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Cloud Consultant

Nick Adams

A developer, Infrastructure as Code practitioner, avid rider, gym enthusiast and probably a caffeine addict.

9.
Years
Experience

Solid Experience

Security conscience Architect, focusing on serverless applications and Site Reliability Engineering. Looking onward for opportunities to further Humanity through Technology.

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Slalom
2020 - Present
Slalom

Sr. Consultant, focused on Cloud, DevOps, and Security. Promoting modern development practices, Security in the Cloud, evangelizing Agile and building robust serverless applications.

CenturyLink
2019 - 2020
CenturyLink

Lead Product Engineer, developing CenturyLink Cloud's Private Cloud product. Focused on enhancing the supporting micro-services that provide content delivery, secure dynamic secrets and hardened build environments.

United States Marine Corps
2015 - 2018
United States Marine Corps

Cyber Network Operations Specialist, focused on building and supporting Combat Operations Centers. Managing MS Exchange, XMPP, Blue Force Trackers, and Dynamic Multi-point VPN for secure communication with MARFORRES units.

Stifel
2018 - 2019
Stifel

Solutions Architect, tasked with paving Stifel's entry into AWS. Designed and implemented pipelines for HashiCorp Packer for automating hardened AMI/VMX images. Guided the adoption of Infrastructure as Code with HashiCorp Terraform and a multi-region reliability strategy.

Stifel
2017 - 2018
Stifel

IT Operations Manger, developed Stifel's first Network/Operations Team charged with event monitoring and operational change tasks. Created an event driven IT Service Management pipeline to triage/route Incidents based on event properties.

Stifel
2016 - 2017
Stifel

Application Engineer, implementing an Event Correlation tool, Moogsoft. Planned and executed a vast monitoring consolidation effort spanning SolarWinds, Nagios, System Center Operations Manager, Site 24x7.

Using my creative and professional skills, I will turn them towards humanity, to help the community and not just myself.

Personal Mission Statement

"I am always at my best when working with others who are constantly 'raising the bar' and you are possibly the very definition of that. Beyond learning stuff, you have been a great motivator for me. Just trying to keep up with your pace has been motivation in and of itself, but the fact that we have been able to share visions for various projects has been very significant. This allowed us to support each other in weighing priorities with our leadership, and ultimately work towards our shared visions, and drag people with us as needed."

Brian Frierdich
CenturyLink

"I have to say, Nick, I think you’re doing really awesome work here. I love your can do attitude and how you go get stuff done right now. On top of all that, you have an infectious enthusiasm that boosts others around you. You’re a force of nature! Thank you coming in and making Slalom look good. We're going to need your work ethic and attention to detail on this work for sure."

Martin McGreal
Slalom

"Nick joined our team a few months ago, and helped our team complete a critical cloud project for our client. This project has been going on all year long, so when Nick joined our team, the project had been in progress for some time. This presented a tough challenge because there was a ton of information that he had to get up to speed on very quickly. Nick has shown great ability to learn quickly and on the fly. He immediately meshed with our team members, as well as the client team members. I knew that I could always count on Nick to accomplish his work before the end of the upcoming sprint. I have been extremely impressed with Nick's ability to contribute so quickly, and his knowledge about everything related to our project. It is immediately apparent that Nick can tackle any assignment or issue thrown his way."

Kevin Newbern
Slalom

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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch."
-Edgar Mitchell -- Apollo 14 Astronaut

St. Louis, Missouri USA

636.219.8025

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