Nick Loden Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

As a member of the Developer Productivity and Experiences team, I am responsible for improving reliability, security, and supportibility of the development and continuous integration (CI) services and contribute directly to the productivity of engineers who will use said services to create the next generation of products. I manage and operationalize world class engineering services and tools that enable engineers to develop our products. I ensure that these services are highly available, performant, and scale with the needs of the engineering organization. Trust is the number one value at Salesforce, and I ensure that these services are trustworthy by enabling them to be secure and governed.

Bethesda, Md, Us

As part of the IT engineering and legal applications team, I was primarily involved with the design, development, and deployment of applications that supported the design and manufacture of Lockheed Martin products. I worked closely with the engineering department to define business requirements and deploy solutions to meet said requirements.I analyzed, evaluated, modified, configured, tested, implemented, and maintained enterprise wide purchased systems. I was also responsible for preparing application and system specifications to meet the needs of our customer. In addition, I planned, coordinated, and implemented system upgrades, enhancements, and maintenance.Key areas of focus: PLM Application Support – Enovia LCA V5, CATIA V5, 3DExperienceInfrastructure Architecture - Designed and built scalable, reliable, maintainable, and highly secure systems that fully met customer requirements. I found myself being the sole architect for small scale evaluation projects that required my expertise and support from ideation through obsolescence.Unix and Windows System Administrator – AIX, RHEL, and Windows client/serverAutomation - Scripting via Bash Shell and PythonPLM Printing Landscape Administrator – DQS (Distributed Queuing System)Engineering Licensing Administration - DSLS and FlexLM

Tulsa, Ok, Us

I was part of the IT engineering/manufacturing applications support team, and was primarily involved with resolving day to day issues our engineering user base had with their tools(software and hardware), scouted and deployed emerging technologies to enable our users to be more productive/efficient, and defined processes and procedures to standardize the way our separate engineering silos operated. Key areas of focus: PDM (SmarTeam) System Administrator - Supported both thick and thin client (CWI) SmarTeam configurations CATIA V5 Technical Support - Trained users, created step-by-step documentation, and troubleshot issues Data Center Administrator - Racked, cabled, and imaged new servers for engineering/manufacturing purposes Licensing Administrator - Setup and maintained DSLS licensing cluster and FlexLM license servers to provide network floating licenses Rapid Prototyping - Operated 3D printer from beginning to end of the digital to physical conversion process Managed File Transfer - Setup up and architected the overall security landscape of our managed file transfer system which replaced our flat file ftp site Virtualization -Built, deployed, and maintained virtual desktops offering server grade resources to our engineers that local resources could not. Windows System Administrator - Client and Server Red Hat System Administrator - RHEL 5 and 6

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Graphics

Master Of Science (M.S.), Information Systems Engineering