Jeff S.

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About Jeff S.

I am a results-driven IT professional that can lead successful implementations by leveraging vendors, products, current staff and systems effectively. My years of experience provide me with a profound understand of both technology and business enabling me to engage teams across disciplines in effective collaboration. I cultivate strategic relationships with both company associates and with 3rd party vendors/providers. I am a skilled negotiator that always looks for win-win solutions. • Migrated to SAP Hana, one year later upgraded to Hana 2.0 • Decreased time to deploy application servers from two days to 10 minutes through Salt Stack automation and DevOps process improvement. • Increased eCommerce performance by tuning databases, application servers, optimizing code, modernizing old equipment, from 350 to 2100 orders per minute. • Decreased production outages caused by application servers by designing better processes, and then automating them to remove human error, from 2 per week to 2 per quarter. • By finding overlapping licenses, migrating to cheaper license types, negotiating better terms saved annually on software licenses. • Improved and standardized load testing, implemented formal processes, implemented SLAs, established cross department standard testing in each sprint deployment. • Implemented GDPR after competing two identity management vendors and saved 75%. • By replacing Akami with Fastly CDN improved hits, saved in service fees annually • Researching options and replacing AppDynamics with NewRelic, Saved annually. Specialties: Talent Management and Growth, E-Commerce, Web Application Management, Business Portfolio Assessment, SAP Basis Management, Data Architecture, Database Administration, Project Management, Outsourcing Management, Contract Administration and Negotiation, Budgeting, International IT, Global Infrastructure Monitoring