Matt Bowden Email & Phone Number

Teaneck, New Jersey, US

In my role as a Solution Architect, I assist our clients in modernizing their current processes by transitioning them to cloud-based solutions.Led requirements gathering sessions to gain insights into our clients' pain points, establish clear requirements, and provide the client with a platform that empowers them to enhance their processes. I provide.

Teaneck, New Jersey, US

New York, New York, US

As a Cloud Data Architect, I assisted in the transformation of Citi's Reference Architecture within Global Consumer Technology’s Data & Analytics platform. Maintained a roadmap of capability and investment aligned to critical business needs and technology requirements.Contributed to creation of real time distributed streaming platform enabling the business.

New York, New York, US

As a Technical Program Manager, I led numerous Hybrid Cloud projects - Citi Private Cloud, AWS, and GCP.Directed numerous Citi Private Cloud infrastructure projects, API Management platform, global API Management v5 upgrade across Asia Pacific, Europe, & Americas infrastructure resulting in zero downtime.Led several Hybrid Cloud proof of concept projects.

Mountain View, California, US

• As a Senior Manager on the Cloud Enablement Team, supported initiatives in Intuit's migration to AWS. Led team responsible for OS platform engineering and monitoring engineering. Partnered with internal teams to enable.
• Operating System engineering for both Public and Private Cloud.
• Windows AMI in AWS, enabling internal customer to build a Citrix environment in AWS, simulating SmartLook agent load within TurboTax Online, providing a quick and cheaper alternative to building this internally..
• Delivered Enterprise Linux alternative operating systems leveraging CentOS, Oracle Linux, and Amazon Linux, helping reduce licensing costs with RedHat.
• Led efforts to modernize existing legacy bare metal provisioning system (HP Server Automation / Opsware), by leveraging open-sourced software including Saltstack, Cobbler, and Chef.
• Delivered a common AMI lifecycle management process and providing a global AMI bakery process that allows customers to improve AWS restack times.

Mountain View, California, US

• Managed central team responsible for operational and engineering support of the tools and monitoring systems provided to our customers. Worked closely with customers to plan for upcoming needs, ensure platforms meet.
• Leads Infrastructure Tools team responsible for performance, service, and infrastructure management (Cacti, CA Spectrum, CA eHealth, CA SOI, VMWare VCops), log capturing and analytics (syslog/Splunk), automation and.
• Provided Consumer Group business unit a realized savings of over $1M by redesigning their Splunk logging environment, providing better performance while reducing their spend.
• Worked closely with AppOps teams and IT Service Delivery teams to gather requirements, update roadmaps, and drive change across environment with regards to tooling.
• Led efforts working with Vendor Management on licensing data reports, enabling us to true-up with key Vendors like Microsoft, RedHat, and Oracle.

Mountain View, California, US

• As a staff systems engineer, provided Unix support and automation support to internal IT customers. Responsible for Sun Solaris platform, including hardening the OS to meet security needs, delivering a virtual Solaris.
• Selected to attend high potential leader training – Intuit Fast Path (2008) and FastPath II (2011), to accelerate the development of high potential leaders at Intuit.
• Implement, engineer, and maintain HP Server Automation infrastructure to provide automation of OS deployment, patching, and reporting via a common tool. Teams relied heavily on this tool for all internal patching, OS.
• Delivered Solaris Container environment allowing a virtual Sun Solaris operating environment across data centers, including designing, implementing, and operationalizing the platform. Leveraged Solaris Containers.
• Managed Sun Solaris operating system baseline used across all Solaris systems at Intuit. Collaborated with vendor on release map and hardware interoperability matrix, working closely with internal teams to ensure.

Mountain View, California, US

• As a member of Disaster Recovery Team, primary responsibilities was Storage Engineer providing all storage support, managed 5 EMC arrays, 3 NetApp filers, 1 tape library, and a pair of SAN switches. Also provided UNIX.
• Moved to Plano, Texas to create Intuit's Disaster Recovery environment.
• Responsible for day-to-day support of storage provisioning, SAN port allocation, host configurations, EMC SRDF operations, NetBackup configurations.
• Responsible for day-to-day Solaris support, including management of 3 SunFire 15K systems.
• Worked with DR Planning teams on Operational needs, documentation, process updates/improvements to enable key applications BCP/DR failover plan. Performed regular tests that simulate disaster to tests recovery.

Mountain View, California, US

• Lead engineer on Intuit's flagship online application, TurboTax Online. Worked closely with development teams to test, deploy, and manage platform, managed 200+ systems running Windows, Solaris, and Tru64 OS ensuring.
• Led transition to new backend datastore, from Solaris NFS to HP Tru64 NFS increasing performance & uptime of the environment and improving stability of the back-end data store. Solved critical file fragmentation issue.
• Worked closely with TurboTax Online application team in dev/qa/testing/production environments, performed all code deployments.
• Created a log harvesting process to push all production logs to a system that teams could investigate issues quickly, meeting necessary security controls.
• Developed a platform that would display concurrent users, providing key business leaders insight into overall platform health.
• Awarded Intuit Chipman Award in 2002 due to deliverables during tax season.

Mountain View, California, US

* As a member of the IOC, provided front line support of IT systems within datacenter. Followed operational policies to keep systems running, escalated issues to system/network engineers that needed immediate attention.* Promoted to Lead IOC engineer (1st at Intuit)as Intuit's first line of support for Intuit's data center systems.

Madison, AL, US

Supported US Navy BUD/s program for all systems/hardware issues.

Washington, DC, US

• Assisted in the design of a real-time encrypted Internet weather site, providing the US Navy fleet the ability to access the most complete METOC products and data available through classified and unclassified.
• Created command’s first classified web site, using Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 2.0/3.0.
• Automated the process of moving files to the SIPRNet (classified network) from the Internet.
• Implemented and administered prototype PC-based server and workstation SMART Center LAN.
• Received several military awards, letters of commendation and Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.