James Whitt Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Responsible for managing the Cloud and DevOps professional services team delivering exceptional solutions to customers. Drives creating processes, aligning teams, and initiatives for defining and building new innovated products. Taking an Agile and DevOps approach to manage teams, vendors, and off shore resources to deliver both to customers and internal.

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

- Tracked new trends and technologies in the industry to stay on the cutting edge of customer solutions.- Provided regular updates to project owners, VPs, and the executive level on status of existing product and projects, along with upcoming projects and high priority backlog items.- Managed and forecasted a budget of over $28 million that covered labor.

- Introduced the Agile methodologies to the software engineering group and business units. Re-organized and trained the development group into two teams utilizing Scrum and one team utilizing Kanban to meet the different business units needs. Worked with business units on the transition from a Waterfall “all at once” approach to an Agile approach, while.

- Participated in the development of an enterprise public / private cloud product that utilized VMWare vSphere, SQL Server, Apache, PHP, Tomcat, and Java. This included workflow optimization and building WEB services for 3rd party consumption.- Worked closely with Sun Microsystems, sales, and customers to design and implement solutions based upon Solaris.

- Designed and implemented a system for data warehousing data center environmental readings, automated report generation for customers, and a web portal for real time viewing.- Integrated IBM Tivoli Storage Manager into customer billing system utilizing a MySQL database for data warehousing and Perl for generating the bills and sending them to a FTP server.

- Built and installed two production level FreeBSD (UNIX) servers that provided mail and web services that serviced over 15,000 domains- Maintained five FreeBSD (UNIX) production servers- Developed network clients to communicate with remote registry servers using EPP and RRP protocols- Developed and implemented a shopping cart that used libraries from.

- Tested new Bluetooth protocols on the network simulator (ns-2) with the bluehoc modification installed- Researched and debugged new Bluetooth technology alongside graduate students that were written in C