dalexander@email.com

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SUMMARY

Innovative Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong Linux background and 15+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing cutting-edge deployment automation of cloud resources in Software Testing Resumes. 

EDUCATION

GREEN VALLEY STATE in Aug 99

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in May 2003

EXPERIENCE

CRANE & JENKINS

Senior DevOps Engineer                         Nov 16 – Till date

1. Automated deployments for 200+ cloud servers using Python and Bash
2. Manage 50+ total AWS, Jenkins, and Chef accounts to more effectively control access to resources and increase security
3. Maintain build profiles in Team Foundation Server and Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline
4. Spearheaded migration from Puppet environment to Docker-based service architecture

RIVER TECH

Senior DevOps Engineer                         Jul 12- Oct 16

• 1. Designed, rolled out, and managed 5,000+ hosts with Puppet Enterprise infrastructure
  2. Rewrote shell deploy scripts, reducing deployment times from 5+ hours to less than 2 minutes
  3. Wrote and tested Chef cookbooks with Ruby and Vagrant to configure and perform tasks on remote nodes

RETAIL OCEAN

DevOps Engineer                                                         Feb 09- Jun 12

1. Implemented CI/CD process using TeamCity for global development team, allowing for dozens of code updates per hour with zero downtime
2. Automated build and deployment process with Jenkins and Maven, eliminating 80% of manual work
3. Drove strategy for migrating from Perforce to GitHub, including branching, merging, and tagging, Software Testing Resumes

SKILLS

• Docker, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Python, Ruby, TeamCity
• AWS services (EC2, S3, Route53, SQS, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFormation)

AWARDS

• DevOps Industry Awards Semi-finalist, 2015