Juan de Varona

Huntington Beach, CA 818-***-**** ad1tts@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/juandevarona

Senior IT Manager

Specializing in: Technical Solution Delivery, Project Management, and Team Development & Leadership

20+ years of experience in technical solutions delivery and support fields as a creative and accomplished software engineering leader. A proven record of the requirements gathering, scope definition, project planning, and leveraging Agile methodologies to deliver sophisticated systems within performance metrics and financial targets. Extensive experience with driving positive change through team development, process improvement, and empowering leadership.

Solution Design, Development, & Support Technical Direction & Advisement Onshore & Offshore Team Management

Layered Platform Architecture IT Standards and Policy Definition & Implementation Web & Hybrid Mobile Cloud Solutions DevOps Modernization of Legacy Technologies Web CMS/Portal Document Management Systems

Cross-functional Communication Adaptive Problem-solving SOA/Web Services/RESTful

Professional Experience

Sr Application Architect - IT Manager Hyundai AutoEver America Fountain Valley, CA 2022 - present

Led two development teams for the warranty systems of two brands under a major automotive manufacture.

Provided strategic direction and modernization initiatives including replacing two legacy AS400 systems.

Designed architecture of various web application and web services solutions

Sr IT Manager CIGA Los Angeles, CA 2021 - 2022

Provided strategic direction, leadership, and project governance for a multi-million dollar application project portfolio

Managed teams of developers, business analysis, technical project managers in the insurance domain

Oversaw modernization roadmap for organization IT portfolio and standards

IT Manager - Web Architect Los Angeles Unified School District Los Angeles, CA 2002 - 2021

Led a technical team of 15+, including programmers, UX designers, and content managers. Designed IT solutions, refined and automated policies, and conducted technical and strategic advisement for the largest school system in the state.

Managed a robust portfolio of technical projects from various funding sources leveraging industry-standard tools and methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile Scrum concepts.

Formalized IT standards in cooperation with division heads using best business practices, including security, infrastructure configuration, ADA, sensitive information handling, and legal regulation adherence.

Managed Enterprise Content Management team. Championed modernization initiatives for legacy systems, including Web CMS, document, and record management systems.

Managed project to move on-premise applications into the Oracle Cloud and AWS.

Implemented DevOps environment with GitLab runners.

Managed hybrid mobile project using Cordova.

Transitioned a Web CMS/Portal of 1,500 content contributors and 17,000+ web pages to new Web CMS. Also, building out several custom portal apps within new system.

Collaborated with stakeholders to drive a current state assessment, gap analysis, and remediation phase for active projects.

Worked with the IT PMO to define and automate technical policy using a MS Team Foundation Server solution and a custom project management application to coordinate project activities and resource allocation.

Directed IT projects and conducted project management functions, including project discovery, requirements and scope determination, planning, solution design, resource cost budgeting, scheduling and task assignment, and risk management.

Recruited, on boarded, and developed IT staff.

Designed IT solutions, including web applications, content management portals, RESTful/web services, geocoding & mapping, and search engines, for platforms with 10M+ intranet and public users.

Oversaw enterprise architecture for both horizontal and vertical scaling.

Liaison between IT and non-IT business owners providing verbal and written communications on project status.

Contractor Freelance Consultant Los Angeles, CA 2001 - 2002

Developed solutions and reports for multiple clients, including a yacht brokerage and a local ministry.

Created a web crawler program to pull data from several brokering/sales websites.

Leveraged open source polling/survey software and e-mail subscription/newsletter software to communicate with members and gather feedback for projects.

Project Lead WhatsHotNow.com Marina Del Rey, CA 2000 - 2001

Led a cross-functional, technical team of developers, graphic artists, DBAs, and mid-tier administrators to build e-commerce websites for entertainment company clients, including NBC, ABC, TV Guide, Fox, and Comedy Central.

Performed web architectural role designing applications in a 3-tier environment.

Java Engineer Petsmart.com Pasadena, CA 2000 - 2000

Developed e-commerce site applications and assisted in the conversion of Perl CGI applications to Java Servlets.

Java/C++ Engineer Raytheon Garland, TX 1999 - 2000

Maintained telecommunication software packaged with COTS products.

Sub-Contractor C/C++ Programmer Lockheed Martin Clear Lake, TX 1998 - 1999

Created applications and low-level interface software to interact with simulation hardware devices.

Collaborated with Johnson Space Center (NASA) writing code for the astronaut simulation training lab.

Technical Proficiencies

Operating Systems

UNIX (Sun Solaris, CGI IRIX, Oracle AIX); Linux (Red Hat Enterprise); Windows 2000/2003/2008

Networking/Authentication Protocols

HTTPS/HTTP; TCP/IP; SSL; LDAP

Web/Portal/Content Servers

Oracle WebLogic 12c/11g; JBoss; Oracle OC4j; Oracle WebCenter; Oracle Portal 10g; Tomcat

Management Applications

Axosoft; JIRA; MS TFS (Team Foundation Server); MS Project; BMC Remedy; HP ServiceCenter; MS Visio; MS Office, MS Teams, Google Workspace

Software Architecture

SPA (Single Page Application); Web and RESTful Services APIs; Microservices, SOA; 2 & 3-tier Web Architecture; Relational Database Modeling, Web CMS/Portal, Headless CMS, Document Management Systems

Database Servers

Oracle 12c/10g/9i/8i; SQL Server 2008/2005/2003; MongoDB; DB2; MySQL

Development Tools

Eclipse IDE; JDeveloper IDE; Netbeans IDE; GitLab Git; Apache SVN; Sonatype Nexus (Maven Build Repository)

Programming & Scripting Languages

Java (J2EE); JavaScript (jQuery, React, Vue, Angular); PL/SQL; Perl CGI; C/C++; COBOL; Fortran

Frameworks/Platforms

Spring MVC; Hibernate; jQuery Mobile, Node.js

Services

Esri ArcGIS Online API; MapQuest API; Google Analytic; Maps APIs

Standards

ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)/508 Compliance, PII (Personally Identifiable Information) Security; ISO 9000

Methodologies & Concepts

PMP, talent acquisition, mentoring, vendor management, strategic planning and execution, risk management, budgeting and cost control, customer relationship management Scrum (Agile), Waterfall, DevOps, CI/CD, SDLC, Oracle Cloud, AWS, containerization

Development Tools

Eclipse IDE; JDeveloper IDE; Netbeans IDE; GitLab Git; Apache SVN;

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Systems Design/Computer Science – University of Houston at Clear Lake Houston, TX 1997

Professional Development

Project Management Professional (PMP) Training – California State University, Dominguez Hills

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