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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.
• 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