Alexander Jay Ellis (AJ) https://ellisworkshop.com

adzm4h@r.postjobfree.com 410-***-**** 3009 Greenhaven Court, Ellicott City, MD 21042 Summary

IT and cloud systems administration expert; automotive-centered 3D modeler and game designer/modder. Looking to leverage demonstrated technical aptitude with software development, cloud systems administration, and simulation design to be part of a leading-edge software development company. Education/Certifications

(In progress) Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering University of Maryland, College Park – Spring 2025 Associate of Arts: Game and Simulation Design

Howard Community College – Cum Laude, May 2021

Certification: AWS Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services - Jan 2022 (Validation Number: YZ7F22XDHFFQ1F9Q) Skills

Amazon Web Services – EC2, S3, CodePipeline, IAM, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, Inspector, QuickSight, Systems Manager, Lambda Web development - WordPress, Bluehost, DokuWiki

System Administration - Jira, SonarQube, Elasticsearch/ELK Stack, Grafana, Neo4j, Jenkins Programming - C++, Bash, HTML, JavaScript

Audio/Video editing - Premiere Pro, Da Vinci Resolve, Audacity, Garage Band 2D Graphic Design - Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape 3D Modeling/Game Development - Blender, 3DS Max, Inventor, Unity Experience

2022 KBR/NASA Associate IT Applications Developer (DevSecOps)

• Continued development and implementation of DevSecOps framework that had begun as an intern (see below)

• Researched and documented various open-source and closed-source tools

• Presented progress in bi-weekly meetings

2021 KBR/NASA Business Intelligence Intern

• Developed a Business Intelligence dashboard using AWS QuickSight

• Performed data analysis including calculations and graphing within AWS QuickSight

• Created a workflow to ingest data from Excel Spreadsheets, store in S3 buckets, query using AWS Athena, and display for analysis using QuickSight dashboards 2020 KBR/NASA KTLAS Intern

• Designed a user interface for data logging and analysis using a Grafana dashboard hosted via Linux based AWS EC2 server instances

• Hosted a local Neo4j graph database to ingest CSV data

• Used Neo4j Cypher query language to visualize relationships for imported data 2019-2020 KBR/NASA DevSecOps Intern

• Designed a DevSecOps software development framework that utilized cloud-based tools provided by Amazon Web Services as well as open-source tools.

• Researched and automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) of applications using AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline

• Automated security measures including Vulnerability Scanning using AWS Inspector, IAM, CloudWatch, and Systems Manager

• Automated Static Code Analysis using SonarQube and integrated into pipeline via Logstash API calls

• Designed a Kibana dashboard for logging, monitoring, and analysis 2018 SGT/NASA AWS/Jira Intern System Administrator

• Served as primary system administrator supporting a team of 7 interns on multiple projects

• Installed, configured, and maintained multiple Jira servers running on AWS EC2 instances in order to enable an Agile/Scrum software development framework

• Implemented AWS Security Groups and network firewalls to ensure security of EC2 instances

• Configured secure and consistent automated image, application, and data backups for all intern projects

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