Donavan Pantke Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Director driving company business strategies of digital transformation and service optimization across Infor. Responsible for teams including:- Developing cloud tools that are used by Operations and Product Development groups to bring Multi-tenant and Single-tenant SaaS solutions to market.- Developing global cloud architecture best practices and standards for both SaaS product delivery lines and corporate IT digital transformation.- Managing operational communications.- Corporate IT Enterprise Architecture.- Cloud and SaaS vendor spending and relations.

New York, Ny, Us

Led a team that was responsible for developing core tooling to run Infor's cloud technology business, as well as a team that worked to articulate and execute on cloud architectures to both improve Infor's cloud SaaS business, but to provide critical technology guidance in driving digital transformation into Infor's corporate IT organization.

New York, Ny, Us

As a Principal Architect, I began to define global cloud standards and architecture guidance across all products at Infor. Took a much more active role in cloud cost management and business of running a large-scale cloud operation. Coordinating activities of multiple different product groups at a large conglomerate was a challenge, but an exciting challenge.

New York, Ny, Us

Run a team of awesome cloud automators bringing Infor products into the cloud. Provided automation coding and architecture analysis for large Infor ERPs in getting into and optimizing for AWS. Refreshed my experience with Windows and Powershell which I had only tangentially interacted with for several years.

New York, Ny, Us

Invented a technology to deploy diverse applications into Amazon Web Services.Converting mature applications originally designed for on-premise deployment into the cloud.Providing senior leadership and wisdom to a young but burgeoning team of DevOps and cloud specialists.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Devised a migration plan to move all Appriss systems into Amazon Web Services, including financial impacts.Reimagined Appriss' product development workflow and current Agile methodology to more closely follow industry best practices.Researched bleeding edge technologies (Go, Docker, AngularJS) and modern application designs (RESTful Web Services, decoupled user interfaces, and massively distributed systems) for their applicability and usefulness to the organization.Successfully integrated third party applications into a DevOps environment using automation tools like Chef.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

Envisioned a new methodology for deploying and operating near real-time ETL-style data feeds. Gained organizational buy-in and approval by demonstrating the magnitude of resources currently used on these feeds and the relative investment on the infrastructure that underlies them.Key in inventing a method to calculate a cloud-equivalent cost of our current IT Infrastructure.Orchestrated a process to analyze the technical, security, and financial aspects of maintenance and required capital refresh for all IT non-desktop technology assets.Coordinated a project that distributed user identities across all Linux servers in the organization. (Approximately 400 systems).Instrumental in giving analysis and advice on the strategic realignment of our storage platform from HP EVAs to Hitachi HUS/VM.

Louisville, Kentucky, Us

- Spearheaded a groundbreaking project at our new datacenter facility, in which we modernized an abandoned AT&T wireless POP. This project had many facets but some of my favorites are:Researched and developed a power capacity and distribution design, airflow optimization, and structured cabling designs for the renovation of the facility.Avoided the repurchasing of power distribution gear by recognizing and repurposing the existing gear, rewiring it for higher voltages.- Owned and executed a project to enhance our infrastructure and applications monitoring capabilities throughout the entire organization. Seen as the subject matter and project expert in infrastructure monitoring and management.- Designed and built the next generation platform for data acquisition and voice notification. This included the entire stack up to the application.- Was a thought leader in the adoption of ITIL V2 standards across the organization, advocated change and worked on adapting our then current support and change processes.- Chaired a project to dramatically increase network availability by breaking up a large flat Layer 2 network into a more isolated and manageable Layer 3 switched network.- Created a business use case for virtualizing Appriss' systems, and implemented that plan with management approval.- Recognized by CA as a valuable customer liaison during the development of their new Spectrum Service Assurance Product, as well as their current SPECTRUM and eHealth products.- Maintained a reputation of being able to locate bugs in software and was relied on by both Appriss and CA to vet software and firmware across the entire technology stack before release/acquisition. Colleagues would frequently say “If Donavan hasn't found a bug in it yet, we're worried we haven't vetted it enough.