Bill Brook Email & Phone Number

Dayton, Oh, Us

Blue Ash, Ohio, United States

Kroger Health & Wellness is one of America’s leading retail healthcare organization, with 2,300 pharmacies and 11 specialty pharmacies, and 250 clinics. Our teammates care deeply about the technical side of operations and making sure that everything is running smoothly for over 22,000 healthcare professionals and 13 million customers. Our vision is to help people live healthier lives.DevSecOps: lead team to drive the development and use of Continous Integration/Continous Deployment (CI/CD), Drive public and private cloud patterns and standards with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation for 25+ development teams.Lead Security function to drive security policy and automation into CI/CD tooling to manage infrastructure and application vulnerabilities as well as lead the compliance function that has accountability for external healthcare vendor audits, internal process audits as well as coordinating healthcare certifications.Site Reliability engineering: lead a function that collaborates with product teams and architects to ensure operations visibility, resiliency, and standard deployment patterns into product design and development. Establish Disaster Recovery runbook and perform two live production failovers per year.Operations: Manage function by driving service management adoption and governance in Health and Wellness for functions including major incident, incident, change, and problem management.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Director, DevOps (Nov 2018-Present)As part of the senior leadership team, responsible for defining, implementing, and maintaining the company’s application portfolio environment. Set vision, direction and execution for architectural functions, solutions, and teams related to foundations of IT, architecture processes, and supporting tools.Director, Solution Architecture (2020)Partnered with application development executives to create a function that aligns efforts across the various technical architectural disciplines to develop innovative and appropriate solution designs that enable the delivery teams to implement best-in-class services to our business partners.Sr Enterprise Architect (2016-2019)In collaboration with the chief architect and CIO, partnered with business strategy teams to develop enterprise architecture roadmaps that are aligned with business strategies. Set vision, direction and execution for architectural functions, solutions, and teams related to foundations of IT, architecture processes, and supporting tools.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Senior Director, Information Technology Architecture | Enterprise Architecture (2010-2016)Managed information technology enterprise architecture practice including integrating infrastructure architecture into the enterprise architecture framework. Led a team of enterprise and solution architects with a budget of $1.5M. Responsible for the infrastructure strategy section of the RELX technology strategy. Delivered executive level communications.Director, Solution Architecture and Automation (2009-2010)Partnered with VP of technology to elevate design discipline to end to end solution architecture across all technology domains. Defined standards across the enterprise for solution development. Assessed gaps during solution architecture development to identify areas for automation.Additional RELX positions, 2001 - 2008Manager, Enterprise Service Design, Data Center Consolidation Lead | Manager of Enterprise Technology Support | Infrastructure Architect | Consulting Systems Engineer

Defined performance based objectives and quarterly performance reviews for team of eight engineers.Defined architecture for product hosting environment for application service provider hosting Exchange, Desktop Services via Citrix, Web services and Great Plains.Created and instituted operational model of hosting environment including defining on call procedures and maintenance windows.Provided pre-sales consulting and implementation services for customers for implementation of messaging, corporate web site, and accounting hosted applications.

LexisNexis, a division of ReedElsevierConsulted with development groups on architecture of web products on Microsoft IIS and Commerce Server and provide on call support for Production environment of 100+ Windows servers.Teamed with development, security and network groups to implement credit card billing infrastructure for multiple customer facing web sites using Microsoft Site Server Commerce application.

Client and server implementation and support for 5000 end users.