Douglas Schminke Lead IT Cloud Consultant

4360 Flagstick Drive Marion, IA 52302 (319) 432-2360 dougschminke@yahoo.com

 

Summary

A technical cloud architect that will leverage experience, skills, knowledge, problem solving and vision to deliver value to the business by utilizing cloud - based technologies to increase application agility and availability in a cost-effective manner.

 

Certifications:

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

 

Experience:

Lead IT Cloud Consultant

Aegon Global Technology/Transamerica

Mar 2014 – Current

Architected and implemented AWS/internal hybrid application using predictive data analytics to reduce customer mobile account data refresh times from 30 seconds to less than two seconds

 

Designed and presented cloud security profiles to associate cloud application requests with the proper security and compliance controls prior to implementation

 

Designed and implemented global AWS environment including account structure, VPCs, federated single sin-on, MPLS and VPN connectivity, high availability and DR.

 

Migrated applications from on premise data center to cloud to take advantage of auto-scaling processing for grid-type workloads.

 

Assisted business units in configuring stateless application hosting leveraging blue-green deployments and continuous code integration methodologies.

Top Technical Specialist Server Engineer

Aegon Global Technology/Transamerica

Mar 2010 – Mar 2014

Designed and implemented fully automated closed loop compliance process for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, auditing more than 400,000 individual setting daily.  Compliance drift results in automatic remediation including all relevant change controls and verification of successful remediation.

 

Led initial implementation of cloud computing with an internal cloud environment providing self-service servers and basic applications, improving deployment time to two hour from 27 days.

 

Evaluated and recommended new products and solutions based on requests and needs from internal customers.

Lead Server Engineer

Aegon Global Technology/Transamerica

Jul 2003 – Mar 2010

Led Windows 2003 and 2008 server hardening effort resulting in standards documentation that is followed and enforced for every Windows server in the enterprise including an exception process with tracking capabilities.

 

Implemented VMware virtualization to our server environment, achieving 80% virtualization of more than 4,000 servers in less than 3 years.

 

Designed staffing plan for proper separation of level 2 and level 3 support duties, with the ability to scale for large growth and integrate with international initiatives.

 

Researched, recommended, and implemented a new monitoring system for the Windows server environment, and completed the rollout within a 90 day time-frame to more than 3,000 servers.

Education:

Bachelor of Arts – Business Administration

Mount Mercy College

12/06

Associate of Arts

Kirkwood Community College

5/04

Linn-Mar High School

6/92