cv
Here is my CV in an easy to navigate format. You can download a clean copy of it via the link to the right.
Basics
| Name | Gabriel Chavez |
| Label | DevOps Apprentice at Three Knots |
| gabrielc1925@gmail.com | |
| Url | https://gabrielc1925.github.io/ |
| Summary | DevOps, Cloud Services, Management experience, Doctorate of Pharmacy |
Work
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2024.01 - 2099.01 DevOps Apprentice
Three Knots
Worked with AWS, Docker, VirtualBox, and Ansible. Collaborated on a project to deploy a containerized website solution with optional features and easy setup and customization
- Leveraged Docker and Nginx to establish a local development environment, increasing reliability of changes deployed to production.
- Authored CI/CD workflows to programmatically build and deploy portfolio website hosted on GitHub.
- Was able to troubleshoot GitHub Actions workflows and alter development practices to ensure more consistent and reliable deployment.
- Standardized file hierarchy to meet expectations of template, automated prettier script to ensure readability of code across repo, solved dependencies for third-party plugin functionality.
- Developed and tested disaster recovery plan by configuring failover of site to AWS, hosted on Nginx in EC2.
- Implemented DNS resolution (AWS Route53), load balancing (ELB), and SSL/TLS certificate management (ACM).
- Engineered CI/CD on a separate project to develop a containerized and easily deployable website solution.
- Planned out SDLC framework, stood up local dev and staging environments, documentation pages.
- Worked asynchronously with a small team of DevOps Engineers and Developers.
- Used Slack, Jira, Miro, GitHub, Docker, and VSCode for planning and collaborative work.
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2017.05 - 2025.01 Pharmacy Manager in Denver, CO and Taos, NM
Walgreens
Customer Service | Regulatory Compliance | Training and Leadership
- Trained and developed staff to ensure compliance with all company, state, and federal regulations.
- Lead a large number of technicians and pharmacists through extensive changes to operational workflows.
- PCI user training - Ensured staff was aware of and followed all regulations and procedures.
- HIPAA - Trained team to provide compliance from top to bottom of workflow; handled reporting of violations.
- Fraud Management - Worked with company leadership to educate the team on potential points of failure and how to avoid social engineering.
- Developed business in the small town I was located in - Rebuilt brand perception after years of mismanagement, identified new verticals and collaborated with other professionals to prepare for changes to reimbursement, worked with community leaders to identify opportunities for growth and advertisement.
Education
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2009.08 - 2017.05
Certificates
| Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner | ||
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
Skills
| DevOps | |
| Ansible | |
| Terraform | |
| Docker | |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | |
| Amazon Web Services | |
| Cloud Migration | |
| Cloud Services | |
| Javascript | |
| JSON | |
| YAML | |
| Agile | |
| Jira |
| Pharmacy | |
| Compounding | |
| Community Pharmacy | |
| Hospital Pharmacy | |
| Healthcare Management | |
| Pharmacy Automation | |
| Clinical Research | |
| Pharmaceutical Industry | |
| Medication Therapy Management (MTM) | |
| Patient Counseling | |
| Certified Immunizer |
| General Skills | |
| Microsoft Office | |
| Microsoft Excel | |
| Powerpoint | |
| Management | |
| Leadership | |
| Public Speaking | |
| Customer Service | |
| Healthcare Management | |
| Strategic Planning | |
| Strategy | |
| Medicine | |
| Clinical Research | |
| Project Management |
Languages
| English | |
| Native speaker |
| Spanish | |
| Low |
| Arabic | |
| Almost non-existent |
Interests
| Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu |
| Gardening | |
| Permaculture | |
| Water-wise Landscaping | |
| Semihydroponics | |
| Leca | |
| Tropical Houseplants |
| Making/Fixing | |
| Woodworking | |
| Electrical | |
| Welding | |
| Plumbing | |
| Home Repair | |
| Drywall | |
| Painting | |
| 3D Printing | |
| Networking |
References
| Taifur Asif | |
| Main mentor in DevOps, and owner of Three Knots consulting firm. Met with him virtually for over a year in an async manner, to get new project ideas and help working though problems |
| Saad Momandi | |
| DevOps Mentor, worked with him at Three Knots. Had weekly meetings for a while to help me work through problems |
| Michael Jerome | |
| Pharmacy Operations Manager - Worked with at Walgreens - Michael was a subordinate, but was responsible for overseeing the technicians and worked with me daily. |
| Dr. Kristine Quon | |
| Staff Pharmacist - Worked with at Walgreens - Kristine was a subordinate, but was the other half of the coin to keeping the pharmacy running smoothly. Where I put stuff down, she picked it up and vice versa. |