Brian Dearman Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Greater New York City, Ny, Us

• 20+ years of proven experience in enterprise strategy, enterprise data architecture and IT project/program delivery. I have developed and deployed traditional and cloud architectures in large complex environments to align business and IT strategies for highly regulated environments.• Deep technical background in a multi cloud environment consisting of Aws, Azure and GCP.• Expert in redesigning monolithic legacy applications and traditional infrastructures to a modular cloud architecture. Analyzing traditional infrastructures, application portfolios, identifying dependencies and infrastructure platform components, and assessing cloud migration feasibility. • Create application technology roadmap, and business needs. Research emerging technologies and solutions to solve complex business problems. Proposes and maintains reference architecture.• Directs and manages architecture development, review and approval processes and integration with other applicable organizational processes. Ensures proper functioning and alignment with product/application strategy and roadmap.• Participating in strategic business planning; Influencing and understanding business architecture; Championing technology strategy and architectures; Subject Matter Expert (SME) around public, private and hybrid cloud technologies.• Acts in a strategic role across assigned line of business or entire infrastructure domains, describing the current state and defining the target state and transition strategy for the organizations processes, and technology, and guiding or leading initiatives to achieve these transitions.• Current with emerging technologies and advancements within existing technologies• Consultants to Executive staff and cross-functional teams from the business and technology groups.• Created architectures, establish design patterns, best practices, reference patterns, proof of concepts, and other related artifacts.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Deep technical background in a multi cloud environment consisting of Aws, Azure and GCP.• Expert in redesigning monolithic legacy applications and traditional infrastructures to a modular cloud architecture. Analyzing traditional infrastructures, application portfolios, identifying dependencies and infrastructure platform components, and assessing cloud migration feasibility. • Create application technology roadmap, and business needs. Research emerging technologies and solutions to solve complex business problems. Proposes and maintains reference architecture.• Directs and manages architecture development, review and approval processes and integration with other applicable organizational processes. Ensures proper functioning and alignment with product/application strategy and roadmap.• Participating in strategic business planning; Influencing and understanding business architecture; Championing technology strategy and architectures; Subject Matter Expert (SME) around public, private and hybrid cloud technologies.• Acts in a strategic role across assigned line of business or entire infrastructure domains, describing the current state and defining the target state and transition strategy for the organizations processes, and technology, and guiding or leading initiatives to achieve these transitions.• Current with emerging technologies and advancements within existing technologies• Consultants to Executive staff and cross-functional teams from the business and technology groups.• Created architectures, establish design patterns, best practices, reference patterns, proof of concepts, and other related artifacts.• Expert level experience and knowledge with AWS and Azure Cloud Services – leading design and architecture sessions with stakeholders.• Performs a lead role in architecture for cloud and application teams, ensure all detailed diagrams are created while engaging with teams, capturing requirements, and guiding all design elements.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Define cloud architecture and oversees execution of strategic cloud related initiatives, ensuring alignment with requirements, technology industry standards.• Directs and manages architecture development, review and approval processes and integration with other applicable organizational processes. Ensures proper functioning and alignment with product/application strategy and roadmap.• Develop and document architecture patterns and best practices to address data protection and security needs while taking advantage of cloud native technologies and PaaS capabilities• Document reusable components necessary for efficient and scalable application migration to public cloud.• Produce documentation and training for architecture patterns and best practices in the form of podcasts, white papers, design artifacts, presentations and other formats• Provide architecture oversight for key cloud initiatives across AT&T• Provide technical consultation to application teams migrating to public cloud based on joint assessment of existing application technology and deployment model.• Create proof-of-concept solutions using native cloud provider.• Drive cloud vendor and SaaS vendor roadmaps to meet AT&T network, data protection and security requirements.• Work closely with AT&T Chief Security Office team to ensure that patterns and best practices meet the high security standards within AT&T.• Deep understanding of AWS or Azure cloud platforms.• Hands on experience with networking (i.e. VPC, DX, Private Link, Peering, etc.), IAM, IaaS, PaaS, Storage, Container technology, etc.• Migration experience moving on premise applications to cloud environments (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP Cloud)• Solid working knowledge of virtualization technologies and concepts• Ability to work with both technical and business-oriented teams• Experience with SAFe Agile, Agile Release Trains or strong aptitude to work in agile environment

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

● Interface with IT and business management, CISO, IT and business risk, SOC, Threat Intelligence, and IT solution teams related to cloud designs. Develops and achieves discipline strategy in alignment with functional goals and key business objectives. Collaborates with experts within function to integrate technical objectives into activities associated with accelerated development of new/improved products or technology.● Hands on experience with Azure, AWS, GCP public cloud providers.● Deep knowledge of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for AWS, Azure and GCP.● Advanced knowledge of Cloud and Open-Source Technologies such as: Service Discovery, Networking, Load Balancing, Containers, Deployment and Scaling, Fault Tolerance and throttling, failure domains, etc…● Create and establish DevOps and CI\CD pipeline strategies that can support highly regulated environments.● Architecture vision, artifacts and best practices for Cloud based PaaS, IaaS, Shared Data platforms and Cloud Native Solutions such as Kubernetes, & Enterprise Docker.● Design and implementation of large global data analytics platforms on cloud providers.● Define reference and solution architectures that support cloud initiatives, big data and data lake use cases, and traditional data platforms.● Implementation of large websites that support millions of daily users.● Assess, configure, and implement security countermeasures related to threats towards company's cloud environment to include AWS, Azure, Salesforce, Cisco, Okta, and other cloud systems.● Work with security to oversee the integration of cloud-based virtual firewalls and any other cloud security related software to increase the company’s overall security posture.● Maintain, configure, and analyze security platforms that intersect with cloud environments (such as AWS, Azure, Okta, or Salesforce)

Chicago, Il, Us

• Design cloud infrastructure environments with best practice configurations for a wide variety of systems including databases, web services and messaging systems, and other application support environments. Efficiently translate project requirements from architecture/environment diagrams to formulate appropriate questions to identify and remediate design gaps. • Review and analyze architecture level security solutions at the domain or product level to transform them into cloud infrastructure designs and implementations. • Establish strategic relations with key technology vendors in order to influence changes in future product releases. Experience with cloud technologies including but not limited to compute, storage, network, databases.• Project management of multiple highly visibility projects from POC through implementation.• Delivered IT business solutions in a timely manner and within budget.• Implementing large multi-petabyte database migrations to cloud database architectures.• Design and implemented multi-site secure block chain solutions.• Manage costs, schedules and performance of large highly complex projects with full accountability project implementation.• Strategic development & deployment of scalable application micro services on cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure• IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, SDDS providers and platforms, for example: Amazon Web Services AWS, Microsoft Azure, Vmware, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Red Hat OpenStack, Openshift, etc..• Cloud applications such as Docker containers, kubernetes, Tomcat, JBoss, VirtualBox, Apache, Nginx, etc…• Deep systems architecture and engineering expertise in cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, Vmware, Hyper-V) and approaches to address their unique management and security considerations.

• Strategic development & deployment of scalable application microservices on cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure• IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, SDDS providers and platforms, for example: Amazon Web Services AWS, Microsoft Azure, Vmware vCloud, Nutanix, Cloud Foundry, Red Hat OpenStack, Openshift, etc..• Cloud applications such as Docker containers, kubernetes, Tomcat, JBoss, VirtualBox, Apache, Nginx, etc…• Deep systems architecture and engineering expertise in cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, Vmware, Hyper-V) and approaches to address their unique management and security considerations.• Design and deployment of enterprise wide complex cloud environments on a global scale and implementing governance models, budget and cost management.• Experience designing, deploying, migrating, supporting, and managing sophisticated traditional server infrastructure environments on a national/global scale.• DevOps tools such as Docker, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Python, Powershell, Bash, Ruby, GIT, etc…• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery.• Capability to develop technical solutions to complex business problems from Proof of Concept POC to development, testing, production implementation and support.• Knowledge of compute, network, storage and virtualization theory, design and architecture.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• 15+ years of proven experience in enterprise strategy, enterprise data architecture and IT project/program delivery• Ability to work with multiple teams and fit solutions to disbursed diverse technical and organizational constraints.• Ability to seamlessly wear multiple hats with hands-on concept work, evangelize, business development, coordinate, leadership, collaborate with internal partners and vendors. • Broad knowledge of architecture domains, including business, application, data, infrastructure and security architectures.• Very strong “hands on” storage background in conceptualization, development, implementation, and administration of multi-campus HP, IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Exadata and Cisco San & Storage in a multi-petabyte disk storage environment.• Extensive “hands on” experience implementing and managing hardware and software platforms from Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat, IBM AIX, Tru64, Solaris, HPUX, AS400, UCS, vBlock and VMS solutions in large enterprise wide networks.• Proven track record of data management functions.• Proven track record in business engagement and business partner management.• Excellent writing and oral communication skills, with proven experience in building and maintaining relationships with executives, business stakeholders and technical teams.• Strong communication, inter-personnel, influence, collaboration and leadership skills.• Strong strategic thinking, planning skills, and understands “Big Picture.”• Executive level communication, presentation and leadership skills.• Experience leading and mentoring more junior architects. • Experience in developing multi-million dollar department/organizational budgets and effectively planning and managing activities within budget.• Working knowledge of systems architectural concepts and frameworks like TOGAF.

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Ensure Project Professionals have the necessary tools and training to follow the selected PM methodology, established work and documentation standards and group procedures.Managed projects in excess of 4 million and 12 million.Consult fortune Global 500 companies on enterprise management solutions and deployment.Deliver complex presentations to our customers.Responsible for the design, integration, troubleshooting and implementation of LAN/WAN, client/server environments on a global scale.Experienced in deployment and administration of AIX, Sun, HP-UX, Digital, Novell, and Windows NT server environments.Design, deployment and management of Tivoli Enterprise Management products, Remedy and BMC Patrol Software managed environments.Excellent customer relationship skills with a strong ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.Provide leadership and management of the Project Services Professionals group nationally. Perform group’s strategic planning, define business goals, identify objectives and initiatives to be achieved. Identification, communication and monitoring of financial goals and productivity targets for the group and individuals. Play an essential role in the Professional Services organization ensuring quality project implementations are delivered. Accountable for overall project delivery, and overseeing project activities.Focus sales by ensuring Professional Services Consultant’s and Account Management Team’s understand PM offerings, the basic principles of PM and how to successfully sell its services.Responsible to ensure appropriate project costing has been planned for within project budgets, therefore reducing the financial risk.Increase commitment to organizational and project quality management initiatives and other internal programs.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance And Marketing

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics