Gary A. Ross

Phone: 734-***-**** email: ad4ghh@r.postjobfree.com

Ypsilanti, Michigan LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-ross-08b40a4

IT Strategy - Enterprise Architecture - IoT Implementation - Organization Development

Experienced, hands on technical leader in IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, and IoT. I see the “Big Picture”, where most people do not.

Initiated Architecture Frameworks across the Enterprise using TOGAF model, and developed organizational models for IoT services. Created a Tiered Security model to classify IoT devices, created and outfitted the IoT test lab, developed processes to test IoT devices in a lab environment.

Implemented Application Portfolio Management across multiple companies on a global scale, using industry standard benchmarks (APQC). Created new roles: Application Portfolio Manager and Enterprise Reliability Engineer

Developed, and Implemented distributed compute architectures, in large, continuously available, global environments. Interfaced directly with clients, developed and executed technical requirements based on the business needs. Defined strategy for ITIL tools.

Created Highly Available (HA) and Continuously available (CA) architectures for complex application environments. Created, developed, and tested disaster recovery processes for major software systems. Designed and implemented file replication software for hierarchical server management, which reduced maintenance costs by 50%.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Black Kilt Consulting

Attached to Blue Scope Recycling

Project Manager March 2023 to Present

•Project Manager for 18 month project to implement an ERP solution across three sites, combining five separate applications into a single solution.

•This included selecting a single vendor, mapping current business processes

•Sizing servers and other infrastructure,

•Identifying and migrating current and historical data,

•Working with vendor to train user base, creating a Business Intelligence portal, and develop standard processes across all sites, in preparation for additional acquisitions.

mCubed Staffing

Attached to Wayne County Airport Authority

IoT Engineer July 2022 to March 2023

•Created a “Get well” plan for FAA mandated IoT projects, including project requirements, identifying and testing sensors, configuration and implementation of gateways, developing new networks, database, and visualization for MVP

•Developed common data model to integrate multiple applications to the data

•Worked with multiple vendors to develop new sensors, significantly reducing maintenance costs

•Created a LoRaWAN network for sensors at the airport, using Cisco/Actility

TekSystems

Attached to Ford Motor Company

Senior IoT Architect March 2018 to May 2022

•Partnered with Intel to create a “Core Capabilities” model for IT and IoT across the company saving time and funding

•Evangelized and developed a standardized framework for IIoT and Industry 4.0 within the company.

•Developed and implemented organizational standards for implementing an IoT service within the company.

•Developed a tiered security model template for classification of IoT devices and subsystems, with compensating controls for each level.

•Used Bluescape visual collaboration tool to identify the “pain points” of stakeholders, and then built a prioritized list, agreed to all involved.

•Created a test lab for “Smart Buildings”. Includes: sensors, networks (proprietary and wired/wireless), gateways, servers, systems and test equipment

•Developed Edge compute models with Manufacturing, using NVIDIA Jetson development devices, running LINUX.

•Worked with customers to implement Cloud/ML model for welding in Europe

•Developed standards for implementing IoT within the company

•Worked with Manufacturing to research Edge and Fog Computing models

•Researched and implemented IoT Reference Architecture documentation using TOGAF

•Created and presented IoT framework for visualizing Reference Architecture

•Evangelized IoT within the company

General Electric

Van Buren Township, MI

Enterprise Architect March 2010 - February 2018

•Developed an Application Portfolio Management process across company using a custom designed applications repository with 14,000+ application.

•Using Gartner’s PACE layering, identified business capabilities for each application, and used the process to reduce application costs by $100M across the company.

•Created Reliability Engineering Practice across GE Business Units.

•Created and executed strategy for maximum reliability. Reduced system downtime by 90%.

•Identified critical processes used across all GE Business Units, and performed Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA).

•Created, developed, marketed, and implemented the concept for a “Vendor Fair” for GE, providing over 4000 hours of training annually.

•Created an Enterprise Architecture practice across GE. Included education, evangelization, and standardization of infrastructure and programming processes.

•Created Backup/DR service for GE. Developed backup architecture and strategy for the GE environment. Designed and implemented yearly DR test for 200 applications.

Ford Motor Company

Dearborn, MI

Senior Infrastructure Architect 1991 - 2007

·Architected a Global Network Monitoring and Management solution reduce costs by $20M annually

·Chief Infrastructure Architect for all Engineering Design Solutions (C3P)

·Researched, Developed, Demonstrated and Implemented global computing architecture standards for both client and server (using 4 hardware platforms). Set up test lab for application testing, significantly reducing costs, and increasing user productivity.

·Developed and deployed a method for release management of COTS applications across multiple servers automatically, reducing installation time from days to hours.

·Created, maintained, and chaired the architecture review board (ARB) for all IT projects and applications

CONTRIBUTIONS

Awarded US Patent #US-7451303-B2 - “METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BOOTING REMOTE COMPUTING SYSTEMS FROM AN OPERATING SYSTEM IMAGE AND CREATING SYMBOLIC LINKS FOR DATA FILES”

Content Editor for “Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours”, by Clinton Pierce, ISBN#0-672-31773-7

Founding Member of SeMiSLUG (SouthEastern Michigan Sun/UNIX Local User Group)

Past member of Open Source Development Labs (OSDL)

Member of USENIX and SAGe (System Administrators Guild)

Technical Summary

Hardware: Oracle/Sun Microsystems, HP, IBM, SGI, Cray, Dell, HP, Hitachi, Acuity, Honeywell

Storage: Oracle, Hitachi, EMC, IBM

Networking Equipment: Cisco, Fortinet, Deep Nines, SonicWall

Operating Systems: UNIX, MacOS, Solaris, Red Hat LINUX, SuSE LINUX, Mandrake LINUX, Debian LINUX, Ubuntu LINUX, IRIX, AIX, HP-UX, Windows

Languages: Unix/LINUX Shell (csh, sh, tcsh, cmucsh, ksh, bash), C, Perl, HTML, Python

Additional Software Packages: vmWare, Docker, Scalr, NFSv4.x, ServiceNow, alfabet, Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor of Science Electronics Technology, Siena Heights University, Adrian, Michigan

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