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Bill Garrett

Parma,OH

Summary

Strategic thought leader with the proven ability to identify problems early and solve them before becoming critical. Emotionally intelligent people leader with a record of developing actively engaged employees who are willing to take risks and rejoice in the opportunity to delight their business partners.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Director - ED&I Technology

Sherwin Williams
02.2024 - Current
  • Influenced multiple employees to pursue positions better aligned with their career objectives and Sherwin Williams' needs
  • Identified team topologies resulting in accomplishment of intended business objectives without need for this role or staff

Manager - Data Science

Sherwin Williams
02.2023 - 02.2024
  • Built, managed, and developed data science platform, solutions delivery, and enablement teams
  • Identified staff augmentation strategy which increased team burst capacity while minimizing dilution of culture and maintaining ownership of decisions and relationships
  • Defined team topology for wider data science team in order to minimize cognitive burden and localize ownership and decision making responsibilities within well defined and limited domains

Manager - Cloud and Container Platforms

Sherwin Williams
05.2022 - 02.2023
  • Built, managed, and developed two platform teams including cloud platform team and container orchestration platform team.
  • Enabled significant growth of container orchestration platform increasing estimated containerized workloads from 10% of total up to 70%.

Lead Cloud Engineer

Sherwin Williams
08.2019 - 05.2022
  • Led Sherwin Williams GitOps Community of Practice
  • Enabled development teams in Infrastructure as Code and Azure to facilitate adoption of cloud practices

Sr Oracle DBA

Sherwin Williams
12.2016 - 08.2019
  • Established working relationships across various departments including those with significant internal political challenges
  • Authored scripts to manage memory allocation of shared Exadata infrastructure

Sr Oracle DBA

Skillsoft
09.2012 - 09.2016
  • Identified infrastructure changes resulting in 300% performance improvement with no budget add

Manager - Global Data Centers

Diebold
03.2007 - 06.2012
  • Led direct reports for over 3 years
  • Managed all aspects of $5 million DR data center build from inception through completion and finished on time and on budget

Sr Data Warehouse Developer

GOJO
06.2001 - 03.2007
  • Generated reports, maintaining dimensional as well as relational data structures and managing operational data store and data warehouse.
  • Developed data access layer which removed significant cognitive burden from web developers and improving their velocity by 3x
  • Overrode ASP.NET page class with custom state management to enable HA without having to expose such complexity to web developers

Skills

  • Strategic Planning
  • Team Topologies
  • Staff Development
  • Servant Leadership
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Talent acquisition/retention
  • Data Science
  • Data Analytics
  • Learning Agility
  • Self Organizing Teams
  • Project Management
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud
  • SQL
  • Java
  • C#
  • Python
  • Azure
  • Oracle

Timeline

Director - ED&I Technology

Sherwin Williams
02.2024 - Current

Manager - Data Science

Sherwin Williams
02.2023 - 02.2024

Manager - Cloud and Container Platforms

Sherwin Williams
05.2022 - 02.2023

Lead Cloud Engineer

Sherwin Williams
08.2019 - 05.2022

Sr Oracle DBA

Sherwin Williams
12.2016 - 08.2019

Sr Oracle DBA

Skillsoft
09.2012 - 09.2016

Manager - Global Data Centers

Diebold
03.2007 - 06.2012

Sr Data Warehouse Developer

GOJO
06.2001 - 03.2007

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