HELLO

I am a technologist with 25 years of progressive experience guiding teams of top-level enterprise architects, business analysts, developers and engineers. I can rock the console and talk business. I have always strived for a hand on the keyboard and a voice in the conference room.

COMPETENCIES

Strategic Planning: Translate business strategy to technology investment roadmaps.

Enterprise Architecture: Grow a practice to transform business, information, and technology.

Technical Acumen: Possess a broad range of tool, platform and pattern knowledge.

Data Analysis: Transform siloed data into actionable information packages.

Visualization: Design insightful graphics for the boardroom or the workbench.

Financial Management: Optimize capital and operating budgets.

Public Speaking: Lead discussions from the front or back of the room.

Service Management: Customize industry frameworks to design services and governance.

Project Management: Initiate, plan, execute, and control large scale and long-term initiatives.

Negotiating: Discover win-win positions that maximize value.

Estimating: Provide stochastic and deterministic forecasts and projections.

CAREER

Recreational Equipment, Inc. | Seattle, WA | 2016 - 2023
Platform Engineering Domain Architect (2021 - 2023)

o Focused on API gateways, event driven architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud foundations.

o Worked with engineers toward integration architecture, developer platforms, and cloud adoption.

o Launched external API gateway for partner and customer facing integrations.

o Started the journey toward Kubernetes, Kafka and a developer portal (Backstage).

o Contributed to application rationalization and migration readiness for datacenter deprecation.

Infrastructure Domain Architect (2016 - 2021)

Developed roadmaps, conceptual architectures, and logical architectures to support strategic initiatives and tactical projects related to compute, network, storage, identity, database, middleware and security.

o Worked with infrastructure engineers on data center, cloud, and edge compute, network storage, database, middleware.

o Helped realize $1m/yr in savings and 99.999% network availability through SDWAN design.

o Participated in DevOps and DevSecOps transformation of a traditional infrastructure team.

Alaska USA Federal Credit Union | Anchorage, AK | 2011 - 2016
IT Infrastructure Planning Manager (2014 - 2016)

o Ran a team of high competency enterprise architects, business analysts and engineers through strategic planning and design. Realized architectural vision across an IT department of 200 FTE.

o Slashed telecommunications costs by 30% by investing in SDWAN. Slowed telecom expense growth rate from exponential to linear with WAN optimization.

o Cut recovery time objectives from hours to minutes through the systematic implementation of VMWare site recovery manager, processes, and automation. Also reduced personnel requirements for disaster response and recovery.

o Transformed traditional technology monitoring to business-centric monitoring by leveraging enterprise architecture model data. Showed business process health instead of technology widget health. Brought monitoring dashboards to the C-suite.

o Developed capacity and lifecycle management programs that can define non-discretionary projects and forecast annual capital budgets.

o Negotiated up to 60% discounts on products and services. Leverage structured RFI/RFP practices, term commitments, total cost of ownership and/or industry price benchmarks.

IT Operations Risk Supervisor (2012 - 2014)

o Grew a team of technical and business analysts to develop an enterprise architecture practice. Bootstrapped the practices' capabilities to drive enterprise business initiatives.

Enterprise Architect (2011 - 2012)

o Performed enterprise architecture, technical analysis, business process analysis and business continuity.

o Focused on establishing IT portfolio and artifacts from zero to baseline. Established first target and transitional architectures.

University of Alaska Anchorage | Anchorage, AK | 1997 - 2011
Software Engineering Manager (2006 - 2011)

Software Engineer (2002 - 2006)

Helpdesk Manager (2001 - 2002)

Helpdesk Technician (1997 - 2001)

Sleepless Tech | Anchorage, AK | 1997 - 2016

Sole Proprietorship Owner (1997 - 2016)

o Moonlit for small business IT consulting, contracting, and system administration.

o Deconstructed "Big IT" concepts into agile approaches for smaller organizations.

CREDENTIALS

University of Alaska Anchorage | Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (2006)

Haschicorp Terraform | Associate (2019)

Haschicorp Vault | Associate (2019)

AWS Solutions Architect | Associate (2017)

VMWare Certified Professional | VCP 3 - 6 (2008 - 2015) and VCP-NV (2015)

Enterprise Architect | TOGAF Foundation v9 (2014)

IT Service Management | ITIL Foundation v2 (2007) and ITIL Foundation v3 (2008)

TECHNOLOGY

Windows, Linux, Active Directory, Virtualization, Terraform, Vault, Docker, Kubernetes, Java, C, Perl, Bash, Batch, Typescript, Git, PowerShell, SQL, Azure, AWS, Kafka, Apigee, Architecture modeling tools, Diagramming tools

BUT WAIT, THERE IS MORE

I have broad interests by nature. I deep dive when necessary or fascinated. I think I got that from growing up on a homestead in New Mexico or maybe it was forging a life in Alaska. I code on pet projects. I enjoy the outdoors. I love hiking up mountains and camping with my family. I have been known to expedition camp a mile above sea level, belly crawl a half mile into an old mine dragging a sled over ice formations, and spend weeks on a boat fishing. I enjoy working with my hands. I make beautiful and practical things in my home workshop. I bake sourdough and cook amazing meals. I can fix about anything on a house or car. I read books, mostly IT, leadership, how-to, sci-fi/fantasy, and the occasional biography. I love learning new things and keeping busy. I am enjoying passing that passion and knowledge on to my two children.