Richard Young: in Boulder, CO
Richard Young
Boulder | United States
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Vail Resorts Management Company
Sr. IT Manager | 08/2014 - 10/2019
Key Accountabilities:
• Developed multi-year strategies and managed technology solutions that
resulted in the effective delivery of all ecommerce applications,
distributed business applications, integrated services and managed
systems across the Vail Resorts enterprise.
• Spearhead the implementation of DevOps between the diverse
development, central operations and production support teams.
• Developed deliberate processes and services within the infrastructure
team to provide multi-year solutions for M&A growth.
Key Accomplishments:
• Project managed all infrastructural implementations for an on-prem
Central Reservations system consisting of 8 custom applications and over 50 systems and services. Enabling a multi-million-dollar revenue
stream.
• Architected application domains to enable doubling the number of custom
eCommerce applications deployed and supported while maintaining team
size.
• Assessed and gained funding to improve solutions for edge based
performance, security, DNS management, Certificate provisioning and IP
Domain acquisitions.
• Recognized as catalyst of 99.8% uptime for major revenue systems
• Proficiently rolled out Akamai's top performance and security modules;
without code changes, increasing the performance of major brand sites
by 30-50%
Vail Resorts Management Company
Manager | 09/2009 - 08/2014
Key Accountabilities:
• Relied upon to forge strong business relationships with stakeholders to gain insights into new initiatives and requirements, then strategically
position the environments accordingly
• Seamlessly collaborated with in-house custom development teams to provide on-target web service outcomes
• Ensured expert delivery of highly available ecommerce, brand and loyalty sites
• Responsible for providing development leadership to a small reporting
team.
• Forecast and manage the web portion of the IT infrastructure annual
budget
Key Accomplishments:
• Integrated Splunk to the ecosystem for visibility into dependent
technologies across the enterprise, which lowered mean time to identification of errant systems/code
• Deployed industry leading customer experience and loyalty
application, EpicMix; orchestrated over 100 systems implementations
of custom application across the resort footprints
• Fulfilled PCI compliance rule for custom built code by implementing F5
ASM (WAF), which also created savings of time and money for releases
• Successfully deployed Umbraco, a .net lightweight content
management system to meet demand for quicker more flexible site
management from multiple lines of business and 3rd party developers
Vail Resorts Management Company
Sr. Web Administrator | 09/2005 - 09/2009
• Key Accountabilities and Accomplishments upon request
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