Lincoln, NE
Amazon Web Services
11/2024 - Present
Lincoln, NE (Virtual)
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Amazon Web Services
07/2022 - 11/2024
Dallas, TX (Remote)
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FEDITC
11/2020 - 07/2022
Austin, TX (Remote)
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Mutual of Omaha
04/2020 - 11/2020
Omaha, NE
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Gallup
07/2019 - 04/2020
Omaha, NE
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Duncan Aviation
09/2016 - 07/2019
Lincoln, NE
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You will notice these projects are private in GitHub. This is for security purposes. Contact me for business need access.
A extensible chat interface with artifical intelligence agentic workloads, using AWS Bedrock with Model Context Protocol (MCP) server support. Currently includes S3 bucket integration, with a modular architecture designed for adding more MCP servers. Built with Kiro!
A containerized todo application with React frontend and AWS Lambda backend, deployable to Amazon EKS. Fully automated CI/CD pipeline so you can make changes without having to manually build everything from scratch. Hosted on AWS. Built with Kiro!
During cloud migrations, certain workloads must stay on-premises or at the edge due to latency-sensitive application interdependencies, data residency requirements, or local data processing needs. This workshop guides you through migrating VMware and Java applications to AWS Outposts and AWS Local Zones while modernizing them through containerization. You will initialize AWS Application Migration Service, set up post-launch actions, containerize applications using AWS Systems Manager Automation documents, pull container images from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), and deploy containerized applications to AWS Outposts. Leave this workshop with practical skills in migrating legacy applications.
Do you have applications that need to be modernized, but aren't sure about how to get started? If so, this workshop is for you. You will be given a mandate to modernize a set of applications. First, learn about your applications and their dependencies. Then, decide which application you want to modernize and the path you want to take; for example, containerize your application and run it on Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS, or refactor your .NET code to run on Linux.
You can find a blurb about this workshop here.
Create a workshop for our customers that uses AWS Application Migration Service to Containerize an Application. This lab guides you through containerizing a Java application from an on-premesis server, then deploying a docker file/ECS cluster on an Outposts rack. The lab automates 80% of the deployment for future customers and highlights how post launch actions can help customers deploy into EKS/ECS on Outposts.
This is an private workshop that is only presented to use-case customers.
Application modernization involves discovery, analysis, extraction, containerization and deployment of an application migrated to AWS. The AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) simplifies and expedites your migration to AWS by automatically converting your source servers from physical, virtual, or other cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. In this post, I use post-launch actions in AWS MGN to containerize your application by deploying it to the Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). This blog post provides operators who are migrating and modernizing their applications to Amazon ECS a step-by-step article for application replatforming using the AWS MGN post-launch action: App2Container for Replatforming.
You can access the article at the AWS Blog website.
This repository is a Terraform template for running Amazon Managed Prometheus with Amazon Managed Grafana for Windows Servers using the WMI Exporter. The use case came about in preparation for a blog article using these technologies. A user will be able to spool up every resource necessary, with the proper permissions, to run an automated metrics collection system.
This is private repository . Please contact me directly for business need access.
This project takes a CloudFormation template, with the output of giving you pricing based on your configuration. The UI explains how the system works, and is easy to walk through. Currently it is very limited, with only Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 pricing. This project was built with AWS Lambda, Python, Angular, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Amplify, and a few other AWS services. It is now archived but I can discuss the details.
This is private repository . Please contact me directly for business need access.
A simple application that is hosted on Amazon Elastic Container Service with the Fargate launch type. This repository holds the Terraform template to recreate the entire infrastructure. The template includes an Amazon ECS cluster, Auto Scaling Group, Application Load balancers for scaling, Fargate task definitions, target groups, auto scaling policies, and a few of the necessary networking components. The images were pre-built but you can change the task definiton to select your own.
This is private repository . Please contact me directly for business need access.
This game, built completely in Java, asks questions and takes input from the CLI. Depending on the answer, you get a popup of a YouTube video, documents, images, etc. Answers are tallied, and differing images are drawn within the CLI to congratulate the individual. The product was packaged with Launch4j and placed onto USBs with custom start software.
This is private repository . Please contact me directly for business need access.
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Southeast Community College
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November 2025
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