“Chris is driven by process improvement and providing the highest levels of service reliability for both internal and external customers. He continuously looks for ways to push products forward with new solutions, augmenting existing ones or instituting policies/procedures which allow everyone to move forward in the same direction. Chris' attention to detail and desire to be the best is felt by anyone that works with him.”
About
Influential, dynamic, and accomplished professional with a proven DevOps, Kubernetes, and…
Experience
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Education
Licenses & Certifications
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Network+
CompTIA
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Enterasys Certified Specialist - Switching NMS
Enterasys
Issued ExpiresCredential ID a1780000000eXhqAAE
Volunteer Experience
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Cloud Native Ambassador
CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
- 5 years 2 months
Science and Technology
* GitOpsCon NA 2021 and GitOpsCon EU 2022 Program Committee member, multiple times speaking at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon, and countless talks at DevOps, Kubernetes, and Cloud Native meetups
* Stood up Kubernetes Upstream Marketing team, an approver of tweets from K8sContributors, acquired hardware for streaming community meetings to lessen the load on others
* KubeWeekly curator, Kubernetes YouTube channel admin, Contributor Summit workshop facilitator, Community Meeting and webinar…* GitOpsCon NA 2021 and GitOpsCon EU 2022 Program Committee member, multiple times speaking at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon, and countless talks at DevOps, Kubernetes, and Cloud Native meetups
* Stood up Kubernetes Upstream Marketing team, an approver of tweets from K8sContributors, acquired hardware for streaming community meetings to lessen the load on others
* KubeWeekly curator, Kubernetes YouTube channel admin, Contributor Summit workshop facilitator, Community Meeting and webinar moderator, and SIG-Contributor Experience member
* Advocates for Kubernetes and the cloud native ecosystem through the acclaimed and independent newsletter, DevOps’ish. Grown subscriber base to 5600+ subscribers since Dec 2016
* With the help of other Kubernetes community members, created the first-ever #KubeKhan at KubeCon Seattle 2018; brought together community members in a come as you are environment -
Co-Chair
OpenGitOps
- 1 year 3 months
Science and Technology
OpenGitOps is a set of open-source standards, best practices, and community-focused education to help organizations adopt a structured, standardized approach to implementing GitOps.
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Ambassador
Continuous Delivery Foundation
- 4 months
Science and Technology
The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) serves as the vendor-neutral home of many of the fastest-growing projects for continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD). It fosters vendor-neutral collaboration between the industry’s top developers, end users and vendors to further CI/CD best practices and industry specifications. Its mission is to grow and sustain projects that are part of the broad and growing continuous delivery ecosystem.
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Cloud Native Ambassador
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
- Present 3 months
Science and Technology
Publications
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Ansible Automation for SysAdmins: A quickstart guide to Ansible
Opensource.com
The Ansible Automation for SysAdmins guide is a primer to help you get started using Ansible to give you a better understanding of the capabilities and show you how to automate everyday sysadmin tasks.
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DevOps Hiring Guide
opensource.com & The Enterprisers Project
See publicationHiring for DevOps talent presents its own challenges and finding the right people and building a successful team is no easy task. There are many facets to consider when talking to candidates, from cultural fit and team dynamics to skills, knowledge, and problem-solving ability. This hiring guide will touch on all those areas and more. More importantly, this guide will help you navigate the unique dynamics that encompass the DevOps movement.
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The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change
The Open Organization
See publicationThe Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change consists of more than 25 chapters from writers, practitioners, industry leaders, and notable technologists. The book explains how open principles are reshaping IT organizations today and offers practical advice for leaders seeking to catalyze powerful and lasting cultural changes in their IT organizations.
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DevOps: Continuous Delivery and Automation
DZone
See publicationDevOps has emerged to be the “new normal” in software development, helping companies react to user feedback real-time and setting higher standards for rapid development. Since becoming a permanent topic of discussion, thought leaders, developers, and businesses have pushed to adopt the necessary DevOps tools and methodologies. In the DZone Guide to DevOps: Continuous Delivery & Automation, we explore the state of DevOps in 2017 including industry challenges, best practices, and solutions. Dive…
DevOps has emerged to be the “new normal” in software development, helping companies react to user feedback real-time and setting higher standards for rapid development. Since becoming a permanent topic of discussion, thought leaders, developers, and businesses have pushed to adopt the necessary DevOps tools and methodologies. In the DZone Guide to DevOps: Continuous Delivery & Automation, we explore the state of DevOps in 2017 including industry challenges, best practices, and solutions. Dive into the best mental model for implementing microservices, implementing unambiguous code requirements, best practices for microservices and containers, and Continuous Delivery anti-patterns.
Honors & Awards
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Red Hat Product Marketing Awards — Best New Red Hatter 2019
Red Hat
Selected by leadership and peers as Red Hat Product Marketing Awards 2019, Best New Red Hatter.
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2017 Emerging Contributor Award
Opensource.com
Recognizes new contributors to the Opensource.com community. Selected by the Opensource.com team.
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Windstream Hosted Solutions "You're Out of this World"
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"Chris has OWNED the deployment portion of the Windstream Cloud Portal development process. He has proactively identified issues, communicated security concerns, created MOPs, and is now automating portions of the deployment process. In addition to supporting Windstream Cloud Portal team, Chris is applying this same discipline to the tools ecosystem, which includes Ordertool, Forms, and DCMP."
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McClatchy Interactive Employee of the Month
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Air Force Communications-Computer Systems Outstanding NCO
Pope AFB
Organizations
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Infragard
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Triangle DevOps
Organizer
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