Chase Thomas
Phone: 540-421-2445
Cloud Engineer I am a Cloud Engineer that is interested in delivering applications and services at high velocity. I'm motivated, always learning, and seeking a successful team-oriented company with opportunity to grow.
Experience

BOLTMSP

Jan. 2019 - Aug. 2022

Solutions Architect

McLean, VA

  • Manage service delivery, escalations, and projects among 6 engineers for 50 client accounts.
  • Provide clients with CTO/CIO consultative services ranging from technology budgeting to solutions engineering and implementation
    • Reduce IaaS spending for some clients by as much as 30% by heavily optimizing resource usage.
    • Consistently improve reliability of client services with minimal budgets by minimizing on-premises footprints.
  • Improve security posture of many clients resulting in zero reported breaches during my time as acting technical lead.

UBTICLOUD

Jun. 2017 - Jan. 2019

Project Engineer

McLean, VA

  • Evaluated, architected, migrated, and deployed Azure IAAS solutions for small and medium businesses.
  • Migrated organizations from on-premises exchanges, hosted exchanges, and Google Workspace to Office 365 and setup Office 365 tenants to align with secure configuration standards.
  • Managed a team of two deployment technicians to facilitate on site project deployments.
  • Managed, owned, and improved internal business critical platforms and processes leading to an intimate understanding of the business.

ARGroup

Jan. 2016 - June 2017

Systems Administrator

McLean, VA

  • Optimized VMWare solution for 200 user multi-site organization as well as centralized their network infrastructure and increased system stability which resulted in service requests being reduced by 40%.
  • Managed centralized services for over 1000 end users.
Education

George Mason University

Dec. 2015

BS, Computer Engineering

McLean, VA

  • Emphasis in Computer Networks
  • Alumni of Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity
Projects

S3 Hosted Website with AWS API Gateway & Lambda integration into DynamoDB datastore

  • Lambda function built with Python and website built with HTML and CSS.
  • Fully automated deployment of site and all associated resources using CI/CD pipelines and AWS SAM templates.
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Skills

AWS; Git; Kubernetes; Gitlab CI/CD; Terraform; Ansible; Prometheus; Python; Linux; Azure; PowerShell; Office 365; Windows Server; Hyper-V; DNS; DHCP; Exchange; Active Directory; Group Policy; SharePoint Online; VMware; Project Management; Strategic Planning/Road mapping; Networking;


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