Lindy Lewis
Summary
Technical Leader specializing in DevOps Automation on AWS with a solid background in software development and a management focus on engineers’ recruitment, training, continuous learning, performance assessments, career progression, and retention. Champion of agile and DevOps best practices as a project manager of remote, cross-functional teams with attention to value-driven features, scheduling, and resource management. Promotes technical evangelism, mentorship, over-communication, and continuous improvement on an interpersonal and team level.
Experience
Head of Engineering Talent, Stelligent, 2020 - Present
Build, nurture, and grow a team of 40+ highly technical DevOps Automation Engineers located in six time zones across the United States and United Kingdom including coaching and career development
Improve team processes and establish a culture of continuous improvement to optimize operational efficiency, recruitment, training, staffing, and delivery to achieve operational excellence across the entire organization.
Relentless drive of culture promotion including continuous improvement, technical evangelism, mentorship, guilds, workshops, and more to promote technical growth, raise engineer morale, and reduce attrition.
Map skilled engineers from recruitment pipeline to engineering engagements from sales pipeline to account for interviewing, onboarding, and training timelines.
Engineering Manager and Delivery Leader, Stelligent, 2019 - 2020
Manage multiple fast paced software engineering and DevOps projects including requirements analysis, roadmapping, forecasting, and agile ceremonies.
Cultivate team members’ growth by conducting regular one on one meetings and overseeing all onboarding, training, continuous learning, performance management, and career progression.
Manage the bench and own resource allocation for all internal and customer projects.
Ensure agile and DevOps best practices while acting as delivery leader and project manager for internal tooling projects, solutions development, and technical marketing activities.
Develop onboarding, training, and mentoring programs that ensure engineers meet the company’s minimum viable engineer standards to be placed on a customer project.
Decrease onboarding and training time by 40% while increasing overall learning standards, technical certification requirements, and technical evangelism.
Own communication mechanisms including the company’s weekly Sharing is Caring meeting, the Newsletter for the People, and the company intranet.
DevOps Automation Engineer, Stelligent, 2018 - 2019
Build AWS infrastructure with CloudFormation using the Ruby AWS SDK..
Automate deployments and configuration of AWS Core Services, including S3, IAM, VPC, EC2, Auto-Scaling Groups, ELB, CloudWatch, KMS, ECS.
Build continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines in Amazon Web Services using Jenkins.
Work as a DevOps team member on a team for a public sector client and provided heavy use of CloudFormation, Elastic Container Services, Jenkins, and Docker with a focus on security, testing, and best practices.
Serve as a mentor to guide and teach new engineers as they onboard with the company.
Professor of Computer Science, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2017 - 2019
Instruct Computer Science students in the College of Science and Technology School of Computing.
Focus on the Software Development Lifecycle, waterfall vs. agile, requirements analysis, software design and OOP principles, coding best practices
Courses included Software Analysis & Design, Software Engineering, Introduction to Java, Object Oriented Programming, and Advanced Internet Concepts.
Technical Analyst & Project Manager, University of Colorado Boulder, 2016
Oversee the design, implementation, and management of the web presence of the CU Grand Challenges Integrated Remote & In Situ Sensing (IRISS) and Earth Lab Programs.
Collaborate with the IRISS researchers to develop cyber-infrastructures to move, curate, and analyze data gathered during IRISS field deployments.
Design nomadic cloud computing architecture that enables unmanned aircraft to access mobile computing resources in the field for the IRISS Mobile Research Collaboratory (MRC).
Collaborate in the design of net-centric command and control architectures for unmanned aircraft systems, with emphasis on flexibility to support multiple types of Earth science applications, specifically atmospheric-science applications.
Interact with IRISS Project PIs to support IT needs of field experiments and deployments.
Technical Manager and Web Programmer, Mississippi State University, 2012 - 2015
Plan, design, implement, test, and maintain multiple web development projects. Translate business requirements into technical requirements.
Develop architecture of information, storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, and specifications throughout the planning stages of projects.
Lead team collaboration and facilitated communications between the technical team and clients. Apply lean strategies to reduce development time.
Perform quality assurance throughout the development process.
Manage the NOAA Ocean Exploration Research Exploration Command Center at Stennis Space Center. Manage and maintain scheduling for shared resources in Mississippi State University Operations Center.
Identify, recognize, and resolve conflicting priorities through effective planning and communication.
Create complete technical documentation on business and technical processes.
Serve as primary technical support for the Mississippi State University Science and Technology Building at Stennis Space Center.
Strategically apply technical resources to satisfy business requirements.
Balance customers’ technical requirements with university resources by facilitating communications between local and remote parties.
Manage the planning and execution of conferences and seminars and ensure technical requirements are fulfilled.
Information Technology Manager, ASSURE UAS, 2012 - 2015
Plan, design, build, test and debug award winning ASSURE UAS web site. Integrate and leverage social media applications to increase ASSURE brand recognition and connect with the UAS community.
Apply technical resources strategically to satisfy business requirements.
Manage the planning and execution of conferences and seminars and ensure technical requirements are fulfilled.
Act as the primary point of contact, solve immediate technical issues, and provide communications interface to specialized technicians.
Software Engineering Intern, Naval Research Laboratory, 2011 - 2012
Supported scientists by developing software applications to support scientific research. Built image parsing software using Java used in advanced GIS research.
Built an application to parse XML documents based on user inputs using the Java programming language.
Built software that parsed and extracted data from URLs into KML files.
Maintained Windows Server 2008 and Linux Ubuntu Server machines.
Education
Master of Science, Management Information Systems, Mississippi State University, 2015
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2012
Certifications
AWS DevOps Professional Certification, Amazon Web Services, 2019
AWS SysOps Associate Certification, Amazon Web Services, 2018
Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, 2015