Xtravar Group

Provide fractional technology strategy and leadership, align technology priorities with business strategic vision, mentor teams and drive outcomes.

Engagements:
- CTIO (insurance industry)
- Consultant (payment and fraud industry)
- Data Advisor (partner consulting group)

Founder and Chief Fractional

Liberty Rent

Fractional CTIO

Cupalo

Domain expert engaging in conversations with talented individuals on career and industry.

Member of The Cupalo Curatorium

Nelson Executive Coaching LLC

Member of the Board of Advisors

Optum

Senior Principal Architect

Strategic Education, Inc

Advisor to the CTO

VP IT Operations & Chief Information Security Officer

Bluestem Brands, Inc.

Vice President, Infrastructure and Operations

Sr. Director Infrastructure, Network, End User and Operations

Responsible for database, unix, windows, and hosting engineering teams as well as a fully redundant and industry leading operations center team. Core hosting technologies: storage (XIV, A9000 and NetApp), compute (Cisco, HP, Dell), AS400 (iSeries/IBMi), VMware and AWS. Core server and database technologies: Windows (2003 - 2016), Linux (redHat, Centos) and Database (Postgres, MSSQL and Oracle). 

Leader of Agile and DevOps methodologies, disciplines and tooling throughout the infrastructure engineering teams. Led several organizational transformations driving infrastructure teams towards a new level of partnership and proximity to application development engineering teams. Promoted a culture of mentorship and experimentation. Brought a software engineering mindset and concepts to an infrastructure team at the inflection point of Infrastructure As Code (IaC). 

Fostered a culture of automation throughout the infrastructure space resulting in a significant decrease in time to deliver infrastructure to application engineering teams and business users.

Manage vendor relationships, contract negotiations an overall budget. Accountable for regulatory compliance and multiple successful audits (SOC, SOX and PCI).

Sr. Director, Infrastructure Engineering and Operations

Responsible for server delivery and engineering support of Unix and Windows physical and virtual servers. Responsible for DevOps tooling such as logging, monitoring, dash-boarding and infrastructure automation. Leader of Agile into DevOps methodologies in an infrastructure context. 

Responsible for the 24x7x365 operational stability and monitoring for a $2B organization. Led the effort to build a state of the art Operations Center with application centric dashboards and a high attention to running the business. Continued the development of the team into higher level operations and functions enabling engineering teams to focus on engineering. Continued the development of an internal talent pool if highly skilled and motivated analysts resulting the promotion of several people into the engineering teams.

Maintained a budget for tooling, keeping inline with organization needs both from a technology and a financial perspective.

Led the effort to integrate two $1B companies at the infrastructure level resulting in a geographically redundant Operations Center and server teams responsible for the combined windows and linux servers. Operations Center and Server teams manage data center, warehouse, office site and cloud servers.

Director IT, DevOps & Operation Center

Lead architect on several projects including a customer opt-in protection program, an Oracle inventory and planning system and a distributed architecture price service. 

Defined and promoted patters of monitoring, logging, testing and system design. Promoted system engineering design principles of domain driven, bounded context, defensive programming and fault tolerance. Advocate of agile methodologies in software development. Led traditional .NET development into Java / NoSQL stack.

Technologies: ZooKeeper, Riak, Apache open source frameworks, Oracle, WebLogic, MSSQL, .NET (C#, ASPX, VB)

Principal Technical Architect

Best Buy

Built an enterprise application for automated data endpoint monitoring ensuring data integrity between enterprise and store systems.  Application included scheduled auditing, e-mail notification, multiple data endpoint capabilities (Oracle, SQL, File systems, etc.) and an ASP.NET application (Web API) for users to interact with the application in a safe and controlled manner.

Built an MVC 3.0 site for non-production environment data display helping to ensure non-technical users are able to understand the status of their environment at any given time.  System included a generic distributed component used to display device specific information.

Improved process definition for the requirements portion of Application Life-cycle Maintenance.

Manager, IT Technical Lead

Target

Technical lead for Point-of-Sale portfolios comprised of centralized and distributed systems, multiple technologies and multiple application suites.  Lead and design projects, consulted with business clients, led contractors and coordinated software release cycles.  

Technical lead for two guest facing programs resulting in increased sales traffic and larger guest basket sizes.
•	Technical Lead for multiple high-impact projects for Point-of-Sale systems.
•	Developed a foundation poised for multiple year and platform growth.
•	Technical Expert for multiple systems spanning several business platforms.
•	Led multiple development teams spanning multiple global locations.
•	Interacted with multiple internal and external business clients to provide technical guidance.
•	Key contact for production support and issue resolution.

Engineer, Guest Facing Systems (Point-of-Sale)
Designed and implemented several promotional offer projects offering increased shopping incentives to guests.  Developed integrated software solutions between Point-of-Sale and back office systems to drive employee efficiency and optimize workflows.
•	Participated in multiple efforts to drive documentation, knowledge sharing and process development.
•	Coded solutions to integrate with web services, both internal and external.

Senior Engineer, Domain Center of Excellence

Medtronic

Designed hardware and software test systems to perform automated testing of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators.  Designed and coded communication libraries to interface between implantable devices and external diagnostic equipment.  
•	Extended automated test architecture to enable 24/7 testing availability.
•	Built test fixtures to enable component level testing.
•	Led efforts to develop best practices in automated test development.
•	Created report generation tools for consistent device testing results

Senior Design Technician
Designed and coded automated tests in LabVIEW software for use in automated test architecture for device testing.  Troubleshoot and fix device test fixtures.  
•	Troubleshoot test setup issues.
•	Device failure analysis and troubleshooting.

Test Engineer, Device Hardware Test (DvT)

Eric is a Fractional Technology Leader, with over two decades of experience across the spectrum of Information Technology roles and across several industries.

Eric helps small to midsize organizations align their technology strategy to business outcomes, driving efficiency and enabling growth.

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