Windermere, Florida, United States
A highly technical leader with over 20 years in the IT industry. Experience across IT operations, technical infrastructure and application development. Focused on providing solutions that truly meet business needs and drive innovation. Understands the importance of relationships and influence and how to leverage both to build consensus and drive quality deliverables across multiple teams. A strategic thinker able to translate current business and technology trends into long range plans. An accomplished project lead with a history of on time and on budget project execution. Key areas of strength include: aligning business goals and technology solutions, organizational change management, motivating and empowering individuals to achieve objectives, mentoring, relationship building, prioritization and the ability to translate technical concepts and ideas to a non-technical audience.
Responsible for product strategy and delivery for third-party applications and in-house developed security tools supporting all segments of The Walt Disney Company.
Product Manager for cloud infrastructure. Responsible for architecture of solutions to enable SRE teams to build and manage infrastructure. One manager with a team of 6. Delivered infrastructure as code approach using Terraform across AWS, Azure, and Google Implementation and maintenance of Terraform solutions for: Object storage: AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage Compute: AWS EC2, AWS Auto Scaling groups, Azure VM, Azure VM Scale Sets, AWS Batch, AWS Fargate, Azure AppService, AWS Lambda Container management: AWS ECS, Rancher-based Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine Load balancing: AWS ELB/ALB/NLB, AWS Route53, Azure DNS, Azure Application Gateway, GCP Cloud Load Balancer Shared Storage: AWS EFS, AWS AFX Block Storage: AWS EBS, Azure Disk Storage CDN: AWS CloudFront Backup: AWS Backup, Azure Recovery Service Vaults Function-as-a-Service: AWS Lambda API Gateway: AWS API Gateway, Google Apigee Batch Processing: AWS Batch Collaboration with our security and finance partners to ensure that our solutions meet and exceed our security standard and enable reporting on billing details. Architected the Disney Experience (DX) Cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to provide consistent, internal managed services across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Product Manager over the operational data landscape: Database: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MariaDB, MongoDB, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Aurora MySQL Cache: AWS ElastiCache, Redis Search: AWS OpenSearch, AWS ElasticSearch, Elastic Cloud Messaging: AWS SNS, AWS SQS, RabbitMQ Event Streaming: Apache Kafka One manager with a team of 8 with variable contract resources. Introduction of MongoDB as a go-forward data store solution for web and mobile applications.. Building of an API for provisioning to enable our partners in the database operations team to self-service. Rollout of Liquibase to allow application teams to manage their database schema within their CI/CD pipeline. Introduction of Ditto for mobile database synchronization supporting both Cast- and Guest-facing solutions Delivery of Kubernetes-based architecture for RabbitMQ Delivery of Kubernetes-based architecture for Apache Kafka
Owner of the strategic road map for application monitoring, service management, and report distribution. The four member team provided operational support for: - IBM Tivoli/Netcool OMNIbus - Dell Foglight Application Performance Monitoring - CA Service Desk Manager - xMatters - CA Workload Automation (AutoSys) - ASG-Cypress Suite
Owner of the strategic road map for application middleware and developer tools. Accountable for Software Quality Assurance and overall testing strategy with two team members focused in this space; performed 180+ audits of 38 projects in 2014. Supported multiple integration testing events for new market and expansion facility startups. Responsible for the identification and evaluation of new technology solutions for application development and middleware with two team members focused in this space. Major research and development efforts for 2014 included: - Big Data, specifically how to use technologies like Hadoop to improve the overall speed of integrating new business units. - Application Platform, specifically Cloud Foundry, and how microservices architecture could improve supportability and reliability. - Front-end build tooling, including evaluations of Grunt, Gulp, Broccoli, and dependent technologies to support SOFEA application development. Designed and executed the security and patching process for all third-party application development software libraries. Supported the Director of Infrastructure in long range planning for all infrastructure domains. A five member sub-team provided operational support for: - Application Server (Oracle WebLogic, Apache Tomcat) - Directory Server (Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition) - Web Server (Apache HTTPD) - Business-to-Business (B2B) integration software (GXS Enterprise Gateway, GXS Application Integrator) - Identity Federation (Novell/NetIQ Access Manager) - Developer tools (Subversion, Eclipse, Atlassian FishEye, Atlassian Crucible, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, Apache Maven, Jenkins, Sonatype Nexus) - Testing and Quality tools (Sonar, Sauce Labs, JUnit, Selenium, JMeter) - Third-party software libraries (Spring, Hibernate, Apache Struts 2, AngularJS) Continued responsibilities as the Chair of the Application Architecture Council.
Systems Architect and Team Lead for the Application Services team. The team supports the mission-critical middleware and development tools including: Application Server (Oracle WebLogic, Apache Tomcat), Directory Server (Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition), Web Server (Apache HTTPD), Business-to-Business (B2B) integration software (GXS Enterprise Gateway, GXS Application Integrator), developer productivity tools (Subversion, Eclipse, Atlassian FishEye, Atlassian Crucible, Sonar, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA) and software libraries (Spring, Hibernate, Apache Struts 2). Responsible for ensuring that all tools meet security standards. I was responsible for task prioritization and workload assignment for the tool support team. Lead the team that researched and selected the new application platform for Gordon Food Service. Lead a proof of concept (POC) for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Member of the Gold Club. The highest aware at Gordon Food Service for individual achievement. Member of the Technical Engineering Council which is responsible for reviewing projects to ensure they meet technical architecture standards. Chair of the Application Architecture council which is responsible for setting application architecture standards, reviewing new technology and providing overall strategic application architecture direction. Founded and Chaired the JIRA Advisory Group, a cross functional group that reviewed and suggested changes to the Atlassian JIRA environment.