Author Profile

James Doherty

Delivery Consultant

James has over 15 years experience in the design, deployment and operation of large scale technology projects across many industries. He drives for data observability of the technology stack to build and iterate efficient, robust, and high performing solutions.

Credentials

  • GCP - Cloud Architect
  • HC Terraform Associate
  • Terraform CHIP
  • RHDS - Automation
  • RHDS - Automation II
  • Dynatrace Certified Associate
  • CNCF - CKA Kubernetes Administrator
  • Level 2 Secret Security Clearance
  • CNCF - Kubernetes Security Specialist

Experience

Delivery Consultant - Arctiq (Aug 2021 - Present)

  • Educate and assist customers in the adoption of cloud technologies and methodologies using best practices tailored to their needs

TELUS (October 2015 - August 2021)

  • Maintained and improved the virtualization, storage, networking, and application infrastructure for a cloud electronic medical record application.

BlackBerry (August 2006 - October 2015)

  • Identify business requirements and plan, design, develop, and test the necessary enhancements, upgrades, and changes to the global monitoring platform to support them.

Yak Communications (March 2004 - August 2006)

  • Worked with small in-house team to design, build, and operate a fully featured SIP-based VoIP network for residential and small business customers worldwide

Empowered Networks (May 2000 -March 2004)

  • Member of the service delivery engineering team responsible for the design and implementation of network fault and performance management solutions

Competencies

Skills: Google Cloud, Anthos, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, VMWare, Netapp, MySQL, Systems Integration, Monitoring, Troubleshooting

Value-added leadership: Project/team leading, education and mentoring, root cause analysis