About
About Me
Houston, TX · Remote · Open to relocation — full-time only
I'm a Senior Systems Administrator based in Houston, TX, moving deeper into IAM engineering and DevOps automation. Over 10+ years in IT operations — including four years in the U.S. Army as an IT specialist — I've found the same pattern everywhere I've worked: find the painful manual process, engineer it out of existence, and leave behind automation, monitoring, and documentation that scale. As service owner for the identity stack and SaaS portfolio behind 650 employees at HCSS, I've built in-house automation that replaced paid SaaS appliances, run production infrastructure changes with zero downtime, and stood up production LLM workloads on Vertex AI, Bedrock, and Azure AI Foundry. Outside of work, I build native macOS tooling and developer utilities — proof that I stay hands-on with code and systems, not just process. Open to senior roles in IAM engineering, DevOps, platform & cloud operations, and infrastructure automation — based in Houston, open to remote or relocation, full-time only.
Right Now
Updated July 2026- Building AI-automated CI/CD pipelines — using AI agents inside the delivery pipeline itself, not just as a coding aid
- Going deeper on local AI — open-weight models and training/fine-tuning low-parameter models in my home lab
- Leveling up in Site Reliability Engineering — SLOs/error budgets, observability, and production-reliability tooling
- Owning identity & SaaS platform operations for 650 employees at HCSS
Skills
IAM Engineering
Core expertiseAutomation & Integration
Core expertiseCloud & Platform Ops
AdvancedAI-Accelerated IT
AdvancedCertifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (2023)
- Google Cloud Certified: Cloud Digital Leader (2023)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- CompTIA A+
- Apple Certified Mac Technician
Interests
- Identity & access management automation
- Self-hosted / local AI (LLM deployments, dev tooling)
- Native macOS & Apple Silicon development
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)