About Me
Established leader with proven track record in organizational management and rapid technical organizational growth; responsible for working with business and IT leaders to prioritize project requests and ensuring teams deliver functionally strong, sustainable solutions focused on cost, quality and speed.
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact professionally and build relationships with a diverse group of executives, managers, vendors and subject matter experts.
• Design and deliver solutions in a scalable, secure, effective and reusable manner following industry standard design patterns and standardized repeatable development practices.
• Partners with Executive Leadership to identify opportunities to use technology to increase revenue, gain strategic market advantage or differentiation, and/or gain operational efficiencies while maximizing value of team by aligning resources and available skills with higher priority initiatives.
• Lead and/or support project teams in solution conceptualization and design. Provide architecture assessments and recommendations on new initiatives of teams with various technical backgrounds with the ability to interact with senior leaders and adapt style as need for technical or non-technical audiences.
• Define strategic goals for the evolution and growth of the team; research and implement best practices, and foster a culture of continuous improvement by recruiting, motivating, and developing a superior team of tech experts.
• Assists in the evaluation of third party and vendor provided software and service offerings, while managing scope, deliverables and cost of third party services, ensuring they follow development standards and deliver quality solutions.
Personal Info
- Name
- Russ Mittler
- Location
- West Palm Beach, FL
- russ@russmittler.com
- phone
- 954-495-1582
Languages
English
Native
Spanish
Fluent
Professional Skills
AWS
Azure
DevOps
SQL Server
Security
Professional Skills
PowerShell
VMWare
Photoshop
CLI
SDLC
Skills
- 20+ years of Engineering experience/ 15+ years DevOps Experience in a Leadership position.
- Experience setting-up and configuring AWS services, including VPC/EC2, RDS, Redshift, S3, DynamoDB, NLB/ALB, WorkSpaces. CICD pipelines with CodeCommit/Deploy, EKS/ECS, Fargate.
- Experience configuring and deploying to Azure, Azure DevOps (creating pipelines, CI/CD), AutomationRunbooks, PowerShell DSC, PowerBI, AKS (Kubernetes), Logic/Webapps, Keyvault, ARM templates.
- Hands-on technical manager and leader with prior success in automating a real-world production environment, and experience managing and building teams.
- Expertise administering/optimizing relational databases, i.e., MSSQL/MySQL/Oracle (Learning MongoDB).
- Expertise with Visual Studio, .NET, PHP, TFS, SVN, GIT, CI/CD pipelines, TeamCity, Atlassian Suite.
- Solid understanding of networked/distributed computing environments/concepts, routing and switching.
- Expertise with virtual technologies, i.e., Hyper-V, VMWare (vMotion, DRS/SRM).
Skills
- Strong practical Linux systems administration skills in a Cloud or virtualized environments.
- Strong scripting skills, i.e., PowerShell/PowerCLI/TSQL/Bash/Python (Learning Ruby)
- Strong preference in proactive infrastructure management instead of firefighting.
- Experience acting as Scrum Master and following Agile best practices such as sprint planning, scrums, grooming, demos and retrospectives.
- Experience delivering infrastructure as code through technologies such as Docker, CloudFormation, Terraform.
- Experience in IP networking, VPN’s, DNS, load balancing (Netscaler/F5) and firewall configuration (Palo/Cisco).
- Experience with configuration management tools like Octopus Deploy, Chef, Jenkins.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools like AWS CloudWatch, Solar Winds, AppDynamics, Grafana.
- Experience with Disaster recovery planning, design and implementation.
- Expertise with all Apple products and Apple Mobile App Development process (TestFlight/Android Studio).
Professional Experience
2021 - Present
Vestmark
Manager, Cloud Engineering
SaaS based FinTech with $1.5 trillion AUM; hands-on Product Owner and leader of Cloud Engineering team, responsible for developing cloud adoption/migration strategy, infrastructure as code (IaC) and automated deployment of services/applications to AWS Cloud. Successful implementation of fully automated CI/CD pipeline, including single button push-to-deploy, testing/security scanning for all releases reducing deployments from 3 days to 2 hours. Led AWS cost optimization initiative to save org costs.
- Evaluate business needs and priorities, liaise with key stakeholders and address the needs related to cloud development and operations.
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications; define and gather details, definitions, and success criteria.
- Partner with senior management on the vision for cloud engineering.
- Provide a roadmap of the major milestones, deliverables, resource requirements, and risks. • Build a test framework for cloud development and surpass quality targets.
2021 - 2021
Director, Cloud Infrastructure/Service Operations/DevOps
RenPSGHands-on leader, developing strategy, including policies, procedures, tools and metrics to align the infrastructure and service operations teams with RenPSG’s strategic goals. Lead the planning, design, and implementation of enterprise-level infrastructure and services deployed into Azure Cloud environment. Responsible for overseeing the internal infrastructure, cloud infrastructure and operations as well the service operations team.
- Define and implement policies, procedures, and best practices.
- Liaise with CIO and other leaders to identify, recommend, develop and implement cost-effective technology solutions.
- Provide senior level expertise on decisions and priorities regarding the overall cloud design, implementation, operational strategy, consumption and optimization opportunities.
- Operate as an internal subject matter expert on cloud infrastructure strategy and best practices.
- Establish and implement processes for the ongoing proactive management and maintenance of cloud solution infrastructure.
2014 - 2021
Sr. Manager, Infrastructure Ops/DevOps
ABB Optical GroupStarted as Senior Systems engineer and moved up to Senior Manager, leading a team of 16 infrastructure/DevOps engineers of a $2BN+ enterprise with over 1200 servers; including Exchange clusters, SQL clusters, VMWare clusters, Web/API farms and various other servers to run the enterprise. Led 4 DevOps Engineers and 4 developers. Refined the SDLC process and developed processes to ensure successful continuous deployments using TFS/Jenkins/Octopus Deploy/Nuget. Designed and implemented multiple complex environments for Dev, QA, UAT and various project environments. Acting DBA, managing multiple SQL server clusters encompassing 2008-2016. Designed, implemented and migrated all 2008 SQL physical SQL servers onto virtual 2016 SQL servers using AlwaysOn Availability with over 200 databases.
- Managed/Led conversion 2008 SQL Cluster to SQL 2016 AlwaysOn for entire enterprise.
- Led team to successful large-scale Oracle upgrade
- Act as architect on complex projects following standard frameworks, TOGAF.
- Manage multiple engineers (16+) responsible for 900+ servers on VMWare and Azure Cloud Arch
- Manage clustered Citrix NetScaler load balancers. • Designed and Wrote PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts for automation of tasks.
- Manage Azure DevOps, SVN, GIT, Jenkins & Octopus Deploy/Nuget for CI/CD, SDLC process.
Education
2002 - 2006
Bachelor of Political Science
Florida Atlantic UniversityCertifications
2021
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2020
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2020
Azure Solutions Architect
2019
Azure Fundamentals
Interests
FAQ
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