Matthew Brooks

Matthew Brooks

Developer Operations Chief

Personal Profile

I am the DevOps Chief at the U.S. Army Redstone Test Center, working in the S-6 division. I have experience with System Administration, Project Management, Systems Security/Compliance (RMF), and Software Engineering.

Work Experience

Computer Scientist - Developer Operations Chief

U.S. Army Redstone Test Center

October 2023 - Present

  • Conduct enterprise architecture efforts for broad and complex enterprise systems that support a wide range of functions, organizations, and processes.
  • Leads and coordinates the efforts of other civilians and contractors in solving complex and far-reaching enterprise architecture issues and problems for a wide range of systems, applications, and customers.
  • Design, develop, modify, and interface application software, such as, database management systems, web apps, and client side applications.
  • Establishes organization goals and objectives and conceptualizes with the RTC Chief Information Officer to validate execution plans, priorities, schedules, and resource/budget requirements.
  • Serves as a software representative, advisor and focal point for matters related to software requirements, application architecture, design, coding, and software testing

Computer Scientist - Server Operations Deputy Chief

U.S. Army Redstone Test Center

July 2022 - October 2023

  • Serves as the Systems Administrator for enterprise servers and services specialized in virtualization and the associated components.
  • Conduct systems level evaluations, generate design specifications, and develop standards and test plans directed toward the creation of new or substantially improved IT, data acquisition, or related systems.
  • Establish project objectives, requirements, priorities and timelines in support of application architecture, design and development.
  • Manage software applications, such as database management systems, application servers, and web servers, to include designing, installing, configuring, and implementing.
  • Act in an advisory capacity to other organization elements at various levels within the agency.

IT Specialist - IT Operations Team Lead

U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command

March 2022 - July 2022

  • Serve as IT Operations Team Lead responsible for IT systems administration and project management.
  • Provide direction and technical guidance to management and users.
  • Establish project objectives, requirements, priorities and timelines in support of application architecture, design and development.

Computer Scientist - Server Operations

U.S. Army Redstone Test Center

September 2020 - March 2022

  • Windows server maintenance, configuring, and implementing.
  • IIS deployment and configuration.
  • Azure DevOps architecture and deployment methodologies.
  • vSphere maintenance, design, and configuration.
  • VMware Horizon VDI maintenance and architecture design.
  • Maintain Avamar backups ensuring compliance and testing.
  • Draft security plans, local policy guidance, regulation supplements and procedures, and standard operating procedures to ensure cybersecurity regulatory requirements are followed.
  • Coordinate with external vendors for service requests.
  • Apply patches, updates, and policies to mitigate security vulnerabilities
  • Translate functional requirements into design specifications; Determine best approaches for implementation within the technical environment.
  • Work with software developers to isolate and solve design problems encountered during testing and implementation stages.

Junior Computer Programmer

ERC, Inc.

November 2015 - September 2020

  • C# application development, design, and architecture.
  • Database development, design, and architecture.
  • Draft application requirements.
  • Scripting to do various video file manipulation tasks.
  • Conditional compiler for data processing application
  • Plugins for various data sources for data processing application
  • Application development with outside vendor SDKs
  • Scripts that chart data for evaluation and validation
  • Application for real time situation awareness.
  • Reports/charts for real time situation awareness.
  • Application to facilitate communication between several external applications/data streams.
  • Scripting for data reduction/data manipulation.
  • JavaScript web parts for SharePoint.
  • Scripts to generate KLV files for Google Earth.
  • Advised on direction to take for future SharePoint integration into day to day operations.
  • Designed SharePoint pages for tracking/workflows.
  • Team Foundation Server build scripts.
  • Fortify Software Scanning and remediation of security findings.

Key Skills

  • System Administration
  • Virtualization
  • SQL
  • Web Services
  • RMF
  • DevOps CI/CD
  • VDI
  • C#
  • Scripting

Education

Athens State University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science: Computer Information Systems

Minor: Computer Forensics

December 2015

Calhoun Community College

Associate of Science, General Studies

December 2013

Certifications

CompTIA Security+

August 2017

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

May 2022

FedVTE Windows OS

August 2017