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				"Mentored team members through meaningful career progression.",
				"Developed in house technical tooling to better enable engineers.",
				"Delivered project learnings to internal communities and documentation of repeatable technical design patterns.",
				"Professional services from pre-sales consultancy to delivery and handover.",
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				"Built CI/CD pipelines and process to build IaC environments using Azure DevOps.",
				"Cost analysis and cloud resource consolidation using cloud governance and compliance tooling.",
				"Developed Azure native automation tools using DSC/Runbooks/Managed Service Catalogs."
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				"Enterprise support for Windows Server.",
				"Health monitoring with SCOM and New Relic.",
				"Developed high quality Powershell functions for large scale execution across Rackspace managed services."
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				"In depth troubleshooting Nginx ingress and cert-manager",
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