Jace Barbera

About Jace Barbera

Dynamic Senior Technology Executive with more than two decades of progressive leadership spanning global infrastructure, network engineering, cloud modernization, and large‑scale operational transformation. As the Senior Vice President of Network Engineering, I have led enterprise‑wide initiatives that strengthened resiliency, modernized core infrastructure, and elevated operational excellence across complex, mission‑critical environments.I bring a proven record of delivering major outcomes, advancing stability programs that materially reduced mean‑time‑to‑resolve incidents while deploying automation at scale to process thousands of monthly events and streamline operations. This role is also responsible for driving accelerated migration and modernization efforts across cloud, network, and observability platforms to enhance reliability and reduce operational complexity. In my current position, I have been spearheading infrastructure initiatives including high‑severity incident prevention mechanisms, large‑scale voice and network migrations, and automation‑driven change execution focused on improving enterprise performance and safeguarding business‑critical services.Routinely accountable for organizational budgets exceeding $20M and programs surpassing $90M, I operate as a strategic partner to C‑suite executives with a communication style honed through years of direct executive reporting and enterprise‑wide influence. I am deeply experienced in shaping and guiding high‑performing engineering organizations, with a decade of hands‑on leadership for global teams of 200+ professionals. My approach blends engineering depth with financial discipline, operational rigor, and a strong command of maintenance, reliability, and automation frameworks.A decisive and execution‑driven leader, I excel in high‑stakes environments including war‑room command leadership during critical system incidents and remain directly engaged in resolving the most complex technical challenges. I bring structure, clarity, and calm to the most demanding situations, delivering transformative, measurable outcomes across infrastructure, cloud, network engineering, and enterprise reliability. I seek out senior or executive‑level opportunities where I can drive strategy, modernize large‑scale platforms, and elevate organizational performance across the entire technology stack.

Experience

1. Senior Vice President Sr Director Network Technology Services

   U.S. Bank

   Sep 2019 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US

   Enterprise infrastructure leader with 25+ years driving global reliability, modernization, and cost efficient transformation across mission critical environments. I combine engineering depth with operational rigor and financial discipline, routinely overseeing budgets >$20M and programs >$90M while partnering directly with the C suite.I build high performing, hands on teams and excel in high stakes settings such as, war room command leadership, complex incident response, and executive level communication. My approach centers on resilience, automation, and disciplined change management to deliver measurable business outcomes.Highlights Include:• Advanced an enterprise stability program that reduced MTTR and scaled automation to process thousands of monthly events, with significant auto closures that freed engineering capacity for higher value work.• Executed large scale network and voice transformations (e.g, SD WAN expansion; migration from legacy voice to modern collaboration platforms) with rigorous change orchestration and outage mitigation automations.• Accelerated observability consolidation to a unified platform, retiring legacy tooling and simplifying monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics across distributed systems.• Led lab and production automation (10K+ test scripts across major network/security platforms) to improve quality, reduce change risk, and shorten release cycles.• Drove cost and ticket noise reduction through event deduplication and tiering strategies lowering monthly operational costs and improving support responsiveness.• Delivered PCI and compliance related infrastructure updates ahead of plan, strengthening control posture while maintaining performance and availability.

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

  BBA, Management Information Systems

  1994 — 1999

Skills

• Websphere Portal
• Cognos
• Aix
• Unix
• Security
• Websphere
• Integration
• Ibm Http Server
• Application Servers
• Websphere Application Server
• E-Commerce
• Oracle
• Vendor Management
• Apache
• Soa
• Business Intelligence
• Technical Architecture
• Websphere Mq
• Cluster
• Leadership
• Ibm Websphere Commerce
• Middleware
• Ibm Iseries
• System Administration
• Design Patterns