Deborah Shaddon

About Deborah Shaddon

Solid IT solution/enterprise architect, technology product owner, and principal engineer. Lots of delivery experience on many types of projects, leveraging many types of technologies, in many types of industries, enterprises to startup. Comfortable being hands on to strategic. Recognized technology leader, published technology author. Strong advocate in #Tech4Good space, organizer and member of many civic improvement, disaster response hackathon tech events. STEM mentor, Women in Technology mentor. At Lowe\'s, currently preforming a role of Principal Software Engineer, responsible for domain area of \'corporate services\', including Finance (Oracle Cloud and ERP), HR, and many internal systems from vendor to custom development. At US Foods, current lead of application and technology architecture teams driving solution standards and roadmaps, as well as product owner for the cloud technology space, focused on AWS. Additionally, primary architecture lead for the application engineering space, including SRE/CloudOperations/DevSecOps teams. Selected to attend the prestigious Women’s Foodservice Forum (WFF) leadership conference representing US Foods IT in 2018. 20+ years of solid architectural delivery experience, across areas such as Cloud, Integration/SOA/Microservices, Application Development, Platform Architecture, Master Data Management, Performance/Quality Engineering, Technology Architecture, Enterprise Solutions, Portfolio/Domain Architecture. Recognized as a strong senior organizational technology leader, collaborator, and mentor. Well versed at building architectural relationships across the enterprise, including: business, customer, partner, vendor, development, infrastructure, and operations. Valued for experience, pragmatic approaches, critical thinking, work ethic, technology diversity, adaptability for new technology, and ability to drive organizational technology innovation and adoption forward. Primarily a senior individual contributor but also have led teams of 10 people. Classically trained software engineer/architect (Master’s Degree and TOGAF), balances this with open source, lean, and agile techniques (Product Owner and Scrum master).

Experience

1. Principal Engineer - Enterprise Architect

   Advantage Solutions

   Jan 2024 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

Education

• DePaul University

  Masters of Science, Software Engineering

  2000 — 2009

• Bradley University

  Bachelor of Science, Business - Management Information Systems

Skills

• Technical Architecture
• Volunteer Community Management
• Multi-Cultural Team Building
• Agile Methodologies
• Community Organizing
• Web Services
• Disaster Response
• Sdlc
• Social Media
• Solution Architecture
• Virtual Teams
• .net
• Master Data Management
• Java
• Crisis Management
• Modeling
• Websphere
• Ethical Hacker
• Mdm
• Soa
• Published Author
• Infrastructure
• Data Center
• Technology Architecture
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Architectures
• Architecture
• Web Applications
• Improvisation
• Cloud Computing
• Devops
• Disaster Recovery
• Design Patterns
• Data Warehousing
• Blogging
• Governance
• IT Strategy
• Cloud Applications
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)