Jack R. Powell

Experience

March 2020 - December 2024

Led planning and development of an upgraded production Jenkins instance using terraform and docker enhancing scalability, maintainability, and deployment efficiency.
Developed, tested, and maintained a dynamic pool of Terraform-deployed Jenkins worker agents, enhancing engineering efforts across multiple teams.
Tuned performance and administered Jenkins services, troubleshooting platform issues across various use cases.
Led development and deployment of “Jenkins-as-a-Service” using Docker, Terraform, and Puppet for diverse teams.
Managed packaging, versioning, and releasing products through approved governance channels to meet CI/CD deadlines for customers.
Created and maintained an inventory of hardware, documenting physical and network locations to minimize waste and optimize VMware cluster efficiency.
Seamlessly migrated engineering repositories from Bitbucket to GitHub with zero downtime in the background of an active development cycle.
Evaluated and selected third-party tools for monitoring and CI/CD, optimizing their integration within our environments.

April 2015 - March 2020

Supported the migration of the datacenter from Fall River, MA to Houston, TX by deploying automated network services.
Maintained a production-like test environment to ensure seamless testing of new deployments, ensuring stability and reliability.
Ensured 100% green build status for production deployments by deploying code through a PR pipeline process ensuring CI/CD.

July 2013 - April 2015

Performed mathematical database calculations via SQL and R for data science analytics using Tableau.
Release Engineering related tasks associated with Jenkins, database administration, systems engineering, and reporting.