Walter Darby
Principal/Director, Cloud Platform Engineering
- Role
- Principal, IT Automation Center of Excellence Center for Enablement at MetLife
- Location
- Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Walter Darby
Senior IT leader with more than 25 years experience encompassing multiple areas of IT Process Automation, Data Center Management, Public and Private Cloud, Cybersecurity, Server, OS, Application Support, Database Operations, Workflow Automation, IT Service Management, Change and Release Management and Disaster Recovery - 11 years of results driven management experience across Information Technology - Extensive experience using automation to provide value and cost savings to the enterprise - Operations management experience of multi-site data centers hosting servers - Experience managing large technology projects with budgets of $5 million - Global management experience including European, Indian and Far East resources - Expose to multiple agile and Lean processes and disciplines - Strong track record of talent identification and team formation - MBA with focus on Technology Specialties: Technology Leadership IT Process Automation IT Transformation IT Service Implementation IT Service Management IT Standards and Governance Thought Leadership Center of Excellence Digital Collaboration (VTC, WebeX, MS Teams and Surface hub) Information Security and Identity Management Infrastructure, Database and Application Operations Server/Application Architecture Data Center and Command Center Operations Workflow Automation Systems Integration Cloud Hosting/IaaS Audit and Compliance (IT and business) Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 4 certified) Relationship Management Vendor Management Team Building Performance Management Talent Development Conflict Resolution Mentoring and Career Development Industries: Insurance, Finance, Banking, Software, Government, Consulting
Experience
Principal, IT Automation Center of Excellence Center for Enablement
Dec 2019 — Present · Cary, NC
The Principal Automation Engineer is a member of the IT Automation Center for Enablement providing guidance across all automation efforts within MetLife. This automation engineer will be responsible for providing strategic direction for IT process automation solutions in support of the overall enterprise automation initiative and will act a Subject Matter Expert in ITPA, Orchestration Services, and Artificial Intelligence technologies as they apply to enterprise scale process automation.
Education
Northeastern University
Master of Business Administration (MBA), High Tech MBA
State University of New York at Albany
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management Information Systems and Finance
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