Aristide Norman
A SENIOR TECHONOLGY LEADER WHO CONVERGE TECHNOLOGY TO DRIVE RESULTS
SUCCESS WITH INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO MEET BUSINESS NEEDS
Aristide Norman is a leading authority and results-driven Senior Technology Manager specializing in IAAS/non-IAAS, Converged Infrastructure, Software, Data Security, and Automation Engineering and Operations. With over 20 years of experience in a large technology institute, Aristide exemplifies expertise and leadership in his field.
He adds efficiencies by leveraging governance and security, analytical, technical, and project management skills. Additionally, his strengths include exceptional customer service support and multi-tasking abilities.
He has a proven track record as a Product Owner, managing, creating, configuring, and consolidating over $100 billion of infrastructure and software platforms across diverse business lines. His expertise spans multiple sectors, demonstrating his ability to handle complex, large-scale projects with precision and efficiency.
Aristide excels in developing enterprise technical roadmaps, RFIs, new processes, and QA control, ensuring innovative solutions that meet business needs. His proficiency drives organizational success through the delivery of high-quality technical strategies. Additionally, Aristide skillfully steered execution on defined, program-level goals for medium-to-high complexity programs, consistently driving success and efficiency.
He develops business cases to support funding and prioritization of key business initiatives. He works with IT Infrastructure, IT Operations, and business teams to implement resilient and high-value systems, incorporating strong business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure timely customer value delivery. Additionally, he manages a team that certifies new product releases for standalone and virtualization technologies, including the design of high availability, disaster recovery, and support solutions.
During Aristide's tenure with Wells Fargo, he showcased his expertise in Agile methodologies for managing BAU and engineering development. He successfully managed the Infrastructure Engineering and Automation group, overseeing Enterprise Data Center IAAS, non-IAAS, baseline certifications, layered product and infrastructure encryption security baseline management, and the design of maintenance playbooks and monitoring. His in-depth knowledge of hypervisors for X86, Oracle, and IBM-based security encryption and monitor technologies further highlighted his technical prowess.
Who am i?
A results-driven technology manager with over two decades of experience stands at the forefront of innovation in a large technology institute and a seasoned leader that steered IAAS/non-IAAS and Converged Infrastructure initiatives, demonstrating a robust command over AI/ML technologies, software development, and data security.
I have a diverse array of hobbies that not only bring joy to my life but also allow me to contribute positively to society. I am passionate about mentoring students and offering support to those in need, which I find incredibly rewarding. Additionally, I dedicate time to volunteer activities, such as feeding the homeless across California and Arizona, which is a cause close to my heart. For leisure, I enjoy the tranquility of fishing, the adventure of hiking and camping, and the relaxation provided by beach outings. Keeping abreast of the latest technological advancements keeps me informed and engaged with the ever-evolving world around us.
Goals
I am eager to secure a strategic leadership role where I can enhance operational efficiencies by applying my expertise in governance, security, and analysis. My technical acumen and project management experience, combined with a strong commitment to customer service and exceptional multitasking skills, will contribute to the success and growth of the organization.
Skillset
As a Senior Technology Manager, I leveraged innovative solutions to optimize business processes and enhance operational efficiency. It required a deep understanding of emerging technologies and their practical applications, enabling organizations to stay ahead in a competitive market. By fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration, I was able to guide technology leaders ensure the delivery of high-quality, impactful results.
Specialization
Requirement Gathering and Strategic Solution Creation
Device LDAP Security and Vulnerabilities
Virtual and Standalone Server Environments
Technology Certification and Documentation
AZURE and VM Platform Certification
Solutions and Roadmap Development
Develop business cases to support funding and prioritization of key business initiatives.
Skilled in Agile methodologies for managing BAU and engineering development
Tracks and interprets relevant OKR/KPIs
Drives coordination, collaboration, and alignment between Product Owners, Architects, and Engineers to meet regulatory and technical requirements
Drives technical and regulatory consistency across workstreams; develops documentation to ensure ongoing maintenance and development of technical and regulatory solutions
Identifies and addresses complex inter-team technical dependencies, bridges gaps in technical management
Steers execution on defined, program-level goals for medium-to-high complexity programs
Certifications.
ITIL Certification
SUSE LINUX/Z/OS Certification
Azure AZ900
ENTERPRISE HOSTING SERVICES
WELLS FARGO
- Led in an Agile environment to intake and manage projects using Scrum and Kanban methodologies. Created new processes to reduce the time to market for new provisioning for Wells Fargo enterprise.
- Evaluated new request for IaaS and SaaS.
- Managed engineers, Business consultants and application developers to work with sales teams to create and evaluate industry or self-developed tools that enhance performance while reducing costs for the Wells Fargo Enterprise.
- Worked directly with CTO Executives and Directors to assess areas of cost efficiencies, performance of new technologies and made recommendations based on infrastructure planning and strategic supportability.
- Led the cyber resiliency rebuild automation utilizing VRA.
ENTERPRISE HOSTING SERVICES
WELLS FARGO
- Planned and conducted requirement gathering sessions, analyzing complex business problems to develop strategic e-commerce-based solutions for Intranet and Internet platforms.
- Provided expertise in device LDAP security and vulnerabilities.
- Certified new server and virtualization technologies and created run books for HA, Disaster recovery, monitoring, and support solutions, ensuring implementation of functionality standards for SAN and Network connectivity.
- Led teams responsible for identifying, certifying, and documenting new virtual and standalone server platforms, as well as providing "play book" documentation for the Wells Fargo enterprise platform.
ENTERPRISE HOSTING SERVICES
WELLS FARGO
- Single point of intake for Artificial Intelligence ideas, use cases for Global operations and maintain the AI use case pipeline.
- Helped build engineer process for the business case for AI use cases in partnership with Global Operations business partners/ leaders. Managed core AI/ML engineers responsible for testing, certified, and released drivers and fixes for CUDA and Rhel for all Wells Fargo AI/ML platforms.
- Facilitated governance, risk and compliance review for all software, LP, and drivers related to AI/ML models being used across global operations IA solutions.
- Managed SME who prepares material such as playbooks, certification guides for review with Gen AI council and other governance, risk, and compliance reviews (e.g. CMORE etc.).
Innovated an automated process that enabled Wells Fargo enterprise procurement to check available of compute components based on location, type, and life cycle prior to the purchase of new computer components.
Reduced cost of compute purchases for Wells Fargo enterprise by efficiency using underutilized assets. Adding cost avoidance efficiently recycling compute assets.
Innovated automation tooling HEAT application to deliver firmware, drivers, and LP to all Wells Fargo assets from a pain. Utilizing/integrating tools such as Splunk, Tableau, Powerbroker, and others to create real time reporting on patching updates.
Wells Fargo can patch all servers physical and virtual within 1-2 days pending outage windows. Reducing the complexity and cost of managing multiple proprietary tools and their life cycles to complete the same task with minimal flexibility for reporting.
Lead engineer distributed shared infrastructure process.
Created a process to share infrastructure across all Wells Fargo business lines. Reducing cost by matching application compute needs to available compute capacity, creating reporting, life cycle management process, increasing cost avoidance by removing duplications of efforts across business lines. Resulting in shared enterprise application teams such as Wells Fargo enterprise DB team, Hadoop, Security, cloud computing, virtualization, monitoring, lab.
Lead engineer distributed shared infrastructure process and Pioneered Wells Fargo OOB active directory management solution replacing the current terminal server solution at that time.
All Out of Band management for Wells Fargo enterprise implemented LDAP. Increasing security, avoiding the cost of terminal servers’ equipment, and increasing efficiencies for access management on for the Wells Fargo enterprise.
California State University Fresno
University of Phoenix
Wells Fargo Enterprise Hosting Services
2018
Wells Fargo Enterprise Hosting Services
2023
Wells Fargo Enterprise Hosting Services
2024
