Kim, Gene, et al. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. IT Revolution Press, 2014.
Farcic, Viktor. The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit: Automating the Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Containerized Microservices. Lean Publishing, 2016.
Humble, Jez, and David Farley. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation. Addison-Wesley Longman, 2011.
Vogels, Werner. "10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services", allthingsdistributed.com, 11 Mar. 2016, www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/03/10-lessons-from-10-years-of-aws.html.
Lindamood, Jack. "(Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup", cep.dev, 1 Feb. 2024, cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/
Horowitz, Jonah. "Configuration Management is an Antipattern [use immutable infrastructure instead]", HackerNoon, 9 Mar. 2017, hackernoon.com/configuration-management-is-an-antipattern-e677e34be64c. Also.
Yegge, Steve. "Stevey's Google Platform Rant", Google Plus, 12 Oct. 2011, plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX.
Lee, Micah. "Passphrases That You Can Memorize But That Even The NSA Can't Guess", theintercept.com, 26 Mar. 2015, theintercept.com/2015/03/26/passphrases-can-memorize-attackers-cant-guess/.
Stoddard, Blake. "Running spot instances effectively with Amazon EKS", signalvnoise.com, 29 Jun. 2020, m.signalvnoise.com/running-spot-instances-effectively-with-amazon-eks/
Red Hat. "Command Line Heroes." Audio blog post. DevOps_Tear Down That Wall, 20 Feb. 2018, redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/devops-tear-down-that-wall.
OpenShift. "PodCTL." Audio blog post. 2017-current, blog.openshift.com/tag/podctl/.
DiSC Personality Training by Everything DiSC/Catalyst (type = iS; Outgoing, Enthusiastic and Even-tempered, Accomodating)
Databricks Academy Catalog (DB002)
Databricks Partner Academy - Fundamentals of the Databricks Lakehouse Platform (1325)
AWS Partner Certification Readiness: Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-003)
Kubernetes Fundamentals from The Linux Foundation (LFS258)
Batky-Howell Python Essentials Training
Team Dynamics Workshop via Auger Consulting, LLC
Managing Docker Containers with Project Atomic, Kubernetes and RHEL (RH270)
Puppet Fundamentals Training (PFT4)
Fierce Conversations: The Foundation
Cultural Interview Training
Korn Ferry Interview Architect
Building Stronger Working Relationships
Linda Berens' CORE Personality Model (Temperament = Beaver)
Interaction Styles Model
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) via Breckenridge Institute (type = ESFJ)
Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management Course (RH401)
VMWare vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage Course (V4114)
Red Hat Linux System Administration I-III Courses (RH033/RH133/RH255)
SWWUG SQL Server Performance Management and Tuning
JBoss Application Administration (JB336)
ITIL Version 3 Foundations in IT Service Management Course
IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.0 Administration Course (WF38VN)
Project Management Best Practices Course from PMI/Seminars World
Recurring attendee to many area conferences and meetups
DevOpsDays Rockies
OWASP Foundation SnowFROC
AWS Container Days
Kubernetes Colorado, Denver DevOps and Denver Microservices
NFJS UberConf
Red Hat Taste of Training Webinars (discontinued)
2023: AWS EKS Finhack, AWS Container Days
2022: Datadog Summit Denver, KubeCrash
2019: SumoLogic Denver User Group, Kubecon
2018: Kubecon
2017: PyCon Portland
2016: Continuous Delivery Summit and Jenkins Days Denver, VictorOps DevOps Roadtrip Denver, Board Member for Non-profit Park Hill Children's Center ECE Program 2016
2015: Level 3 Security Roadshow Denver, Citrix Security Strategy Roadshow
2014: Red Hat Summit Video Proof, Co-Founder of the Dexter Whisky Council
2012: SplunkLive! Denver, Middleware engineer for new Policy Administration System mentioned in Best's Review Magazine article: Chordas, Lori. "Replacement Value." Best's Review 1 Jan. 2012: 70-72.
Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PIC) perfect attendance 2009 Link
SaaS administration in G Suite
New York City Iowa Alumni Club Member 2009 to 2010
PIC Development Team Mentor for new hires and interns
PIC Development Team intramural basketball captain and designated right fielder for softball team
Four time Open Technology Solutions (OTS) Most Valuable Person of the Month Award Link
OTS team representative for Change Control and Disaster Recovery; helped obtain SAS 70 Certification
Member of 3rd party vendor, IA Systems', 2005 National Technical Consultant Team
I have worked with several container toolsets including Docker, CoreOS Container Linux, Project Atomic, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and EKS.
I have experience with Xen, KVM, and VMWare.
I have experience with java application servers including Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss, and Weblogic.
I was a member of the National and local chapters of the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Databricks Lakehouse Fundamentals - Link
SAA-C03 - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Link
CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator Link
SumoLogic Fundamentals - Level 1 Sumo Pro User Link
RHCE - Red Hat Certified Engineer in RHEL 6
RHCSA - Red Hat Certified System Administrator in RHEL 6
RHCSA - Red Hat Certified System Administrator, formerly known as Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT), in RHEL 5
ITIL - Version 3 Foundations in IT Service Management Certified
I obtained Red Hat certification in Enterprise Linux version 6 (certificate number 100-132-620). I am also Red Hat certified in Enterprise Linux version 5 (certificate number 605009915126244).
Passing rates for Red Hat exams are less than 50% for first time test takers1 and 75% for second time test takers2. I am proud to have passed all of my RHEL tests on the first try. Although the RHCE has been around since 1999, there are still less than 40,000 RHCEs1 and less than 23,000 RHCSAs worldwide.
I received my certification in ITIL Version 3. The preparation course was taught by Veris Associates. Certificate number 2012677-40002312/00049327 from Examination Institute for Information Science (EXIN).
1 http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/dell-training-summer.pdf?sc_cid=70160000000HtSSAA0
2 http://www.exitcertified.ca/savings/red-hat/red-hat-training-savings-bundle.php
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