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Lacey, Wa, Us

• Lead the development and implementation of an enterprise Information Technology Portfolio Management (ITPM) program. o This includes using strategic vision to develop and run portfolio management processes and governance and contributing to the development of enterprise-wide Information Strategy Plans (ISP) that align with Agency and environmental program strategic plans.• Lead the management of the enterprise information technology portfolio by managing the portfolios of existing investments and prioritizing new investments. The enterprise information technology portfolio includes ITSO’s portfolio, ten environmental program portfolios, and Administrative Services, Fiscal and Human Resource portfolios.• Compile and analyze project metrics, and lessons learned and devise strategies to continually improve our ITPM and project management practices.• Propose changes to ITPM processes and mentors and advises other Ecology IT professionals and managers on OCIO portfolio management policies, ITPM best practices, and traditional PMI processes, as appropriate.• Serve as the Lead ITSO Legislative Analyst.• Serve as the Administrator for Annual Technology Certification Requirement to the OCIO

Seattle, Washington, Us

Joining the Resilience Engineering, Availability and Demand Insights Team ensuring readiness of infrastructure for Thursday Night Football.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Managed and improved process for BIG-IP Next Security Governance (vulnerability handling, open source licenses, establishing product's software bill-of-materials, OEM licenses, and all security aspects of software development life cycle (SDLC)), which allowed us to comfortably and predictably hit our 6 weeks product release cadence. Also worked with Security to plan, create and implement 6 Security Programs that aligned with NIST 800. These programs included implementing Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), implementation of security tooling and integrating the findings into the SDLC, managing risks in dependencies and implementing Software Security Plans and associated controls.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Provided vision, roadmap and backlog for systems and infrastructure to support the Customer Experience systems. Worked with Product Management and Architects to drive innovation and implement new tooling, processes and standards for the Business systems. Hands on leader who also deployed, validated and ensured stability of systems as well as leading Agile ceremonies and prioritizing and grooming backlog.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Hired, managed and developed a team of 14-15 engineers that provided CI/CD technology, tools and services to the Information Systems Department (700+). (Gitlab, Chef, Managed team priorities and provided mentorship and mentoring to future leaders. Participated in the department-wide roll-out of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework). Led the administration and governance of Jenkins, Nexus, Gitlab, Subversion, CVS (retirement of), and Chef. Responsible for implementing standards, upgrade processes for Apache, Java and Tomcat, . Managed and maintained vendor relationships with Chef, Gitlab and Azul Systems (Java platform)

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Created strategy and goals ensuring strategic plans including roadmaps and vision; Hiring and onboarding of 15 staff. Successfully implemented blue-green deployments for a large system comprised of 140 java projects and automation to reduce manual work by 70% and improvement deployment velocity. Technology evaluation and purchase for Configuration Management and Infrastructure Management tool Chef software, managing RFP and Statement of Work.Effectively establish and manage the Windows Client Standards Team responsible for standardizing the desktop, facilitating the upgrade of software on the desktop, Office 2013 and Internet Explorer 10.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Managed a cross-functional teams of Software, Quality Assurance Specialists (QA), Business Analysts, Project Managers and UI Specialists. The domain knowledge for the team consisted of reporting, data warehousing and customer facing systems. Managed and oversaw successful pilot project to determine if third party consultants (outsourced) could supplement development staff to build version 1.0 of externally facing portal; Created Request for Information (RFI) and Statement of work (SOW). Brought 2M -2.5M technical infrastructure project back on track. The Maven Project objective was to stabilize a large complex project by migrating the java system comprised of over 150 projects with hundreds of dependencies into Subversion and Maven.