Charles Colstrom

About Charles Colstrom

Strong technical strategic leader with long-term visions that drive low cost solutions with the best interest of shareholders-extensive experience. Highly effective in developing a positive/productive work environment, with proven results of driving organizational savings. Dedicated to maintaining a reputation built on quality, service, and uncompromising ethics. Excellent collaborating skills with partners to consult on quality solutions dynamically tailored to speed, automation, and costs to meet overall organizational goals.Primary Goals: Map technology to drive business solutions.Specialties: Strategic / Tactical PlanningLeader in Agile maturity methodologies Extensive subject matter expertise in IT Services Management (ITSM) and Information Technology infrastructure library (ITIL) best practicesSkilled and knowledgeable of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles, developed guides and techniquesCloud Development & Automation SolutionsSecurity SolutionsDevOps/Automation/ScriptingEmerging technologiesResource prioritization & managementBudget ManagementTier0 ServicesVirtualization Strategies Professional Presentations

Experience

1. Server Compute and Dev Ops Cloud Leader

   UnitedHealth Group

   Jul 2011 — Present

   Leading commercial cloud DevOps services providing security and automation for our customers. Oversaw several Agile teams covering Customer Relations for Enterprise Information Security and UnitedHealthCare businesses. Delivering automated secure solutions plugging into CI/CD pipelines. Responsible for reviews of technical designs to satisfy, sizing, availability and performance requirements. Advisor for Security and Commercial DCaaS/NaaS/STaaS as various container and cloud services. An expert in developing strategic initiatives; distinguished by SVP CIO awards and nominations for 2016 & 2017 Make IT Happen & Star of Excellence. Led State of Vermont RFP, awarded a $33M contract commercial solution. Designed & delivered highly-complex HIX hybrid environment exceeding customer’s expectations and met IRS-1075, FIPS, MARS-E, PHI, and PCI requirements Managed Optum360 integrations/merger core business functions, created a project prioritization and risk assessment using items like strategic importance, transformational impact & compliance. Improved integration timelines 30% Developed DevOps platform design for cloud standards with commercial, private & hybrid—designed a best-of-class component for compute, network, storage and virtualization. Solution allowed for massive consolidation and rapid provisioning using Terraform of resources saving datacenter space Aligned critical security program and solutions with business requirements by defining new security standards using patterns reducing process exceptions requests saving over 320 hours and/or $38.5K in labor hours. Example: New database monitoring and logging with IBM Guardium management Led Tiger Team on security event/reporting, improved analytics to 93% impacting 23.5K nodes & 22K SIEM logs

Education

• Central Texas College

  Associates, Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management

  1997 — 1997

• Rio Salado Community College

  N/A, General Studies

  1990 — 1991

• Tennessee Military Academy‎

  Associates, Professional Military Education

  1986 — 2009

• University of Maryland Global Campus

  Bachelors, Computer Science

  1991 — 1993

Skills

• Tcp/Ip
• Resource Management
• Itil Certified
• Websphere
• Mac Os X
• Citrix
• Mac
• F5 Bigip
• Databases
• Firewalls
• Web Services
• Project Management
• Presentations
• Process Improvement
• System Administration
• Talent Management
• Iis
• Server Virtualization
• Virtualization
• Microsoft Exchange
• Communication
• Active Directory
• Operations Management
• System Center
• Networking
• Sharepoint
• Apache
• Checkpoint
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Department Budgeting
• Dns Server
• Mcse 2003
• Dhcp
• Sdlc
• Sas
• Scrum
• Data Center
• Microsoft Technologies
• Visual Basic
• Integration