Mike Ehrman

About Mike Ehrman

Mike is an IT leader, data center strategist, public speaker, and community advocate. His passions include leading technology groups, Cloud, DevOps, enterprise architecture, completing complex projects, user groups, and solving elaborate problems.The primary responsibility of the first part of Mike\'s 25 year IT career was UNIX Systems Administrator. This led him into several IT Leadership opportunities. But Mike has also been responsible for managing projects, data center improvements and database administration too. He excels at communicating highly technical information that results in increased understanding, regardless of technical competency.Mike holds a B.S.(MIS) from Bowling Green State University. Improving uptime, reducing risk, financial savings, and technical project efficiencies have been major successes over the years.Since 2002, Mike has specialized in leading a number of IT teams, Data Center improvements and migrations, system design and architecture, project management, improving proficiency of system administration, Cloud, and Disaster Recovery.Mike is a life long student of process improvement, solid communication, and leadership. He enjoys spending time with and supporting his wife and 3 sons.

Experience

1. IT Senior Director - Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

   Sherwin-Williams

   Aug 2024 — Present · Cleveland, OH, US

Education

• Bowling Green State University

  BS/BA, MIS

• Hewlett-Packard Certified Professional

  Certified, HP-UX System Administrator

  1996 — 2004

Skills

• IT Strategy
• Linux System Administration
• Process Improvement
• IT Leadership
• Integration
• Database Administration
• Vendor Management
• Project Management
• Change Management
• System Administration
• IT Project Management
• Server Architecture
• IT Management
• Virtualization
• Cloud Computing
• Security
• Enterprise Architecture
• Servers
• Itil
• Social Media
• Data Center
• Disaster Recovery
• Linux
• Unix
• IT Operations