Vicki Bodman is a master of balance, thriving on situations that require “big picture” thinking and detailed execution. She has a broad range of experience in cloud/server/storage operations, networking, application support, and software development. Currently Vicki is on the Engineering team at Mailchimp, the world’s most powerful marketing automation platform for small business. She was previously the Head of Systems Engineering at Kabbage, Inc. where she was responsible for both the corporate and web serving infrastructure. Before Kabbage, she was the Senior Director of News and Finance Application Development at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc where she led the strategic direction of platform design and architecture supporting company websites including cnn.com, money.com, cartoonnetwork.com, nba.com, si.com, ncaa.com, and nascar.com. Additionally she led a software development team focusing on content feeds for CNN.com mobile applications.Vicki spent seventeen years at Turner in various roles, including Senior Director of Data Center Operations, Director of Application Support, Director of Core Services, Manager of Application Support, and Unix Administrator. She served as Systems Integration Chief for several CNN.com initiatives, most notably the CNN.com Relaunch, Elections Coverage and iReport.com launch. Prior to Turner, Vicki worked in technical roles for the U.S. Air Force and TheraTX.Vicki holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Mississippi State University. She is a member of Women in Cable Telecommunications, Women In Technology, and Webmonsters. Vicki is a member of the WICT Rising Leader Class 5, a graduate of WIT Executive Readiness, and a graduate of Time Warner’s Leadership Edge. She was the 2011 recipient of WICT's Rising Star Award.
Nerds Tending Lawns
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RetiredNerds Tending Lawns Sep 2024 - Present
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Vice President Of EngineeringMailchimp Oct 2020 - Sep 2024Atlanta, Ga, Us -
Senior Director Of EngineeringMailchimp Sep 2017 - Sep 2020Atlanta, Ga, Us
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Director Of Ops ArchitectureMailchimp May 2017 - Sep 2017Atlanta, Ga, Us
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Head Of Systems EngineeringKabbage, Inc Oct 2014 - Apr 2017Atlanta, Georgia, UsResponsible for both corporate and platform infrastructure and supporting systems, including the company Information Security Program. Stabilized both the corporate and platform infrastructure by introducing the right amount of process and rigor in the right places. Brought in tools such as Chef to begin automating systems builds, Datadog and App Dynamics APM to provide monitoring and application performance metrics, ElasticSearch/Logstash/ Kibana for log aggregation, and Tenable Nessus for vulnerability scanning. Implemented scrum, utilizing Jira, to manage work, creating predictability when work would be completed and increasing team efficiency. Deployed infrastructure in a co-lo and at AWS, utilizing traditional VMs and Docker containers. Supported Hadoop for our data scientists. Revamped the Akamai Site Accelerator configurations to implement web caching best practices. -
Senior Director, News DevelopmentTurner Broadcasting System Jun 2012 - Oct 2014Atlanta, Georgia, UsIn addition to managing the team below, championed the revitalization of a struggling development team. Team was responsible for content feeds for CNN.com mobile applications and for integrating Zite on CNN.com. Established SCRUM cadence with the product owner and development team. Introduced backlog grooming, mid-sprint reviews, and demos to stakeholders. Hired a QA resource. Built development/test environments to improve quality of code delivered. In 6 months, reduced cycle time on requests, reduced defects, quadrupled team velocity, and increased team morale. Our efforts were recognized by being tasked with architecting and implementing the first Content API for CNN to allow structured access to CNN.com content. -
Senior Director, Systems Design And EngineeringTurner Broadcasting System Jun 2010 - Jun 2012Atlanta, Georgia, UsLed the strategic direction of platform systems design and engineering for Turner-family websites. Championed a closer alignment between development and operations teams, helping to increase development velocity, reduce rework, and design repeatable, sustainable, scalable architectures for use across multiple sites. Spearheaded the development of an automated application platform deployment system that utilized Chef as a building block. Introduced New Relic for application performance metrics. Led the department preparations for the 2012 Presidential elections; established bursting capabilities from our data centers to AWS to ensure we had capacity.
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Senior Director, Data Center OperationsTurner Broadcasting System May 2008 - Jun 2010Atlanta, Georgia, UsSet and implemented the strategic direction of website serving ranging from data center space down to server, storage, and networking hardware for Turner-family websites. Managed Network Engineering, Server Operations, 24 x 7 Operations center teams, along with Chief Engineers. Initiated replacement of internally developed configuration management system with Open Source Puppet. Oversaw the build-out of an additional data center for increased capacity and redundancy. Led the re-architecture of multiple applications to take advantage of this additional redundancy.
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Chief, Systems IntegrationTurner Broadcasting System Feb 2007 - May 2008Atlanta, Georgia, UsServed as a technical consultant on large-scale projects within DMT to ensure that the business needs were being met using appropriate, sustainable, and reusable technology solutions. Served as the operations architect for ireport.com and a CNN.com relaunch effort.
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Director, Application SupportCnn Jan 2006 - Feb 2007Atlanta, UsManaged two application support teams responsible for operating and maintaining applications for the Turner family of websites and for the CNN digital library archive. Technologies used included BEA Weblogic, IMB MQ, Anystream, apache, Sun One, Netscape, and tomcat. -
Director, Core ServicesCnn Aug 2004 - Jan 2006Atlanta, UsResponsible for server architecture, network architecture, and operations/support of the infrastructure for the Turner family websites. Managed Network Engineering, Server Operations, Internal Application Support, and 24 x 7 Operations Center teams.
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Director, Internal ProductionCnn Nov 2000 - Aug 2004Atlanta, UsEstablished a team of systems engineers supporting the applications used to create/publish content for CNN, SI, Money, and NASCAR websites. Applications included the content management system (CORBA, BEA Weblogic), structured data system (IBM MQ), and AnyStream and Real Networks systems used to encode and stream video for the websites. The team was also responsible for the digital library archive supporting the CNN Library and Research.
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Manager, Unix OperationsTurner Broadcasting Systems 1999 - Nov 2000Atlanta, Georgia, UsManaged a team of systems engineers responsible for the worldwide support of Unix (Sun Solaris, HP-UX, SGI IRIX) servers for corporate payroll and HR, DNS, email gateways, firewalls, intranet and servers hosting cnn.com, si.com, fn.com, and money.com. Also, functioned as a Systems Engineer.
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Unix Systems EngineerTurner Broadcasting Systems Aug 1997 - 1999Atlanta, Georgia, UsResponsible for the worldwide Unix (Sun Solaris, HP-UX, SGI IRIX) servers for corporate payroll and HR, DNS, email gateways, firewalls, and intranet, and for cnn.com.
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Systems EngineerTheratx Jul 1996 - Aug 1997Supported wide area network, corporate file servers, corporate payroll and HR servers, DNS, email gateways, firewall. Supported Lotus Notes, Novell file servers, HP-UX, Solaris, and NT file servers. Configured Cisco routers to deploy to nursing homes and rehab centers to connect them to our WAN.
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Quality Assuance EvaluatorAir Force May 1995 - Jul 1996Randolph Afb, Tx, UsOversight of company contracted to provide computer training, computer repair, base switchboard operations, base networking, and flight simulators. Handled contract re-write and renewal process. Investigated complaints and conducted inspections to ensure contract compliance. Served as the Squadron systems engineer, responsible for base email gateway and squadron file servers. Led a team of squadron members in wiring 3 buildings on base for network access.
Vicki Bodman Education Details
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Mississippi State UniversityComputer Science -
Mississippi State UniversityMathematics
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Northshore High School
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Vicki Bodman attended Mississippi State University, Mississippi State University, Northshore High School.
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