John A. Fogarty IV
Senior Director – Infrastructure / Cloud Services
About
Skillful, productivity- and cost-focused technology strategist who modernizes and automates business processes for greater quality and faster time-to-deployment. Experienced in multi-cloud environments (AWS/GCP) and AI integration including code assistants and automated AI processes. Mentors teams, providing strategic vision and optimizing dynamics for peak retention and satisfaction. Infrastructure, engineering/development, and strategy owner positioned for DevOps, infrastructure, or CloudOps leadership role.
Work Experience
Senior Director, IT - DevOps, Cloud Strategy, & Enterprise Architecture
6 Direct & 10 Indirect Reports (FTE & Contract) as Senior Director - Direct Report to CTO - $3.5M-$4.5M Budget. Played a pivotal role in further developing Livingston's automation strategies, moving into a multi-cloud environment, and expanding AI capabilities.
Highlights
- Developed automation and cloud solutions for a multi-cloud environment (AWS and GCP)
- Initiated AI integration with AWS Q and transitioned to Gemini Code Assist for developers
- Collaborated with partners to design an end-to-end automated AI process to assist customs brokers
- Managed containerized cloud-first workload migrations from AWS, focused on scalability and efficiency
- Planned migration of Data platform, but left before finalizing AI processes or migrations
Director of DevOps
Promoted to key role ensuring success with automation, DevOps, first cloud forays, and cost effective practices. Cut deployment time 60% with faster time-to-market for new features and updates.
Highlights
- Cut deployment time 60% with automated install using Terraform, Packer, Azure DevOps, and AWS CodeDeploy
- Drove automation journey with tools to ease developer tasks, enhance accuracy, streamline application development, and expedite deployment
- Structured AWS cloud strategy, blueprint, and environment for scalability and enhanced business operations
- Educated developers in cloud and introduced autoscaling groups for performance
Director, IT Global Systems
Up to 10 Total Reports - $1.5M-$3M Budget. Significant shift to DevOps practices, plus first cloud footprint, new automation, & enterprise cloud transformations.
Highlights
- Enterprise Cloud: Built efficiently managed AWS cloud environment with autoscaling. Grew to 30+ accounts (now 50) in 4 regions
- Team Mentoring: Improved morale and performance by outlining career paths and opportunities throughout change (outsourcing, M&A, technology platform evolution)
- New Standards & Automation: Built infrastructure deployment automation and training, plus Infrastructure as Code Standard
- New CI/CD Workflow: Architected highly available platforms accessible to customers with product development; set first DevOps standards, saving ~20% deployment time
- Infrastructure Deployment: Automated provisioning for fast deployment and accuracy. Cut 95% of server delivery issues with coding standard. Decreased image deployment time 84% via automation
Senior Systems Architect - Cloud
Designed robust, efficiently managed AWS cloud strategy/environment with developer education and cultural change via DevOps/technology transformation.
Highlights
- Set AWS/systems deployment standards and established first cloud instance software installation CodeDeploy standard
- Deployed Zabbix outage monitoring environment (2,000+ hosts, edge-located proxies) as system health check
- Built infrastructure deployment automation and training framework
Manager Linux Systems
4 Direct Reports (VMWare & Linux) in US, Europe, & Asia. International engineering leadership; new infrastructure/standards, automation, & security projects at credit card equipment provider.
Highlights
- Systems Migration & Relocation: Coordinated 750+ systems moves and UK Catbird Security deployment; improved VMWare security
- Platform Management: Decreased complexities; strengthened and automated disaster recovery on virtualized platforms
- Evaluated enterprise automation tools, operationalized new infrastructure (standardized on UCS blades for compute platform)
Senior Unix Systems Administrator
Recruited to streamline/modernize infrastructure – standardizing enterprise configurations despite migration from different platforms.
Highlights
- Set up automation tools, created standards, improved efficiency, and automated processes
- Led large data center move, new data center infrastructure, VM standards, and patch installation repository
Systems Engineer
Automation & virtualization solutions supporting up to $300B TCV in proposals, with strong customer satisfaction. Won IS President's and Team of the Year Awards.
Highlights
- Designed and migrated all users to XenApp Citrix farm and VMs in EIDE to ESX clusters with limited downtime
- Ran first virtualization project division-wide, supporting automated RFP process and enterprise move to EIDE
- Supported 45+ programs ($150B TCV) and won awards for automated Zone collaborative environment scaled to serve 11,000 users
- Created automated Zone collaborative environment with potential $300B TCV
Health Information Designs
January 2005 – January 2006
Manager of Infrastructure
Led migration to AWS in pharmacy company, multi-cloud feasibility study, high availability clustered virtualization infrastructure design.
Highlights
- Led migration to AWS in pharmacy company
- Conducted multi-cloud feasibility study
- Designed high availability clustered virtualization infrastructure
- Managed AD replacement/automation and Linux engineer team
Perot Systems
January 2004 – January 2005
Systems Administrator
Reengineered production environment for better efficiency and uptime; built mirrored production environment.
Highlights
- Saved client $50K in hardware spend with Virtual server for development and testing
- Reengineered production environment for better efficiency and uptime
- Built mirrored production environment
Systems Engineer
Built and deployed large-scale scripted/image installs and security infrastructure.
Highlights
- Built and deployed 30,000 device scripted/image installs
- Set AD policies enabling OS stability and control
- Implemented MS SUS environment to preserve security patch levels
- Principal Project Engineer for employee kiosk
Skills
Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure
Expert
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Microsoft Azure
AWS Lambda
AWS SQS
AWS EventBridge
AWS EKS
Cloud Native Infrastructure
DevOps & Automation
Expert
Terraform
Packer
Azure DevOps
AWS CodeDeploy
CI/CD Pipelines
Infrastructure as Code
Automation
Configuration Management
Containerization & Orchestration
Expert
Docker
Kubernetes
Container Orchestration
Microservices
Containerization
EKS
Container Security
Security & Identity Management
Expert
OIDC
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Keycloak
Auth0
Okta
Security Automation
Identity and Access Management
Monitoring & Operations
Expert
Zabbix
System Monitoring
Performance Optimization
Disaster Recovery
High Availability
Scalability
Platform Reliability
Virtualization & Systems
Expert
VMware
Linux Systems Administration
Unix Systems
Citrix XenApp
ESX Clusters
Virtualization
Systems Engineering
Leadership & Strategy
Expert
Strategic Planning
Technology Vision & Roadmaps
Team Building & Management
Stakeholder Relationships
Engineering Management
Post-M&A Integration
Cost Savings & Optimization
AI & Machine Learning
Advanced
AWS Q Developer
Gemini Code Assist
AI-Powered Automation
Code Assistants
End-to-End AI Processes
AI Integration
Machine Learning Operations
Partner AI Solutions
Architecture & Design
Expert
Enterprise Architecture
Cloud Architecture
System Design
Architectural Consistency
Platform Scalability
Performance Engineering
Technology Policies
Interests
Technology
Cloud Computing
Open Source
Automation
Security