Brian Fullerton White
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Senior Information Technology Engineering Executive

Highly accomplished technical visionary and leader with record of leveraging in-depth technical acumen to provide creative business solutions to entities spanning a broad range of industries. Over 20 years of extensive experience in the Information Technology industry and acted as a highly successful executive level engineering director that is proven leader at building and leading a high performance IT organizations. An expert in the IT engineering field at delivering very cost-effective and high-performance technology solutions that exceed the business expectations. Solutions that integrate mission-critical business technologies that measurably contribute to business profitability improve work flow, pace of operations, and improve competitive posture for multiple Fortune 100 companies. Very skilled delivering application and infrastructure solutions in all phases of the project life cycle, from initial feasibility analysis to conceptual design through implementation and delivery. A diverse background with a reputation for developing operational excellence, leadership, innovation, results, execution, building strong team environments, creative problem solving, and outstanding customer service.

Skills

·          Strategic & Operational Technology Planning ·          Global IT Delivery & Data Center Operations ·          IT Organizational Leadership ·          IT Engineering & Implementation ·          Strategic Vision & Project Planning

·          Enterprise Architectures & Emerging Technologies ·          IT Skills Gap Analysis & Performance Optimization ·          Process & Efficiency Improvements ·          Project Portfolio Delivery Management ·         Technology & Business Linkage Planning

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Walmart Stores Incorporated – Bentonville, AR, 2012 – Present

Program Director – Infrastructure Engineering

Currently serving as the Program Director in the ISD Infrastructure Engineering technology organization. I ensure applications and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with company standards and practices. I lead a team of engineers that is responsible for the delivery of custom designs solutions and new product offering for internal and external customers to Walmart worldwide. My design team is a cutting edge technology team that is bringing new technology and enabling Walmart to save money and offer our customers a better service offering at a lower cost that gives Walmart a large competitive edge over its competitors. .  I lead the development and the adoption of Open Source standards that were implemented worldwide into a Cloud environment that resulted in 45% reduction of operating expenses across all corporate divisions. This lead to the development of high performing and lower costs solutions that leads directly to higher corporate profitability. I lead the effort to increase and optimize our U.S Data Centers and our Business Service Management infrastructure to allow our business to minimize service disruptions and increasing our overall operational efficiency. I strengthen the department leadership by leading the development of quality technology standards and practices across the division that leads to lower operating costs and better managed solutions that meet and exceed our customers’ expectations

 

 

 

 

 

Federal Home Loan Mortgage – Freddie Mac McLean, VA, 2010 – 2012

Director - IT Engineering

Served as the Director of Engineering for Middleware, Application Infrastructure Engineering, Security, Network, Database, Capacity and Storage Engineering. My staff consisted of 45+ individuals and was responsible for the design and build out of all infrastructure components across the enterprise. This included the detailed engineering designs, requirements definition delivery, the engineering assessments and the final provisioning of the infrastructure across all the regional data centers. I developed a very consistent delivery methodology process that reduced time to delivery and labor cost by 67% and resulted in a 48% reduction in total project/product delivery cost.

 

Ø       Served as executive leader for the Application Stability program that consisted of upgrading 200 + applications code and infrastructure. This $25 million dollar annual program uplifted legacy infrastructure and code to state of the art technologies. Which includes upgrading the middleware and database components to Oracle Weblogic 10.3.x, WebMethods 7.x, Apache 2.2.x, Tomcat 6.x and IBM DB2 9.7, Sybase 15.x, Oracle 11g R2,MS SQL Server 2008 R2, IBM Infosphere Datastage ETL and PowerCenter Informatica ETL.

 

Ø       Lead the effort to build out and renovate the firm’s Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW). This Data Warehouse is the 3^rd largest repository of PPI data stored in the United States. This program required the uplift of the infrastructure to support the enormous amount of increased traffic during the financial close out periods and annual growth.

 

Ø       Championed a server virtualizing development effort to transform and to reduce server costs/data center space. I successfully migrated over 800 physical servers to virtual VMware hosts. This effort provided large cost savings, decreased provisioning time, and built standard automated builds. This effort saved the firm over $3 million dollars annually in reduced maintenance and server costs.

 

Ø       Successfully delivered the companies first cloud computing presence that enabled our portal application to hosted and managed in the cloud environment in an offsite remote data center. This effort reduced the infrastructure foot print internally and reduced operating cost by $1.8 million dollars annually.

Nationwide Insurance Columbus, OH, 2001 – 2010

Director - IT Project Management

Directed full-lifecycle portfolio/program/project management capabilities for Information Technology projects across the corporate enterprise. Responsible for implementing/managing strategic planning, business case development, project/program definition, forecasting, work plans, schedules, resource management, and cost/benefit analysis. Established strategic partnerships/joint ventures and worked collaboratively with lines of business, architecture, engineering, operations, finance, and all operating divisions to determine portfolio delivery meets the Corporate IT strategies. This work was used to create an effective delivery mechanism to meet the corporate strategic goals. I directed and managed a team that consists of 35-50 project managers and 300+ project staff. I reported directly to the VP of Project Management.

Ø       Directed the successful design and the roll out of the of the Nationiwde.com internet presence. This internet portal was the company main source for new and existing customers. This gave the customers to ability to file claims, service their accounts and purchase or change current policies. This was a major corporate achievement and gave the company and competitive edge with other insurance providers.

Ø       Accountable to deliver and manage a $32 million dollar IT infrastructure engineering project portfolio that consists of 90 – 100 projects concurrently running. Projects under my guidance showed an overall 25% increase in the project effectiveness and reduced lifecycle, and 15% reduction in overall project costs over a 2 year period. This project portfolio has increased the IT business value and saved the enterprise $5.6 million in project efficiencies.

Ø       Successfully delivered 150 multi million dollar projects over a 2-year period – with all achieving immediate and positive impact to the IT Infrastructure Strategy and that has enabled Nationwide to service our customers more consistently, reduce our overall IT expenses, increase our IT efficiencies, and reduced the IT risk.

Ø       Recruited a top-performing project management team. Initiated a strategy to effectively assign the project managers to the most effective projects.

Ø       Managed a tier 3 Network support team that was responsible for troubleshooting issue across the Nationwide network

Ø       Streamlined the IT governance process, reducing project costs $7.6 million by better controlling the budget and prioritizing unjustified and unreported projects. Significantly improved the overall project delivery success rate on projects from 65% to a level 95%.

Ø       Oversaw the design and the implementation of new Renovation technologies in conjunction with Corporate Real Estate renovation of the downtown head quarters complex. The implementation of these new cutting edge technologies to Nationwide allowed this company to realize a reduction IT expense by utilizing more efficient processes and enabling the Nationwide Insurance associates to be more productive. This required navigating political and technical barriers, managing the scope and interdependencies between the restack projects, and completing many high visibility/high risk pieces of the program was a major accomplishment. The Columbus Renovation Restack Program successfully delivered Cisco IP Telephony, Wireless, Lab Consolidation, Managed Print and Data Network infrastructure upgrades to 43 floors and moved over 4,200 associates. 

AT&T Dublin, Ohio 1999 - 2001

Manager-Network/Server-Engineering-Organization
Held general management responsibility for a team of engineers that were responsible for new development and support on Data Center, DNS, DHCP, Proxy, Web, Active Directory Servers, and Virus detection servers. Established the corporate vision, developed the organizational effectiveness, and created a highly supportive IT infrastructure. Directed all planning, budgeting, forecasting, HR, IT, finance and administration initiatives. 

Ø       Recruited an engineering staff that was responsible for all server operations and new product development. Increased operation performance by 50% in a two year period.

Ø       Improved overall productivity by 15% and created the lowest-cost server deployment process by utilizing selective automation and more challenging metrics with better accountability.

Ø       Re-Architecture and upgraded the Corporate Data Centers to meet strategic needs and usage patterns. This was critical to corporate strategy to consolidate and improve overall Data Center layout across North America.

Ø       Led a series of upgrades and application enhancements, including the replacement of obsolete systems, hardware and software at eight Data Center locations nationwide with new LAN/WAN technology, completing the project $1.2 million under budget.

CompuServe/UUNET Columbus, OH, 1997 - 1999

Internet R&D Engineer

Managed IT organizations to improve daily operations, improve solution delivery and product speed to market, directly affecting corporate business growth & profitability. Lead engineer on product development and product support for Internet web and mail products running across the Internet on custom private networks.  Planned and directed new product designs and product rollouts to meet the sales force product strategy.

Ø       Directly manage technologies affecting operations of large organizations (20,000 + staff); manage mission critical systems (99.98% uptime; 700+ servers and databases); implement/run asset management systems; and control budgets ($10 million annually).

Ø       Engineered and developed secure virtual private networks for customers to host highly sensitive external web applications.

Ø       Built and delivered a $2M centralized data center, connecting over 150 satellite locations; Accountable to maintain 99.999% mission critical data center service level commitments 24/7/365.

Ø       Provided customers with custom web and email solutions running on Solaris, Microsoft, Netscape, Apache, and SQL platforms.

 

Emerson Electric – Liebert Corporation Columbus, OH  1994 – 1997

Application-Engineer

Acted as the chief programmer and developer of custom software that integrated with corporate UPS and Air equipment. Software was designed using Microsoft C++, Lotus Notes databases, and SiteScan 2000 software. Also acted as the lead Novell administrator for corporate email and communications.

Ø       Webmaster of Corporate Internet and Intranet web sites. Initiated corporate web presence to allow company to lead the industry in UPS back up systems.

Ø       Developed key support applications that were used to corporate operational issues.

 

 

Technical Profile

 

Ø       Operating Systems:  Linux/Unix Red Hat 5.x – 6.x, Solaris, IBM AIX, Windows (7,XP, Servers 2003/2008), HP-UX, IBM AIX, VMware vSphere/ESXi, VMware Workstation.

Ø       Languages:  Java, J2EE (EJB, JSP, Servlets, JMS, JTS, JDBC), ,Java/J2EE, JMS, JPA, OSGi, Enterprise Integration Patterns w/ Apache Camel, Web Services w/ Apache CXF (Fuse Services Framework) & Axis, Servlets, JSP/X, Spring, Hibernate, HTML, XHTML, DHTML, Javascript, CSS, JUnit, JDBC/Data Sources, XML/XSL/XSLT/XPath, JavaScript, SQL, BASH, c-shell, Perl, C, C++, C#, Python, Unix Scripts, XML

Ø       Build Tools:Maven 1.x-2.x, Ant 1.x, Clearcase, SVN, CVS

Ø       IDE / Design: Eclipse/MyEclipse, RAD / WSAD

Ø       DBMS: Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MS SQL Server.

Ø       Middleware Technologies: Application Servers (Oracle/WebLogic, JBoss, WebSphere Application server, Apache Tomcat, Apache ServiceMix, Apache Camel Messaging,  IBM WebSpehere Application Server WAS 6.x 8.x, IBM WebSphere MQ Series, IBM Message Broker, Full stack of Oracle SOA Suite (Oracle Service Bus: OSB), (ESB), BPEL, Business Rule Engine, BAM, WebLogic Application Server (10.x, 9.x), WebLogic Tuxedo, Apache, WebMethods, IBM Data Power Appliances, IBM MQ/ZOS 

Ø       Cloud: IaaS, Private and Public Cloud offerings,

Ø       Messaging Software: IBM MQ Series, Active MQ, Service Mix, Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Notes Mail.

Ø       Storage: EMC: Symmetrics VMAX, Sun: StorEdge, Network Appliance, HP: SureStore, SAN: EMC, Brocade,

Ø       Network: Cisco Routers and Switches, Nexus 7k 5K, Infoblox DNS appliances, Blue Coat WAN Optimization, Big IP F5 Load Balancing appliances, NTP, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Firewalls, IPV6

Ø       Office Automation: Lotus Notes, Visio Professional, MS Project, MS Office

Ø       Tools/Software: ClearCase, ClearQuest, Computer Associates Autosys, Micro strategy, BMC ADDM, SharePoint 2010, IBM iLOG, IBM Infosphere DataStage ETL, Informatica ETL

Ø       Project Methodologies:  SDLC, AMCP, IMCP, ESDm, Waterfall and Agile

 

Education

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio – Majored in Economics and Minored in Information Technology

Certifications

Ø       Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)

Ø       Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE)

Ø       Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Ø       Project Leadership Circle

 

Personal Development

Ø       Project Management – Project Management Institute, Agile, Portfolio Management, Nationwide Project Management Framework (ESDm), Program Governance through phase gate reviews, Program Management Tools & Techniques, Program Management Controls

Ø       Organizational Leadership – Effective Leadership Thinking, Situational Leadership, The Authentic Communicator

Ø       Executive Management – Nationwide High Performing Leaders, Executive Coaching, Princeton Public Speaking

Ø       Application Programming – C++ / C# / .Net / Visual Studio / and ASP.NET

Ø       Network Engineering – Cisco advanced Routing and Switching. Cisco Telepresence, VPN. DNS/DHCP

Ø       Network Security – Cisco Firewall, Cisco Ace Modules, Intrusion Detection, 

Ø       Telecommunications – VoIP, Cisco Call Manager, Cisco Optical Networking, Cisco Unified Communications

Ø       Wireless – Cisco 802.11 G, WAP, WEP, Wireless Security

Ø       Workplace Effectiveness – Two Factor and Single Sign-on, Managed Printing, Microsoft SMS. Microsoft Active Directory

Ø       Server Engineering – zLinux, Vmware, Red Hat, Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange Server, Lotus Notes, Solaris

 

 

References are available upon request