Vice President Software Development
Resume:
Anthony Hambey
Trussville, AL 35173 *******@*****.***
_ Career Summary
Experienced and dedicated professional. Utilizes technical expertise, best practices, and financial management skills to advance system reliability and productivity to meet short-term operational needs and long-term strategic goals. Able to evaluate critical situations, establish priorities, and execute wise financial plans while retaining essential employees. Professional Experience
Vice President for Information Technology (CIO)
Birmingham-Southern College
Responsibilities:
Member of the President’s senior leadership team to provide planning, budgeting, and leadership for all aspects of technology for the institution. Oversee policies and procedures governing technology use for compliance with BSC Board of Trustee policy, federal, state, and local laws. Major Accomplishments:
• Led project teams using Agile software development models to remove impediments in short sprints. Utilizing these management techniques improved performance and quality of work. Also applied these principles outside of software development for helpdesk and infrastructure successfully for continuous improvement and evaluation processes.
• Headed cyber-security team in planning for measures to ensure viability and protection of the network including penetration testing and vulnerability assessment using NIST guidance for GLBA compliance.
• Worked to improve principle of least privilege and move toward zero trust model in both data and device access for the campus using Active Directory and Group Policy management.
• Oversaw project to MFA (multi-factor authentication) in Azure for cyber-insurance compliance.
• Implemented SSO (single sign-on) using SAML2 at no cost to the institution using open-source tools.
• Migrated external DNS resolution to the cloud using Cloudflare.
• Led team moving institution’s ERP system running an SQL like database called Unidata to the Microsoft Azure cloud while changing the underlying operating system platform from AIX to Windows which included dozens of 3rd party systems that interfaced directly with the ERP in Azure from AWS and other private cloud installations.
• Guided team moving all servers and file storage to Azure for cloud access.
• Strengthened reliability of backup systems by implementation of Azure cloud replication for disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Re-worked network with a complete redesign of TCP/IP and DHCP implementing a V-LAN structure introducing new switching technology and redundant firewalls for high-availability to eliminate single point of failure.
• Moved PBX phone system to VoIP migrating from on-premises to the cloud, converting pots lines to radio frequency for alarms and to cellular technology for elevators.
• Designed and implemented checklist system for incoming and returning students arrival using Apache, PHP, HTML, Java and a backend Unidata database to operate on phone, tablet and computer technologies. Also created a mobile printing app for the campus with the same tools.
• Improved the campus helpdesk by reducing calls through upgrades to imaging, patching and a ticketing system. Saved on software cost by converting to a hosted environment. Professional Experience
Associate Vice President for Information Technology Birmingham-Southern College
Responsibilities:
Selected to provide leadership in planning for future technology directions and to help institutional leaders understand the complexities of information resources, service delivery, technologies, and the information demands of the campus. Charged with responsibility to lead all technology departments after a reorganization that brought academic computing, administrative computing, and telecommunications departments together under a single reporting unit. Professional Experience
Director of Administrative Computing
Birmingham-Southern College
Responsibilities:
The management of an ERP system for the college for daily operation, system integrity, security, database administration and backups.
Education
Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems and Management Snead State Junior College, Boaz, Alabama
Associate Degree in Business Administration
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