Alston Rousseau

Alston Rousseau Washington, DC - /-https://alstonrousseau.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/alstonrousseau PROFESSIONAL PROFILE An ambitious and results-driven Management & Architecture Consultant with over 14 years’ experience and substantial success in leading the development and implementation of technology solutions for clients in the healthcare and start-up sectors. Passionate and skilled at sustainably growing people, processes and technology in a holistic DevOps fashion. Adept at sustainably scaling technology and people processes with a unique level of hands-on leadership and a deep understanding of strengths-based coaching methodology. Experience includes the formulation of Cloud Architecture strategies, Advanced Observability design, and DevOps and API integrations with workplace and HRBP tools. Demonstrates exceptional knowledge of agile and Kanban style development methodologies and uses a sound understanding of the interface between business and technology to develop custom solutions. Applies an analytical and data-driven approach to solving problems, inspires cross-functional teams to success, and cultivates trusted relationships with clients. CORE COMPETENCIES Mediation & Arbitration Hybrid/Multi Cloud Strategy Development Network Design Technology Consulting Observability & Analytics Strengths-Based Coaching DevOps & IaC Consulting Employee Engagement Project Management CAREER SUMMARY Sirona Medical Inc – Washington, DC Director Software Delivery & Risk Feb 2022 – Present Improved SDLC and brought releases up from weekly to daily for multiple product teams. Facilitated the maturation of Governance & Compliance, implemented LMS and developed employee AWS CDK and DEI training. Provided hands-on AWS expertise to a growing team of AI engineering folks in addition to mentoring NLP, and CV scientists. Directed ontology growth and re-architected a radiology workspace to follow best practice for ReactJS. Coached roughly 10 developers and 8 data scientists in their careers with an eye towards promoting leaders from within. Campspot - Chicago, IL Director Software Delivery & Risk Mar 2021 – Dec 2021 Provided hands-on guidance to a burgeoning team of DevOps and Test Automation Engineers and led company DEI initiatives. Implemented strengths-based coaching and agile methodologies Worked to improve hiring practices, developed internal talent and trained new managers. Created queries and key performance indicators, service-level objectives and generated reports. Developed comprehensive cloud strategy for a seasonal business. Projected cost savings of AWS expenses amount to over $870,000 in 2022. Anthem, Inc. – Chicago, IL Nov 2019 – Mar 2021 DevOps Manager II Consulted with various stakeholders and leveraged microservices and written terraform modules to fully take advantage of ECS and EKS container orchestrators. Hired thought leaders and managed associates to their strengths and developed comprehensive CICD strategy. Developed release management process improvements, taught git and Linux best practice as I coached the team to codify everything. Stood up a Terraform and Ansible practice after requirements analysis and focused on programming SQL database enhancements. Led workshops and developed the cloud migration strategy for the subsidiary AIM Specialty Health - wrote comprehensive project plans and roadmaps. Lead teams through a difficult organizational transition and grew the team from eight to fifteen people. Senior Technical Consultant – Chicago, IL Jan 2018 - Aug 2021 Self-Employed & Foghorn Consulting, LLC Provided detailed rearchitecture roadmaps for cloud migrations and modernizations in post-sales. Aided pre-sales client acquisition with roughly $2.5 million in contracts. Established deliverables and conducted value analysis. Mediated and arbitrated disputes between large Fortune 500 clients with conflicting strongly held beliefs and helped them to achieve consensus on multi-million-dollar cloud architecture decisions. Developed and presented practical and research-backed strategies for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion improvements at multiple industry leading conferences including DevOps World to audiences over 200. Oversaw teams and evangelized DevOps culture and implemented Gallup’s Strengths-Finder 2.0 for three clients. Red Bull, N.A. – Santa Monica, CA Apr 2017 - Jan 2019 DevOps Services Lead Adopted the processes and tools required to run a successful DevOps environment. Taught and instructed teams on proper Cisco iOS, Gitflow, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform and Chef usage/management. Organized and led the entire migration of an on-premises datacenter to the AWS cloud. Managed vendor and consultant relationships throughout the $8.5 million-dollar migration. Brought about a DevOps culture change of sharing and collaboration between international engineering groups at Red Bull by conducting detailed discovery and applying mediation and arbitration training in the real world Architected and implemented enterprise versions of Jenkins, Terraform, Bitbucket, Chef and developed project plans while conducting regular 1:1’s with my direct reports and guided the growth of their strengths. Gamblit Gaming, LLC – Glendale, CA May 2014 - Apr 2017 DevOps Lead Administered and designed a micro-service CentOS environment to support an application of 100,000+ users. Wrote an idempotent Ansible library to support the deployment of 50+ Java, PHP, Node, and Zookeeper micro-services. Managed and trained a team of four engineers and worked closely with developers to develop creative solutions to modern and secure digital-gambling applications. Flash Networks, LLC – Los Angeles, CA Dec 2013 - May 2014 Linux Cellular Network Engineer Assisted clients with the resolution of complex problems and delivered significant measurable impact. Developed field tests of custom video-caching software and integrated custom hardware into cellular carrier datacenters. U.S. Army – Norfolk, VA May 2008 - Feb 2012 Team Lead, Honorable Discharge Demonstrated success in a broad set of responsibilities over the years that included patrolling Iraq. Led an Honor Guard team of ten soldiers to render military funeral honors for one year; services rendered without error and with the utmost discipline. EDUCATION Hashicorp’s Terraform Intermediate Certificate – Chicago, IL Mar 2019 ACUITUS Inc, Engineering School – Palo Alto, CA Nov 2013 Certification in Information Systems Top of competitive class in engineering program. School is the result of a fifteen-year joint effort between Stanford faculty, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, US Navy, Department of Veterans Affairs and DARPA (the nation’s premier research organization). TECHNOLOGIES Methodology: DevOps Philosophy, Agile Development, Strengths-Based Management, Test/Development Lifecycle Infrastructure/Cloud: AWS, Terraform, Cisco iOS, Palo Alto, vRealize, G-Suite, Azure, Active Directory DevOps: CloudBees Jenkins, Feature Flagging, Harness.IO, Ansible, GitOps Observability: Honeycomb.IO, New Relic, Data Dog, Tagging Strategy, SolarWinds, Nagios