Bret Edmonds

• Senior Technical Director for $7M+ modernization programs (IRS/GSA). "Delivery Shield" for 250+ personnel bridging US HQ and Engineering. • Concurrent Role: Engineering People Lead with Disciplinary Responsibility (Disziplinarische Führung). • Rescued stalled Mainframe-to-Cloud migration; averted 6mo delay via scope triage. • Engineered Operational Resilience Framework, reducing outages 75% via SRE principles. • Saved $1M+/yr via Cloud FinOps. • Established "Compliance-by-Design" (NIST/DORA) for GenAI.

• Strategic Technical Advisor (TAM) for Fortune 500/Federal clients (CMS/Amtrak). • Mission Assurance: Guaranteed 100% availability for 80M+ users during critical launch events. • FinOps: Delivered $3.6M+ annual savings via Cost Governance. • Accelerated 18+ enterprise cloud migrations ($10M+ spend) by authoring standardized "Delivery Playbooks". • Orchestrated resolution of critical ElastiCache failures for Ad-Tech client. • Expert in bridging commercial velocity with federal compliance.

• Engineering Manager & Ops Lead (13 yrs). Directed 24/7 IT Operations (15 staff). Disciplinary Lead (Personalverantwortung). • Founding Engineer for DIBNet portal. • Secured ATO for 13 years running (99% compliance) via STIG/NIST hardening. • Slashed deployment time 90% (<30 mins) via Ansible automation (IaC). • Scaled team 2->10 & implemented ServiceNow for Incident Mgmt. • Executed zero-downtime Solaris-to-Linux migration. • Tech: RHEL, VMWare, BIND DNS, Infrastructure-as-Code.