Director Of It
San Antonio, Texas, Us
Led multiple engineering teams including: o Engineering team responsible for the content distribution network (Akamai) and load balancing technologies (F5) o Engineering team responsible for the development of the enterprise data pipeline infrastructure (Confluent, Apache Kafka)Accomplishments include: o Built new event streaming infrastructure from the ground up leveraging the Confluent, Apache Kafka solution and oversaw the migration of user from existing IBM MQ o Owned critical supplier relationships with Akamai Technologies, RedHat, and IBM o Negotiated and managed major contracts include enterprise IBM middleware licenses agreement, cloud hosting agreement with Akamai, and RedHat OpenShift agreement for new on-premise container environment, resulting in millions of dollars of annual contract savings o Led infrastructure hosting teams through a transformation from a monolithic deployment architecture to a cloud ready, micro-services architecture embracing modern deployment practiceso Supported WebSphere middleware infrastructure responsible for hosting the majority of internal and external applications at USAAIn addition, Cody was asked by senior leadership to represent the organization on a panel responsible for hiring new managers and management candidates into the Leadership Candidate School, a pipeline of training to prepare leaders across the organization.