Lance Roller

About Lance Roller

Experienced infrastructure leader who is responsible for driving the vision and management of an Engineering team and for leading the ongoing execution of Engineering initiatives, including product selection, life-cycle management, configuration, documentation and escalation support. Thrives in an environment that is both dynamic and challenging and offers an opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies that influence the direction of the technology roadmap. Excellent leadership, technical expertise, and solid communication skills.

Experience

1. VP Emerging Infrastructure & Solutions Engineering

   MetLife

   Mar 2019 — Present · Raleigh-Durham, NC, US

   Responsible for leading, overseeing and coordinating multiple large scale and/or complex infrastructure initiatives that incorporate proactive and innovative solutions to address business challenges supporting MetLife\'s vision of driving savings, leveraging scale and offering a differentiated customer experience. Promotes, educates and provides thought leadership with new technologies and methodologies for emerging trends partnering with Engineering, Operations and Application Development organizations across the globe. Leads a diverse organization of technologists with primary focus on Cloud (IaaS & PaaS), containerization, application/infrastructure performance insights, big data & automation.

Education

• Utica College of Syracuse University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Science

  1981 — 1985

• Pace University

  Master of Science (MS), Information Systems / Telecommunications

  1993 — 1996

Skills

• IT Strategy
• Engineering Management
• Cloudera Impala
• Cloud Computing