Bio

I am a business focused, IT leader who builds high-performing teams and relationships with the business to produce return on investment. I am an authentic leader who demonstrates servant leadership once a team has established trust and in order to achieve the highest velocity. I deliver innovative, stable solutions to business problems with an on time and on budget track record. I develop long term strategy while understanding the business strategy and cost implications of the future. I’ve run teams as large as 200 people and have managed budgets in excess of $120M. My teams believe I’m an authentic leader who is fair but holds the team accountable. I establish trust with the team quickly by building relationships established on listening and following through on commitments. My business partners think I am an adaptive, timely communicator that builds great partnerships to produce great outcomes for the business. My leaders respect my decision making and go to me to produce outcomes based on my leadership of team and business relationships. Areas of strength include: Waterfall & Agile Methodologies | Full Stack Automation & Security Strategy | Infrastructure Architecture & Design | Product Organization | Operations Leadership & Monitoring | Process Improvements | Cost-Saving Initiatives | Vendor Management | Financial Management | Compliance & Regulations | Performance Management Technical hardware skills include: Cisco | F5 | Checkpoint | Juniper | Palo Alto | Gigamon | Netscout | Computer Associates | Microsoft | Axis | Lexmark | Dell | Motorola | O’Neil | Apple | IBM | Dell | EMC | Brosensors | Tanium Software/Operating Systems skills include: Microsoft | Linux | AIX | Ubuntu | OSX | ios | ACI | SDN | Ruby | Python | Datadog | ServiceNow | Chef | Git | Jenkins | Splunk | Nginx | K8s Contact me at rickschultz1@comcast.net for employment and consulting opportunities.