ERIC KREINAR
CHAPEL HILL,NC
Summary
Diverse IT leader with over 20 years of successful software product development, management and enterprise architecture improvement. Motivational manager with a history of meeting deadlines with small and large teams in fast-paced environments. Cloud architect with deep understanding of cloud native ecosystems, AI/ML infrastructure and open-source application development. Collaborative leader with dedication to partnering with coworkers to promote engaged, empowering work culture.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Director
IQVIA
Durham, NC
06.2020 - Current
- Lead cross functional and alternatives analysis of product architectures across portfolio, certifying of over1000 investments thus far.
- Work with business owners, engineers and data scientists to align development and use of AI/ML technology platforms with business domain problems and cost constraints.
- Reduce technical debt and optimize technology investment by shifting left in product life cycle, resulting in technology and services cost reduction.
- Collaborate with product owners and architects to identify opportunities for technology and platform re-use.
- Develop data platform architectures aligned with product strategies, incorporating Snowflake, Azure Databricks, Cloudera, Azure Data Factory, Confluent Kafka, Mulesoft, and AWS cloud services
- Developed over a dozen reference architectures for storage, processing and sharing of sensitive and personal health information in the cloud
- Promote migration to event driven architectures that support near real time data transformation and analytics
- Liaise with engineering teams, global privacy and information security to assure solution architectures are compliant with policy and control requirements.
Senior Cloud Architect
Basecamp Consulting and Services, LLC
11.2017 - 06.2020
- Develop application portfolio rationalization, migration and modernization strategy including decomposition of monolithic applications into microservices
- Develop roadmap and reference architectures for optimal adoption of cloud services on AWS
- Develop AWS cloud network, storage and compute architecture within multi-account strategy based on AWS Organizations capabilities
- Design VPC/subnets/endpoints/routing/IAM, EC2/EBS sizing, RDS, CloudWatch Logs, CloudTrails, S3, Splunk, Ansible and CloudFormation automation
- Develop proof of concept deployed to AWS integrated multi-VPC environment including Gitlab, Docker, Jenkins, SonarQube, Twistlock, Active Directory and OpenShift OKD
- Develop API Gateway proofs of concept on AWS EC2 using ELB, RDS, containerized Node.js microservices, and OAuth2 for authentication leveraging Okta
- Improved overall cloud architecture efficiency by implementing cutting-edge technologies and best practices
- Reduced time-to-market by automating build, test, and deployment workflows for application releases on the cloud platform
Solution Architect, Technical Product Owner
Caelum Research Corporation
Rockville, MD
01.2015 - 10.2017
- Technical Product Owner of identity and access management for sam.gov, an over 1m user web application
- Manage feature development, leading developers in scaled agile life cycle
- Collaborated on GSA Open Source Standards and information sharing to support the sam.gov developer community, including RESTful development playbook
- Designed and deployed https://github.com/GSA/IAE-Architecture.
Architect
SiloSmashers
Fairfax, Virginia
08.2009 - 01.2015
- Led strategic planning and agile methodology development (based on SAFe) for modernization of IAE legacy applications, and a transition to AWS
- Developed TOGAF -based Enterprise Architecture, focusing on the synthesis of API based application architecture from business architecture
- Developed application architecture artifacts via Agile/Scrum process, with each artifact of the TOGAF Architecture Development Method representing one or more user stories or features in the Backlog
- Supported organization in its implementation of Scaled Agile Framework, (SAFe), for alignment of procurement, portfolio management, and development activities to overall strategy for transformation to a cloud services and containerized DevOps application sustainment model.
Senior Program Manager
USDOT ITS, JPO
- Led solution architecture and business development; acted as program manager of the DOT ITS-JPO enterprise program management office
- Managed multiple software development initiatives for enhanced PMO tooling in the JPO
- Advised on IT and BI and Reporting strategy, agile project and life-cycle management, and cloud architecture and security
- Led organizational development, mentoring, and recruiting
- Developed contract staff of 15 analysts and developers.
Principal Consultant
SRA International
Fairfax, Virginia
01.2005 - 01.2009
- Performance Test, USAID
- Managed team testing and validating the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) grants and financial management system, Global Acquisition and Assistance System
- Managed a multi-vendor test and network engineering team to test and generate recommendations for performance and change mitigation strategies based on network environmental factors, existing workflows and infrastructure resource availability
- Specific duties included:
- Application and network simulation, testing and optimization
- Configuration of Spirent Avalanche, Bluecoat, Riverbed Steelhead, Borland Silk Performer, Cisco Load Balancing/ACE for network and application server simulation
- Developing Load strategy, scenarios, data randomization, test scripting, results analysis
- Presenting performance mitigation recommendations for mission localities to executive audiences, based on unique mission operational characteristics and technical constraints
Technical Advisor
Department
- Office of Child Support Enforcement -, Led the analysis and strategic planning of a five-year modernization and enhancement effort of the Office’s major IT investment, the Federal Parent Locator Service
- Grew and managed a team of analysts and architects engaged in the collection of architectural data and modeling of as-is and to-be architectures
- During management of Child Support’s EA program, the FEA-aligned submission consistently scored in the top 5% of all Department investments submissions
- Oversaw the requirements analysis, design, and implementation of over a dozen systems enhancements and implementation projects as part of a carefully managed transition from as-is to to-be architecture.
Software Implementation Manager
Advanced Solutions International
Fairfax, Virginia
01.2003 - 01.2005
- Managed multi-national team of software developers in custom software development projects
- Ensured requirements validation, quality assurance, and timely software production and implementation
- Managed technical implementation of software packages in various hosting and integration environments
- Led team in forming new integration strategies and developing proofs of concept and toolsets to support custom integration needs.
Senior Software Developer/Integration Consultant
Xert Communications
Alexandria, Virginia
01.2002 - 01.2003
- Led web and backend development for email marketing suite of applications
- Designed and developed role-based membership management and marketing Web applications to support back office integration
- ColdFusion MX, MS SQL, JavaScript, HTML, XML
- Developed marketing email click-through algorithms and analytics solutions tailored to customers’ targeted marketing campaigns
- Performed pre-sales engineering and consulting.
Data Application and Database Developer
McAdams Technologies, U.S. Army
01.2000 - 01.2002
- Led development of predictive data warehouse and analytics capability serving global, Medical Logistics community
- Worked with Army Medical Logistics leadership to define requirements, and develop fit for purpose product user interface and data architecture
- Integrate multiple data sources for predictive scenario building and reporting capabilities supporting world-wide supply provisioning planning
- Programmed and administered production MSSQL database reporting engine
- Wrote Transact SQL parameter driven stored procedures designed to emulate the function of reporting cube
- Coded business logic middleware and UI, ( ColdFusion, HTML, JavaScript).
Education
Master of Science - Systems Engineering
George Washington University
Washington, DCB.A. - English
George Mason University
Fairfax, VASkills
AWS and Azure Cloud Architecture
Data Warehousing, Science and AI Infrastructure
Generative AI Architecture and Development
Strategic Planning
Staff Development and Mentoring
Program Management
Certification
AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate (see credential)
Additional Information
- AWARDS , Recipient of Office of Child Support Enforcement “Federal Parent Location System Choice Award”
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Quote
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Voltaire
Timeline
Director
IQVIA
06.2020 - Current
Senior Cloud Architect
Basecamp Consulting and Services, LLC
11.2017 - 06.2020
Solution Architect, Technical Product Owner
Caelum Research Corporation
01.2015 - 10.2017
Architect
SiloSmashers
08.2009 - 01.2015
Principal Consultant
SRA International
01.2005 - 01.2009
Software Implementation Manager
Advanced Solutions International
01.2003 - 01.2005
Senior Software Developer/Integration Consultant
Xert Communications
01.2002 - 01.2003
Data Application and Database Developer
McAdams Technologies, U.S. Army
01.2000 - 01.2002
Senior Program Manager
USDOT ITS, JPO
Technical Advisor
Department
Master of Science - Systems Engineering
George Washington University
B.A. - English
George Mason University