Dan Tonkin Email & Phone Number

Draper, UT, US

I joined HealthEquity as part of the Further acquisition during 2021. I am happy to be a part of this (new to me) organization and see where this next chapter takes us!

I was brought on board (initially as contractor) to help guide and facilitate the migration and refactoring of on-premises capability into the AWS cloud. After a successful migration in 2020, I have stayed with this great team, and I have been evolving cloud capabilities at Further ever since.

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

Contract period before converting to full time at Further.

Duluth, Georgia, US

• Applied my broad skillset and experience to cloud-enable client systems as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Landsat satellite data processing team.
• Developed minimum viable product of a cloud-based application previously only operable on-premise.
• Automated application deployment through CloudFormation, leveraging docker and Elastic Container Registry.
• Demonstrated application scalability, leveraging Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Amazon Batch services, scaling from single process to 10's and 100's of thousands of processes.
• Achieved 24x application performance improvement, performed cost analyses, and built business cases for cloud adoption.
• Migrated cloud work product from R&D environment to production-ready staging environment, working through AWS policy and role differences to maintain application functionality.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Initiated and led DevOps transformation process for the team from a traditional service to an agile service delivery model.
• Reduced engineering analysis time from 12,000 hours to 36 hours via parallel computing (HPC) methods.
• Drove automated dashboarding to improve service quality and monitoring.
• Led and supported projects focused on changing government regulations, including NIST standards resulting from Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS).
• Attended DevOps Days MSP 2016, and DevOps West 2017 to gain enterprise adoption insights, and accelerate the DevOps journey for BAE Systems.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Supervised the Software, Systems, and Electrical engineering IT support team.
• Collaborated with cross-functional business stakeholders including engineering, security, business development, program management, IT, finance, and general management.
• Reduced $250k annual software maintenance expenditure.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Collaborated with cross-functional technical stakeholders in Network, Cloud, Storage, Applications, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity.
• Improved engineering physics-based analysis throughput by 400%.
• Led and engaged on virtual teams spanning coast-to-coast.
• Reduced application licensing costs by $200k annually.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Designed, consolidated, and optimized technical solutions, standardizing across acquired businesses and business units.
• Developed process and application to manage incoming IT demand across the corporation.
• Mentored University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management students.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Standardized the high performance computing architecture, improving throughput, reducing analysis cost by millions.
• Reduced $160k annual license maintenance cost.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Developed automation using Perl and Bash focused on optimizing application administration on Linux platforms.
• Implemented and upgraded software configuration management tools (ClearCase, ClearQuest, Subversion) and processes for several internal businesses, and external partners including Boeing, Raytheon, and General Dynamics.
• Optimized software licenses, avoiding costs of $150k annually.

• As part of a small IT team, delivered services to seven clinics and planned IT infrastructure for a new building to consolidate several of the clinics. Achievements include:
• Administered all IT aspects of the company, including system management, purchasing, and support.
• Trained employees in use of computer systems in both 1:1, and small group environments.
• Deployed a remote support solution across 7 sites, reducing support costs and improving service.
• Provided IT infrastructure input for a new facility constructed in 2007, which involved technology layouts, capacity planning, power structuring.

Mba, International Business And Strategy

Bas, Information Technology Infrastructure

Executive Development Programme, Bae Systems Global Early Careers Programme