SUMMARY:

• An Innovative, highly effective, highly motivated and Energetic Information Technology Executive with
• Proven track record in providing technical hands - on leadership on construction of AWS cloud-based strategies and information systems using Cloud Foundry, Terraform, and AWS/Azure services.
• Analyze complex business needs presented by the user community and recommend technical roadmap to leadership.
• Define, design, and implement DevOps solutions and continuous improvement on multiple highly visible projects.
• Coordinating Security testing and pen-test for apps and databases.
• Proven track record in providing technical hands-on leadership on construction of AWS cloud-based strategies and information systems using Cloud Foundry, Terraform, and AWS/Azure services.
• In depth experience in DevOps practices using Jenkins, Groovy, GitHub, Git-Stash, Docker, and coordinating continuous release CI/CD and Blue/Green deployment practices.
• Scrum Master and Product Owner following Agile and Lean methodology. Functioning as Service Delivery Manager in large-scale projects.
• Maintains key performance metrics (KPI) in alignment with strategic objectives and financials set by senior management. promoting best practices and working as a liaison with IT Governance and compliance to comply with all standards.
• Ability to influence, negotiate and build relationships with internal and external customers. High attention to detail and the drive to deliver excellent result.
• Coordinating and supervising end-to-end Enterprise level application development and deployment by following industry Open Source and standard practices such as, Information Security, ITIL and following with Operations on defining SLAs, continuity (DR) and complying with Audit, Data Integration, Governance and Security concerns.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, time management and organizational skills. Insight in innovative solution methodologies and assets around infrastructure and Cloud platform.
• Manage operations by directing and coordinating activities consistent with established goals, objectives, and policies. 24x7 production support for infrastructure components including servers, storage, network, data centers and related services. Tracking and closure of service and change management requests.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Business/Portfolio

Program & Product Management

Systems/Tech

Business Intelligence & Analytics

Agile & Lean Methodologies

Cloud Computing AWS & Azure

Systems Integration

Strategic Planning & Direction

Microservices Architecture

Contracts Negotiation

End to End Product Development

Migration (CloudEndure)

Regulatory, SOX, PCI & HIPAA Compliance

Systems Development & Lifecycle

Container Creation (Docker)

Budgeting & Forecasting (Capex & Opex)

Twelve-Factor App Methodology

Orchestration (Kubernetes, Mesos)

Vendor Cost and Resource Analysis

Pair Programming

Cloud Foundry

Outsourcing/Vendor Management

Operations

CI/CD Automation (Jenkins)

POS Management and Deployment

Data Center Operations

Registry Services (JFrog Artifactory)

Management

Mission Critical Operations

SKILL:

Recruit Staff, Mentorship Process & Workflow Improvement

SQL, Oracle, MariaDB, MySQL, NoSQL

Resource & Performance Management

Disaster Recovery & Testing

C/C++, Go, JavaScript, Java, R

Merger & Acquisition

Endto: end product development

Big Data, Spark, Kafka

EXTRA & SKILLS:

Strong knowledge of: Infrastructure, application development, number of programming languages, database design and operational management experience. SQL, Oracle, MariaDB, MySQL, NoSQL, C/C++, Go, JScript, R, Angular, Java, Spring, Pair Programming, Big Data, Spark, and Kafka.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential - Westlake, Texas

IT Director - Data Conversion and Implementation

Responsibilities:

• Managing a team of 40 SAS and Java Developers, Engineers and System Analysts, directs and controls their activities.
• Functions as a technical PM and as a Subject Matter Expert closely involved in defining Architectural frameworks and product scalability, end-to-end SaaS implementation for application services.
• Evaluating and selecting cloud platforms such as Cloud Foundry as standard PaaS.
• Streamlining big data and analytics to Investment management group.
• Utilizing Open Source Angular, Spring for web apps and API development.
• Collaborating with compliance, InfoSec team, and internal stakeholders to define, build, audit, and maintain a secure and compliant environment for all internal systems, IT policies, data and data privacy policies.
• Experience with container creation and orchestration Docker and Kubernetes. Worked with Operations to define support, SLA and DR criterion.

Confidential, Madison, Wisconsin

IT Sr. Director

Responsibilities:

• Lead Infrastructure and Operations
• Led and directed core infrastructure teams 75 FTE and contractors (Network Engineering, Telecom/VoIP Engineering, Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Data Management and Database Engineering, and Interface Engineering). Consolidated and combined both organizations infrastructure.
• Coordinated a major Epic upgrade from Epic with all infrastructure and clinical teams.
• Acted as an interim CTO (Nov. ’14 - Sept. ’15) during the process of selecting a new CTO. Worked closely with the two organizations (MF & HC) finance team to forecast upcoming combined projects as well as the initiatives to speed up the organizational consolidation.
• Standardization of storage and server platforms to a single brand to reduce annual maintenance and streamline support engagement with vendors.
• Combined Epic platforms from both organizations into a single Citrix platform.
• Acted as the main point of contact for all technological implementations for the new hospital Hospital.
• Utilizing Azure AD and office 365 Migrating of UW Medical Foundation and Confidential and Clinics.
• Implemented a Secure Computing on premise cloud platform for the School of Medicine and researchers.
• Implemented VBlock 540 and 120 TB of EMC XtremIO storage. This platform provided a self-provisioning computing platform using VMware VRealize for all clinical R&D.
• Migrated all NetBackup and Commvault appliances to AWS Glacier.

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

IT Director - Global Databases and Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 21 DBAs and Database modelers servicing Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
• Directed the effort of IT production services to follow enterprise architecture frameworks to implement an entirely a new system for money transfer and payments services.
• Defined B2B and B2C requirements and specs.
• Functioned as a program manager for multiple systems integration into a single platform from various acquisitions.
• Closely worked with WU newly formed innovation center in San Francisco to implement 150 node clusters for big data Cloudera Hadoop, and mobile development.
• Proven ability to partner with business leaders to understand the business processes, IT Architecture, operational issues and create technical solutions to optimize and scale business strategy.
• Worked closely with SFO Development and Design team members to create a new eWallet for the future state of the art platform and ecommerce.
• Evaluation and purchase of EMC VMAX and VNX for new storage systems in primary and secondary datacenters.
• Critical transactional systems updated to utilize Golden Gate for near real-time replication and active-active models for zero down time for money transfer systems.
• Implemented Fusion ION for highly IO bound transactional databases for money transfer systems.
• Closely engaged with the process team on addressing Incident Management and Problem Management issues.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Vice President - Global Data Operations

Responsibilities:

• Directed the efforts of a team of 15 DBAs, DB Developers and Designers located in Europe, Asia and North America for operation and production services.
• Functioned as Service delivery manager for Treasury and Security Services (TSS).
• Data Warehouse Architecture, ETL design and development utilizing Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
• Designed and developed Personal Trust Management (PTM) software for the Private Banking.