Brian J. Creasy

Overview

Our small team at Q2 develops and maintains a PCI-compliant SaaS product that enables financial institutions to pay bills on behalf of their members. As principal devops engineer on this product, I am responsible for building out and maintaining the infrastructure where it runs.

Overview

Starmount hired me as their configuration management and release engineer. I was initially responsible for overhauling their build environment to better support development efforts, as there was no one dedicated to this prior.

I am responsible for maintaining Starmount's continuous integration and build infrastructure, ensuring formal release processes across many products and services, maintaining code repositories, and assisting with devops-type issues that arise.

Starmount was acquired by Infor on August 1, 2016 and my job responsibilities did not change.

I was brought on board in the company's infancy as a software engineer, implementing web-based software designs via html and css on top of a php backend. Shortly after, I took on the role of the company's release engineer in addition to my role as "the css guru". I wrote custom deployment scripts, managed code repositories, and owned the release process by which all of our software was deployed and upgraded.

At Collaborative Fusion, we wrote software to aid in emergency response preparedness, primarily through implementing the guidelines of a federal program called ESAR-VHP, or the "Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals". Our customers were state and local governments who used (and continue to use) our software as a registry of health professionals to meet the ESAR-VHP requirements. We integrated with accreditation boards to ensure emergency relief coordinators could verify the identity, licenses, and credentials of volunteers before an emergency happened, saving both time and hopefully lives through rapid deployment.

For industry professional development to better serve our customers and their users, I completed a series of FEMA's online independent study courses. Through these, I became knowledgable of a variety of topics relating to emergency response management, incident response, disaster relief, and emergency operations.