resume.json

resume.json

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  "basics": {
    "name": "Matt Mencel",
    "label": "Site Reliability Engineer - Tech Lead",
    "email": "matt@techminer.net",
    "phone": "(309) 333-6056",
    "website": "https://medium.com/@matt_89326",
    "summary": "Matt lives and works in Western Illinois. He earned a degree from Western Illinois University and spent 5 years in the United States Marine Corps.  He's been remotely working at WorkBoard since June 2021. During his time at WorkBoard his work has focused on Azure infrastructure automation, application deployment via CI/CD, and container orchestration in Kubernetes.  These days he passes the time working with tools like Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions to help deliver better software.",
    "location": {
      "address": "210 Chesapeake Rd",
      "postalCode": "IL 62326",
      "city": "Colchester",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "Illinois"
    },
    "profiles": [{
      "network": "Github",
      "username": "MattMencel",
      "url": "https://github.com/mattmencel"
    }, {
      "network": "LinkedIn",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattmencel/"
    }, {
      "network": "Twitter",
      "username": "mattmencel"
    }]
  },
  "education": [{
    "institution": "Western Illinois University",
    "area": "Liberal Arts, CS Emphasis",
    "studyType": "Bachelor of Science",
    "startDate": "1989-08-20",
    "endDate": "1993-12-15"
  }],
  "interests": [{
    "name": "Gaming",
    "keywords": ["Board", "Turn-Based Strategy"]
  }, {
    "name": "Travel"
  }],
  "languages": [{
    "language": "English",
    "fluency": "Native speaker"
  }],
  "skills": [{
    "name": "SRE / Platform Engineering",
    "level": "Master",
    "keywords": ["Microsoft Azure", "Terraform", "Docker", "Kubernetes (AKS)", "Helm", "FluxCD/ArgoCD", "SCM (Git, GitHub)", "GitHub Actions", "Azure DevOps", "Linux", "Monitoring (DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana)"]
  }, {
    "name": "System Administration",
    "level": "Intermediate",
    "keywords": ["Configuration Management", "VMware", "Directory Services", "Email Systems", "Databases", "Windows Server", "Logging, Monitoring, and Visualization", "Message Queueing"]
  }, {
    "name": "Programming",
    "level": "Intermediate",
    "keywords": ["Ruby", "Bash"]
  }, {
    "name": "Programming",
    "level": "Beginner",
    "keywords": ["Golang"]
  }],
  "work": [
    {
    "company": "WorkBoard, Inc",
    "position": "Site Reliability Engineer - Tech Lead",
    "website": "https://workboard.com/",
    "startDate": "2021-06-01",
    "summary": "https://www.workboard.com/company/",
    "highlights": ["Deploy globally available Azure infrastructure & containerized application solutions",
      "Support product engineering deployment of containerized workloads to Kubernetes using Terraform, Helm, and GitHub Action Workflows",
      "Design and build automation tooling for automated testing and deployment across multiple environments and regions",
      "Lead the engineering organization in how to build and deliver the WorkBoard product using industry best practices"
    ]
  }, {
    "company": "10th Magnitude",
    "position": "Senior Cloud Automation Engineer - SRE",
    "website": "https://10thmagnitude.com/",
    "startDate": "2018-02-26",
    "endDate": "2021-05-31",
    "summary": "https://www.10thmagnitude.com/our-story/",
    "highlights": ["Plan, analyze, design, and deploy enterprise scale Azure infrastructure & application delivery solutions",
      "Guide and support enterprise customers in their deployment of Azure resources using Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines",
      "Design and build automation tooling for enterprise customers for application testing and deployment via CI/CD across multiple environments and regions",
      "Mentor for internal 10M and customer engineers around Terraform use and best practices"
    ]
  }, {
    "company": "Western Illinois University",
    "position": "SysAdmin & Server Team Manager",
    "website": "https://www.wiu.edu/utech",
    "startDate": "2002-09-01",
    "endDate": "2018-02-23",
    "summary": "https://www.wiu.edu/about/",
    "highlights": ["Supported several hundred RHEL, Ubuntu, Solaris, and Windows systems (virtual and bare metal) across multiple sites", "Used Chef configuration management and deployment automation to manage systems, including a CI pipeline using Gitlab and CI runners in Kubernetes", "Setup monitoring and visualization stack including Sensu, Graphite, and Logstash (ELK)"]
  }, {
    "company": "Computer Masters International, Inc",
    "position": "IT Consultant",
    "startDate": "1999-01-15",
    "endDate": "2002-08-28",
    "highlights": ["Provided IT Consulting to regional small to medium sized businesses and government entities"]
  }, {
    "company": "United States Marine Corps",
    "position": "Sergeant",
    "startDate": "1994-01-01",
    "endDate": "1998-12-31",
    "highlights": ["Served in a 'Signals Intelligence' unit and held a top secret SCI clearance", "Multiple overseas deployments"]
  }]
}