
Hi! I'm Steven, a
Cloud Engineer ☁️
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I am a Cloud Engineer by trade, a musician with over a decade of experience, an avid designer, and a student-focused instructor. I am a highly motivated person who takes pride in the quality of their work.
I was born and raised in South Carolina, and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems. Since graduation, I have continued my education at MIT to expand my knowledge on data science with machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Cloud Engineer
Duke Energy · Full-time
Feb 2023 - Present · 1 mos
I currently work full time at Duke Energy with a wonderful team.
As I worked at Duke as a new hire, I was also pursuing a data science certificate at MIT. That course was helping me better serve Duke's product teams who used AWS AI tools. I had hoped to grow in that company to help develop those tools upon completing the course.
Associate Cloud Engineer
Duke Energy · Full-time
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023 · 8 mos
As I worked at Duke as a new hire, I was also pursuing a data science certificate at MIT. That course was helping me better serve Duke's product teams who used AWS AI tools. I had hoped to grow in that company to help develop those tools upon completing the course.
Associate DevOps Engineer
Brooksource · Full-time
Nov 2021 - Jul 2022 · 9 mos
I was contracted at Duke Energy through Brooksource after passing my AWS Cloud Practitioner cert. In the span of 9 months, I learned how to automate IaC with Terraform and support over 100 teams using Amazon Web Services.
During this time, I also achieved the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification.
DevOps Engineer
Signet Seal · Internship
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021 · 3 mos
Upon graduating college, I accepted a DevOps internship while I worked two other jobs as a chef and martial arts instructor.
This internship gave me the opportunity to learn how modern tech start-ups utilize DevOps practices like CI/CD piplines, containerization, agile methodology and cloud computing.
Infrastructure Analyst
Dominion Energy · Internship
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019 · 5 mos
Dominion Energy was my introduction into the IT workforce. At Dominion Energy, I learned how South Carolina's energy is created, monitored and delivered.
Placed on the enterprise server team, I learned how to manage business application servers using hypervisors, maintain IT infrastructure, and deploy/retire virtual machines with scripting.
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Certificate · Applied Data Science
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Applied data science has a broad scope of data science which includes researching new applications of data science and creating new methods or functions for faster retrieval of data and analysis.
This course helped me explore the realms of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Neural Networks, and how they can be applied to areas such as Computer Vision. I also developed strong foundations in Python, mathematics, and statistics for data science.
University of South Carolina
B.S. Computer
Information Systems
Aug 2016 - May 2021
CIS students learn the programming skills necessary to become effective software developers. However, the CIS major differs from other computing majors in that a minor in Business Information Management is built into the degree.
AWS Certified Solutions
Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services
Expires April 2025
The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam validates technical expertise in designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
The focus of this certification is on the design of cost and performance optimized solutions, demonstrating a strong understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
AWS Certified Cloud
Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Expires June 2024
This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical knowledge related to implementing cloud initiatives. Earning AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner validates cloud fluency and foundational AWS knowledge.
PC Pro Certification
TestOut Corporation
Issued May 2016
TestOut PC Pro certification is to verify necessary skills to work as an IT support professional. In an IT support job, you’ll be asked to install, repair, configure, secure, and manage computer hardware, operating systems, and software in home or corporate environments.
These are the most basic and foundational skills required of all IT professionals. Additionally, communication, listening and analysis skills are essentials for interacting with customers.
AWS
Azure
Bash
Bitbucket
Blender
C++
Docker
Git
GCP
Java
Javascript
Jupyter
K8s
Linux
MUI
Matlab
MySQL
Node.js
Pandas
Python
R
React
Terraform
Tensorflow
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