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Hi, I'm Matt

Matthew Pruitt

Cloud Associate Manager at Accenture

With 16 years of experience in Oracle, JD Edwards, development and system administration, I’ve led teams of both on-shore and off-shore developers and administrators in both local clients and a global corporation. I’ve been hands-on in projects both big and small and transformed them using modern automation tools to adapt to the rather challenging conditions that distributed system administration and development brings.

Leadership
Strategic Thinking
Continuous Improvement

Skills

Ansible
Ansible

Playbook design and execution for management of remote hosts. Custom role creation, and development of python libraries to support custom applications. Collection development for re-use. AWX and Tower deployments to support enterprise and multi-team use of Ansible. Testing and validation with molecule.
Python Development
Python Development

Full Python development experince with experience in API design, glue code, scripting, and embedded interpeters.
CPython, Jython, and PyPy. Python packaging with setuptools, poetry, and virtual environment managment with pip.
Flask
Flask

Developing custom back-end REST APIs in Flask. Blueprint and plug-in design and devlopment.
Terraform
Terraform

Experience in developing custom Terraform stacks for Azure, Oracle Cloud, and custom on-prem services. Module development for reusability. Terragrunt for environment/workspace management and DRY principals.
Consul
Consul

Deployment, administration, and management of Consul clusters for KV-store and service discovery.
Packer
Packer

Custom Linux image development for multi-cloud deployments. Image pipeline development to produce managed images for container runtimes, Hyper-V, Azure, and Oracle Cloud with standardized features.
Docker
Docker

Containerized application development, Dockerfile creation. Sonatype Nexus registry setup and administration.
Oracle JD Edwards
Oracle JD Edwards

Technical Architecutre and System Administration expert. 16+ years of CNC administration experience, specializing in upgrades, migrations, and installations.
Oracle Cloud
Oracle Cloud

OCI Iaas and Cloud-at-Customer/ExaData implementations. Cloud lift-and-shift for Oracle on-prem applications.
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure

Azure IaaS and PaaS offerings. Cloud lift-and-shift for custom on-prem applications.
ServiceNow
ServiceNow

Incident, Problem, and Change Management, Requests and CMDB. Integrations with custom on-prem applications.
Splunk
Splunk

Installation and maintenece of Splunk Enterprise. Forwarder installation and configuration, Query and Dashboard design, metric and alert setup. Splunk App design using the Python SDK.

Experience

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Accenture -- Encana/Ovintiv

March 2006 - Present, Calgary

Accenture has been providing Application Outsourcing to Ovintiv (formerly Encana) for over fifteen (15) years. Accenture supports the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, and ERP Technology.

ERP Systems Administration Team Lead

March 2016 - Present

  • Develop continuous improvement initiatives for managed software, targeting industry standard system automation solutions like Ansible and Terraform.
  • Develop and ensure execution of project plans for E1 technical operations including upgrades, migrations, and regular maintenance procedures for supported software.
  • Assess current ERP solution design, identify possible modernization opportunities (including, but not limited to Orchestration and Mobility solutions). Worked with clients to implement development pipelines using tools such as Forza Packman, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes to modernize client development process relating to their ERP implementation.
  • Developed operational and technical processes to enable clients to implement E1 code currency and continuous delivery models to match Oracle’s E1 release cadence.
  • Performed migration of client on-prem systems to Oracle Cloud@Customer solution, including Exadata migration of client databases. Technical Architecture and Design roles, operational process management, and worked with client groups on ERP governance design.
  • Defined E1 disaster recover plans, including integrations, database, and mobile solutions.
  • Work with client groups to define ERP technical roadmaps.
  • Coordinate on-shore, near-shore, and off-shore resourcing.
  • Gathered and reported on metrics related to incidents, problems, service requests, and change requests.
  • Led change reviews and performed root cause analysis for any failed changes or other major incidents involving the ERP software stack.
  • Escalation point for any ERP related major issues.
ERP Technical Specialist

March 2006 - March 2016

  • Provided 2nd-level operational support for Encana’s JD Edwards systems, including security, builds, refreshes, ESU applications, instance and environment creation, and debugging and troubleshooting.
  • Performed multiple upgrades from XE and 8.10 to 9.2. Included pre-upgrade tasks like server sizing analysis, interface and integration analysis, MTR evaluation, and effort estimation. Project tasks including application server installation, database configuration, client and web setup, code and data migration, performance tuning, and debugging support. Post-Go-Live support, issue triage and resolution, continuous improvement initiatives and problem management.
  • Setup and support of new JDE instances for divested companies and assets, including parallel environment testing and cut-over support.
  • Functional and technical resource for upgrade from Appworx system to UC4 Applications Manager. Designed and developed business process flows to automate regular ERP processes using UC4. Developed and maintained custom adaptors for UC4 to Oracle EnterpriseOne and Ansible.
  • Debugging and development support for JDE interfaces.
ERP Technical Specialist
Accenture -- Praxair

August 2013 - December 2013, Buffalo

Accenture was contracted to evaluate their current JDE EnterpriseOne implementation and provide optimization and improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities:
  • Evaluated E1 landscape, developed performance and stability improvement plans for Praxair’s global E1 implementation.
  • Recovered Global Kernel instance after failed client upgrade attempt.
  • Worked with client groups to develop best practices on system monitoring, E1 metrics reporting, and operational maintenance.
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ERP Upgrade Technical Lead
Accenture -- Shell CAPSA.

July 2010 - December 2011, Calgary

Accenture was retained to upgrade the JDE EnterpriseOne instance in Shell CAPSA (Argentina) from 8.10 to 9.0.

Responsibilities:
  • Upgrade Technical Lead 8.10 to 9.0. Included pre-upgrade tasks like server sizing analysis, interface and integration analysis, MTR evaluation, and effort estimation. Project tasks including application server installation, database configuration, client and web setup, code and data migration, performance tuning, and debugging support.
  • Worked with a multi-disciplinary and multi-provider team from Argentina, Brazil, Germany, UK, and Latvia to upgrade multiple on-prem E1 environments in Argentina and migrate them to a new data center in Germany.
  • Provided post-go-live support, managed issue triage and resolution, developed continuous improvement initiatives for outstanding items and handled problem management for defects raised post-go-live.

Recent Posts

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Running a Local Consul Agent while Developing in WSL2

While working with DevOps projects that utilize a Consul KV store and it’s service discovery features, I found it useful to replicate a local agent to test against. To that end, getting a Consul agent up and running and accessible from both Windows and WSL2 proved usesful. TBH, this is a brittle setup; it’s far easier to just manage your Consul environment variables to point where needed instead. Consul Agent Setup in Windows Download the Consul binaries from Hashicorp for Windows here.

March 21, 2022 Read
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Getting Up and Running with WSL2 in Windows 11

I slimmed down my workflow for Linux container development upon the release of Windows 11 – I took the release as an opportunity to clean up my local PC and start from scratch. This won’t be a typical workflow for users performing a standard upgrade. Before beginning, make sure you understand the caveats and limitations of using this method. Notably there is quite a bit more complexity to make local bind mounts for Docker volumes.

November 22, 2021 Read
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Implementing Policy-based Routing on a Unifi USG

Configuring the Ubiquiti USG for policy based routing can be done through the config.gateway.json functionality or through the command line. Refer to Ubiquiti support document 215458888 for details on how to translate command line configuratio to a persistant config.gateway.json file that will survive between provisions to the USG. Unfortunately, Ubiquiti has basically given up on enhancing their USG line based on Vyatta, so we’re going to have to do this ourselves.

November 10, 2021 Read