Cover Letter
I'm an Atlanta native that grew up in East Cobb/Roswell area that works hard and has strong problem solving skills. I'm currently located in Woodstock, GA but I work 100% remote, and I currently work indirectly for the CDC. I'm a Northrop Grumman/Peraton employee and I own my own business Visionquest Development. https://visionquestdevelopment.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimobrien3
I also develop my own WordPress theme called Pegasus (https://pegasustheme.com) for my business which can be seen here: https://github.com/Visionquest-Development/pegasus
My Github can be found here: https://github.com/jimboobrien
GitHub Pages URL: https://jimboobrien.github.io/
My Organization for Visionquest Development can be found here: https://github.com/Visionquest-Development
I have developed NEXTJS applications for my clients at Visionquest Development and you can see an example app here: https://github.com/jimboobrien/chatgpt-nextjs-example
I just love to build things both online and in the garage and I look forward to learning more about how I can leverage Artificial Intelligence and to always continue learning.
Looking forward to hearing from you sometime,
- Jim
OBJECTIVE - Looking to obtain a DevOps or Fullstack position, preferably remote, and with a company that has growth potential both within the role and the company itself.
I've helped develop implementation strategies, evaluate new software, refactored deprecated code, provided performance improvements and enhancements, revamped build processes, improved deployment processes, and I've been a part of the hiring process, onboarded, and trained employees.
Software engineer specializing in full-stack development. I'm a WordPress aficionado, Javascript Ninja, dotfile junky, yaml master, markdown expert, documentation extraordinaire, AI evangelist. Proficient with HTML, PHP, Vanilla JavaScript (React, Typescript, ES6), NODEJS, CSS3, and a variety of modern web technologies all relating to Web Development and E-Commerce.
https://jimboobrien.github.io/
I have also mentored front-end developers at my current job where I taught them how to start a frontend project by running npm init and start a package.json to set up scripts and manage dependencies. I also trained them on how to use git properly and how to create branches off of main to then create Pull Requests with to properly maintain a repository within a team. I've also done live coding sessions with superiors and with juniors to show / pair code for certain lessons on node and WordPress training.
Summary
Senior Technical lead and consultant. Looking for a DevOps or Full-Stack software engineering position. On the team that helped produce the CDC.gov website with over a million sessions per day.
GitHub actions
I have published Github packages and node packages via CDC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimobrien3
https://jimboobrien.github.io/
https://visionquestdevelopment.com/
https://visionquestdevelopment.com/portfolio/
https://visionquestdevelopment.com/resume/
Greetings, My name is Jim O'Brien and I'm a Software Engineer that specializes in Fullstack, DevOps, Modern Javascript, Web Applications, and WordPress websites. I tend to be a good team member that likes teaching others and also learning from those that are senior to me. I can provide tons of knowledge on how to provide scalable, tightly integrated, well managed projects to several different environments. I've completely refactored build tools in projects from grunt to gulp or vice versa, I've improved the CI/CD pipeline to improve releases and deployments of code for a large team and complicated code base, I've completely revamped team's workflows and Jenkins builds and deployments, I've set up code linting for both JS and CSS, and improved upon non-existent or very minimal documentation for both developers and users in GitHub REAMDMEs and Confluence. Not only have I done a lot in system administration and dev-ops, but I've been a lead developer for a team working directly for the CDC to provide a highly customized version of WordPress for the cdc.gov site and the entire agency. - Jim
Strong problem-solving experience for complex issues on the development and deployment of the CDC website that services over a million/sessions per day. Helped refactor our TemplatePackage project from grunt to gulp and improved local development build time from 2+ minute build to less than 30 seconds build time. Implemented nunjucks, browsersync, Express.js server for local development environment and improved IDE configuration in both PHPStorm and VSCode. Improved our Jenkins build process to improve deployment time, and integrated CI/CD pipelines for DEV, Test, Staging, and Prod servers improving the automation for Scanning software as well. Developed custom Powershell scripts for deploying files and accepting parameters for our Jenkins jobs for several projects.
I think I would be a great candidate based on my past experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines and my extensive knowledge of working with the CDC and the vast array of technologies we used to accomplish supporting the CDC during the COVID pandemic.
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I’ve helped perform interviews to hire employees, helped onboard those newly hired employees, developed documentation and revamped the onboarding system, assign tasks and tickets to team members through JIRA and been involved in standups and resource allocation, I’ve been a github repository maintainer/admin and done code reviews and pull requests for deployments, I’ve also been managing those deployments, and I’ve also trained employees on complicated subjects like how to use React, how npm is used for managing our dependencies, and/or how to setup their development environments.
My name is Jim O'Brien and I'm a Software Engineer that specializes in Fullstack, DevOps, Modern Javascript, Web Applications, and WordPress websites.
Highly skilled in vagrant, VVV, AWS, IIS, etc.
I have experience in a lot of fields all closely relating to computer science, and I am efficient in both hardware and software work.
Experienced with high availability and fault-tolerant server deployment on AWS and other cloud platforms. Knowledge of VMware, Docker, Vagrant, and VirtualBox, HyperV and IIS; also proficient Linux bash/PowerShell and Linux/Windows admin tasks.
I've mainly been a 80% backend and 20% frontend for the last 8 years, but I started in front-end and have moved more towards full-stack and DevOps type of work the last few years. I've written Powershell and bash scripts to integrate our Fortify and WebInspect scanning into the CDC CI/CD Pipelines via Jenkins. I've refactored projects from grunt to gulp to improve development environment build time significantly and implemented an ExpressJS server with browsersync for faster development. I've also implemented Eslint rules, .edtorconfig files, and stylelint into a project to keep indents and formatting with multiple languages the same across the team and entire projects. I've also deployed to multiple distributed file systems and managed deployments on both a project level and on a network level across an agency. I've set up Github Actions, set up cron-jobs for bash scripts and php scripts, and set up Windows Tasks to be executed by remote machines over a network. I've been learning Kubernetes and Ansible myself to try and learn more about the tools used in DevOps. I want to learn Terraform and Travis CI. I've also have extensive knowledge about cloud infrastructure, including Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and AWS. I've also worked with yaml files in Azure Red Hat Openshift.
I've been working on updating my website and resume a lot lately: https://visionquestdevelopment.com I also updated my GitHub: https://github.com/jimboobrien And created a GitHub pages page: https://jimboobrien.github.io/ I've also updated my Pegasus theme for WordPress: https://pegasustheme.com and I've produced a couple of websites with my updated theme: https://qbiqcamp.com, https://outlawcoffeecompany.com I've also been working with NEXTJS and the OpenAI API trying to learn more about AI: https://chatgpt-nextjs-example.vercel.app/ I also did a NEXTJS video paywall app for a client: https://app.quarterbackuniverse.com and hope to make an EAS Expo React Native app for Android and iOS at some point this year.
Hardware
I worked as a service technician where my hardware experience ranged from troubleshooting, repairing electrical issues with proper schematics (transistors, diodes, and capacitors), board level soldering and repair, assembly and testing, working on the manufacturing floor, and dealing with wireless communication on both 2.4 Ghz and 900 Mhz radio frequencies on a daily basis.
2023
I work indirectly for the CDC, I write software in many different programming languages and I use many frameworks and libraries to accomplish building my projects. My bread and butter are WordPress websites, and anyone who knows how to use Microsoft Word can likely learn WordPress and learn to manage their own website themselves. The reality is you don't want to pay me to write your content, you have domain authority on your industry and you should be writing the copywrite, images, etc for you website. I just help people set up their website and help maintain it. I have many clients on retainer and I can work with you per hour as well. I solve complicated problems for a living and I know my strengths and weaknesses. Given enough time and/or money and I accomplish anything I set my mind to. I'm self-taught for pretty much everything, and I understand that if you want something done right you do it yourself. I have seen your documentary on YouTube about False Alarms and was inspired to send this. I'm here to help if you ever need anything. https://visionquestdevelopment.com/