resume.json

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    "name": "James Hale",
    "label": "Security Engineering Manager at Salesforce",
    "image": "https://hale.dev/assets/images/profile.jpg",
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    "url": "https://hale.dev",
    "summary": "Cloud security engineer with over fourteen years of experience, specializing in architecting and deploying secure and scalable systems with high availability, using cloud-based and on-premises infrastructure resources, including hybrid solutions.\n\nDevOps and security-focused. Experienced in Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.\n\nSpecialties include: AWS, VMware, networking, automation and security.",
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      "keywords": [
        "SAML",
        "OpenID Connect (OIDC)",
        "Okta",
        "Keycloak",
        "AWS IAM"
      ]
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    {
      "name": "Security Policy Tools",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "Checkov",
        "Open Policy Agent (OPA)"
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    {
      "name": "Coding",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "Python",
        "Golang",
        "Ruby",
        "Groovy",
        "PHP",
        "Perl",
        "YAML",
        "JSON"
      ]
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    {
      "name": "Configuration Management",
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      "keywords": [
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        "Chef",
        "Ansible",
        "SaltStack"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "IaaS Platforms",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
        "Google Compute Engine (GCE)",
        "OpenStack",
        "VMWare"
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      "name": "Container Technologies",
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        "Docker",
        "Kubernetes (k8s)",
        "Mesos",
        "AWS ECS",
        "AWS EKS"
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    {
      "name": "Salesforce",
      "location": "Washington DC-Baltimore Area",
      "position": "Senior Manager",
      "startDate": "2021-08-01",
      "summary": "- Manage a team of 9 engineers. Drive career development discussions, talent reviews, and interview panels. Ensure members of the team are on the right track with engineering deliverables.\n- Coordinate engineering resources with partner teams.\n- Participate in security architecture discussions and provide input to key decision making. Taking the output of these discussions and delivering it to my team and other stakeholders as engineering deliverables.\n- Provide technical leadership and guidance, mentor junior engineers, and participate in code reviews.",
      "highlights": [],
      "isCurrentRole": true,
      "company": "Salesforce"
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    {
      "name": "Salesforce",
      "location": "Washington DC-Baltimore Area",
      "position": "Lead Systems Security Engineer",
      "startDate": "2019-08-01",
      "endDate": "2021-09-01",
      "summary": "- Technical lead for a team of three engineers. Drove Agile development, acting in Product Owner and Scrum Master roles.\n- Co-authored a project to implement Terraform static code analysis as part of the CI/CD pipeline, using Checkov, eventually scaling up to company-wide use.\n- Responsible for design and implementation of security solutions using AWS native services in GovCloud.",
      "highlights": [],
      "isCurrentRole": false,
      "company": "Salesforce"
    },
    {
      "name": "Salesforce",
      "location": "Washington DC-Baltimore Area",
      "position": "Senior Systems Security Engineer",
      "startDate": "2018-04-01",
      "endDate": "2019-08-01",
      "summary": "- Maintained AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) infrastructure for Salesforce's core product used by public sector customers.\n- Led effort to deploy Terraform across the Government Cloud infrastructure. Focused on AWS GovCloud Identity and Access Management.\n- Designed federated authentication and centralized logging mechanisms in AWS GovCloud.\n- Used Puppet and other configuration management frameworks to implement security controls for FedRAMP Moderate and High, and DISA IL4 compliance.",
      "highlights": [],
      "isCurrentRole": false,
      "company": "Salesforce"
    },
    {
      "name": "Blackboard",
      "location": "Washington DC-Baltimore Area",
      "position": "Senior DevOps Engineer",
      "startDate": "2016-11-01",
      "endDate": "2018-03-01",
      "summary": "- Research, design, develop, document and implement solutions for fault tolerance, performance, capacity, and configuration management for various data center operations.\n\n- Design, develop and implement documentation and tools to facilitate Technical Support team responsibilities.\n\n- Identify and drive opportunities to improve automation for deployment, management, and tooling, using Python, Ruby and Groovy, among other languages.\n\n- Support and improve a highly available and fault tolerant SaaS offering.\n\n- Identify platform security vulnerabilities and help design and engineer solutions.\n",
      "highlights": [],
      "isCurrentRole": false,
      "company": "Blackboard"
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    {
      "name": "The Washington Post",
      "location": "Washington DC-Baltimore Area",
      "position": "Senior Infrastructure Engineer",
      "startDate": "2015-01-01",
      "endDate": "2016-11-01",
      "summary": "- Implement ephemeral, long-lived and immutable infrastructure as code, using AWS CloudFormation and internally-built solutions.\n\n- Maintain infrastructure resources in an auditable and repeatable fashion using configuration management platforms, such as Puppet, Chef, Salt and Ansible and version control systems, such as git.\n\n- Responsible for designing and implementing sound and secure network and security architectures on AWS.\n\n- Help to maintain a strong information security posture for data in transit and data at rest.\n\n- Expert with AWS foundational services, such as EC2 (incl. EBS, ASG, ELB), VPC/Direct Connect, Route53, S3, IAM/KMS, RDS, SNS, SQS, SES and CloudWatch.\n\n- Experience with Docker, LXC and other containerization methodologies.\n\n- Contribute regularly to internal software projects, centered around the orchestration of infrastructure resources and the continuous deployment of containerized applications to test and production environments.\n\n- Familiar with NoSQL database platforms, such as MongoDB, DynamoDB and Redis and RDS database platforms, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and AWS Aurora.\n\n- Proficient in Bash/shell, Python and Go languages as well as JSON and YAML data formats. Familiar with Ruby, Java and PHP.\n\n- AWS Certified Cloud Solutions Architect — Associate. (Oct. 2015)",
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      "isCurrentRole": false,
      "company": "The Washington Post"
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    {
      "name": "The Washington Post",
      "location": "Washington D.C. Metro Area",
      "position": "Systems Engineer",
      "startDate": "2011-12-01",
      "endDate": "2015-01-01",
      "summary": "- Managed physical and cloud-based infrastructure for the print, mobile, and web properties of Washington Post Media.\n\n- Supported content management systems & applications utilizing Apache, Nginx, Tomcat and dynamic Java applications deployed on Glassfish or WebLogic application servers.\n\n- Maintained Unix production, stage and test environments, utilizing RedHat 5/6/7, CentOS 5/6/7, Solaris 9 & 10, AIX 5.3, HP-UX and Mac OS X Server.\n\n- Performed occasional code deployments for development teams.\n\n- Performed system maintenance and upgrades as needed, including backups and restores.\n\n- Participated in 24x7 on-call rotation and performed occasional off-hours maintenance and implementation tasks.\n\n- Datacenter/NOC operations experience.\n\n- Completed a major datacenter relocation in 2014.",
      "highlights": [],
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      "company": "The Washington Post"
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    {
      "name": "University of Massachusetts Amherst",
      "location": "Amherst, Massachusetts",
      "position": "Technical Assistant",
      "startDate": "2007-04-01",
      "endDate": "2009-07-01",
      "summary": "System and network administration/security\nIT Support\n\nDuties included:\n- Systems administration\n- Account management\n- Hardware & Software installation/troubleshooting\n- Phone support",
      "highlights": [],
      "isCurrentRole": false,
      "company": "University of Massachusetts Amherst"
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    {
      "name": "The Massachusetts Daily Collegian",
      "location": "Amherst, Massachusetts",
      "position": "Web Editor",
      "startDate": "2006-09-01",
      "endDate": "2008-05-01",
      "summary": "Manager of web development, IT and support staff.\n\nDuties included:\n- Website design\n- Feature development, implementation and maintenance\n- Account administration and management\n- IT support",
      "highlights": [],
      "isCurrentRole": false,
      "company": "The Massachusetts Daily Collegian"
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      "endDate": "2009-12-01",
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  "volunteer": [
    {
      "organization": "Fragforce",
      "url": "https://fragforce.org/",
      "startDate": "2018-04-03",
      "summary": "Fragforce is a charity gaming team that raises money for Extra Life, Child's Play, and Children's Miracle Network hospitals"
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  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Native Speaker"
    }
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    {"name":"Photography"},
    {"name":"Cycling"}
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      "name": "AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional",
      "issuer": "Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
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    {
      "name": "AWS Certified Security - Specialty",
      "issuer": "Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
      "date": "2019-03-08",
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    {
      "name": "Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)",
      "issuer": "(ISC)²",
      "date": "2020-02-28",
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