Toby Meyer Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee, US

I serve as head of information security, lead software, cloud, and infrastructure architecture, and manage the teams that drive these areas.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

Strategic management of hybrid cloud/cloud-native development, machine learning, and information security, as well as ensuring continuous improvement across multiple teams of different disciplines.

• Saving clients time and money by leveraging 15 years of passion and experience to create solutions tailored for their business. Engagement Example A:
• Design security and PaaS infrastructure implementation for new public facing micro-service financial transaction program in Microsoft Azure.
• Create and implement "infrastructure as code" DevOps practice, then document and hand-off to client. Engagement Example B:
• Provide guidance as to how deploy and employ big data technologies such as Splunk on a massive scale.
• Lead efforts to create and communicate strategies to leverage the resulting data for a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
• Research, test, and write up recommendations and detailed solutions to keep in-scope platforms as secure as possible.

Tysons, Virginia, US

Twin Cities, MN, US

Responsible for enterprise architecture involving custom client-facing systems and processes to facilitate quality, security, and speed in development thereof.

Bloomington, MN, US

Provided evaluation of current security, stability, and staffing posture & delivered recommendations.

San Francisco, California, US

• Provide infrastructure planning and design for major Windows/.NET/SQL/f5 platform update.
• Coordinate adoption of code build and deploy tooling across multiple teams and design high-level surround automation functionality and implementation.
• Revamp certificate management practices with a focus on consistency and security.
• Design systems to move restricted data in a traceable, end-to-end encrypted fashion to facilitate automation.
• Create standards/documentation for the identification and use of privileged account types as well as standardizing logging and archival practices for information generated by LoB applications.

Wayzata, MN, US

• Provided process and architecture designs (as well as proof of concept testing) for a range of projects including but not limited to: Highly-available, multi-site 25,000 device enterprise DHCP and RADIUS solution, DNS.
• Performed engineering solutions including but not limited to: many-node slow link emergency package delivery using Powershell, Network Load Balancing implementation, logging collection and alerting, PKI configuration.

Mounds View, MN, US

• Provided architecture design and implementation management for a new private cloud including Cisco network infrastructure, (Switches, Firewalls, WiFi) centralized EMC storage, VMWare ESXi cluster, Sophos Anti-Spam, Veeam
• Led far-reaching effort to modernize all systems in a severely outdated IT department including Exchange 2000 to 2010 upgrade, Active Directory 2000 to 2008r2, network architecture re-design, security overhaul.
• Managed support team and created new procedures to ensure users received world class service and created a cross-training program enabling employees to effectively take on increased responsibility, increasing.

San Francisco, California, US

• Designed infrastructure for new applications and application upgrades for integration into the server environment of Wells Fargo's highly secure network
• Application engineering job duties required utilization and expertise in Microsoft Operating Systems, Microsoft.Net, J2EE including IBM Websphere, Biztalk Server 2006 (R1 and R2), TLM Process Automation, and others ".
• Engineered some of my department's most critical financial applications - Looked to as the "go to guy" for J2EE on Windows and BizTalk enterprise applications
• Served as Application Engineering team lead; a position that enabled me to serve on various process boards including Architecture Review Board, Best Practices Board, and Production Data Control Initiatives

Amsterdam Zuidoost, NL

• Successfully completed nation-wide IT security audit focusing on Microsoft technologies, utilized Microsoft standard practices and testing methodologies for audit procedures, and oversaw correspondence with all.
• Designed structure of Active Directory logon procedures on a national level, and coded the actual scripts using MS Batch/VBS
• Created dynamic web reporting system for IBM's TSM backup solution using ASP, VBS, ODBC, and ADSI script/programming technologies; worked directly with IBM's ODBC development team to create a framework to access.
• Designed a large-scale SQL 2000 relational database for node management, and created web front-end for aforementioned db using ASP, VBS, JS and DHTML; set up and managed the site using IIS 5.0/COM+

Westborough, MA, US

• Created a ground-breaking method for Windows 2000 unattended server setup for ING, a fully customized/automated server installation for use in any role, and in any ING datacenter in the world after answering nine.
• Engineered a NT 4.0 unattended installation system for Best Buy, encompassing not only the operating system, but also hardware layer updates and all applicable applications, depending on server role
• Managed a team of peers at Land O' Lakes to complete a desktop / applications rollout to over 1,000 workstations
• Worked directly with Microsoft to accomplish a flawless rollout at the Rainier offices in advance of the official Windows 2000 server release
• Created a complex scripted solution for Allina Healthcare to automate document back up from a target machine to a central archive location
• Facilitated the Y2k patching of all remote client machines in every Best Buy store in the world by writing a scripted update system

Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

• Engineered NT4 desktop/laptop rollout strategy for General Mills using Ghost, Ghostwalker, MS Batch, and several freeware utilities
• Worked with a team of desktop personnel to achieve rollout goals for General Mills' application development division
• Administered various desktop and server systems including Win95/8/NT 3.51/4 Server/Workstation

• Administered all NT4 based systems, as well as several FreeBSD systems.
• Created and maintained a co-existence strategy using Samba
• Administered various desktop and server systems including Win95/8/NT 3.51/4 Server/Workstation
• Assisted in maintaining the most popular electronic entertainment site in the world at that time - Stomped.com

• Engineered OS/2 Server deployment strategy for Norwest Banks using OS/2 2.1 for servers, OS/2 Warp (3.0) for clients, and TCP/IP/Token Ring for connectivity
• Refined new bank setup process, reducing overall cost for the client

US

• Spent 5 months in sales, 3 of which I led the entire Midwest region in overall and contract sales
• Created framework to guide new tech service department operation
• Acted as primary customer focus point, as well as personnel manager for the tech service employees

Multiple Certifications, Microsoft Information Technologies

Information Technology

Mathmatics, English