Robert Wissinger

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Chief Architect and IT Engineering Manager @ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Columbia, MD, US
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Columbia, Maryland, United States, United States
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About Robert Wissinger

Accomplished, dynamic, results-proven executive offering more than 31 years of diverse experience in the Industrial Goods, Technology Services and US Government industry sectors. Directing corporate growth and business development strategies while leading high-dollar, projects that improve the competitiveness, efficiency, and effectiveness for the customer. Proven visionary leadership, innovation and IT business solutions driving a technology foundation for global business growth. Expert in building multifaceted, creative, energetic individuals into teams. Decisive leader with a proven capacity to develop strong business alliances and drive projects to on-time and in-budget completion. High-caliber management qualifications, keen business acumen, experience-backed judgment, and excellent timing complemented by proven leadership capabilities. Unique and creative perspectives on problem resolution and process improvement.Change agent; Leading organizations through a myriad of developmental stages; reconstruct, crisis, and growth. Capable of implementing “winning” technologies and processes to effectively improve efficiency, increase productivity, and eliminate wasteful expenditures.Visionary leader; Successfully engineered a highly profitable software solution enabling best in class COTS Products to interface seamlessly with each other delivering flexibility and agility, ensuring business agility and growth. Possessing a collaborative, motivational and consultative management approach coupled with a high degree of competency in business development, negotiating, logistical planning and service product development.Leadership for innovation; Developed a state-of-the-art data center reducing physical footprint of 450 servers to 14 physical servers utilizing virtualization technologies, influence decisions, behavior and strategy with vendors. Trust building and persuasion skills driving change in their products and licensing models to align with the vision.

Robert Wissinger's Current Company Details
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

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Chief Architect and IT Engineering Manager
Columbia, MD, US
Website:
nasa.gov
Employees:
48899
Robert Wissinger Work Experience Details
  • Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
    Chief Architect And It Engineering Manager
    Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
    Columbia, Md, Us
  • Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
    Chief Architect/It Engineering Manager
    Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center Mar 2018 - Present
    Greenbelt, Marylad
  • Kbr, Inc.
    Sr It Manager / Maximo Portfolio Owner
    Kbr, Inc. Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
    Columbia, Maryland
    Technology leader and KBR’s IBM Maximo portfolio owner delivering advanced technology systems, advanced solution architecture for asset management, life cycle management, maintenance, property management and logistics solutions.•Led 5 full time direct reports, 1 part-time & multiple contractors & vendors.•Managed Maximo portfolio for clear differentiation from most fierce competitors. •Integrated Maximo with COTS products; SharePoint, Autodesk Vault & Autodesk Building Design Suite (CAD, Revit), Nintex Workflow, Nintex Reports, SQL SSRS, SAP, Deltek Costpoint, Informatica, etc.•Designed and drove implementation of a cost effective chargeback model reducing TCO. Cost savings in excess of $1M and cost avoidance to date over $.5M. •Drove innovative cost alignment and optimization for current customers and increased appeal to new customers.•Delivered efficiency by increasing system performance, decreasing new customer build out times, decreased wait time for processes, and nearly eliminated downtime.•Architected scalable solutions to meet business needs such as analytical analysis leading the way to predictive mode of operation.•Accomplish more with less with state of the art technologies, automation, process improvements and rapid deployments.•Improved quality of service & expand portfolio service offerings by implementing Maximo mobility capabilities.•Always delivering remarkable customer experiences. Strong communications with the business and customers.•Increase agility in regards to the speed and efficiency.•Eliminated stand-alone Maximo environments migrating to advanced-shared environment while maintaining complete separation for customers.•State-of-the-Art software solutions utilized in the advanced environment included IBM Maximo v7.6. Oracle 12c configurations, MS Window Serve 2016.•Application currency upgrading Maximo v7.1 and v7.5 environments to v7.6 including interfaces with external systems such as SAP, Costpoint, Informatica, etc.
  • Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc
    Sr It Manager
    Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc Sep 2012 - Sep 2016
    Columbia, Maryland
    KBRwyle Technology Solutions, LLC (formerly Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc.)Technology leader responsible for partnering with the business to deliver advanced technology systems, solution architecture, and applications for four business segments; Healthcare, Logistics, Defense & Space, Security. Lead 18 full time direct reports, 2 part-time direct reports and multiple contractors; various vendors. • Lead and energize multi-faceted technical groups to improve existing IT processes while meeting tight deadlines, performance goals, operating requirements, and financial objectives.• Evaluate the currency of application software and associated hardware/software platforms against Honeywell standards. Complete lifecycle management. Driving remediation actions for systems that are at high risk due to unsupported platforms, software or hardware. Implementing an effective compliance environment. • Defining IT strategic plans and implement the objectives enabling the business with new solutions to support growth objectives. • Work collaboratively with the HTSI CIO, HTSI President, and HTSI Business Segment VP’s strengthening IT business portfolio, cost avoidance and business differentiators with competitive technologies and partnering to gain market position. • Working with Honeywell Aerospace VP/CIO and Directors creating corporate synergy roadmap. Facilitating cross-IT communication and collaboration. Helped to bring focus to service delivery issues to the corporate IT team.• Vendor / contract management• Manage large and complex projects using Honeywell’s Project Management Operating System (PMOS).
  • Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.
    Cio / It Director (Acting)
    Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Nov 2011 - Sep 2012
    Columbia, Maryland
    Honeywell Aerospace / Defense & SpaceLead IT infrastructure and enterprise operations which included data center operations, technical engineering, networking, service desk and site support operations, production operations, disaster recovery, business continuity, change control board, SOX compliance, and ISO 27001 implementation. IT Budget $6.2M plus capital budget of $2M. Leader to 22 full time direct reports and outsource personnel, responsibilities included remote sites worldwide; business unit consisted of 7500 employees.• Reduced operating costs by 2.2M by transforming existing support staff, reorganizing and creating an IT center of excellence, partnering with larger Honeywell for skills while reducing outsource support model. • Expedited IT responsibilities for HTSI ISO 27001 certification and IT department personnel ITIL v3 certifications.• Directed the development, design, implementation and migration of custom web applications and third party applications and Oracle/SQL databases to new datacenter.• Drove development of Business Intelligence strategy to drive profitable growth and operational efficiency. Providing the company ad hoc query and analysis capability, reporting, scorecards, work order authorizations and forecasting.
  • Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.
    It Manager; Infrastructure, Operations & It Engineering
    Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Oct 2009 - Nov 2011
    Columbia, Maryland
    Strategic Business Enterprise: Manage R&D Engineering team, 8 full time direct reports, responsible to deliver complex architected solutions for our business enterprise and our customers, HTSI Infrastructure Manager responsible for the HQ facility and remote sites worldwide, Manage HTSI Data Centers, Operations and Application Development.• Leading, managing and motivating multifaceted teams, consultants and offshore resources.• Provide delivery and project management and risk mentoring. • Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) solutions.• Permanent member of the Change Control Board responsible for change management, risk and issue management, and technical reviews that could affect business continuity.• Provide delivery oversight and support to strategic and large IT engineering projects.• Capital planning and data center consolidation • Work with CIO to establish and implement standards based on Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) concepts and practices.• Review and approve all IT proposals and SOW’s prior to client submittal.• Consistently increased customer satisfaction by effectively increasing communications.• Project Portfolio Management tools used are Microsoft Office Project 2007 and PRIMMS. • Architectural designs and process maps created using Office Visio Professional 2007 • Server Virtualization using VMware ESXi 4.1, Virtual Center 4.1 in operational datacenter.• Windows and Linux server operating systems include Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.• SSL VPN service using OpenVPN; Virtual networking using Vyatta vRouters and vFirewalls
  • Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.
    It Lead Systems Engineer 5
    Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Aug 2001 - Sep 2009
    Columbia, Maryland - Htsi Hq
    MD61 HTSI HQ - Infrastructure Site Lead• Leading, managing and motivating engineering teams and consultant teams in design, resolution and delivery of complex IT projects, corporate initiatives and infrastructure issues (performance and/or application). Leader to 12 full time direct reports and outsource personnel.• Chair weekly engineering meetings• Permanent member of the Change Control Board• Architect Engineering role. Designing and overseeing implementation of three tier architecture solutions for migrating business unit applications into corporate global datacenters. Architecture designs included Deltek Time & Expense, IBM Maximo, EMC Documentum.• SAN technologies; from installation, power-on, setup, installation and configuration. . • SAN configuration with EMC Clariion CX300, CX600 and CX700.• QLogic and Emulex host bus adapters (HBA)• Brocade Silkworm fibre channel switches, setup, configuration and zoning• Windows and Linux servers; configuration designs, build, and support. OSs include Windows Server 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise and Datacenter, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.• Managed all UNIX flavors including IBM AIX, SUN OS, Solaris, SGI IRIX, and HP HPUX. • Citrix MetaFrameXP and Citrix Presentation Server.• Juniper Networks Secure Access SSL VPN administration• Server Virtualization using VMware ESXi 4.1, ESX 3.5 • LDAP authentication to Novel eDir, schema, attributes, application accounts• Active Directory migration and configurations utilizing Group Policy Objects (GPO)• Firewall rule configuration and request management• Engineer Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) and Backup solutions using Veritas Backup Exec and Veritas NetBackup. • DNS and DHCP solution using Cisco Network Registrar• Verify Sarbanes and Oxley compliance • Certified Front Line Leader as manager of individual contributors• Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) certified and Six Sigma Green Belt certified
  • Usinternetworking, Inc.
    Sr. Consulting Engineer
    Usinternetworking, Inc. May 2000 - Aug 2001
    Annapolis, Maryland
    USi provides hosted applications via the Internet for large companies that don't want to invest in buying, installing, and maintaining software. My contribution to their USi success was engineering design for customer solutions:• Effective customer communications• White-board Internet solutions to a client executive group during meetings• Consistently increased customer satisfaction by effectively remediating technology gaps by taking customer frustrating puzzle pieces, designing and implementing innovative solutions. • Determined project issue factors and provided streamlined solutions.• Lead, manage and motivate consulting teams in resolution and delivery of complex IT problems.• Apply project management and system engineering methodologies to customer engagements.• Design and implement hardware/software configurations to support client’s applications.• Sun Solaris operating system management• Nokia Firewall, VPN, secure ID configuration and management• WSD Pro, WSD NP and DNS setup and configuration• iPlanet/Netscape Enterprise Server configuration and management• Weblogic configuration and management• Veritas Cluster Server Manager configuration and management• Veritas file system setup and configuration• EMC Symmetrix 3000 and 5000 Enterprise Storage Systems (SAN) configuration and troubleshooting. • TCP/IP Mechanics and Network Topology• System performance analysis• Tivoli and SysEdge monitoring setup and configuration• Topaz script and shell script development
  • Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.
    Engineer 4; Systems
    Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Nov 1998 - May 2000
    Nasa, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Maryland
    NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Data and Operations Systems (EDOS)• Responsible for system administration and networking in support of the EOS-AM mission. This project involves IBM and SGI operating systems. Responsibilities include design implementation and configuration of the systems, system and network troubleshooting including system software and hardware, system upgrades, building systems from scratch, disk partitioning, patches, security as well as backups for disaster recovery. • Configuration of Ciprico fiber and SCSI RAID systems• Configuring and testing FDDI, Hippi, and Ethernet Interfaces• Maintaining and updating NFS, DNS and NIS configurations• Configuring DCE Clients and DCE Monitoring• Legato software configurations for automated backups• HACMP fail over procedures• Implementations of Vexcel’s Direct Capture Systems, (VxDCS) for capturing satellite downlinked high rate digital data.• Six Sigma training and implementation for process improvement.• Supervisor and mentor of the system administrators on the EDOS project, as well as SOHO ECS, Landsat 7 SIM, six TPOCC missions and the space shuttles bay experiments SPIF NT project.
  • Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.
    Engineer 3; Systems
    Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. May 1994 - Nov 1998
    Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Maryland
    NASA Command Management Facility• Responsible for system administration and networking in support of the Wind and Polar Missions. XTE, SOHO, GRO and EUVE missions. These projects involved AIX, HPUX, VMS and ULTRIX operating systems. Responsibilities included systems and network troubleshooting, system upgrades, patches, security as well as backups for disaster recovery. • Instrumental in procuring, designing, and setting up Windows NT Solution Center and Training Facility.• Ensured ISO-9000 standards and procedures were followed• Supervisor of 14 system administrators from projects that included NASA’s Command Management Facility, Software Development Facility, TPOCC missions, and EDOS.
  • Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.
    Engineer 2; Systems
    Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Mar 1993 - May 1994
    Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Maryland
    NASA Hubble Space Telescope• Responsible for system administration in support of the Hubble Space Telescope first servicing mission. This project involved VAX/VMS and ULTRIX operation systems.• Responsibilities included implementation and configuration of the systems, systems and network troubleshooting, system upgrades, patches, security as well as backups for disaster recovery. • DCL application development.
  • Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.
    Program Analyst
    Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Jun 1989 - Mar 1993
    Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Maryland
    NASA Test and Verification Team• Responsibilities included conducting detailed test analysis of define system specifications, developing acceptance test procedures, code and debug programs, developed automated test procedures, validated system documentation, test software performance including functions and interfaces, performed regression testing and wrote detailed analysis reports.
  • Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.
    Sr. Electronics Systems Engineer
    Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Apr 1988 - Jun 1989
    Blossom Point, Maryland
    Blossom Point Satellite and Tracking Facility• Primary responsibilities included daily inspection of satellite dish antennas, inspection of backup electrical generators, and tracking, commanding and housekeeping functions of Naval Research Laboratory satellites. Other duties included software development to enhance operations support and software development to automate test equipment operations.
  • Eg&G Technical Services (Now Part Of Urs Corporation)
    Jr. Engineer
    Eg&G Technical Services (Now Part Of Urs Corporation) Oct 1985 - Apr 1988
    Dahlgren, Virginia
    Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division• EMI/EMC environment testing. Contractor to the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Dahlgren Virginia. Responsibilities included field measurements onboard all US Navy ship flight decks to ensure radar systems EMI field levels were safe for Navy personnel exposure and presenting findings to the US Navy.

Robert Wissinger Skills

Leadership Process Improvement Data Center Software Development Six Sigma Sdlc Troubleshooting Project Management Disaster Recovery Management Strategic Planning Testing It Management Cross Functional Team Leadership Requirements Analysis Business Process Improvement Vendor Management Systems Engineering It Service Management It Strategy Enterprise Architecture Business Analysis Agent For Change Strategic Visionary Technological Innovation

Robert Wissinger Education Details

  • Electronic Institutes, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
    Electronic Institutes, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
    Electronic And Computer Technology
  • Greater Johnstown Career & Technology Center, Johnstown Pennsylvania
    Greater Johnstown Career & Technology Center, Johnstown Pennsylvania
  • Greater Johnstown Vocational-Technical School, Johnstown Pennsylvania
    Greater Johnstown Vocational-Technical School, Johnstown Pennsylvania
    High School Diploma & Certificate In Electronic Technology

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