Michael Berger
Cloud and Security - Full Stack Dev - AWS Certified
  • Knoxville,
  • Tennessee,
  • United States of America
Member Since: 2016/11/28
Industry: Computer & IT
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Director, Engineering
Peak Hosting
July 2015 – Present
Senior level technology leader reporting directly to the President. Responsible for all aspects of Engineering from strategy to execution, and research and platform development.  Shape the company’s technology decisions around cloud, infrastructure, process, and procedure. Skilled at managing multi-disciplined and multinational teams, projects, and products. Direct responsibility to lead a remote team of engineering discipline managers as well as senior level System Engineers (Windows, Linux, Storage), Security Engineers, Network Engineers, and Cloud Engineers.

• Provide strategic leadership, architectural oversight, and technology expertise to a cross-functional team charged with service reliability, performance, and automation
• Strategic and Operational development planning
• Developed Mission/Vision statement, Goals and Objectives, Metrics and KPIs, Action Plans and Roadmaps
• Identified manpower requirements/projections, skillsets, interests and needs
• Built a culture of empowerment and delivery by implementing systems to sustain production environments
• Ensuring the department meets engineering and operational requirements for all projects
• Increased productivity by re-aligning systems and focusing resources in the appropriate areas
• Aligned business plans and linked key performance indicators to relevant milestones -
• Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems
• Designing infrastructure and automation for scalability, reliability, and resiliency
• Directly manage and career development of an expanding team of Engineers
• Cost and Infrastructure containment
• Vendor management including contract negotiation, master service agreements, and statement of work agreements among others.
• Provided AWS architecture, automation, and deployment expertise for fortune 500 company on contract.
• Provided Azure architecture, automation, and deployment expertise for fortune 500 company on contract.
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Highly motivated, innovative technology leader with extensive experience in many areas of technology. Proven leader in building technology teams, systems, and processes. I am a customer centric and operationally minded professional with experience leading internationally distributed teams and developing processes and procedures that meet best practices and exceed expectations.

I enjoy evaluation of technology, IT strategy and research in emerging spaces. I am part early experimenter, part evaluator, part educator, and part evangelist for the introduction and use of emerging technologies for multiple campaigns across multiple clients and verticals.

I have great interest in information security. I am passionate about innovation, an Open Source zealot, MBA, interested in entrepreneurship, and business strategy.

Specialties: Business Strategy, Leadership, open source software, information security.

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