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I'm a Site Reliability and Network Engineer with a unique background spanning military service, FAANG, and Fortune 500 companies.
In 2015, I made the decision to leave art school and join the military. I served four years in the U.S. Army as a Lead Network Administrator and Paratrooper with the XVIII Airborne Corps. During my service, I maintained $2 million of mission-critical information systems and successfully deployed network configurations for the Army's largest Warfighter training exercise in history—providing secure services to over 2,000 users with zero network downtime.
I then matriculated to Cornell University as a nontraditional student where I completed my B.S. Information Science with a concentration in Networks, Crowds, & Markets.
While at Cornell, I expanded my expertise through technical engineering internships. At Meta, I developed network automation workflows that reduced manual tickets by hundreds per month, saving 25-30 engineering hours monthly. At USAA, I built automation that reduced production marketing campaign runtimes from 5+ hours to under 1 hour.
Most recently, I completed a Site Reliability Engineer Internship at Cisco Meraki, where I developed Python/Ansible automation orchestrating zero-downtime maintenance for 180+ CI/CD agents and built a scalable dynamic inventory system for 600+ nodes across 12 services.
I recently moved back to Richmond, VA to reconnect with family while I search for new full-time opportunities. I'm open to relocation and welcome any exciting opportunities relevant to my background in Site Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, and Infrastructure Automation.