Sean Brown

Led the implementation of Terraform Enterprise Sentinel policies and established a Center of Excellence for infrastructure automation, developing company-wide standards and best practices. Directed the creation of ServiceNow service catalogs for self-service provisioning and implemented event-driven Ansible for self-healing infrastructures, significantly reducing cloud spend by 25% through FinOps

Led the introduction and implementation of Terraform Enterprise and Ansible Automation Platform, while overseeing the sunsetting of Chef. Rebuilt the DevOps team and managed the transition from Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps Services, converting pipelines to YAML and migrating source code to GitHub Enterprise.

Led a cross-functional group to transition the company from on-premises data centers to cloud environments, consolidating tools and achieving significant savings. Implemented and administered the Azure DevOps toolchain, providing guidance on best practices for development, QA, and operations teams.

Automated the manual server build process, reducing build time from days to approximately one hour. Utilized configuration management tools like Puppet to create base Windows modules and implemented Prometheus and Grafana for comprehensive application performance monitoring.

Operated as a self-managed team member, responsible for planning, implementing, testing, and deploying software changes across all environments. Architected and implemented custom C# observability and blue/green deployment ecosystems, significantly reducing client downtime and improving real-time problem detection.

Managed source code, created and troubleshot CI/CD build pipelines, and released builds into various environments. Architected and implemented a local build logging system using MSBuild and SQL, which optimized build compilation times by up to 50%.

Managed and monitored build system infrastructure and all CI/CD pipelines, optimizing build compilation times to boost developer productivity. Created build tools using C# and PowerShell, and administered Team Foundation Server.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a focus on Information Technology Management. This program provided a comprehensive understanding of IT systems within a business context.

Earned an Associate of Science with a concentration in Biology. The curriculum covered foundational scientific principles and laboratory techniques.