Aaron Kanack

About Aaron Kanack

I run platforms that determine how our employees experience work—and I use AI to remove friction, reduce risk, and accelerate execution.Fortune 100 senior leader with extensive experience in software engineering, system integration, and technical delivery. Proven record of directing teams of engineers and leaders to achieve critical project goals and objectives through exceptional management techniques and technical expertise as a leader of the teams. Adept at establishing strategic relationships, partnerships, and collaborations across multiple business areas to build consensus on complex projects.Driver of business results while also providing a human-centric environment as signaled by exceptional employee engagement scores year-over-year.

Experience

1. Senior Director Software Engineering - Workplace Portals

   Northwestern Mutual

   Sep 2022 — Present

   Executive engineering leader for enterprise digital workplace platforms supporting employees and sales professionals. Accountable for strategy, delivery, resiliency, and modernization of internal web ecosystems, enterprise search, chatbot platforms, campaign systems, and event management infrastructure.Impact & Leadership Highlights:• Lead multi-disciplinary engineering organization delivering secure, high-availability enterprise platforms supporting revenue-generating field operations.• Drive modernization of workplace systems toward cloud-native architectures while maintaining compliance within regulated financial services environment.• Provide executive-level partnership across product, security, infrastructure, and business leadership to align technology investments with strategic objectives.• Strengthened engineering culture focused on automation, resiliency, and measurable value delivery.• Selected member of Optimizely Customer Advisory Board, influencing enterprise web platform direction and roadmap.

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  BS (BSN), Nursing

Skills

• IT Management
• Network Security
• Requirements Gathering
• Process Improvement
• Identity Management
• IT Project & Program Management
• Computer Security
• Information Technology
• Cloud Computing
• Microsoft Technologies
• Enterprise IT Infrastructure
• IT Project Leadership
• Management
• Risk Management
• Visio
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Active Directory
• Unix
• Information Security
• IT Strategy
• Pmp
• Data Center
• Disaster Recovery
• Cissp
• IT Operations
• Infrastructure
• Information Security Management
• IT Service Management
• Sharepoint
• Soa
• Security
• Enterprise Architecture
• Project Management
• Itil
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Governance
• Business Analysis