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West Des Moines, Iowa, United States

West Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Enable customers to accelerate their modernization initiatives and software delivery goals. - Develop a deep understanding of customers' goals and challenges with their DevSecOps transformation and software delivery journey. - Demonstrate Harness software delivery capabilities aligned to customer's goals and challenges. - Partner with customer technical teams to validate technical capabilities and be their trusted advisor throughout the presales cycle.- Own all technical aspects of presales opportunities.

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Client Endpoint Product Manager, accountable for security, operations, user experience, and overall lifecycle for 25k MacBooks, Windows laptops, and Citrix/AWS VDI.· Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders on solving the right problems for the customer.· Articulate strategic vision and drive outcomes with objectives and key results (OKRs). · Influence commitment from senior management for large enterprise projects, e.g., automated laptop provisioning, VDI modernization, and proactive user experience monitoring.· Manage multi-million dollar budget for infrastructure, laptop hardware, software, and IT support staff. · Drive departmental DevSecOps adoption, e.g., agile and DevOps coaching, GitHub Enterprise tooling, and automation engineering best practices.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Cloud Platform Engineering Product Manager and coach for AWS, Azure, and GCP.· Established AWS, Azure, and GCP security guard rails with Terraform and Python innersource solutions, including Azure AD SSO and Sumo Logic integrations, GitHub CI/CD pipelines, and CIS Foundations benchmark controls. · Created training and provided guidance to accelerate adoption of AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, and Slack.· Sponsored enterprise adoption of Terraform, GitHub, and other cloud CI/CD tools. · Demonstrated new cloud platform engineering capabilities to senior management and presented to large audiences at annual IT conferences.· Defined and managed cloud engineering KPIs and OKRs, including AWS accounts provisioned (20x growth), user identity provisioning time (97% improvement), and AWS CIS Foundation Benchmark alignment (100%).

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Service Manager of enterprise developer productivity and ITSM tools and services.· Led 40 globally distributed engineers and leaders. · Managed $15M technology budget.· Consulted with developers to understand their CI/CD challenges and implemented appropriate CI/CD tooling and processes that elevated the developer experience.· Streamlined enterprise change management and SOC2 and SOX compliance controls to improve developer productivity and increase deployment frequency. · Led large enterprise implementation projects, e.g., Jira, Confluence, CI/CD pipeline, xMatters, Cherwell.· Presented technology trends to audiences of 50-500 at annual IT conference.· Contributed to IT employee attraction and retention strategies and helped hire 100+ interns annually.

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Unix and WebSphere system administrator for 1000+ homegrown Java and .NET applications.· Provided server infrastructure, WebSphere middleware, and application operational support to business unit application developers.· Enterprise SME of application performance management (APM) tooling and infrastructure.· Developed automation and proprietary infrastructure management utilities.· Consulted with developers on application availability, performance, and runtime issues.· Contributed to enterprise agile training curriculum and led agile training classes.· Onboarded new employees and created an organization-wide onboarding wiki.

- Administered Linux-based IBM eServer hardware and WebSphere Application Server middleware environments.- Deployed custom application code to WebSphere Application Servers on a bi-weekly basis while monitoring systems to ensure proper functioning of hardware, operating system, and application code. - Designed and implemented software and hardware migrations as well as documented configuration changes. - Tuned application servers for optimal performance.- Researched new technologies.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Mathematics And Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Kappa Theta Psi - President, Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE), Inter Fraternity Council, Order of Omega.