Theodore Cowan
| Phone: | 801-792-4987 |
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| Email: | t@theodore.me |
| Address: | Boston, Massachusetts |
Results-driven professional with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and an unwavering commitment to advancing organizational objectives. Distinguished by profound proficiency in Cloud architecture, software delivery, and data engineering within the dynamic Software-as-a-Service industry.
Passionate free software advocate and active contributor, proficient in Python, Typescript, and Golang. Certified as a Cloud Architect and a strategic expert in public cloud technologies.
Areas of Expertise: SaaS Architecture, Cloud Architecture, DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code, Data Engineering, AWS, Strategic Planning, Business Development, Free Software
Experience
Matterbeam Boston MA
| Title: | Senior Engineer/Cloud Architect |
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| Location: | Boston Massachusetts |
| Period: | April 2023 - Present |
Key team member in the development of a groundbreaking SaaS platform that addresses data engineering hurdles prevalent within organizations.
Pluralsight Boston MA
| Title: | Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer |
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| Location: | Boston Massachusetts |
| Period: | February 2018 – April 2023 |
Focused on software delivery, infrastructure, data engineering and architecture for a machine learning and data science product teams.
- ksqlDB, Apache Kafka, Machine Learning Delivery, Apache Airflow, Tensorflow Serving, Nodejs, Python, Podman, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, AWS Lambda, AWS Cloudformation with cdk, SaltStack, TeamCity, Fedora Linux, GitHub, NewRelic, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Data Engineering
Pluralsight Farmington UT
| Title: | Senior DevOps Engineer |
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| Location: | Farmington Utah |
| Period: | January 2015 – February 2018 |
- AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Kubernetes, Project Atomic, SaltStack, TeamCity, NodeJS, .NET, RedHat Linux, Windows Server, GitHub, Python, GoLang, Powershell, Bash, NewRelic, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Immutable Infrastructure
Spritz Technology Inc
| Title: | Cloud Architect |
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| Location: | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Period: | May 2014 – January 2015 |
- IT Operations: AWS, Amazon Linux, MongoDB, ITIL, Change Management, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, IT-as-service, Splunk, Graphite, OpenShift, ManageIQ
- DevOps: SaltStack, Nexus, AppDynamics, GitHub, Jenkins, ManageIQ, Tomcat, Apache, Python, Bash, Continuous Integration
EMC
| Title: | Support Engineer |
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| Location: | Draper, UT |
| Period: | June 2012 - May 2014 |
- Application Development: Red Hat Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
- Change Management: EMC Symmetrix DMX/VMAX20/VMAX40, Avamar, Avamar Extended Retention.
Self-Employed
| Title: | Consultant |
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| Location: | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Period: | April 2009 - May 2014 |
- Website Administration: Website and database administrator for website logomaker.com. Logomaker.com has 2,000,000+ users. RHEL, PHP, MySQL, ImageMagick, Amazon AWS, SaltStack
- Application Development: Migrated and further developed systems from Legacy Manufacturing Solutions for Compax.
- Business Consulting: Coached and advised general manager and quality director in Asia, and served as resource for executives around the technology from Legacy Manufacturing Solutions.
- Business Consulting: Worked on special projects including QC documentation and process improvement.
- Application Development: Created and deployed a data entry and analytics application for Utah citizen initiative group Count My Vote. OpenShift Online,Simple PHP Framework
- Application Development: Created OSS "Utah E-Petition" for two citizen initiatives groups. PHP, MySQL, Apache, Linux, and a small amount of C.
- Public Activism: Assisted in development of legal arguments and technical method for gathering petition signatures electronically. Acted as an expert witness regarding the validity of electronically gathered signatures on citizen initiatives.
Legacy Manufacturing Solutions LLC
| Title: | Partner |
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| Location: | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Period: | December 2006 - January 2011 |
- Application Development: Developed business workflow application that managed all activities between US and China offices. Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
- CIO: Deployed all business applications and systems. CRM, Zimbra, Asterisk, KVM, VMware, Redhat Linux
- Business Operations: Set company goals and objectives, developed and improved operational procedures and methods, created business workflows, and resolved problems.
- Business Development: Investigated new business opportunities, completed competitive analysis, developed new product disciplines.
- Business Development: Maintained relationships within the local and global business community.
- Legal: Drafted non-disclosure, service and finance agreements.
- Sales: Managed sales, marketing and customer accounts. Recruited sales staff. Authored marketing materials.
- Sales: Advised customers in sourcing/manufacturing strategy in China and product development
- Sales: Introduced bridge financing products.
- Sales: Negotiated pricing and terms. Calculated duty and delivery paid pricing.
Novell Inc
| Title: | Linux Expert |
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| Location: | Provo, UT |
| Period: | September 2005 - December 2006 |
- Developed and deployed remote administration tool for off-network Linux desktops.
- Linux expert for IS&T helpdesk and internal migration team.
- Monitored systems from the network operations center.
Certifications and Training
- EMC Information Storage and Management (EMCISA)
- EMC Virtualized Infrastructure Specialist (E20-018)
- EMC IT-as-a-Service Expert (EMCCAe)
- The Linux Foundation LF520 – OpenStack Cloud Architecture and Deployment.
- SaltStack Training @ SaltConf 2014
- OpenStack Training @ LinuxCon 2012
Professional Associations
- Boston DevOps
- OpenStack Foundation
- Cloud Security Alliance
| [source] | https://github.com/deuscapturus/resume |