Michael Debs Email & Phone Number

Miami, Fl, Us

Software Engineering and Cloud Operations Manager / Systems Consultant• Currently managing a team of SRE's and software engineers responsible for UKG's CI/CD build platform for its HCM Payroll solution. We leverage, support and maintain the Jetbrains TeamCity orchestrator as part of our CI/CD platform for our developers.• Led my CI/CD team in reducing code artifacts build, packaging and testing time by 61% (from 9hrs to 3.5hrsAccomplished via numerous planning, analysis, design and testing iterations, and then executing on a series of JIRA project epics and stories to address our tech debt and introduce new features and solutions, such as Single Solution File Project references, migrating our unit test from Echo to Thunder, migrating from Bitbucket to Github, migrating from SQL 2016 builds to SQL 2019, upgrading from MSBuild 2014 to 2017, introducing Github actions, and a containerization model for our TeamCity Agents; making it easier to update its dependencies via a microservice approach. • Partnered with dev teams to revamp our testing architecture in Teamcity to reduce, optimize and our reorganize our test gates to reduce testing time by 60% (from 5hrs to 2hrs).• Serve the role of SCRUM master for the team's feature, tech debt, and risk stories.• Extensive people leadership skills and certifications. • Responsible for leading, engaging, motivating and growing talent; managing and delegating tasks; meeting timelines, and delivering quality. • Thoroughly enjoy leading, mentoring and sponsoring the growth of individuals. Empathetic listening, caring, trust via transparency, and the empowerment of individuals, are all at the core of my leadership approach.• Extensive experience with full employee life cycle from recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training, mentoring, growing, promoting, performance plans and separations.• Extensive experience in providing detailed metrics for executive leadership on costs, performance and productivity.

Managed several teams in our Cloud Operations organization. Managed a team responsible for deploying updates to our unified end-to-end human capital management solutions in our public and private clouds. Also managed teams that deployed new customer instances of our solutions to our Cloud, and that managed access to our solutions (internal and external).The teams supported our core HCM Payroll solution, as well as our WFM, Talent Management Suite, and other HCM solutions that complement the core payroll solution.Always ensure my team is always best positioned to meet our clients wants and needs in a dynamic and demanding market.

First role held at UKG was Systems Consultant. Was responsible for all aspects of our Payroll Solution Single Sign-On offering. • The primary responsibility was to assist clients with the full implementation lifecycle, including the pre and post implementation aspects. Supported all technical and non-technical aspects of their SSO implementations. • Supported upward of 200 client implementations for ADFS, SAML 2.0 and WS-FED. • The role also required strong project management skills. Typically managed and tracked about 50 implementations at once. • Assisted our Sales teams with client inquiries on our SSO offering to help close deals.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Member of the LAN team which supported over 12,000 end users throughout the country. Mainly responsible for managing the Network Security and Production Environment Backups for the Enterprise. Also responsible for managing over 200 Production File and Application Windows servers.Security Administrator – Managed both the Symantec Endpoint Management Console and McAfee EPolicy Orchestrator (EPO) Server Console security solutions at Republic. Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the enterprise security solutions, as well as the AV clients. Backup Administrator - Managed all data backup and recovery jobs for the enterprise utilizing Symantec Backup Exec for Windows. Monitored jobs daily to ensure data was being backed up and troubleshot and resolved all issues relating to failed backups. Close to 100 servers were backed up nightly.♦ Traveled monthly to our data center in Atlanta that hosted all our client and corporate systems and data. Conducted network and server maintenance. Also deployed new servers.

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Managed all software customization requests and non-kernel development projects for the company’s billing and customer care software. This included requests made by the company’s existing customers (wireless telecommunications providers in Latin and Central America), as well as potential new customers and sales proposals. • Balanced the needs of clients within the company’s internal constraints; done by managing their expectations and relationships with the organization, ensuring satisfaction. • Prepared work orders for the clients and managed their requests for onsite consultants. • Traveled to the client sites on occasion to maintain good relations with the customers and stay in touch with their business needs.

Ft. Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Supported the automotive dealerships client/server based systems and applications, notably the vehicle-browsing kiosk. • Successfully troubleshot complex issues using a wide variety of software tools and technologies. • Traveled monthly to cities across the nation for the purpose of installing and configuring vehicle-browsing kiosks, clients back office applications and server applications at the new automotive dealerships. • Trained end-users on the different back office applications once they had been setup.