My passion is ensuring the security and stability of customer web applications and services, both on premises and in the cloud. After over a decade focused on every angle of security for web applications from support and troubleshooting through to architecture, and development I am now convinced the best path to security and stability is through rigorous deployment automation of both infrastructure and application components. Keeping in line with the industry, my focus the last several years has moved to include security for web services and the cloud and I'd love to share expertise and best practices with others working in this sector. Previously I spentfive years as a freelance consultant assisting the Identity and Access Management group for a classified Government E-commerce Infrastructure. Specialties: Infrastructure Automation using both AWS services and industry standard tools. Strong background with security architectures imbedding CA (formerly Netegrity) SiteMinder and TransactionMinder. Web Service security incorporating IBM Datapower XML Gateways. Knowledge of web applications from both a development (Perl, Ruby, Java) and low-level transactional (HTML/DHTML, XML, SSL, TCP/IP) perspective. Big picture thinking via architectural consultation and training presentations. Team management and reporting. Presentation of technical issues to non-technical audiences.

Senior Professional Services Consultant @ In this role I help large enterprises to migrate critical workloads to Amazon's public cloud and to integrate Amazon's web services with their existing on-premises systems. My primary goal is to champion repeatable, secure deployment of infrastructure, application stacks and code through the use of automation, orchestration, configuration management and the application of DevOps best practices at enterprise scale. From July 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) Greater New York City AreaBass Player @ Independent pop/rock duo self-publishing original music and web comics. Featuring Chuck Meyer on bass guitar and Dana Young on vocals. From June 2009 to Present (6 years 5 months) Brooklyn,NY

BA/BS, Computer Science, Literature @ Northern Kentucky University From 1992 to 1997 Certificate, Unix C/C++ @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute From 2002 to 2002 Statement of Accomplishment (Dan Boneh), Standford University: Introduction to Cryptopgraphy, 85.2 @ Coursera From 2012 to 2012 Chuck Meyer is skilled in: Perl, Security, Siteminder, Identity Management, Unix, Access Control, LDAP, PKI, DataPower, Web Services, Bass, ITIL v3 Foundations..., Identity Assurance, IAM, SOA, Reason, Propellerheads Reason, Pro Tools, Enterprise Architecture, Servers, Security Architecture..., SSO, Encryption, Internet Security, Computer Security, Network Security, Enterprise Software, Professional Services, Cloud Computing, Integration