Theodore Baer Email & Phone Number

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Managed a team of 12 Engineers.• Operational Support of the VMWare vRA, vRLI and VROPS platforms.• Implemented an Aria Automation Configuration (SaltStack) Environment.• Primary Engineering approver for the Enterprise Release Train Content Review process ensuring content released to production has been tested and is ready for Operations.• Partnered with Enterprise Information Security to review and update security baseline rules.• Worked with Operational Risk on the management of security and non-security exceptions.• Worked with Supply Chain and Contracts with the renewal of Vendor support contracts.• Performed annual performance plans and end of year reviews.• Hiring and termination of employees and contractors.• Business Resiliency manager for the Compute Team.Significant Achievements• Completion of a 2+ year migration to decommission the legacy HP Server Automation and HP Operations Orchestration tools to Ansible allowing the company to save over $5.5M in annual support, along with reduction of Operational Risk with the legacy tools.• Led the team to reduce the time to rebuild a server during a Cyber Resiliency event from an average of 8.5 hours to 2 hours allowing the business to recover within their defined Recovery Time Objective.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Managed teams from 4 managers up to 29 team members.• Managed a team of Ansible, Redis, Terraform, Azure and GCP Engineers.• Primary Engineering approver for the Enterprise Release Train Content Review process ensuring content released to production has been tested and is ready for Operations.• Primary lead for the Operating System technology within the OS/Firmware asset class supporting the Asset Management, Configuration Management, Patch Management and Vulnerability Management programs.• Partnered with Enterprise Information Security to review and update security baseline rules.• Provided automated solutions to remediate baseline configurations and vulnerabilities.• Worked with Operational Risk on the management of security and non-security exceptions.• Worked with Supply Chain and Contracts with the renewal of Vendor support contracts.• Performed annual performance plans and end of year reviews.• Hiring and termination of employees and contractors.• Business Resiliency manager for the Compute Team.Significant Achievements• Led the effort to bring OS Security Baseline Compliance into a green status to support the Configuration Management policies. This included updating the scanning rules and creation of automated remediation solutions for 130+ Linux Baselines and 300+ Windows Baselines.• Reduced the number of Operating Systems that are offered and decommissioned legacy platforms supporting Technology Strategy.• Moved the Patching of the servers from a Quarterly to a Weekly maintenance process to support the vulnerability program.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Led a team of build engineers for Red Hat, SUSE, AIX, Solaris, HPUX and Windows. • Released a standard build image every 6 months that went through several series of testing and audits.• Certification of new hardware platforms• Certification of new and updated software products. • Managed the yearly performance reviews, setting goals and individual team member management.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Product Manager for the Red Hat platform in the Distributed Systems Engineering Group• Responsible for standards for the Red Hat component• Update the business and technical roadmap on a quarterly basis• Analyze and test new releases and product updates• Define standards for the product layers (Oracle, Apache, Jboss, etc..)• Define quarterly standards for the platform and integrated components

St Louis, Missouri, United States

* Product lead for the UNIX/LINUX/Windows technology overseeing the HPUX, Solaris, LINUX, VMWare, Scalent and Windows Engineering functions.* Manager of a team of 7 individuals.* Engineered the installation of ISEE and Global Workload Manager.* Package up all third party software into HP-UX SD packages for distribution* Engineered the installation of HP Radia into the UNIX environment for Inventory and Software Distribution.* Led a Platform Sprint team to implement a new Server Build process called ESW that uses TIBCO Businessworks to provide workflow and automated several manual tasks.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

• Administration of the 180 HP 9000 systems running HP-UX and the 320 Sun SPARC servers. • Worked closely with other teams including Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DataStage, MQ Series, Remedy, PeopleSoft and Documentum.• Assisted with the administration of many third-party products including NetBackup, Autosys, Documentum, Samba, OpenSSH, and ITO.• Technical lead for the team. • Provided on call 24x7 support as the permanent secondary.

* Administration of a HP K570 system running HP-UX 10.20 in St. Louis and an IBM 7015 system running AIX 4.3.2 in Kansas City.* Administration of NetWare 4.1 and 5.0 servers and Microsoft NT 4.0 servers in Kansas City and St. Louis. This also includes @175 PC’s running Windows for Workgroups, Win95 and Win98* Administration of an OCR for Forms system that scans medical claims, extracts the text from the form and presents itself to a verifier for data entry verification.* Performed several hardware and software upgrades on the HP, IBM and Novell systems.

* Responsible for UNIX Systems Development and Administration for the Professional Services field.* Worked with Cub Foods in Minnesota to develop a set of programs to perform automatic store closes on DRS/NX system and transfer files to a host UNIX system and an IBM AS/400 system.* Worked with Delchamps in Alabama to integrate DRS/NX UNIX systems to the current point of sale equipment. Integrated an electronic payment system, check authorization software and a file transfer utility between the systems. Assisted with Delchamps on setting up a Wide Area Network between the 110 stores and the corporate system.