Jacob Ping

About Jacob Ping

Strategically focused and accomplished IT leader with a proven record for driving global strategies and delivering results in a fast-paced demanding environment. Dedicated professional with comprehensive experience in information technology, spanning development, engineering, support, and enterprise architecture. Consistently build strong working relationships with stakeholders to fully understand business and technology needs; develop architectures to fulfill while managing costs, risks, and architectural standards. Proven team leader with a track record of successful design and development of standardized automated processes and workflows to manage infrastructure elements, including system and user provisioning, business continuity, as well as highly available enterprise solutions for applications critical to business success.

Experience

1. Lead Enterprise Architect

   Northwestern Mutual

   Feb 2020 — Present · Franklin, WI, US

   Results driven technical leader with a proven track record of driving complex, high-impact IT initiatives to success. In 2024, led a data center failover and shutdown effort, ensuring business requirements were consistently met and limited downtime, by bridging technical and leadership gaps by coordinating cross functional teams, developing recovery architectures and managing critical change schedules. Spearheaded disaster recovery planning by developing Enterprise Disaster Recovery frameworks like our Technology Recovery Sequence and disaster recovery playbooks to ensure seamless execution under tight timelines. Demonstrated exceptional leadership during Business Process Functional Exercises by navigating sensitive stakeholder dynamics to address server and application recovery gaps.Ensured all functional and non-functional requirements were met during the implementation of our ransomware protection implementation. Led multiple workstreams for data center shutdown / migration efforts as well as full data center recovery exercises. I\'ve achieved an \"Exceeds Expectations\" performance rating for 3 of the 5 years at Northwestern Mutual.

Education

• University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

  BS, Geography

  1992 — 1997

Skills

• Network Administration
• Virtualization
• Operating Systems
• Troubleshooting
• Databases
• Citrix
• Infrastructure
• Perl
• IT Service Management
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Red Hat Linux
• Solaris
• Disaster Recovery
• Vmware Esx
• Data Center
• Windows 7
• San
• IT Operations
• Oracle
• Firewalls
• Microsoft Sql Server
• IT Management
• Unix Shell Scripting
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Itil
• Performance Tuning
• Redhat
• Dns
• Visio
• Integration
• Linux
• Software Documentation
• Active Directory
• Unix
• Windows Server
• Hardware