Certified Cloud Engineer / Solutions Architect
Ralph Quick
is a professional Cloud Engineer / Architect specializing in the design, management, maintenance, and deployment of web service applications and infrastructure for operations. His experience ensures services are running efficiently and securely meeting the needs of your organization or clients.
Experience and Ambitions
My positive interpersonal skills make me a great team member, coach, motivator, and presenter in any organization.
My current ambitions are to further acquire additional cloud network certificates, specialties, and experiences becoming a Solutions Architect Professional and facilitator making processes effectively leaner.
I am seasoned with 20 years of experience in risk management; due-diligence; analysis; pipeline management; and quality control from the finance & lending industry. This form of technical experience easily translates to my current responsibilities of a cloud operations professional. I am also a steadfast, persistent, tenacious, adaptable, constructively critical, and creative in making solutions.
Pro-Core Plus
2022 – Current
CLOUD DEVOPS ENGINEER
Specialized in automating, deploying, and managing business processes for clients requiring AWS cloud networking services, solutions, and enterprise level products in an Agile team performing roadmap.
Yellow Tail Tech | AWS Official Training Partner
2023 – Current
CLOUD DEVOPS TEACHER AIDE
Conduct administrative duties as an assistant to the instructor in the education of AWS ‘Cloud For Jobs’ students. This includes managing Zoom recorded sessions, substitute teaching, tutoring, and other educational responsibilities.
Annie Can Do Real Estate
2005 – Current
WordPress Engineer & Consultant
Designed, created, deployed, and managed the real estate e-commerce website front-end, architecture, and back-end including database and hosting instance integration and migration in the cloud.
“No vision will be accomplished without goal setting and tenaciously enthusiastic players on your team who believe in it.”
Expertise
My current skills have been practiced and developed according to the various requirements of a Cloud Engineer. Some of my other expertise were obtained from decades of my professional experience.
Operating Systems
- AWS Linux2
- CentOS
- Red Hat Linux
- Ubuntu
Automation / IaC
- Ansible
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Auto-Scaling
- AWS Copilot
- AWS CDK
Networking
- AWS VPN
- Route 53
- CloudFront
- Elastic Load Balancer
- ACM
Scripting
- BASH
- YAML
- Python (basic/ Boto3)
- AWS CLI
Auditing
- AWS CloudWatch
- AWS EventBridge
- Splunk
- CheckMK
- AWS CloudTrail
Orchestration
- AWS ECS + AWS Fargate
- Docker
- Oracle VM Virtual Box
- Vagrant
- K8/Kubernetes
Cost Management
- AWS Cost Explorer
- AWS Budgets
- AWS Cost and Usage Reports
Database
- AWS RDS/AWS Aurora
- DynamoDB
- AWS Glue
- AWS Datasync
- MySQL/MariaDB
- DBeaver/MySQL Workbench
Other Soft Skills
- Jira
- Slack/Zoom/MS Teams
- MS Office / VS Code
- Evernote/SnagIt
- Encompass/Calyx Point
- Salesforce
- Black Knight
- Coach/Motivator/Team Builder
- Presenter
- Critical Thinker
- Adaptable Character
Amazon Web Services
- S3 & S3 Glacier
- VPC/EC2/EBS/EFS
- IAM/Cognito
- AWS Organizations
- AWS Storage Gateway
- SNS/ SQS/BeanStalk
- AWS Backup
- Elasticache
Security
- AWS Shield/AWS WAF
- AWS Security Hub/Artifact
- AWS KMS/GuardDuty
- Secrets Manager/Inspector
- Lynis/OpenSCAP
- NACL/WACL
- Security Groups
Source Code Management
- GitHub
- Git Lab
- Git Bash
- Visual Studio Code
- Powershell
- CodeCommit
- CodeDeploy
- CodePipeline
Web
- Apache
- Nginx
- WordPress CMS
- Back-end hosting
- CloudFlare CDN
Awards & Education
Yellow Tail Tech | AWS Official Training Partner
CLOUD FOR JOBS
AWS DevOps Engineer | Class MVP
Broward College
VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS
Graphic Arts Candidate | Deans List
Brands and Tools I Use
Quotable References
Professional and Personal Testimonials
Current Certifications & Roadmap for 2024
YellowTail.Tech Cloud For Jobs Graduate
Issued May 05, 2023
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
Issued December 07, 2022