Steve Sobczak Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

DevSecOps Project Manager

Chicago, Illinois, United States

--Led and managed global team of 15+ to successfully prove out/develop a proof of concept to modernize application Performance Testing for Accenture application teams, with emphasis on process automation.--Managed team to fully optimize application performance testing processes, with the transformation, Accenture application teams saved over 400 hours in FY23, and estimated to save over 800+ hours in FY24.--Incorporated Datadog monitoring into performance testing processes, resulting in reduction of execution time by 43%.--Managed project using Azure DevOps (using Azure Boards) in Agile Methodology.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

--Led and managed global team of 10+ for Replacement of existing Accenture NTP solution and architecture in two Data Center locations (Chicago and Singapore) resulting in a source of consistent, accurate time which prevented future critical, multi-site/multi-app outages.--Implemented new GPS Antenna to Frankfort Data Center location, resulting in additional resiliency by receiving atomic clock time from 12 satellites.--Managed project using Azure DevOps (using Azure Boards) in Waterfall Methodology.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

--Spearheaded the evaluation and selection process for the next-gen Observability tool, with resulting in the successful adoption of Datadog as the unified monitoring tool for metrics, events, logs, RUM, synthetic and traces.--Led and managed global team of 25+, (within 4 workstreams) in the deployment, and roll out of Datadog monitoring tool to >1000 Accenture Application teams.--Consolidation and retirement of five legacy monitoring tools to Datadog, resulted in >250 Accenture Application teams' gaining cloud monitoring services.--Managed project using Azure DevOps (using Azure Boards) in Agile Methodology.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

--Led and managed global team of 15+ in the deployment and roll of NXLog centralized logging management/configuration suite for Accenture Infrastructure Management team.--Owned/created NXLog Test & Production Environment design build out /with performing server capacity planning.--Leveraged Tanium for automated deployment of NXLog logging agents to 50k+ Windows/Linux servers.--Managed project using Azure DevOps (using Azure Boards) in Agile Methodology.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

--Cybersecurity Product Remediation Lead, managed and owned remediation of all Accenture Cybersecurity Applications/Tools for IPv6 Implementation.--Managed the process of testing and identifying IPv6 interoperability issues with each Cybersecurity Application Product owner and/or vendor to take corrective actions in preparation for IPv6 Enablement at Accenture, resulting in 25 Security tools being IPv6 ready.--Performed Client End Point/ Agent Testing in our Chicago Lab, for Dual Stack and Native IPv6 testing, products included Tanium, Qualys, Nessus, FireMon, Pulse Secure, FireEye, Malwarebytes, ArcSight, MS SCCM & Intune, JAMF, Forcepoint.--Managed the Circuit order process with our vendor ISP providers to ensure IPv6 was enabled at our Accenture offices.--Managed project using Azure DevOps (using Azure Boards) in Agile Methodology.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

--WAF Deployment Lead, managed and owned all WAF deployment activities across Accenture Application Teams.--Managed and Coordinated with each Accenture Application team to build out new AWS load balancers/target groups and deploy in AWS Shield/CloudFront and or Verizon Edge cast to enable WAF, resulting in the top 50 Accenture Applications protected from cybersecurity vulnerabilities.--Enabled WAF on all SAP systems.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

--Americas Network Access Cybersecurity Deployment Lead, Led and managed team of 20+ for deployment of a new Cybersecurity/VPN platform which impacted over 400 locations, 500,000 resources, and resulted in >$1B in savings due to travel avoidance.--Deployed last 30 Americas site locations 3 months ahead of schedule.

Portland, Oregon, United States

--Technical Architect Lead, Managed and owned application life cycle (Build, Dev, and Deploy) of CGI ARM Management Suite, which resulted in successful deployment and utilization of the CGI ARM Asset & Resource management system at Portland General Electric.--Deployed at Portland General Electric, Portland, OR

New York, United States

--Technical Architect Lead, Managed and owned application life cycle (Build, Dev, and Deploy) of CGI ARM Management Suite, which resulted in successful deployment and utilization of the CGI ARM Asset/Resource & Work management system at Consolidated Edison, Inc.--Deployed at Consolidated Edison, Inc., New York, NY

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--Managed internal and external clients by providing customized solutions for environment management, configuration management, version control, and specialized CI/CD build management.--Clients included: Nielsen, Fireman's Fund Insurance, JP Morgan & Chase, Walmart, Allstate Insurance.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

--Clients supported: Wrigley, Ameritech, GEM investors, Equity office

Chicago, Illinois, United States

--Network Administrator using NT and Novell Servers.--Created automated Installs for NT Workstation & Win95 on partners workstations.--Supported 1000+ partners.--Met with partners to discuss new hardware & software upgrades.--Supported affiliate offices.--Ownership and management of installation and setup of server and network equipment in new office openings for (Cleveland, Milwaukee and Chicago NWM, Oak Street locations).