Director of IT Resume Evanston, IL - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Accomplished technical executive providing DevOps, QA and modern IT services. Extensive background in system architecture, system implementation, support, construction and operation of top tier enterprise data centers, talent development and delivery of new technologies.
Team leadership
Strong troubleshooting skills
Strategic thinking
Implementation of new technologies and evolving standards
Windows and Linux operations Windows and Linux operations
Systemic Security Windows and Linux operations
NIST - FISMA
Amazon Web Services

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Evanston, IL

Director of IT

Responsibilities:

Expanded the company’s AWS utilization Confidential basic EC2 installations to include CloudFormation, S3, Route 53, AWS Services, RDS, Elasticache, SES, SQS, SNS, IAM, Cloudtrail
Built two enterprise departments - IT Operations and DevOps Engineering as the company’s first efforts in these functional areas
Led efforts to reduce dependence upon internal compute capacity in favor of dynamic processing delivery through cloud services
Led team to deliver the company’s first successful CI/CD implementation
Cooperatively led all Scrum teams to adoption of recommended ‘gitflow’ development processes
Drove efforts to identify software defects earlier in the delivery process using Automated Testing techniques with using Cucumber and Headless
Recruited and staffed a team of 4 Software Engineers, 1 Internal Services engineer, 6 Quality Assurance Technicians
Responsible for implementation of Bimodal IT and ITSM models for Incident and Problem Management of internal and customer facing systems

Confidential, Evanston, IL

Director - Enterprise Solutions Engineering Group

Responsibilities:

Lead team and develop scripts for integration of International Human Resources data streams into Active Directory, Exchange 2007 infrastructures
Manager of team of 8 Windows and Messaging engineers, technical lead for Enterprise services cross-platform
Built team as its first employee, developed engineering framework from which rest of the department was built and developed
Team achieved impressive annualized operational savings of approximately $8M deferred per annum.
Incident Manager for all Windows based Enterprise applications, internal and customer facing
Developed virtual machine hosting system for desktops to house disparate OS, non-Internet connected versions of leading digital products
Coordinated efforts between U.S. based engineers, developers in Ireland and India as well as coordinating support services with Off-shore service providers
Directed SAML 2 SSO integration for consumption by employees, contractors, Off-shore services, MSPs and public identities
Lead Architecture team to deliver first Enterprise instances of VDI technology
Daily operations of Messaging and Federated IM platform to service International and Domestic business needs including secure Instant Messaging services to partner organizations