Desmond Witherspoon
An AWS-certified cloud engineer searching for opportunities to embrace challenges and grow rapidly.
Projects
Forrest Brazeal's Cloud Resume Challenge
AWS-based full-stack serverless coding project for cloud newbies
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript hosted on S3
  • Amazon Web Services, AWS Serverless Application Model and API Gateway for visitor counter
  • Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, S3, Route53, Certificate Manager
  • GitHub repository with Actions for CI/CD automation using the SAM CLI tool
Professional Hydraulics
AWS based full-stack severless website
  • Created static hosted website for client using HTML and CSS to give company a presence online.
  • Created customer relationship database using Lambda and Dynamo DB to improve communications with potential customers
  • Created event driven notification system using CloudWatch and Lambda to notify business of new leads from website
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Skills
AWS:
EC2, VPC, Lambda, ECS, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Route 53, Cloudfront, API Gateway, SNS
Languages:
Python, Bash, YAML, HTML/CSS
Tools:
Terraform, Git, GitHub Actions, Docker, Bootstrap
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02)
August 17, 2021
Validation number NBXTP0ZLBMQ4QR3X - Validate here
CompTIA Security+ ce Certification
March 1, 2023
Follow link to validate - Validate here

Work Experience
Cloud Systems Analyst
Office of the Inspector General, State DepartmentWashington DC
November 2021 - Present
  • Assists in the design and management of an organization's cloud systems, applications, policies, and strategy.
  • Develops and modifies scalable architecture to support applications and infrastructure on IaaS and PaaS platforms
  • Created alerts and configured monitoring of specified metrics to manage cloud infrastructure efficiently
Infrastructure and Compliance Manager
Otis ElevatorFlorence, SC
Dec 2014 - Oct 2021
  • Maintenaned, installation, configuration of on-premises and cloud Data Center Environment
  • Developed and refinemened infrastructure and security checklists in existing environments to ensure continued compliance
  • Provide project management and leadership implementing core infrastructure, network, and cloud-based services
  • Monitor application and infrastructure using monitoring tools using SolarWinds, JIRA, CloudWatch and datadog
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Business Engineering IncReston, VA
Jan 2012 - Dec 2014
  • Primary IT contact and vendor manager for several client sites
  • Created documentation for existing, undocumented, technologies and architectures for each client
  • Monitored operations of LAN, WAN, Load Balancing, VPN, Security, and Wi-Fi
Education
Baruch College, CUNYNew York, NY
M.B.A. Computer Information Systems
Monroe CollegeNew York, NY
B.A. Computer Information Systems
Interests
Habitat for Humanity; Social Sports Clubs; Travel; Photography; Woodworking