Cameron Wisniewski
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Introduction

Cloud technology professional with 12 years of industry experience, a passion for all things automation, and expertise in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Infrastructure as Code. Architect, roadmap, and lead cloud platform and service implementation, evangelizing new technology and driving stakeholder adoption.

Professional Experience

Crown Castle

Canonsburg, PA

Cloud Platform Engineer III

June 2022 to Present

Design and code reusable services according to cloud-first best practices and company security and architecture standards. Develop and implement production services, applications, and platform components to build a highly available microservices cloud platform. Publicize, research, and build proofs of concept to introduce new technologies to the organization. Collaborate with software development teams to stay in step with an Agile software development life cycle (SDLC) and anticipate future platform requirements.

  • Directed a project to implement Teleport as a privileged identity management solution for AWS from concept to execution, removing all permanently provisioned elevated access from the environment.
  • Lead an initiative to migrate infrastructure and applications from Microsoft Azure to Amazon Web Services as part of the Crown Castle Platform implementation.
  • Implemented automated Terraform security scanning with custom controls and code quality checks for all infrastructure deployments.
  • Architect, develop, and deploy cloud services to Azure and AWS using Terraform and CI/CD through Harness and Azure DevOps to increase customer deployment velocity.
  • Develop reusable services and modules for services such as EC2, VPC, S3, and EKS as part of the Platform Team for consumption by Crown Castle customers to ensure security and assist with adoption speed.
  • Adhere to industry standard best practices and ensure risk mitigation and compliance with defined security controls across the Crown Castle Platform.
  • Drive software development teams toward adoption of Kubernetes (AKS and EKS) for microservice implementation.

Systems Engineer III

July 2020 to June 2022

Designed, implemented, and administered Azure and on-premise virtualized solutions for a nationwide company of over 5,000 employees. Engineered automated workflows for existing systems and ensure automation potential in newly adopted technology. Oversaw administration of Crown's Office 365 environment to ensure business continuity. Ensured that Windows servers complied with established policies, standards, licensing agreements, and configuration guidelines.

  • Built and maintained Crown Castle's Azure environment using infrastructure as code methodologies with Terraform, speeding up deployment of new resources and reducing configuration drift.
  • Followed DevOps best practices in a collaborative team effort to maintain continuity across all IaC git repositories and increase visibility of current infrastructure state.
  • Configured monitoring and alerting for infrastructure to ensure service availability and maximize uptime.
  • Ensured that all resources in the cloud and on-premise were compliant with industry standard security controls such as CIS and SOX, reducing audit response time.
  • Managed Crown Castle's Active Directory and Office 365 environment, including Teams and Exchange Online.

Senior Desktop Analyst
Desktop Analyst

May 2018 to July 2020
August 2017 to May 2018

Implemented and administered workstation and other customer facing technologies in a nationwide environment of over 6,000 devices. Evaluated and piloted new technology, designing roadmaps and leading projects from inception to completion. Managed and maintained workstation configuration to ensure a consistent, seamless, and secure end user experience. Assisted in the training and mentoring of Help Desk and Desktop staff to provide high quality customer service.

  • Managed and maintained Crown Castle's SCCM environment, ensuring consistent configuration of workstation devices and reducing user request escalation.
  • Deployed quality, security, and feature updates for Windows and third-party software to ensure endpoint security and compliance.
  • Transitioned operating system deployment to SCCM from MDT, reducing management overhead through centralization and removing redundant infrastructure.
  • Served on the architecture and implementation team for Crown Castle's Citrix environment, and joined the team overseeing ongoing operations.
  • Automated components of operating system deployment and other departmental processes, vastly reducing hours spent on otherwise manual tasks.

Carlow University

Pittsburgh, PA

Computer and Media Specialist

June 2014 to August 2017

Performed incident management for tier two tasks for the constituents of the University and administered various production systems. Assisted with the implementation of new hardware and software to improve the technology experience for the University's students.

  • Served on the implementation team for Carlow's Dell KACE environment, and was solely responsible for developing it as a solution for software updates, for use as a Service Desk platform across multiple departments, and for asset management.
  • Implemented and maintained Windows Deployment Services, replacing the existing PC build process and reducing build times by 50%.
  • Designed and implemented a new architecture for the Pharos Print Management system, reducing administration and billing overhead and improving the end user experience.

Saint Vincent College

Latrobe, PA

Senior Service Desk Technician

August 2010 to May 2014

Followed standard ITIL methodology to provide customers with a superior customer service experience. Performed incident management for a variety of issues, assisting faculty, staff, and students to restore service consistent with SLA.

Certifications

Hashicorp Certified Terraform Associate

September 2023

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

December 2022

Microsoft Certified - Azure Administrator Associate

February 2020

Microsoft Certified - Azure Fundamentals

December 2019

Citrix Certified Associate - Virtualization (CCA-V)

May 2019

Education

Saint Vincent College

Latrobe, PA

Bachelor of Science

Major: Physics

Minor: Chinese Language and Culture

Graduated May 2014

Volunteering

Pittsburgh Japanese Culture Society

Pittsburgh, PA

Marketing Project Manager

January 2017 to Present