Christopher Bartsch
Snohomish,WA
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Principle System Architect
TechMahindra USA (AT&T)
10.2019 - Current
- Established consolidated operations team to efficiently operate multiple applications as they transitioned from legacy implementations to target state architecture.
- Increased management and delivery responsibility from 2 applications to 10.
- Managing the migration of SMS customers to a Mulesoft platform, in support of $300M line of business for the client.
- Completed the migration of over 25 APIs from Apigee platform to Mulesoft, leading to the shutdown of Apigee platform and client savings of $.5M annually.
- Built strong relationships with clients through pro-active communications, positive outlook and successful delivery
- Ensured seamless migration from legacy systems to modern platforms with minimal disruptions to daily operations.
- Reduced maintenance costs by identifying areas for system optimization, reducing application footprint and refactoring outdated code bases as needed.
- Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.
- Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.
- Provided technical leadership to team members during system design.
- Built a custom python solution to migrate Oracle database to MySQL.
Lead Technical Architect
AT&T
06.2012 - 09.2019
- Led team through a major transition and complete re-write of the AT&T Developer Program website
- Collaborated with FirstNet team to design and build a developer program modeled off of the AT&T developer program. Project was on time and under budget.
- Worked with Data Marketing team to introduce a new search engine (Autonomy) to provide enhanced search capabilities to developer program site.
- Led effort to replace high-cost inefficient Web Content Management system (Art Technology Group) with an java-based open source alternative (Crafter)
- Monitored and analyzed project costs and resource allocation to mitigate overages.
- Solicited bids from contractors and negotiated to secure best possible prices.
- Evaluated project requirements to identify and mitigate risks.
- Worked with expanded team to launch a new API platform tailored to 3rd party developers. Maintained responsibility for all customer onboarding and lifecycle management.
- Attended team meetings to resolve technical and project issues and review project schedules.
Various
AT&T
08.1997 - 05.2012
- Held multiple roles and managed teams of up to 100 employees and contractors.
- Worked on Teradata based enterprise data warehouse
- Business Intelligence and Reporting
- Quality Assurance
Education
Bachelor of Science - Economics
North Dakota State University
Fargo05.1988
Skills
- Requirements Gathering
- Application Operations and Administration
- Resource Planning and Allocation
- Application security
- Problem Management
- DevOps Principles and Practices
- Agile Principles and Delivery
- Technical Support and Assistance
- Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
- Cloud Computing
- Cost estimation and control
- Technical Guidance
- Continuous Integration and Deployment
- Proficient in Python
- Linux CLI and scripting
- Database Administration
Accomplishments
- Recently Supervised teams of up to 20 members.
- Collaborated with AT&T team to complete 3 of the first 4 application migrations from on-prem to Azure Cloud
- Successfully took on management of 8 applications in addition to the 2 already responsible for.
- Took over multiple struggling on-prem to Azure migrations and successfully completed them
Timeline
Principle System Architect
TechMahindra USA (AT&T)
10.2019 - Current
Lead Technical Architect
AT&T
06.2012 - 09.2019
Various
AT&T
08.1997 - 05.2012
Bachelor of Science - Economics
North Dakota State University
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