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As a Director at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), I led the in-house Creative & Design Department and Studio, supporting the Marketing and Communications strategy and plans for the business, parent brand, and six sub-brands. With over 15 years of experience in creative leadership, strategy, operations, brand transformation, and marketing communications, I have a proven track record of delivering innovative and impactful content and campaigns that drive business growth and customer engagement.
My expertise lies in building and leading high-performing teams, developing and executing creative strategies, and managing large-scale brand projects from concept to delivery. I have successfully launched six sub-brands and delivered multiple cross-channel campaigns annually, generating significant brand awareness and customer loyalty. I am passionate about creating engaging and effective content and a team culture that aligns with a company's vision and values. 
I am a Software/Operations/Tools Engineer with a focus on DevOps culture and practices, security, and monitoring using open source and free software in the data center and in the cloud. I am an experienced scrum master and development team member.
At Lightkeeper, I worked to maintain a working SAAS product in AWS, upgraded a platform to a recent Linux release and refactored python and .net platform installation practices and code. I wrote tools for simplifying operations and developer testing. I troubleshot deployment issues, application issues, network issues and authentication issues in AWS. I was Deeply involved with the move from hybrid/on prem to 100% cloud, and office move
At Toast, I worked to keep our platform running and scaling efficiently in AWS. I created and updated training and operations documentation, worked with developers to integrate services into the platform, leveraged Terraform and Ansible to configure and maintain a highly Scalable and flexible container based cloud platform.
In 6 years at Riverbed,
I Worked 100% remote for 4 years
Managed and configured AWS accounts using established multi-account best practices including cloudtrail audit trail and security group alerts
Researched, Sourced and built servers for storage and virtualization
Built, troubleshot, and added instrumentation and monitoring to storage systems, mostly leveraging Ceph and ZFS (once both at the same time!)
Built alerting systems using Icinga (Nagios), creating a dynamic configuration generator and both agent based and agentless system queries for over 1000 nodes
Built metric based monitoring systems based on graphite, Grafana, and influxdb
Built log/event monitoring systems using ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Sumologic, and Splunk, leveraging AWS, custom tools, and Beats
Consistently used configuration management tools such as Salt, ansible, cloudformation, Terraform, and chef to ensure reproducibility of system configuration and clusters
Leveraged Docker for creating portable dev environments, scaling systems, and containerized applications
Acted as full-time (for a project kick-off) and part time Scrum master, and have delved deeply into the literature around Scrum and other Agile methodologies
Improved and instrumented CI/CD systems building large, complex software
Contributed to Python and Bash codebases with peer review
Worked with and troubleshot complex networks with thousands of nodes
I live In Massachusetts with my wife and child, and have many hobbies involving electronics, metal, fire, and generally making and fixing things. 
