Chuck Hellige

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About Chuck Hellige

Senior IT Systems Engineer with 20 years of progressive, in-depth experience designing, deploying, and administering enterprise system architectures for Federal and communication business industries. Aligns system development and administration processes with mission-critical objectives. Identifies and implements improvements to enterprise hardware and software platforms. Professional strengths include excellent problem solving skills, a customer-focused work ethic, and active participation in leadership of technical teams. Notable professional achievements include: Supported the design, development and deployment of the worlds first electronic Health Information Exchange (HIE). Successfully completed the Integration of this exchange between 250 VA health care systems, the Department of Defense health care system, Indian Health Care, and the National Health Information Network. Relocated a commercial data-center without interruption to service in a 24/7 environment while simultaneously increasing service availability from a best-effort environment (99%) to one with virtually no down time Successfully deployed and maintained the IT infrastructure for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. This 35-venue infrastructure included several large venues that were not accessible for deployment until just two weeks before the games began. Participated in the design and launch of one of the first PKI companies issuing SSL Certificates and other data encryption solutions for Internet users. Was also team lead on the project that resulted in worlds first digitally signed online mortgage.