pmp certified, csm certified

Kyle Swankie

Manalapan, NJ, USA ****.*******@*****.*** 732-***-**** in/kyleswankie

SUMMARY

Former DevOps professional transitioning into full time project management, bringing a strong background in software delivery, automation, and cross- functional collaboration. Skilled at bridging the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions on time and within scope. Experienced in managing releases, coordinating distributed teams, and driving process improvements. Now I'm leveraging my technical foundation to lead projects, manage resources, and achieve organizational goals. EXPERIENCE

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Active International April 2020 - January 2024, Pearl River, NY

• Provisioned, configured, monitored and troubleshot cloud-based resources for all environments and all cloud platforms & repos (AWS, GCP, IBM, Azure).

• Managed/administered software access rights (Jira, Confluence, Slack).

• Monitored weekly costs and scale assets to optimize budget spend on GCP.

• Documented and organized run books & best practices for future onboarding in Microsoft Teams.

• Instituted security measures such as Crowdstrike on Kubernetes clusters and VPC Peering in MongoDB.

• Handled creation and maintenance of SFTP servers for clients.

• Backed up and restored databases in MongoDB.

• Constructed & maintained IAM policies for multiple cloud platforms.

• Collaborated with developers and configured CI/CD service for lower environments and also acted as release manager for production. DevOps Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer

MDX Medical February 2016 - April 2020, Lyndhurst, NJ

• Ensured code deployments between environments (dev, qa, uat, demo, and production) transition smoothly and efficiently.

• Acted as interim project manager to communicate emerging issues and present mitigation strategies to stakeholders.

• Supported infrastructure changes and implement new tools to monitor and automate risk mitigation.

• Setup and monitored alerts via New Relic, Opsgenie, Rollbar, Kibana, and initiate action appropriately.

• Configured auto-scaling cloud infrastructure for web traffic needs to ensure cost effectiveness.

• Managed application configurations for all clients across multiple variants via YAML format.

• Troubleshot code deployment, web application, and database errors.

• Lead team standups, retrospectives, sprint planning, and sprint reviews. Lead Production Engineer

MDX Medical October 2014 - February 2016, Lyndhurst, NJ

• Collaborated with the release manager to coordinate code deployments and maintain a stable, well-documented production environment.

• Created and maintained a topology diagram of the production environment.

• Compiled bi-weekly agile reporting on campaigns and other jobs that ran a continuous schedule. Participated with technical resources and stakeholders to understand and document the underlying system software infrastructure (Operating System, DBMS, runtime libraries) of the various physical resources.

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• Escalated production outages due to hardware or software failures to management and developed mitigation plans.

• Achieved a high degree of automation using off the shelf tools and creating wrap-around process where necessary.

• Lead a team tasked with processing thousands of jobs per month that represented $4.2 million in revenue/month for 2014. Database Engineer

MDX Medical February 2014 - September 2014, Lyndhurst, NJ

• Architected table structure and maintained PostgresSQL databases.

• Ingested data from various sources, transformed and loaded into the data warehouse.

• Extracted data and reports to both internal and external clients.

• Designed, maintained, and oversaw the execution of the production schedule in conjunction with stakeholders to manage priorities and SLA’s.

• Directed tasks throughput measurement of the team and monitored systems for minimizing downtime.

• Improved efficiencies of processes by recording measurable decreases in process times. Ad Ops

MDX Medical May 2011 - February 2014, Lyndhurst, NJ

• Supported Adsales team including traffic/performance reporting & invoicing management.

• Ensured campaign launch, maintenance and optimization by operating with technical, marketing, and SEO/SEM as necessary.

• Developed new lead gen traffic driving ideas for CPA, CPM, CPC, CPUV business models that led to over $3 million a quarter revenue in 2013.

• Teamed with engineering to QA both site releases and new advertising space.

• Collaborated with biz/dev for potential new partners with custom campaigns.

• Conducted account management for provider market division reporting to clients/presales forecasts. EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts (B.A)

Rutgers University

SKILLS

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Certified Project Management (PMP), Jira, Confluence, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, Sdlc, Yaml, Kubernetes, SFTP, Release Management, DB Languages: Postgresql, Mongodb and Mysql. New Relic, Sidekiq, CI/CD, Git, AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud, Azure, Server Configuration

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