Brian Heggem

Enterprise infrastructure architect for a Fortune 500 managed-care organization, focused on resilience, automation, and cost. Reduced physical datacenter spend 35% year-over-year and designed the enterprise AI platform architecture.

Led a 14-person tier-3 engineering organization with a $30M budget, owning the Linux and middleware platforms behind 3,000 production workloads. Accountable for platform availability, engineering standards, and vendor and budget management.

Led the team delivering compute, virtualization, and cloud platforms in a highly available design. Reduced downtime 35% through proactive disaster recovery planning and led the Azure migration saving $50K annually.

Led technology SMEs across the infrastructure organization through complex multisite datacenter and cloud architectures. Owned technology lifecycle planning and enterprise cloud strategy and integration principles.

Progressed from systems engineering to server architecture: designed and integrated new and complex systems, owned enterprise systems management and security, and mentored engineers on new technologies. Supported and optimized the VMware environment from the 3.x era forward.

Provided technical support and expertise in a retail environment.

Provided independent consulting for Windows NT/2000/XP migrations, network and server support, and wireless deployments.

Served as a computer specialist with leadership development coursework and honorable discharge.

Served as a computer specialist and received multiple meritorious service awards.

Grade: 3.7 / 4.0

Earned an Associate of Applied Science in Electronics Engineering with a GPA of 3.7 out of 4.0.

Completed coursework in Electronics Engineering.