Bud Calabrese • (804) 882-4638 • Email: budcalabrese@gmail.com

EDUCATION:

ECPI University
A.S. degree in Computer and Information Science

Certifications:

VCP-DCV 5.5, vSphere 6 Foundations, AWS Certified Solutions Architect

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

US Bank
Cloud Engineer April 2020 – Present

• Provide deep software development knowledge with respect to cloud architecture, design patterns and programming
• Advise and implement AWS best practices
• Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployments
• Automated ECS deployments leveraging Terraform
• Leverage Terraform to deploy AWS resources

Amazon Web Services
Associate Devops Consultant March 2019 – April 2020

• Help customers architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS Services
• Architect and develop customer applications to be cloud optimized
• Work as a technical leader alongside customer business, development, and infrastructure teams
• Provide deep software development knowledge with respect to cloud architecture, design patterns and programming
• Advise and implement AWS best practices
• Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployments
• Automated ECS deployments leveraging Terraform
• Leverage Terraform to deploy AWS resources

vAuto
Cloud Engineer July 2018 – March 2019

• Work in a large environment to implement highly scalable and performance-based environments utilizing infrastructure as a code.
• Worked on moving on-prem systems into aws
• Used infrastructure as a Code to spin up new and consistent machines leveraging TerraForm
• Deploy AWS EC2 instances using TerraForm
• Leverage GitHub for source control
• Leverage Bash and PowerShell to automate tasks

Q2ebanking
Cloud Engineer III November 2016 – July 2018

• Work in a large environment to implement highly scalable and performance-based environments utilizing infrastructure as a code.
• Work in a cross-platform environment leveraging Window Server (2008/2012/2016) and Linux (CentOS 7) deployments
• Used infrastructure as a Code to spin up new and consistent machines leveraging TerraForm and Ansible
• Deploy VM's using TerraForm
• Build Docker hosts using Terraform and Ansible for deployments
• Write Ansible playbooks to automate deployments and configuration
• Build Powershell scripts to automate repeated tasks
• Build PowerCLI script used to cleanup and maintain VMware environment
• Used BitBucket & GitHub for source control
• Involved with maintaining and upgrading VMware 5.5 environment
• Provide tier 3 OS/Server troubleshooting help
• Provide mentoring and training to junior teams

Arrowstream Senior System Engineer January 2015- November 2016

• Supported a cross-platform environment Window Server (2008/2012) & CentOS 7
• Provided server administration using vSphere 5.5 and 6
• Design and implement migration from vSphere environment 5.0 to 6.0
• Design and implement virtual machine backups using BackupExec 2015
• Troubleshoot VMware Esxi host performance issues
• Deploy and troubleshoot Cisco UCS chassis
• Install and configure UCS mini architecture
• Perform day to day activities with EMC VNX 5300 & 5400 arrays
• Design and implement Meraki access points
• Deployed SQL 14 2-node clusters moving from a physical to virtual environment
• Assisted in migration from SQL 2008 to SQL 2014
• Migrated legacy Server 2003 machines to Server 2012
• Assisted in Office 365 migration
• Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting support
• Create PowerShell scripts for repetitive tasks
• Build new SQL databases/instances for Development team using SQL 2008/2012 or MariaDB