Darryl Brown
Lutz,FL
Summary
With over 25 years of experience as a seasoned IT Architect and Analyst, the primary focus is on ensuring customer satisfaction through cloud transformations. Specializing in delivering infrastructure as code transformations, DevSecOps integrations, and observability solutions. By leveraging expertise, able to reduce cognitive load for cross-functional teams, enabling successful delivery of high-profile projects and innovative solutions for valued customers. Thrives in collaborative environments and dedicated to working closely with teams to efficiently and cost-effectively complete projects.
Overview
41
41
years of professional experience
Work History
AVP-Senior Principal Engineer – Azure Engineering
MetLife Investments
01.2018 - Current
- I work with multiple product teams to design solutions and architectural drawings for the cloud-native approach to legacy application refactoring
- Engineered designs achieving an 80% reduction in TCO relative to the older on-prem application.
- Cloud-deployed configurations have 60% fewer reported incidents based on the design approach over the on-prem applications
- Designed and developed the Infrastructure as Code approach for our application deployments
- Leveraged a MetLife Fit for Purpose private module registry approach to build a governance model to allow product teams to manage infrastructure securely in the normal release cycle
- Lead a team of 7 in the design, development, and deployment of Azure monitoring and patch management activities
- Provide solutions architecture for application design for moving on-prem applications into cloud environments (received 3 consecutive: Above and Beyond Team awards for the innovative design approach)
- Led engineering efforts that helped Investments IT achieve 2/3 of the FY 2019 Azure planning and migration goals before the end of Q2
- Planned/ Implemented a framework for cloud naming and tagging standards
- Designed tooling approach, code development workflow, and code for the infrastructure as code approach for MetLife Investments IT
Branch Manager: Data Analytics Service
Jacobs Technology
11.2017 - 01.2018
- Company Overview: (Contract Change)
- My responsibilities extended beyond the Cloud/Data Analytics Service Line
- Spearheaded the development of enterprise service delivery through successful Agile transformations.
- (Contract Change)
Crew Lead: Data Analytics Service
CSRA (Formerly CSC)
10.2006 - 11.2017
- Led team of 11+ as part of Cloud/Data Analytics-focused Service Line
- Hired as an Applications Designer, and then continuously promoted due to my ability to lead teams and successfully deliver a series of complex software initiatives
- Manage a cross-functional team of 11 developers, architects, data scientists, analysts, and software engineers
- Develop career pathing programs for team members, providing routine feedback and development direction that’s in line with organization goals
- Created new organizational design for Data Analytics/Enterprise Data Hub operation and sustainment teams, composing the contractual language…
- Overall output, high-level client satisfaction ratings, and direct negotiation led to the success of a $15M and $22M contract extension Applications Development Manager
- Led 15+ developers/administrators for multiple contracts simultaneously in my role as a senior leader at CSC in addition to my contract role leading a team of 11
- Developed application design to ensure project efficiency for 800+ users Mobile Application Developer
- Managed application design team for US Army Civil Affairs Mission efforts
- Created core patterns to increase overall team productivity with each sprint Led application Design
- Developed internet/intranet web applications for US Air Force award fee assessments
- Built multi-application state machine workflow engine in PL/SQL
- Nominated for the Chairman’s Accomplishment Award
Senior Analyst, Software Development
Select Ticketing/ DPT/ Camp Dresser & McKee/ Oracle/ Execusys
07.1989 - 10.2006
- Worked with a select group of high-level organizations to design, develop, and deploy production solutions
- Lead distributed teams in the deployment and operations of n-tier web applications
- Developed the accounting software that processed monthly contract financials in the format delivered by the United States Air Force
- The accuracy of the accounting application led to $1M+ of recovered missing funds and offender identification
- Supervised the new product testing and customer issue escalation lab
- Coordinated with senior management on new product progress throughout the evaluation
- Proactively developed a complex switching PC-PC Failover mechanism that was eventually added to controller firmware
- Managed all aspects of business hardware installation including, product build, as well as integration, testing, and assembly
Electronics Warfare Technician (E5)
United States Navy
07.1984 - 07.1990
- Optimized procedures resulting in enhanced performance by designing a modified launch service access panel.
- Navy
- Enlisted Surface Warfare Certification
- Division work center and supply supervisor
Education
MBA - Technology Management
Colorado Technical University
Colorado Springs, CO01.2015
BS - Information Technology – Software Engineering
University of Phoenix
01.2012
AS - Information Technology - Networking
University of Phoenix
01.2010
Skills
- Terraform IaC
- DevSecOps
- Ansible Playbook
- Solution Architecture
- Azure Cloud
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- T-SQL
- PL/SQL
- HTML
- VBScript
- Terraform
- Ansible Playbooks
- GitHub
- Azure DevOps
- Hadoop
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- MVVM
- MVC
- DDD
- Android SDK
- Rest Services
- Agile Scrum
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Application life cycle management
- SOW review processing
- Thought leadership
- Organizational design
- Training planning
Specialization - Focused Areas
- Application life cycle management
- SOW review processing
- Thought leadership
- Organizational design
- Training planning
Honors And Awards
- Above & Beyond Award, 02/01/22, Global Recognition for our team application refactoring efforts
- Above & Beyond Award, 08/01/21, Global Recognition for our team efforts in a cloud-native application deployment
- Above & Beyond Award, 11/01/20, Global Recognition for our team efforts in a Hybrid customer-facing application delivery
Timeline
AVP-Senior Principal Engineer – Azure Engineering
MetLife Investments
01.2018 - Current
Branch Manager: Data Analytics Service
Jacobs Technology
11.2017 - 01.2018
Crew Lead: Data Analytics Service
CSRA (Formerly CSC)
10.2006 - 11.2017
Senior Analyst, Software Development
Select Ticketing/ DPT/ Camp Dresser & McKee/ Oracle/ Execusys
07.1989 - 10.2006
Electronics Warfare Technician (E5)
United States Navy
07.1984 - 07.1990
AS - Information Technology - Networking
University of Phoenix
MBA - Technology Management
Colorado Technical University
BS - Information Technology – Software Engineering
University of Phoenix
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