Business Intelligence Data Management

Derek Colanduno Roswell, GA 678-***-**** *****@*********.*** LinkedIn Profile

SENIOR IT LEADER/TEAM MANAGER

Software professional with technical expertise in architecture, agile methodologies, and cloud modernization.

Solutions-driven professional with a solid background in Information Technology, Data Management, Business Intelligence, and Solutions Architecture. Expertise in enterprise-level projects that deliver optimized data-heavy solutions with the proven ability to lead through team collaboration. Full-stack software professional and problem solver experienced in all phases of software development, lifecycle road mapping, developing, executing, and evaluating application test plans with results to ready applications for acceptance by stakeholders.

Cloud-Centric Projects: Project lead and architect on solutions based in part or in whole on cloud-based platforms such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.

Data Management: Migrated several software systems for organizations to manage extensive data via website interfaces. Solutions included data systems for one of Jack Henry’s mortgage management systems that interfaced with Fanny Mae/Freddy Mac to facilitate mortgage investment from onprem to a SaaS-based offering in Azure. With Fiserv, I oversaw a team that transformed a thirty-year-old desktop/server banking teller system into a fully SaaS-based offering hosted in Azure using a fully compartmentalized team that required extensive direction and cooperation.

Business Intelligence and Analytics: Worked as lead architect to produce web-based solutions for data reporting from large and disparate database repositories. Data reporting dashboards that were created allowed the managers of state, city, and county systems to get easy-to-understand infographic-style views of critical KPI data to make smarter decisions using modern libraries like React, Angular, etc.

Solutions-Driven Professional: Worked with dozens of clients to produce web solutions using modern frameworks such as Angular 1-6, React, and Vue.js. Due to having served many different large organizations, I have had to use several web development languages such as Node.js, Next.JS, .NET, Python, Typescript, and others.

Experience Delivering Technology Solutions

SES Space and Defense, Atlanta, GA Apr 2023 – Aug 2024

LEAD CLOUD ARCHITECT/PROJECT MANAGER

Led team to develop corporate Cloud Practice standards and processes for new development as well as migration efforts. Developed guidelines for project management for new technology projects.

oWorked directly with management to determine standards and processes for moving current applications and new work from all onprem servers to fully cloud-based hosted in Microsoft Azure fully automated pipelines using Terraform and Ansible using all .NET Core backend coding.

oWorked as lead to set up corporate standards and workflows to transition the development and custom software team from using onprem servers to fully cloud-based infrastructure.

oAs Project Manager, used Jira and some custom internal tools to maintain a large project, including creating an extensive CI/CD pipeline that required a highly customized testing pipeline, full code coverage, standards scanning to streamline QA, code improvements, and patching time to release.

May 2020 – Apr. 2024

HIIQ/Benefytt, Atlanta, GA Jan 2020 – Apr 2020

SR. DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER/ARCHITECT

Worked as a Sr. Web Designer/Architect using modern web technologies to produce solutions for the healthcare insurance industry.

Key member of executive management team, Directs the interpretation and application of human resources policies, programs, practices and procedures

consistently and appropriately throughout assigned locations

oLead .NET developer for software projects, working with public-sector clients to develop technical solutions to assist with budgets, cost controls, and asset maintenance.

oUser data was maintained on Amazon Web Services databases with codebase running on AWS servers.

Brown and Caldwell Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA Apr 2000 – Jan 2020

SENIOR IT ARCHITECT / SOFTWARE PRODUCT LEAD PROJECT MANAGER / VICE PRESIDENT

Was hired to help develop the IT services division for the company, sourced IT development talent for local offices across the United States

oLead architect for software projects, working with public-sector clients to develop technical solutions that assist water/wastewater agencies with budgets, cost controls, and infrastructure maintenance in every city with a population of over twenty-thousand across the continental United States, Hawaii, and Guam.

oWorked with cloud-based enterprise systems such as Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud to provide modern IT solutions to large corporate and public-sector clients.

Centers for Disease Control / FBI, Atlanta, GA Jun 1996 – Jan 2000

LEAD APPLICATION DEVELOPER AND ENTERPRISE SYSTEM ARCHITECT

Recruited directly by the CDC to lead project to develop IT systems that tracked and monitored potential national threats, including Osama bin Laden. Used big-data reporting and mining, which incorporated voice and video recognition capabilities as well as financial and document control.

Key member of executive management team, Directs the interpretation and application of human resources policies, programs, practices and procedures

consistently and appropriately throughout assigned locations

oWorked one-on-one with then-president Bill Clinton, briefing him directly on the progress of the mission, and two meetings with him and the Joint Chiefs of Staff about the threats as they were revealed by the datasets.

oWorked directly with the FBI to outline requirements and create system needs and priorities for anti-terrorism and bio-terrorism tracking.

oForged relationships with management-level personnel in the US Federal government to create logic models for tracking potential threats based on gathered field data.

oWorked as lead developer on data systems, which gathered purchasing and financial data to find/spot anomalies that may indicate terrorist activity.

Education

Computer Science – Mathematics, University Nevada Las Vegas.

Completed three years with a 3.1 GPA, while building an IT Development company during the inception of the Internet. Degree not completed due to the amount of computer and Internet system development work which flooded into my business.

PMP, PMI Risk Assessment Methodology Certified, DARPA/EPA

AWWA Utility Risk & Resilience Certificate, AWWA

Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate, Microsoft

Scrum Master Certified, CourseAlliance SCRUMStudy

Team Building/Relationship Experience

Dragon Con Inc., Atlanta, GA

DIRECTOR – SCIENTIFIC SKEPTICISM

I am approaching my twentieth year as one of the main Directors for the world’s largest Culture Convention, Dragon Con, which takes place each Labor Day weekend in downtown Atlanta, GA. http://www.dragoncon.org/

Management of team to help run the convention events from Thursday through Monday evening. Involves scheduling over 60 hours of programming, developing marketing, audio, video, and sourcing well-known experts to give talks and/or participate on discussion panels. Helped the convention more than triple in growth since 2005.

References

Mykel Alvis – IT Consultant/Expert - *****.*****@*****.*** [ 205-***-**** ]

Nicholas Eftimaides – Ex-CIA Intelligence Officer – ***********@*****.*** [ 301-***-**** ]

Mark Distler – Owner, Media Production/Marketing House – ****@***********.*** [ 678-***-**** ]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA Jul 2023 – Apr 2024

CONTRACT – LEAD CLOUD SYSTEMS ARCHITECT

Worked as a contract lead cloud software systems architect for the CDC Laboratory system. My role was to guide and design the data workflow and migration from a highly customized Jira system which is used to maintain all the laboratory results data from an on-site server to Jira Cloud.

Fiserv, Atlanta, GA Jul 2022– May 2023

CONTRACT – SR. SYSTEMS ARCHITECT

Role was a Sr. Lead Systems/Software Architect for large-scale enterprise financial software solutions. Role involved working with long standing banking software leaders to bring their systems into modern Azure and AWS cloud offerings using,NET for the main coding stack. Leader of a team of 8.

Jack Henry and Associates, Atlanta, GA Jul 2021– Mar 2022

CONTRACT – SR. SOFTWARE ARCHITECT

Worked as the system architect and engineer for a large Mortgage Investment system that interfaced with FannieMae/FreddieMac for banking loan administrators to gather information and status updates for research into the mortgage and loan trading, buying, and selling marketplace. The system required adherence to standards such as MISMO/ULDD and the Open Banking API Platform. Leader of a team of 6.

Pace-O-Matic, Atlanta, GA Apr 2021– Jun 2021

CONTRACT – SR. SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Worked as a system architect and engineer programming in .NET stack for a cash-voucher ticket system used for a skill based gaming franchise to reimburse players’ winnings at onsite locations.

Improving Atlanta, Atlanta, GA Nov 2020 – Mar 2021

CONTRACT – SR. CONSULTANT - ENGINEER/ARCHITECT/PROJECT NANAGER

Worked as a Sr. Web Designer/Architect consultant to help produce cloud-based systems using Microsoft Azure in a full .NET DevOps environment.

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