Dan Felix

About Dan Felix

Team Leadership & Staff Development * Technology Evaluation & Recommendation* Project Planning & Execution * Operations & Support Management* Budget Development & Management * Vendor ManagementValue-conscious Information Technology professional focused on strategic planning, managing, and building teams tasked with implementing, operating, and maintaining information technology infrastructure including data center facilities, computing platforms, local and wide-area networks, security, storage, end-user-computing, telecommunications, and other business-supporting systems. Embracing lean and agile methodologies is consistent with a career-long emphasis on continuous learning and improving the way systems, people, and process work to produce results.

Experience

1. Senior Engineer (Cloud & Devops Engineering)

   Northwestern Mutual

   Jan 2015 — Present · Milwaukee, WI, US

   May 2018 - Present: Senior Engineer in the consolidated Cloud & DevOps Engineering groupJanuary 2017 - May 2018: Member of the \"Automation Train\" within Northwestern Mutual\'s reinvented Infrastucture & Operations organization. My team leads the efforts for on-premise development and support of IT automation and CI/CD capabilities for the company\'s emerging automation pipeline. We\'re building out and advancing the utilization of Atlassian Jira, GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, Ansible Tower, and Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager. In addition, my team also supports our legacy CI/CD tools such as TeamCity and UrbanCode.August 2016 - December 2016: Working to advance Infrastructure Automation and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery using tools like Ansible Tower within the Enterprise Projects & Support organization; a key component of NM\'s agile IT transformation.January 2015 - July 2016: Consultative/lead role within the Enterprise Technology Management (ETM) group with a focus on engineering and delivery of infrastructure solutions; broadly aligned with Systems Management, Service Management, and Monitoring including Predictive Analytics.In addition to project delivery oversight, I work with Architecture and Infrastructure Renewal Portfolio (IRP) groups for longer-term planning and current-year financial management and prioritization of IT investments.I\'ve been engaged in, and advocate for, the company\'s Solution Delivery Transformation efforts which focus on developing agile and lean IT methodologies within the organization. Trained in the Scrum framework, I also participate in an inter-company collaboration geared toward sharing experiences with scaling-up agile, primarily using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Education

• University of Notre Dame

  BBA

Skills

• Business Continuity
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Integration
• Sql
• System Monitoring
• Project Management
• Scrum
• Citrix
• Infrastructure
• San
• Agile Methodologies
• Storage
• Consulting
• Management
• Network Security
• Strategic Planning
• Agile Leadership
• Cisco Technologies
• Leadership
• Technical Support
• Virtualization
• Windows Server
• Information Security
• Information Technology
• Telecommunications
• Analysis
• Vpn
• Firewalls
• Databases
• Data Center
• Servers
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Process Improvement
• Wireless
• Urban Agriculture
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Vendor Management