⚙️ Deployment Manager · ImageTrend

January 01, 2009

Company: ImageTrend Dates: January 2009 - January 2010 Location: Lakeville, Minnesota

Summary

Led deployment processes and infrastructure improvements across a growing application portfolio, focusing on scalable hosting, reliable releases, and standardized operational practices.

What I Was Responsible For

• Deployment processes and release management
• Infrastructure and environment standardization
• Operational reliability and failover planning
• Building deployment operations capability for a growing software portfolio

Key Contributions

• Built and led a new deployment operations function supporting a growing portfolio of healthcare applications
• Orchestrated overnight migration of 50+ applications to virtualized infrastructure, improving scalability and operational flexibility
• Reduced deployment time by 90% through automation and process improvements
• Standardized deployment processes and improved release consistency across hosted environments
• Implemented automated failover patterns that reduced operational risk and improved service reliability

Systems & Thinking

• DevOps transformation
• Automation-first mindset
• Reducing friction in delivery systems

Related Work

• NTDB
• NEMSIS Data Submissions

Highlights

• Standardized release management and deployment procedures across hosted healthcare software environments
• Improved operational readiness by reducing manual deployment work and making release steps more repeatable
• Managed infrastructure configuration concerns including server environments and runtime dependencies
• Helped create the operational foundation needed to support a larger and more scalable application footprint

Tools & Technology

Microsoft Servers, virtualization, JRE management, CI/CD, scripting (PowerShell, Bash), infrastructure tooling

Categories: experience

Tags: devops, enterprise-software, system-design