David M. Roth
Raleigh,NC
Summary
Technology leader driving proven results within highly regulated industries. Manages complex occupational issues while meeting business objectives. Strong operational skills and solid experience regulating policies and managing budget expenditures. Collaborates with management teams and stakeholders to uphold company vision.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Director of Site Reliability Engineering
Elevance Heath
10.2022 - Current
- Cultivated culture of innovation by promoting creative thinking and encouraging employees to take calculated risks in pursuit of solutions.
- Managed strategic business planning and implementation by reducing incidents by 50% and improving user experiences.
- Led development of business operation processes and policies.
- Developed strong relationships with key industry partners, fostering collaboration and mutual growth opportunities.
- Enhanced customer satisfaction by implementing service improvements based on metrics and feedback analysis.
- Managed risk effectively by identifying potential threats, developing contingency plans, and implementing mitigation strategies in line with overall business objectives.
- Built Site Reliability Engineering geo diverse 200 member team improving mean time to recovery by 60%.
- Innovated AIOps solutions reducing manual toil.
- Optimized Cloud cost efficiency and transparency saving over 2m year over year.
- Grew talent pool by actively recruiting top-tier candidates from diverse backgrounds while implementing robust training programs for skill development across all levels of staff members.
Senior Vice President, Director of Quality
Truist
08.2021 - 10.2022
- Delivered exceptional customer service by implementing best practices and fostering a culture of accountability within the organization.
- Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
- Developed measurement tools, dashboards, and reports to track metrics on adoption and effectiveness of initiatives.
- Optimized budgeting processes for greater transparency and control over financial resources, resulting in more informed decisionmaking.
- Built SRE practice by improving our observability posture and reducing toil with infrastructure as code.
- Improved code quality posture by implementing static analysis, synthetic data, and quality engineering good practice.
Senior Vice President Cloud Product Enablement
Truist
05.2020 - 08.2021
- Championed innovation by encouraging cross-functional teams to pursue creative solutions to complex challenges.
- Cultivated positive relationships with employees by implementing Agile ceremonies to resolve issues, provide feedback and brainstorm.
- Developed comprehensive roadmaps outlining the product vision, goals, and milestones for successful execution.
- Fostered a culture of continuous improvement through regular retrospective meetings with the team.
- Proactively identified risks associated with project timelines or deliverables, implementing mitigation strategies when necessary.
- Responsible overall vision of the entire product suite of the Automation Guild.
- Modernized the run of dev ops applications with infrastructure as code, ELK telemetry and git ops principles.
Distinguished Technologist
Truist (BB&T)
04.2016 - 05.2020
- Championed best practices in software development methodologies that resulted in fewer defects being introduced into production environments.
- Spearheaded the migration of legacy systems onto modern platforms while minimizing disruptions to daily operations.
- Evaluated emerging technologies for potential integration into existing systems, keeping the company at the forefront of industry advancements.
- Established a culture of continuous learning and professional development within the technology team, enhancing overall skills and capabilities.
- Built the internal OpenStack cloud.
- Managed the Automation Guild's product backlog.
- Led the DevOps arm of our Digital Transformation efforts.
Staff Software Engineer
Lenovo
09.2014 - 04.2016
- Consistently met project deadlines, prioritizing tasks effectively and maintaining open lines of communication with stakeholders.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products on schedule.
- Managed source code repositories, enforcing version control policies and facilitating efficient collaboration among team members.
- Built and propagated the continuous integration build model.
- Designed scalable architectures to support increasing user traffic and maintain system stability.
Staff Software Engineer
IBM
10.2011 - 09.2014
- Configuration Patterns Release Lead
- Code Quality Champion
- Development Advocate -Test Automation Summit
- Designed scalable architectures to support increasing user traffic and maintain system stability.
- Led architecture discussions, guiding the team in making informed decisions about technology choices for various projects.
- Agile Champion
Software Engineer
IBM, CTG
03.2005 - 10.2011
Software Architect
Benchmark Automation
03.2002 - 03.2005
Senior Process Control Engineer
LTV Steel
06.1998 - 12.2001
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Business Admin
Ohio Northern University
Ada, OH1998
Skills
- Java, JavaScript, Python, HCL, Groovy, C/C, JSON, XML, xslt, SQL, Visual Basic
- Technologies: AWS, Azure, OpenStack, OpenShift, infrastructure as code, gitops, Cloud Native applications, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, DataDog, Apigee, Kafka, Redis, Vault, ELK stack, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Dynatrace, PagerDuty, Gremlin, Splunk, Snitch, GenRocket, CHEF, Test Driven Development, Selenium, Cypress, Digital Transformation, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, REST, Swagger, Jenkins, GitLab, Artifactory, Gradle, Maven, Ant, Git, Angular, VMWare, Agile, SonarQube, object modeling, DB2, Oracle RDB, MS SQL Server
- Team building abilities
- Policy Development
- Culture Transformation
- Collaborative Leadership
- Team Management
- Budget Management
- Strategies and goals
- Strategic Planning
- Operations Management
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Certified Product Owner
Patents
Timeline
Senior Director of Site Reliability Engineering
Elevance Heath
10.2022 - Current
Senior Vice President, Director of Quality
Truist
08.2021 - 10.2022
Senior Vice President Cloud Product Enablement
Truist
05.2020 - 08.2021
Distinguished Technologist
Truist (BB&T)
04.2016 - 05.2020
Staff Software Engineer
Lenovo
09.2014 - 04.2016
Staff Software Engineer
IBM
10.2011 - 09.2014
Software Engineer
IBM, CTG
03.2005 - 10.2011
Software Architect
Benchmark Automation
03.2002 - 03.2005
Senior Process Control Engineer
LTV Steel
06.1998 - 12.2001
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Business Admin
Ohio Northern University