Bill Mcelroy Email & Phone Number

Fremont, Ca, Us

Leading a global team of talented IT, Automation, and Infrastructure professionalsresponsible for creating and managing redundant, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructureand services globally. Promoted from Director to VP after 14 months of service.Key Achievements:• Improved 22+ Production websites to 99.99%+ availability and 99.7%+ reliability.• Created Cost Optimization plan saving 450k/yr for AWS, Azure,and Alibaba.• Created and implemented Incident Response and Change Managementprocedures and policies for entire organization.• Evaluated and implemented DataDog for all cloud services.• Migrated all code to Gitlab CI/CD pipelines for test and production deployments.• Designed Disaster Recovery plans for all production cloud services with quarterlytesting and documentation.• Collaborated with senior leadership to develop cloud strategy frameworks alignedwith revenue and customer acquisition objectives.• Addressed security threats with response plans and enhanced cloud system security.• Created challenging and creative OKRs and KPIs for department.• Optimized development environments and recommended strategic technology investments.• Maintained service level agreements to ensure quality and performance.• Developed training and leadership programs for employee and professional development.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Key Achievements:• Promoted to Team Manager after 6 months and established a new Denver-based cloud opsteam. This included recruiting, hiring, and training a team of 10 for 1st, and, 3rd shifts.• Designed and supported IL2/IL4 FEDRAMP high compliance infrastructure and software inAWS GovCIoud for several high-profile US Military customers.• Led the US & UK AWS to Oracle Cloud migration, saving Oracle 1.1 mil/yr in operationalcosts, while improving performance and reliability.• Migrated MEA, AU, CN on-prem datacenters to the cloud.• Automated processes using Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Capistrano, and otherscripting.• Provided technical expertise to secure several multi-million-dollar contracts, includingnotable $22 mil contract with Bechtel.• Rolled out Oracle Security Tools to over 3,000 servers.• Implemented JIRA ticketing, Confluence, and ServiceNow change management solutions.

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

• Developed information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions. Determined operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions. Prepared and installed solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming. Provided 24/7 on-call technical support for servers residing on VMware hosts.Key Achievements:  Contributed towards a special committee accountable for documentation, SharePoint sites, and specialized tools. Maintained special clearance to work on government IRS systems. Administered business-critical Linux systems, including Solaris and AIX servers.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Provided technical leadership to accomplish software requirements by developing and maintaining www.cox.com applications and databases. Provided technical expertise and recommendations in assessing new IT software projects and initiatives to support and enhance existing systems. Documented new technical concepts and processes for the team. Trained and mentored junior colleagues as needed. Key Achievement: Led activities to design and implement website functionality enhancements while working with third-party technical partners, including Google, Red Hat, and Dell; contributed towards sophisticated e-commerce and mobility projects. Supported 450 business-critical Red Hat Linux 5.8 and Solaris 10 servers running Apache, JBoss, SiteMinder, and other applications.

New York City, Ny, Us

• Utilized web and J2EE applications such as Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, webMethods, WebLogic and WebSphere to ensure proper functioning of business-critical websites and systems across multiple computing platforms. • Implemented and maintained complicated Web environments, featuring JBoss clustering, Linux Web Farms running Apache, Cast Iron appliances and F5 load balancers to optimize performance. • Monitored functioning and performance of various network devices utilizing monitoring tools such as AppMan, Zenoss, Big Brother and SiteScope to prevent/minimize outages.• Implemented and documented new procedures/best practices using “Wiki” and Subversion (SVN) version control software. • Troubleshot issues with enterprise software from Oracle (PeopleSoft) and miscellaneous third-party applications such as WordPress, GeoStan, GeoIP, and Vindcode. • Created and administered websites on Windows Server 2003, using both Internet Information Services (IIS) and scripts.• Received FTC recognition for work with Qualys software and resolution to security vulnerabilities.

• Unix Team Leader – promoted to this position after ten months of employment. • Troubleshoot hardware, software and operating system issues for over two hundred electric companies running HP9000 Unix servers.• Assist in the implementation of proprietary software enhancements by documenting and communicating issues experienced by customers in development and production environments. • Screen and hire new employees for rapidly growing team.• Manage on-site hardware/software conversions for customers, which includes evaluating system specifications, identifying installation parameters and ensuring data integrity. • Provide formal technical training to external and internal constituents on topics such as Unix and Oracle fundamentals. • Technical proficiencies utilized include Shell Scripting, SQL, Oracle utilities (i.e. DBCA, RMAN, Enterprise Manager), Ignite-Ux, Fbackup/Frecover, TCP/IP, FTP, SSH, RAID, Glance, LVM, DNS, NFS, Sendmail, COBOL, and others.

San Francisco, California, Us

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Served as the primary Unix system administrator for highly visible projects, including Direct Banking and Personnel 2000.• Functioned as team leader of installation and server design associated with EMC disk arrays. Responsibilities included overseeing proper disk configuration in order to monitor system performance, automate tasks, configure/reconfigure disk demands and report real-time and historical information.• Installed, configured and supported HP V-Class, K-460 and rp7400 servers running PeopleSoft, Restrak, Genesis, Seibel and TimeKeeping applications. A working knowledge of Sybase and Oracle databases was essential.• Maintained HP Unix servers running MC/ServiceGuard and demonstrated a comprehensive knowledge of the interdependent relationship between hardware and software systems.• Utilized EMC TimeFinder, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) & Symmetrix Dynamic Disk Relocation (SDDR).

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Information Systems