Brett Labarge
IT Specialist | DevOps Director | Strong Communicator | Passion For Process Improvement | Collaborative and Persuasive Leader | Influencer | Career Growth Advocate | Sense of Humor
- Role
- Director of Devops at PepsiCo
- Location
- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brett Labarge
A caring and experienced leader with extensive operational, development, DevOps and…
Experience
Director of Devops
Mar 2020 — Present · Plano, TX, US
Directing DevSecOps Transformation Tools, Standards, Controls and Best Practices to Drive Automation and Improve Deployment Frequency and Stability Key Accomplishments * Drove organization to adopt a more automated mindset by creating a CI/CD Engineering Team, focusing on technical and functional coaching on the end-to-end Software Development Life Cycle, growing automation delivery from less than 10 teams in Jan 2020 to 101 teams by end of 2022 * Lead the DevSecOps transformation across all 7 geographic business units of PepsiCo, providing best practices, standards and training to development teams across the globe. Shifting security left was a major emphasis in 2022 with a resulting 4 fold increase is security scanning by teams (from 4,300 distinct scans in 2021 to just under distinct scans in 2022)* Continued directing the adoption of Azure DevOps as PepsiCo’s Enterprise Software Delivery tool, increasing user engagement 137% from 3243 users in June 2020 to 7673 users in Dec 2022, with an emphasis on Business Users joining the planning and refinement with IT as joint partners * Enacted a technical maturity model assessment for team to self-assess and improve DevSecOps practices. Raised Technical Maturity 6.8% in 2022 -3.0 to 3.2 on 5-point scale
Education
The University of Texas at Dallas
CS, Mathematics and Computer Science
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