Roderick Meadows Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo, Us

- Technology Infrastructure Strategy: Develops and maintains the technology infrastructure roadmap aligned with business objectives, ensuring scalability, and reliability.- DevOps Transformation: Leads the designs and implementations of DevOps practices, tools, and processes to accelerate software delivery, improve efficiency, and enhance quality.- Architectural Governance: Establishes architectural standards, best practices, and policies to ensure consistency, compliance, and alignment with industry trends.- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborates with key stakeholders, including IT leaders, software development teams, operations, and security, to drive alignment and foster a culture of continuous improvement.- Technology Evaluation: Researches and evaluates emerging technologies, tools, and trends relevant to infrastructure and DevOps, and make recommendations for adoption or integration.- Risk Management: Identifies and mitigates technology risks related to infrastructure and DevOps, ensuring the integrity and availability of systems and data.- Leadership and Mentorship: Provides leadership, guidance, and mentorship to technical teams, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Evaluate technology, market trends and industry plus identify prospective impact on business. Participate to develop and manage ongoing enterprise architecture governance structure on basis of business plus IT strategies. Perform as sounding board as well as IT consultant and business leader to develop IT infrastructure solutions at the enterprise level. Promote the enterprise architecture process and results to organization inclusive of business leaders and enterprise's IT. Lead and direct to prepare governing principles to guide decision making pertinent to infrastructure architecture at the enterprise level. Develop plans for enterprise architecture on basis of IT strategies and business requirements. Ensure optimal governance structure and comply with activities related to enterprise architecture adherence. Support enterprise architecture execution as well as ongoing refinement tasks. Stimulate evaluation plus selection of entire enterprise architecture standards commensurate with IT business partners. Consult project teams to fit enterprise architecture assignments and identify need to modify enterprise architecture to attain project requirements. Identify need to change enterprise architecture to incorporate infrastructure needs. Consult with project teams of infrastructure development to fit entire architecture. Identify enterprise requirements for technology, resources and cultural modifications required to support enterprise architecture. Ensure documentation of entire architecture design and evaluation work. Develop and execute communication plus education plan for enterprise architecture.

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Evaluate technology, market trends and industry plus identify prospective impact on business. Participate to develop and manage ongoing enterprise architecture governance structure on basis of business plus IT strategies. Perform as sounding board as well as IT consultant and business leader to develop IT infrastructure solutions. Promote organization architecture process and results to organization inclusive of business leaders and enterprise's IT. Lead and direct to prepare governing principles to guide decision making pertinent to infrastructure architecture. Develop implementation plan for infrastructure architecture on basis of IT strategies and business requirements. Ensure optimal governance structure and comply with activities related to infrastructure architecture adherence. Support infrastructure architecture execution as well as ongoing refinement tasks. Stimulate evaluation plus selection of entire infrastructure architecture standards commensurate with IT business partners. Consult project teams to fit infrastructure architecture assignments and identify need to modify infrastructure architecture to attain project requirements. Identify need to change technical architecture to incorporate infrastructure needs. Consult with project teams of infrastructure development to fit entire architecture. Identify technology requirements for structures, resources and cultural modifications required to support infrastructure architecture. Ensure documentation of entire architecture design and evaluation work. Develop and execute communication plus education plan for infrastructure architecture.

Taught material from approved curriculum and developed daily lesson plans to include instructional aids. Participated in school retention initiatives by providing regular, accurate, and timely feedback to students and the school concerning academics, behavior, attendance, etc. Motivated students to actively participate in all aspects of the educational process. Completed professional development and in-service activities in accordance with college standards. Maintained expertise in subject area and recommends improvements in curriculum design. Instructed students in laboratory safety procedures if applicable. Performed duties in the Learning Resource Center as assigned. When possible, participated in core course academic support programs, certification programs, and student professional associations.

Burlington, Ma, Us

Was responsible for leading a team of highly skilled enterprise level Engineers and Architects. Provided guidance over data center infrastructure and system configuration strategy. Performed estimation of labor and hardware costs for new projects in Initiation phase. Maintained forward-thinking design and planning for Ascend Learning's data center infrastructure. Communicated with executives and key stakeholders. Assists with planning, designing, building and operating internal and external data hosting environments and related services. Monitors, Information Security and performance/capacity management of internal and external information systems. Worked with enterprise hosting vendors and perform vendor management. My department maintained 1200+ servers running on 42 ESX hosts, which are deployed over Cisco UCS and EMC VNX infrastructure.

Was responsible for leading a team of highly skilled enterprise level Systems Engineers for support of a Top Tiered client base. Directed daily operations including configuration, maintenance, and support on behalf of our clients in a 24x7 environment. Oversaw the day to day support activities and worked closely with the Service, Problem Management, and Automations Centers.

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Held a senior level position responsible for design, installation, management, and maintenance of an enterprise level Citrix environment. This included installation, configuration, tuning, monitoring, capacity planning, and upgrading of server applications.

Lenexa, Ks, Us

Managed a team of engineers and technicians in the Technical Services department that designed complex server networks; installed, configured, conducted troubleshooting, and maintained server and workstation based components of existing/new networks and associated assemblies; facilitated the successful completion of all projects executed by the department; the Technical Services department led advanced enterprise projects and perform associated research; the department maintained and designed complex e-mail systems, Citrix farms, VMware ESX clusters and storage area networks.

Lenexa, Ks, Us

Designed complex server networks; installed, configured, conducted troubleshooting, and maintained server based components of existing/new networks and associated assemblies; facilitated the successful completion of all projects executed by the department; led advanced enterprise projects and performed associated research; maintained and designed complex e-mail systems, Citrix farms, VMware ESX clusters and storage area networks.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Supervised a team of engineers, in the Air Force National Guard, that designed and maintained fixed and remote computer network systems; performed activities such as configuring, troubleshooting and monitoring network servers and associated hardware. Handled client/server multi-user system support including network management and network administration; performed microcomputer fault isolation and restoration actions; and provided support and training for micro and multi-user computer systems.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Installed new software releases and system upgrades; installed patches and resolved software related problems; provided technical support and training to network clients; maintained network systems; managed user accounts; implemented security procedures and policies; and conducted inventories and inspections.

Hanover, Md, Us

Worked with U.S. Central’s Systems and Security Engineering departments to evaluate and solve technical problems; produced detailed documentation on systems, processes, and software; evaluated and recommended software tools and utilities to assist engineers with system and security administration; performed server installation and configuration; installed and performed tests on server security applications.

Glen Mills, Pa, Us

Designed complex server networks; installed, configured, conducted troubleshooting, and maintained server based components of existing/new networks and associated assemblies; facilitated the successful completion of all projects executed by the department; led advanced enterprise projects and performed associated research; assisted the department manager in supervising, mentoring and training associates; and served as the primary point of contact for Information Security on advanced enterprise-wide projects and investigations.

Wv, Us

Conducted technical training programs; determined training objectives; wrote training programs, including outline, text, handouts, and tests; designed laboratory exercises; lectured class on safety, installation, maintenance, and repair of computers and network equipment; administered written and practical exams; and wrote performance reports to evaluate trainees' performance.

Installed, analyzed, and serviced systems and network equipment; maintained relations between the customer and the organization on all network and system engineering matters; determined and recommended the products or services that best fit the customers' needs; identified areas for product improvement or new product development; and prepared product specifications.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Management

Diploma, Advanced Leadership

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Information Systems Technology

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Mechanical And Electrical Technology

Diploma, Leadership

Diploma, High School