David Wade

David Wade has a diverse work experience spanning several industries. David started their career as an Accounting Assistant at David L. Wade & Associates PC. - Certified Public Accountants in 1994, where they performed various accounting and IT-related tasks. David later transitioned to Game Addiction in 2001, where they owned and operated an Ecommerce website. In 2007, they joined Cooper Standard, initially as a Senior IT Technician and eventually took on roles as a System Administrator and Cloud Engineer/ System Administrator. In 2020, they joined Liveline Technologies as a Cloud DevOps Engineer and was later promoted to Principal Solutions Architect. In these positions, they played a key role in leading and implementing cloud architecture and DevOps initiatives.

David Wade obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Purdue University Fort Wayne, specializing in Business Management and Accounting. In 2006, they also earned a Lean and Green Six Sigma IPFW Certificate from the same institution. Additionally, they have pursued numerous certifications, including the Caltech CTME Post Graduate Program in Devops from Caltech CTME Online Bootcamps in 2022, the IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i V1 - Professional certificate from IBM in 2016, the ITIL® v3 Foundation certification from PeopleCert in 2011, the CompTIA Network+ certification in 2009, and the CompTIA A+ certification in 2007. In 2006, they also obtained the Lean and Green Six Sigma IPFW Certificate from Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne. More recently, they achieved the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, and AWS Certified Security - Specialty certifications from Amazon Web Services in 2022 and 2021, respectively. Other certifications include the Certified Linux Administrator (LPIC-1) from the Linux Professional Institute in 2019, the CompTIA Linux+ certification in 2019, the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner from Amazon Web Services in 2019, the MCTS: Windows Vista Configuration certification from Microsoft in 2010, and the AWS SysOps Administrator - Associate and AWS Certified Developer - Associate certifications from Amazon Web Services in 2020. Finally, in 2019, they obtained the AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate certification from Amazon Web Services.