Greg Chapman

***** *. *** **. *******, IL ***** (773) 425 – 4540 ac2agr@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorybchapman/

Accomplished technical leader providing DevOps, QA and modern IT services. Extensive background in system architecture, system implementation, support, construction and operation of top tier enterprise data centers, talent development and delivery of new technologies.

Team leadership

Strong troubleshooting skills

Strategic thinking

Implementation of new technologies and evolving standards

Windows and Linux operations

Amazon Web Services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Breakthrough Technologies, LLC, Evanston, IL 2014 – 2017

Open Source Development Services

Director IT, DevOps and Automated Testing (2015-2017)

Director of IT (2014-2015)

Executive position responsible for internal technical services (authentication, storage, backup and recovery, virtualization) and specialized development services to multiple Scrum teams.

Significant accomplishments in this role are within the DevOps and QA realms. Within a single year the company Dev teams went from one integration release per week to over 100 automated releases per day. Progressed from a single QA release per month to two ‘push button’ deployments per week. Production deployments improved to once per week in less than an hour.

Expanded the company’s AWS utilization beyond basic EC2 installations to include CloudFormation, S3, Route 53, AWS Certificate Services, RDS, Elasticache, SES, SQS, SNS

Led efforts to reduce dependence upon internal compute capacity in favor of dynamic processing delivery through cloud services

Led team to deliver the company’s first successful CI/CD implementation

Cooperatively led all Scrum teams to adoption of recommended ‘gitflow’ development processes

Drove efforts to identify software defects earlier in the delivery process using Automated Testing techniques with using Cucumber and Headless

Recruited and staffed a team of 4 Software Engineers, 1 Internal Services engineer, 6 Quality Assurance Technicians

These accomplishments increased Breakthrough’s release velocity significantly. Delivery improved from 3 week sprints of inconsistent story pointing to two week sprints that regularly delivered 70-80 story points AND improved customer satisfaction.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Evanston, IL 1998 – 2014

Education and Trade Publishing

Director – Enterprise Solutions Engineering Group (2010-2014)

Lead team and develop scripts for integration of International Human Resources data streams into Active Directory, Exchange 2007 infrastructures

Manager of team of 8 Windows and Messaging engineers, technical lead for Enterprise services cross-platform

Team achieved impressive annualized operational savings of approximately $8M deferred per annum.

Developed virtual machine hosting system for desktops to house disparate OS, non-Internet connected versions of leading digital products

Coordinated efforts between U.S. based engineers, developers in Ireland and India as well as coordinating support services with Off-shore service providers

Directed SAML 2 SSO integration for consumption by employees, contractors, Off-shore services, MSPs and public identities

Lead Architecture team to deliver first Enterprise instances of VDI technology

Daily operations of Messaging and Federated IM platform to service International and Domestic business needs including secure Instant Messaging services to partner organizations

Manager – Enterprise Windows Engineering Group (2006-2010)

Lead Windows Engineer (2001-2006)

Sr. Systems Engineer (1998-2001)

EDUCATION/TRAINING/ADDITIONAL

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

ITIL v3 Certification

Trustee, Channel Lake Shores HOA, Antioch, IL

Board Member, Westosha Flying Club, Wilmot, WI

Private Pilot

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

Data Center Hosting Distributed Application Architecture Data Center Migrations System Virtualization ADFS (SAML 2.0) Active Directory Windows 2008/2012 R2 Hyper-V TCP v4 Load Balancing AWS – VPC, EC2, RDS Azure Office365 DevOps Agile ITSM OpsWorks CloudFormation CloudFront CloudWatch New Relic IaaS Scrum Python Chef Dark Trace Management Agile Scrum Project Management Leadership IT Strategy IT Management Process Improvement Continuous Improvement Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery CI/CD BIND 9.4 BIND 10

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