William Barstad

Valor Networks, Inc.

Position: AWS Cloud Engineer, Scrum Master

Location: New Jersey (Remote)

Duration: 10/21 – 10/24

• Designed and implemented an AWS GovCloud environment for a DoD project utilizing VPC, EC2, ECS, S3, and RDS.
• Managed production, development and client accounts using AWS Organizations.
• AWS SysOps Administration of enterprise resources using the console, CDK, CLI, and CloudFormation.
• Responsible for patching, monitoring, scaling and automated remediation of AWS systems infrastructure using Wazuh, CloudWatch, AWS Config and AWS Systems Manager tools.
• Led our Amazon Connect effort, transitioning from our current vendor to Amazon Connect with systems design and implementation, and organized a company-wide training program resulting in improved Help Desk management. IVR costs fell by 20% and the dropped call rate to nearly zero.
• As AWS Cost Administrator, cut enterprise costs by 30% annually.
• GovCloud AWS RDS database administration, data modeling, procedure development and tuning.
• Application development as needed using JavaScript, MongoDB, Postgres, Powershell, bash scripting and Appsmith.
• Designated Scrum Master and Jira Administrator.
• CMMC Level 2 100% compliance achieved for custom EC2 instances for use in ECS clusters using AWS ImageBuilder and OSCAP scanning.

Controltec, Inc.

Position: Database Administrator

Location: Escondido, CA

Duration: 08/17 – 08/19

• Designed and implemented ETL solutions using SSIS\Microsoft SQL Server 2016 / 7 and PowerShell scripts to manipulate data to and from State-run Child Care systems.
• Modeled data structures to support data ingest based on published requirements.
• Transact-SQL development for the organization as required.

MIQS, Inc.

Position: Software Developer/Database Administrator

Location: Boulder, CO

Duration: 04/07-08/14

• Developed QIP compliance reporting for dialysis care based on Federal Register requirements, resulting in thousands of dollars in rebates to hundreds of dialysis centers.
• Designed and maintained database structures, procedures, and triggers.
• Provided DBA services managing 20+ Sybase servers.
• Delivered a proof-of-concept for moving resources to Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Level3 Communications

Position: Senior Software Engineer II

Location: Broomfield, CO

Duration: 08/05-04/07

• Designed the database and business logic for the our first enterprise-wide authentication system for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
• Managed Financial Assurance applications reporting fiber and POTS line usage, leakage and billing metrics, resulting in reciprocal compensation activity which recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars of unbilled usage annually.

Sprint / Nextel

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Lone Tree, CO

Duration: 05/05-08/05

• Responsible for Churn Management reporting during corporate merger.
• Developed and maintained a CRM (DotNetNuke) for reporting to upper management.

Hart InterCivic

Position: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Lafayette, CO

Duration: 04/00-04/05

• Responsible for developing Ballot Origination Software System (BOSS) for use in defining elections in all 50 states as part of our electronic election suite (E-Slate).
• Designed Sybase Anywhere encrypted databases used to stored election attributes for the E-Slate election system.

United States Navy

Position: ASW Operator, SAR Aircrewman

Location: San Diego, CA

Duration: 1983-1987

• Certificate of Achievement from HS-10, US Navy, for delivering the 7th Fleet’s first Pilot/Aircrew Qualification Tracking System (1985) using dbaseII and Lotus 1-2-3 while on deployment aboard the USS Kitty Hawk to the Indian Ocean.
• Sikorsky Medal for rescue performed while deployed to the Indian Ocean.

KubernetesLab-TF Project

Description: A Terraform-based Kubernetes lab environment setup, showcasing infrastructure as code (IaC) principles. The project demonstrates deploying a fully functional Kubernetes cluster using Terraform scripts, highlighting best practices in automation and resource management.

GitHub: KubernetesLab-TF