Site Reliability Lead at Cengage
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Power Generation Services, Inc.
Director Embedded Develpment
2012 to 2016
Raleigh, NC
Consert, Inc.
Embedded Systems Architect
2010 to 2012
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Consert, Inc.
Program Manager - Utility Pilots
2012 to 2012
San Antonio, Texas Area
Cengage
Site Reliability Lead
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Cisco
Architect - Site Reliability (Individual Contributor)
2016 to October 2020
RTP, NC
IoT Hardware, embedded software, Web Services, Enterprise Service Bus, DevOpsCreated the architecture along with designing the hardware and software to control remote generation assets that allowed the company to provide a service that turned standby generation from an expense to a income stream.Lead the architecture and continuous improvement of the company’s IoT development group. Utilized Tridium’s Niagara... IoT Hardware, embedded software, Web Services, Enterprise Service Bus, DevOpsCreated the architecture along with designing the hardware and software to control remote generation assets that allowed the company to provide a service that turned standby generation from an expense to a income stream.Lead the architecture and continuous improvement of the company’s IoT development group. Utilized Tridium’s Niagara and Sedona frameworks in the development and implementation of control strategies. Developed java applets for distributed generation assets.Lead dev-ops team to implement back end services in Python to capture information in a NoSQL database. Installed and configured Esper complex event processing system. Developed SOA architecture, including Enterprise Service Bus using WebShpere MQ, to ensure reliability across back office processes.Developed Android application to monitor backend and communications to IoT devices. Enhanced application to allow customers to monitor their assets.
What company does Brian Grier work for?
Brian Grier works for Power Generation Services, Inc.
What is Brian Grier's role at Power Generation Services, Inc.?
Brian Grier is Director Embedded Develpment
What industry does Brian Grier work in?
Brian Grier works in the Information Technology and Services industry.
📖 Summary
Director Embedded Develpment @ Power Generation Services, Inc. IoT Hardware, embedded software, Web Services, Enterprise Service Bus, DevOpsCreated the architecture along with designing the hardware and software to control remote generation assets that allowed the company to provide a service that turned standby generation from an expense to a income stream.Lead the architecture and continuous improvement of the company’s IoT development group. Utilized Tridium’s Niagara and Sedona frameworks in the development and implementation of control strategies. Developed java applets for distributed generation assets.Lead dev-ops team to implement back end services in Python to capture information in a NoSQL database. Installed and configured Esper complex event processing system. Developed SOA architecture, including Enterprise Service Bus using WebShpere MQ, to ensure reliability across back office processes.Developed Android application to monitor backend and communications to IoT devices. Enhanced application to allow customers to monitor their assets. From 2012 to 2016 (4 years) Raleigh, NCEmbedded Systems Architect @ Consert, Inc. IoT, Embedded Software, Zigbee, Hardware and Software architect for embedded energy management ARM9 based gateways. Develop architecture road map to implement the embedded functionalities of the company's Virtual Power Plant.Investigate, prototype and productized the use of LTE (4G) communications, and IPv6 protocol stacks, into the Virtual Power Plant gateways.Working with Verizon and QualComm, prepared and presented trade show presentations for 2011, and 2012 Consumer Electroincs and Distributech Trade shows. From 2010 to 2012 (2 years) Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina AreaProgram Manager - Utility Pilots @ Consert, Inc. Customer ManagementManage Pilot Customer accounts. Technical liaison for all Pilot Customer Program Managers. Work with the Pilot Customer Program Management team, Tier1-3 support, and development groups to create consistent processes. From 2012 to 2012 (less than a year) San Antonio, Texas AreaSite Reliability Lead @ Cengage Provide guidance on site reliability best practices during the migration to cloud hosting of the Web Assign product, Raleigh, North Carolina, United StatesArchitect - Site Reliability (Individual Contributor) @ Cisco AWS ECR/EKS, CircleCI, VMWare, ServiceNow, CDRA, Ansible, Python, GoLang, Git, BitBucket.Built and lead a multi-national team (India, Poland and US) to enable Cisco to migrate services from on premise hosted solutions to Amazon’s Web Service. Leading the adoption of CircleCI to automate the deployment of software into Kubernetes clusters with Amazon’s Elastic Container Registry. Developing the architecture and project plan to integrate deployment and site reliability functions with the ServiceNow ticketing system.Leading the design of applications to remove technical debt and provide Site Reliability Engineering through the development of Golang applications. Created automation environment to define the AWS VPC, Security groups and VMs for Engineering IT to support the instance of Jira and Confluence for partners and recent acquisitions. From 2016 to October 2020 (4 years) RTP, NC
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