Sean Parkinson

About Sean Parkinson

Results-proven IT Manager offering 15-year track record of progressive management achievements. Broad experience across multiple industries and technical projects including infrastructure operations and maintenance, project management, strategic process improvement, application migration, deployment and administration, shared storage consolidation and administration, and virtualization technologies. Agilely embraces change and thrives on tackling the toughest business challenges, blending strategic vision, entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial drive, hands-on technical experience, and the ability to effectively communicate the value of technical solutions to the business.Specialties:• Infrastructure Operations & Maintenance Management• Change Management and Buy-in• Cultivation of Client Relationships• Alignment of Technology Solutions to Business Needs• Strategic Resource Allocation and Tactical IT Project Execution• Enterprise Information Technology Lifecycle

Experience

1. IT Consultant

   OneGlobe LLC

   May 2020 — Present · Reston, VA, US

   Manages a Team of 50+ supporting day-to-day operations and maintenance of the FEMA GO System, a fully containerized, microservice-based system in AWS GovCloud. Includes delivery management of multiple, cross-functional Agile DevSecOps Teams (business analysts, developers, devops engineers, software development engineers in test, and security engineers), delivering development support for cadenced work from the FEMA GO roadmap, platform support for the FEMA GO platform, Tier 3 production support for FEMA GO users, and strategic technical debt remediation. Leads the Team in day-to-day Kanban project execution acting as primary POC for project escalations and coordination. Provides programmatic oversight day-to-day, including production support (incident/problem management), change and configuration management, Agile process improvement, metrics development, reporting, and technical continuous improvement efforts across the program Managed a Team of 16 (Business Analysts, Cloud Engineers, Database Administrators, DevOps Engineers, and Full-Stack Developers) to support ongoing sustainment and development of mission-critical, legacy grants management and reporting systems. Led the Team in day-to-day Agile Scrum project execution acting as primary PoC for solution Product Owners. The Team planned and deployed AWS GovCloud infrastructure in anticipation of a lift-shift of these legacy systems to the AWS cloud, including the driving and completion of Authorization (ATO and ATP) for these systems, and the successful migration of multiple system to AWS,Led a Team of 14 (Business Analysts, Cloud Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and Full-Stack Developers, and Scrum Masters) to support the design and deployment of an identity pipeline, a cloud-native platform for reconciling identities across disparate systems. Led day-to-day Agile Scrum project execution acting as primary PoC for solution Product Owner.

Education

• George Mason University

  B.A., Psychology

  1994 — 2005

• The Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School

  M.S., Information & Telecommunication Systems for Business

  2007 — 2010

Skills

• Program Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Data Center
• IT Service Management
• Information Assurance
• Databases
• Change Management
• Project Management
• IT Strategy
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Pmo
• Solaris
• Unix
• Virtualization
• Management Consulting
• Security
• Enterprise Architecture
• Business Process Improvement
• Servers
• Itil
• Project Management Office (Pmo)