7320 N. Euclid Ave
Gladstone, MO 64118
(816) 352 – 3608
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickdbrown/
patrickdbrown@outlook.com
PATRICK D. BROWN
OBJECTIVE
With over 25 years of experience in IT, including hands on development, infrastructure engineering, administration and managing varied teams of developers and engineers I have a proven track record of bringing together the technical talent to achieve high results.
In my most recent experience I have lead the technology operations team for the world’s largest film exhibitor, pushing to create standards, aid in the governance of the incoming work streams, challenge the team members to adapt to a Dev Ops culture and automate many of the aspects of the teams daily work. It’s my belief that simplicity is the best policy and by taking more of the daily grind out of the work more time can be spent on intelligently creating products and infrastructure of the future.
SKILLS and ABILITIES
• Vendor Management
• Network Administration
• IT Operations
• Budget Management
• Change Management
• System Administration
• DevOps
• Risk Management
• Technology Integration
• IT Strategy
• Network Architecture
• IT Service Management
• Virtualization
• SOA
• Project Management
• Containerization (K8’s and Docker)
• E-commerce
• Enterprise Architecture
• ITIL
• Troubleshooting
• Web & Software Development
• Business Continuity
• Solution Architecture
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
EXPERIENCE
Sr Director IT Operations
AMC Theatres
Dec 2018 – Present (3 yrs)
Leawood, Kansas
http://www.amctheatres.com
Provided direction and oversight to multiple teams responsible for the overall technology operations of the digital and enterprise application environments. Aided the senior staff with development of annual budgetary concerns, vendor management and worked with the project management department to develop projects directly impacting my area of responsibility. Developed a strategy for the operational aspects of continuous integration and deployment, change and incident management for the organization. Also developed a new role within the organization whose responsibility is the track all of the releases into production across the teams and monitor all of the lower environments to make sure any issues are resolved as quickly as possible and all releases have been tested and validated prior to moving into production.
Product Development Manager
Epiq Global
Jun 2018 – Nov 2018 (6 mos)
Kansas City, Kansas
https://www.epiqglobal.com
Manage several teams of quality analysts and developers responsible for the legal discovery and review product line. Evaluated existing applications to determine technical changes and work directly with the product owners and architects to determine the best solution to achieve the goals, schedules projects, resources, process and monitor project timelines.
AVP IT Manager II
UMB Bank
Apr 1995 – May 2018 (15 yrs 2 mos)
Kansas City, Missouri
http://www.umb.com
Over my 15 years at the company, I started as a web engineer, handling the IIS and *nix websites as well as the java application servers (IBM WebSphere, Tomcat and BEA Weblogic). I then transitioned into management of the applications services team, which included the afore mentioned systems and the newly acquired SOA stack, secure file transfer and message bus services.
I was given the opportunity to take over development teams that were responsible for new feature development, maintenance and support of the Healthcare Services and Online Banking divisions of the product lines, which soon expanded into a new division directly tied to the Healthcare division, pulled in the Quality Assurance of the product line and the development of a new Dev Ops team whose primary goal was move the product into the Azure Cloud.
In the last two years of my time with the company I was managing well over 20 employees and handling the annual budgeting for my areas of responsibility.
Was privileged to be selected to represent Distributed Systems in several committees ranging from the MIS Incentive program, the Virtual Architecture Team and Change Management Process team.
Freelance / Contract Developer and Systems Administrator
Jan 2002 – Apr 2003 (1 yr 4 mos)
Greater Los Angeles Area
Provided Web Developer services, Network Engineering and *NIX Administration services for businesses. Some of the client’s websites are listed below.
SlenderFungus Multimedia – http://www.slenderfungus.com
WebAir – http://www.webair.com
CreativeNet Enterprises – http://www.creativenet.net
Faction Creative Inc. – http://www.faction.com
Falcon IS – http://www.falconis.com
Herbalo Inc. – http://www.herbalo.com
Systems / Network Administrator and Developer
Pyro Advertising / Faction Creative Inc
Oct 2000 – Apr 2002 (1 yr 7 mos)
Beverly Hills, CA
Working with the Technical Director to increase the security of their locally hosted systems, as well as their remotely hosted systems. Setting up Name Service (DNS), Sendmail, and a secondary DS3 for web hosting venture. As well as web programming (PHP & Perl), and SQL / MySQL Database Management.
Was also tasked with LAN management for all of the artists and administrative coworkers, which included desktop management, large format printer maintenance (IRIS), and the care and feeding of a large NAS system based off of Novell.
Sample URLs :
http://www.bustarhymes.com
http://www.rollerball.com
http://www.tombraidermovie.com
Systems Administrator / President of ResolveNet Development
ResolveNet INC
Dec 2000 – Oct 2001 (11 mos)
Northridge CA
Lead teams of Java, PHP, Perl, and HTML developers, to release a software application for the Internet, including the development of a dynamic system for the development and upkeep of the The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code®. Also designed a global WAN (Wide Area Network), which is still being implemented in the US, Japan, and UK.
Senior Systems Administrator
Webquest Inc
Dec 1999 – Dec 2000 (1 yr 1 mo)
Westlake Village, CA
Managed web server farm, using Solaris 2.6, Linux, and IRIX on Origin 200 SGI Servers. Approximate traffic for the web farm included 12 sites with around 2 million unique hits a day. Maintained name service (DNS), and sendmail for entire company. Interacted with the Management for new technologies development, and proposals for their current systems, as well as the future development.
Development and Support Manager / Asst. Systems Administrator
Netmore Internet Inc
Apr 1999 – Dec 2000 (1 yr 9 mos)
Commerce City, CA
Managed an 8 person technical support, and development team. Technical support was a 24-hour 7 day a week operation, as well as one half development of new technologies, mostly for the now defunct ecommerce (billing) system PowerCharge. Additional support for the senior systems administrator in the maintenance of a 7 million hit a day web site, and the build out and daily support of a new data center.
Tech Support Manager / Asst. Systems Administrator
Pacificnet LLC
Jun 1995 – Apr 1999 (3 yrs 11 mos)
Canoga Park, CA
Starting out in technical support, I rapidly began assisting the UNIX Administrator with simple tasks. I was promoted to the technical support manager, which I managed for nearly 6 months before I was promoted to the Assistant Systems administrator. My main responsibilities were to maintain a Solaris UNIX environment, ranging from sendmail / POP3 servers to setup and follow through of customer co-locate machines on many different platforms.
EDUCATION
Western Governors University
Bachelors of Science Business IT Management
2016 – 2021
Colorado Institute of Art US-Colorado-Denver
Associate Degree
Applied Science
1993 – 1995
Southwest Missouri State University
Performing Arts Major, Psychology Minor
1990 – 1992