Looking to Expand DevSecOps Knowledge

Life long nerd

Hard working, dependable, consistent, and trusted Software Engineer. A self starter who is constantly working towards expanding my knowledge of new tools and best practices. Looking to expand my work with DevSecOps, containerization, IaC and Cloud Architecture. Fully Cleared for Position of Trust with DOD and IT1 Level Clearance for DOD. Primary work is in Java EE and Oracle, developing code to move large datasets between organizations and in-house tools to automate processes with CI/CD. In the processing of completing AWS training to expand my knowledge.

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What I’m working on

Building DevSecOps using Docker Containers on Apple M1 Max

I bought the App Mac Book Pro M1 Max the day it was released. waited by the door for it to arrive, only to have it sit six months. Why? you ask, a lot of my tools were not available for Apple Silicone yet. Now I am happy to...

Learning AWS

Always wondered what all the hype about AWS, so I fired up YouTube and Udemy and started learning AWS. The possibilities are endless. Each chapter in the course I get more excited. All the things that I used to spend hours building VMs and getting them to work together,...

Classic Motorcycle Restoration

Not everything I do is computer related. I love motorcycles, bought my first one when was 16 and have owned at least one since then. A while back I finally found a 1983 Kawasaki GPZ 550, the bike I wanted in High School but could not afford. ...

Projects

Professional Development Seminars

Company: System Architect

DevOps System

Jenkins Pipelines.
Company: Senior Software Engineer

Experience

System Architect

Personeal Development Seminars, System Architect
McQueen Texas | January, 2016 - January, 2025

Designed, coded and sourced complete new system for enrolling participants into court mandated behavior modification classes.

Projects Related

Professional Development Seminars

Senior Software Engineer

Object C Talk, Senior Software Engineer
Object C Talk - King of Prussia, PA | July, 2004 - July, 2030

Trusted senior team member working on DCPDS and DCHRMS DOD Personnel systems supporting over 800K DoD civilian personnel. Primary duties are working on interface development coding web services in JAVA on JBoss with Switchyard and Fuse and writing PL/SQL code for extracting data from Oracle databases. Extracting business rules from existing code-base into functional and technical requirements for Jira stories and new code for conversion to Oracle HCM solutions.

Certifications

Security +

Badges & Skills

CompTia Security + CE

Education

Master's degree in Forensic Psychology

Walden University June, 2011 - June, 2013

Not my primary field, however when the VA offered vets a chance to go to school, I went back and studied Forensic Psychology. A lot of fun and something that I had to actually study the material to get good grades. When I did my Masters in Computer Systems, I had been the field so long the courses were easy to complete.

Master's degree in Computer Information Systems

University of Maryland-University College January, 2001 - May, 2005

United States Air Force

July, 1984 - August, 2004

Served 20 years in the USAF. Traveled all over the world completing seven assignments during my career.