Auto Nation Work Values

Daily Duties at Auto Nation:

Directed Information Technology operations and infrastructure within a $20B company in retail automotive space. Provided day-to-day technical leadership for all Infrastructure systems (Security, Database operations, Systems Architecture, Messaging, Application Engineering, Citrix, Storage Architecture and Client Architecture) and managed a multi-million dollar annual budget.

 Designed and implemented multi-billion dollar e-commerce system for lead management and vehicle fulfillment

 Led several large key projects including IIS, Exchange, Firewall, Storage and Database cluster migrations and Citrix application upgrades for all 18,000 employees

 Spearheaded large data center migration in 6 months for over 18,000 employees and 250 business critical systems and applications while reducing IT Data Center operations budget by $1M per year

 Designed Core infrastructure and Security to support client base of 18,000 systems across the US

 Designed and rolled out new architecture for various business critical systems to guarantee resiliency and increasing uptime from 90% to 99.99%

 Partnered with executive and IT leadership to develop and commit resources to key business initiatives

 Managed all enterprise HW / SW vendor contracts, negotiations and professional service engagements

 Designed business / IT alignment process around ITIL and MOF 2.0 / 3.0 to streamline and better manage projects and spending

 Created Disaster Recovery plan engaging key business sponsors to determine appropriate RTO and RPOs. Created multi-layered DR strategy

 Created Security Risk Assessment and Architect Council to discuss and tackle major risks and issues by providing a Risk Statement and working with the business to gauge the business impact and set priorities

 Responsible for meeting SOX and PCI regulations and worked with auditors on obtaining SOX compliance

 Initiated virtualization and consolidation efforts to reduce IT Budget and improve system availability

 Proactively provided problem identification and resolution for application and server issues including automating monitoring and notification for potential service level breaches before they occurred

 Created a patch management process and communication plan to move from quarterly to a monthly cycle

What they like about Auto Nation:

You give high priority to hiring firms with prestige. Market reputation and prestige of a firm may be determined through on-line research, and conversations with individuals working in your target industry. Note that firms "in the public eye" receive a great deal more critical publicity and attention than those operating with more anonymity. So as you assess your employment opportunities, be sure to seek out the positive aspects of the firm's reputation in addition to noting negative publicity the company may have received.

Tags

Information Technology, IT, Infrastructure, Architecture, Director, Manager, Systems Engineering

Skills

Information Technology, Executive Management, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Technology Assessments, Risk Assessments, Security Assessments, Root Cause Analysis, Architecture & Design, System & Application Debugging, Employee Development, Team Building, High Availability Planning, SLA Standards & Monitoring, Budget Management

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Auto Nation: