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Blaine Pruitt

Kennesaw

Summary

Strategic-thinking professional with expertise driving business growth to exceed expectations. Expert in infrastructure design and a talented coach and mentor.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Vice President – Enterprise Data

Truist
06.2020 - Current
  • Manage teams responsible for cloud database services (AWS, Snowflake) and data replication technologies. Proficient with SQL optimization, performance improvements and cost containment efforts within Snowflake tenant.
  • Provide technical guidance on core cyber security initiatives, which include: End-point protection, Identity and Access Management, Observability and Logging, Secure LDAP, MFA, Asset Hardening, Patch and Vulnerability.
  • Site Reliability Engineering Program Manager for Enterprise Data. Aligned industry SRE best practices with Truist processes and operating models. Created and matured 7 work streams to manage the various improvements implemented with this program. Helped identify capacity trends, resiliency and support gaps improving platform availability to 99.999%.
  • Key stakeholder in the selection of new vendor providing managed IT services to Truist. Through this initiative I was involved in the evaluation of each vendor, SOW definition, contract language and scoring.
  • Technical advisor for project to secure all data assets via immutable backups to protect against ransomware and malicious activity. This involves data validations leveraging legacy solutions, as well as managing the migration to future-state designs.
  • Manage Sr. Database Engineers supporting containerized DB2, Netezza and MySQL platforms.
  • Technical advisor for infrastructure platform decisions within Enterprise Data organization.
  • Enterprise Change Advisory Board member.
  • Collaborate with CI/CD platform teams on software development and delivery to production ecosystems. Through this process we ensure testing and security standards have been met prior to any releases to production, resulting in a 99% change success rate.
  • During the SunTrust / BB&T merger led project for integrating Active Directory objects for all Enterprise Data platforms. Participated in the evaluation and selection of all future state platforms currently used in Truist.
  • Led merger of equal conversion events, including teammate scheduling, technical coverage, tracking of all tasks and validation of data post migration to future state systems.
  • Manage operational and capital expenses on an annual budget across multiple cost centers.

Vice President - Cybersecurity

Truist
06.2019 - 06.2020
  • Prior to the merger of SunTrust and BB&T managed Privileged Access and Identity Access teams within Cybersecurity organization.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams and lines of business to drive operational efficiency in service delivery processes.
  • Implemented performance metrics through ServiceNow, Splunk and Dynatrace to track progress and identify areas for improvement within departments.
  • Improved release consistency and helped reduce incidents following software updates to core IAM tools. Achieved through more rigorous testing prior to release into production, providing guidance on key change control fields in ServiceNow and collaborating with Delivery / Project teams on enhancements to release notes and knowledge transfer.
  • Provided technical expertise on security related designs and architecture.

Senior Manager - End-Point and App. Engineering

HD Supply
06.2018 - 06.2019
  • Developed new process for desktop/laptop imaging through HP.
  • As part of an effort to collapse domains, improved existing process through automation for migrating mail and user accounts to Exchange Online and Azure AD.
  • Drastically helped reduce OPEX spend through better management of Office and Microsoft licensing. Implemented licensing standards based on job roles to improve cost containment.
  • Introduced Agile methodology to the Engineering and Collaboration teams. This consists of tracking of stories and epics in Jira, daily standups and the adoption of two week sprints for service improvements.
  • Active stakeholder in a company wide PC/laptop refresh project. In addition to tracking and updating the devices, my teams were responsible for the solutions that backup and migrate any customer data, as well as assisting Operations teams on the deployment. Leveraged OneDrive, Quest and JAMF for much of this effort.
  • Implemented process improvements that streamlined inventory management directly from the vendor and increased order fulfillment accuracy.

Director – Global Technology Services

Manhattan Associates
03.2015 - 06.2018
  • Created Manhattan Associates tenants in both AWS and Azure. As part of this program network connectivity, identity and access management, cost controls, observability, environment sizing and performance optimization were all developed and matured. GitHub CI/CD pipelines were integrated into the automations. CloudForm was used for IaC, along with configuration management tools (Puppet and SCCM), in order to rapidly and reliably provision instances.
  • Implemented software defined networking (SD-WAN) using Silverpeak appliances at all Manhattan sites globally. This technology allowed the company to significantly improve data and voice quality.
  • Rolled out DMPVN network design globally in an active/active configuration using diverse circuit providers. Implemented an HA design at the firewall layer in addition to the meshed WAN network.
  • Deployed new unified communications solution globally using Cisco Spark and Cisco WebEx. This cloud based solution provides SIP functionality to reduce long-distance cost and PRIs for local calls.
  • Improved Manhattan’s security posture by developing a new patching/package management platform spanning multiple domains and operating systems. This was coupled with a new patching policy to ensure maximum protection of servers and end point devices.
  • Designed and created new self-service automation platform utilizing VMware vRealize (vRA/vRO), Ansible and Puppet. This platform drastically reduced deployment time of fundamental services to Manhattan customers and provided soft benefits around asset management, capacity right sizing and reporting.
  • Created new monitoring platform for all infrastructure services utilizing SCOM and Solarwinds. This included traditional SNMP polling, along with agent based and synthetic application monitoring.
  • Stabilized existing NetApp storage infrastructure and introduced a tiered methodology that delivers IOPs and capacity based on business requirements. The tiering consisted of Pure Storage (Flash), Tintri (Hybrid) and Cohesity (Archive).
  • Oversaw Life Cycle Management (LCM) activities to increase density through virtualization, improve usage trends through governance policies in the cloud and on-premise and shrink the company’s physical server footprint helping reduce costs.

Manager of Hosting and Network Solutions

DHL Information Technology Services (ITS)
08.2007 - 03.2015
  • Managed senior engineering for ITS Atlanta. This team was responsible for infrastructure architecture and problem resolution of the company’s complex IT issues related to compute, networking, storage, backup/recovery and security nationally.
  • Served the role of project manager for several data center installations, upgrades and site relocations. This includes the oversight of builds for mid-size data centers in Salt Lake City, Kansas City, St. Louis, Baltimore, Memphis, Cincinnati, Atlanta and Sterling. As PM I was tasked with every aspect of infrastructure and design, including server hardware, software, networking, backups, storage, power, cooling, physical and logical security and coordination of both internal and 3rd party resources.
  • Successfully designed and implemented Cisco UCS blade solution. This upgrade allowed for the retirement of legacy fiber channel switches in favor of a 10Gb fabric utilizing iSCSI and NFS.
  • Installed and configured several middleware products (JRun, Tomcat, WebLogic) for R&D. Assisted developers with the tuning and sizing of deployed applications.
  • Mentored and trained staff on emerging technologies and best practices to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Collaborated with DBA resources to ensure capacity, performance and redundancy was available for approximately 200 Oracle database servers.
  • Created single sign on solution (SSO) to allow Linux 5.x servers to authenticate against Windows Active Directory. In addition to engineering the solution I created a package to facilitate faster installation.
  • Responsible for the maintenance and management of multiple pairs of BigIP/F5 load balancers.
  • Built and supported several VMware clusters supporting various business functions.
  • Maintain and support several NetApp SAN environments.

Solutions Architect/Senior Unix Systems Engineer

Vericenter
10.2004 - 08.2007
  • Worked with the Eastern and Central Sales teams to design and architect environments for new and existing customers.
  • Administered and troubleshot a BIND/GTM DNS environment consisting of 7,000 zones and 8 separate external B class IP ranges.
  • Supported Tier 3 Unix (Linux/Solaris/HPUX) nodes located in 7 different data centers nationally.
  • Obtained security clearances to provide support for government agencies. Supported ~350 customers nationally.
  • Maintained and supported VMWare (ESX) for multiple customers.
  • Developed automation scripts in PHP for rapidly building new customer environments.
  • Proficient in all of the following tools most closely associated with Unix: LDAP, NIS, BIND, Sendmail, Veritas Volume Manager and Clustering, SVM/DiskSuite and LVM.

Senior Unix Systems Engineer

Georgia Department of Transportation
06.1996 - 10.2004
  • Managed the IT Division’s Server Operations Group. This included both Unix and Windows Administrators.
  • Developed and planned budgetary requirements for all data center server and networking hardware based on 1 and 3 year cycles.
  • Technical lead for all Unix-related projects, including task and project management for each teammate.
  • Developed suite of scripts using Bourne shell, PHP and Python for monitoring, alerting and auto-recovery of enterprise incidents.
  • Responsible for installation and tuning of J2EE application servers (Tomcat, Jrun, WebSphere, ColdFusion) to support in-house developed applications.
  • Worked with the Network Engineering team on the setup and configuration of CheckPoint firewalls on both Solaris and Nokia hardware.
  • Maintained the department’s DNS servers on both Bind/Solaris and Windows DNS/Active Directory over multiple domains and sub domains.

Education

Clayton College And State University
Morrow, Georgia
01.2001

Skills

  • Strategic leadership
  • Policies and procedures
  • Operational excellence
  • KPI tracking
  • Staff development
  • Innovative and visionary
  • Industry expertise
  • MIssion and vision
  • Results orientation

Certification

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Six Sigma Green Belt


Timeline

Senior Vice President – Enterprise Data

Truist
06.2020 - Current

Vice President - Cybersecurity

Truist
06.2019 - 06.2020

Senior Manager - End-Point and App. Engineering

HD Supply
06.2018 - 06.2019

Director – Global Technology Services

Manhattan Associates
03.2015 - 06.2018

Manager of Hosting and Network Solutions

DHL Information Technology Services (ITS)
08.2007 - 03.2015

Solutions Architect/Senior Unix Systems Engineer

Vericenter
10.2004 - 08.2007

Senior Unix Systems Engineer

Georgia Department of Transportation
06.1996 - 10.2004

Clayton College And State University

Awards

  • Commissioner’s Achievement Award (GDOT – Annual award for 2002) Awarded for the planning, implementation and migration of the department’s mission critical data to Oracle databases on Solaris server platform.


  • Employee of the Year (Vericenter- Annual award for 2005) Led several efforts to better align Engineering and Operational teams, developed training programs for junior associates and acted as Program Manager for critical projects and implementations for key customers.

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