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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Beloit, Wi, Us

I lead the Enterprise Architecture practice for one of America's largest private companies.Responsibilities include IT Strategy, Technology Governance, Solution Design, Data Architecture, Digital Transformation, and ERP Modernization.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Established the company's first EA team by uniting talented software, infrastructure, and data architects.• Founded Coyote's Azure practice and a cloud enablement team to onboard software engineering groups.• Championed cloud-native design with Kubernetes, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code (IAC) automation.• Launched an aggressive "Cloud-Only Coyote" roadmap to decommission legacy data centers.• Organized a cross-functional initiative to develop dynamically-provisioned ephemeral environments.• Instituted FinOps methodologies that drove efficiencies of $800k in under 12 months.• Increased organizational maturity through tech debt reduction, risk management, and business analytics.• Incubated new technologies for data streaming, data lake, machine learning, and generative AI services.

Schaumburg, Illinois, Us

• Served as principal technologist for 16 teams, mentoring and upskilling over 200 engineers.• Pioneered blue-green deployments to de-risk application releases and enhance environment testing.• Implemented a new IAM architecture with MFA, privileged identity management, and conditional access.• Proposed a DR redesign to convert from active-passive to active-active without additional spend.• Designed AWS CloudFormation templates for applications running EC2, Lambda, S3, and DynamoDB.• Developed strategies to decompose monolithic applications into event-driven microservices and APIs.• Led org-wide incident response and remediation for Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities.• Performed M&A due diligence and led multiple post-acquisition technology integrations.

Schaumburg, Illinois, Us

• SRE team leader, responsible for SaaS platform uptime and performance for millions of users.• Infrastructure team leader, responsible for data centers, compute, networking, storage, and public cloud.• Systems team leader, responsible for messaging, telephony, collaboration, CRM, ERP, and HRIS systems.• Successfully executed a production data center migration with no unplanned downtime.• Managed nationwide WAN and voice connectivity, implementing redundancy for business-critical sites.• Standardized block storage on Pure Storage all-flash arrays, increasing disk performance by 8x.• Pioneered zero copy cloning for environment refreshes, reducing runtimes from 12 hours to 30 minutes.• Organized communities of practice for CI/CD, platform scalability, and database architecture.

Schaumburg, Illinois, Us

• Led the IT Engineering team responsible for systems, infrastructure, and information security.• Led the DevOps team that enabled an Agile SDLC transformation to continuous integration and delivery.• Proposed, staffed, and managed the IT Help Desk team, supporting over 1000 global colleagues.• Supported annual customer growth of over 50% by scaling infrastructure and increasing efficiency.• Launched the company's first disaster recovery program and performed regular successful DR tests.• Proposed annual IT budgets and managed each year's CapEx and OpEx spending accordingly.• Authored and upheld compliance standards for SOC 2, SOX, and IS0 27001 audit controls.

Schaumburg, Illinois, Us

• Managed Windows servers running Active Directory, Exchange, IIS, SQL, SharePoint, and System Center.• Managed Linux servers running Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, and Python.• Implemented enterprise virtualization with VMware ESX and Fibre Channel SANs.• Configured switches, routers, firewalls, and load balancers from Cisco, Brocade, F5, HP, and SonicWall.• Automated maintenance and testing with PowerShell scripting to reduce errors and administrative effort.• Led the planning and implementation of a new SIP-based corporate phone system.• Managed build pipelines and Amazon AWS test instances for QA and Dev teams.

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• Managed Windows, Linux, and AIX servers running mission-critical software.• Administered switches, firewalls, VPN servers, and CCTV security systems.• Managed the company's ERP system. Coordinated ERP upgrades, enhancements, and maintenance.• Built custom business applications using Microsoft .NET, C#, and SQL Server.• Supported users from five company divisions, twenty stores, and the corporate headquarters.• Maintained vendor relationships, negotiated contracts, and managed IT budget.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer Science And Computer Information Systems