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Infrastructure Architect Enterprise

Location:
Chicago, IL
Posted:
April 14, 2025

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DAN OWEN

www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-t-owen

**********@*****.*** 224-***-****

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

Sr. Infrastructure Architect with extensive experience in infrastructure and data management solutions. Best known for evaluating systems, learning new technologies, and optimizing performance in order to provide significant cost savings.

Specific expertise in:

Amazon Web Services Jenkins

Ansible Kubernetes

Terraform IBM FileNet P8

Github CI/CD

Docker Amazon EKS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Elevance Health (Formerly Anthem), Chicago, Illinois June 2022 to Present Team Lead and Senior Infrastructure Architect

Eliminated $22K in annual operating costs via AWS service optimization Led DevOps team by setting goals, planning projects, and monitoring progress Migrated AWS region’s workloads to another lower cost region Re-platformed custom web application from Docker to AWS EKS Created CICD Jenkins pipeline utilizing Terraform for custom app builds AIM Specialty Health, Deerfield, Illinois January 2018 to June 2022 Senior Infrastructure Services Engineer, Middleware Reduced upgrade cycle from months to weeks by utilizing Ansible scripts Began platform redesign to move FileNet onto AWS OpenShift Designed & implemented disaster recovery strategy for multi-location FileNet cluster on WebSphere ND

Negotiated staff augmentation using managed services which provided $70K/yr savings Designed & Implemented enChoice SmartRecovery tool for FileNet to provide granular recovery

Computer Enterprises, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania October 2017 to January 2018 Independent Contractor at AIM Specialty Health

Reviewed FileNet content management environment and designed patch and security remediation strategy for WebSphere Network Deployment, Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS), and IBM Content Navigator DAN OWEN

www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-t-owen

**********@*****.*** 224-***-****

ABBVIE, INC., North Chicago, Illinois 2013 to 2017 Senior Systems Engineer– SAP Archiving

Reduced administration time by 15% by developing Linux bash shell scripts to automate collection of system logging thereby minimizing system monitoring and troubleshooting. Designed and implemented SAP external content repository using WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment (WAS ND), IBM FileNet, and Content Collector for SAP. Designed and implemented Spectrum Protect (TSM) repository utilizing DB2 for metadata management.

Reduced SAP HANA licensing costs by 40% by reducing database footprint through analysis of SAP technical and functional content utilizing DB02, DB15, and TAANA so that SAP ILM retention, dispensation and legal holds could be applied. Encrypted internal server communications by configuring SSL / TLS 1.2 on FileNet v5.2.1, Content Collector For SAP, Spectrum Protect, and WebSphere Network Deployment. Improved security by configuring Active Directory authentication for Spectrum Protect environment.

Using Dolphin Archive Migration Toolkit, migrated existing archived content from Mobius archive system 4 months ahead of deadline.

Enabled archiving for SAP ECC, SRM, and GTS systems by configuring archiving via AOBJ, SARI, OAC0, OAC2, OAC3, and FILE.

ABBOTT LABORATORIES, Abbott Park, Illinois 2005 to 2013 Senior Systems Engineer - Messaging Archive Architect 2005 to 2013 Saved $1 million in storage costs by archiving Lotus Domino email onto tier 3 storage and deleting email past retention policy while providing no impact to customer access.

Reduced consulting costs by 30% by quickly becoming SME for IBM Content Manager, IBM CommonStore for Lotus Domino, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). System archived over 250 million messages from 45 Notes Domino servers in North America.

Managed EMC Centera storage utilizing DB2 for metadata management.

Greatly minimized system administration efforts by automating monitoring via LotusScript & AIX cron scripts.

EDUCATION

M.S., Management Information Systems, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois B.S., Computer Science, Business Administration, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois IBM Certified Specialist - FileNet Content Manager V5.2 TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Ansible, AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, OpenShift, FileNet, IBM Content Collector for SAP, Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Spectrum Protect, WebSphere Application Server, IBM Content Navigator, AIX, DB2, Dolphin Archive Migration Toolkit, SAP ECC, IBM Content Manager, RedHat Linux, IBM HTTP Server, IBM pSeries, SQL, ECM, TLS, Github, CI/CD, Amazon Web Services LANGUAGES

English, Spanish



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