Don McCullough

Solution Architect @CANARIE

CA

Lead Architect for the CANARIE DAIR (Digital Accelerator for Innovation and Research) environment. Responsible for oversight and assessment of technology in support of DAIR. Providing knowledge and support of production workloads in AWS. delivering assessment of new services and providing vision for technology choices to further our efforts to support Our community needs. Managing client concerns and questions, coordination of support teams around incidents and support for troubleshooting.Assess Cloud technology for service/user community benefitDockerDeveloped end-to-end process for utilizing Docker technology with DAIR environment.Planned and developed 3-part video series including scripts and support materials to help users of DAIR understand and utilize container technology. Specific goal was to assist with implementations of a GEO-Redundant environment in DAIR that can be migrated to Amazon EC2.KubernetesAssessed pros and cons of Kubernetes as an automation framework within DAIR; ultimately determined that limits in the current DAIR environment made leveraging Kubernetes not feasible at this time.Instructional Video Development, Improved User Knowledge of CloudRecorded and presented instructional video specific to set-up of a new DAIR tenant space.Recording 3-part educational video series introducing Docker container technology to DAIR users.End User Documentation MaintenanceUpdated User Documentation Manuals for DAIR to represent the processes clearly, enabling users to be more successful in implementing new environments.

Carleton University

Bachelor's Degree, Anthropology