Pete Torres's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Director of Information Technology @ National Rural Letter Carriers' Association From July 2009 to July 2010 (1 year 1 month) Alexandria, VirginiaChapter Lead - SALUTE - Military BRG (Business Resource Group) @ Capital One Washington D.C. Metro AreaHITEC Emerging Executive Fellow @ HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council) Senior Consultant @ Sensei Enterprises From July 2008 to July 2009 (1 year 1 month) Fairfax City, VirginiaSenior Network Engineer/Consultant @ Optimal Networks, Inc. From June 2007 to July 2008 (1 year 2 months) Gaithersburg, MarylandArmed Forces Emergency Services Technical Manager @ American Red Cross From April 2003 to June 2007 (4 years 3 months) Washington, DCOperations Manager @ UPS From January 2001 to April 2003 (2 years 4 months) Omaha, NebraskaImagery @ US Army From January 1997 to December 2000 (4 years) MultipleELDP - Executive Leadership Development Program @ Capital One Washington D.C. Metro AreaHIT - Hispanics in Tech Program @ Capital One Washington D.C. Metro AreaTechnical Leadership Development Program @ Capital One From September 2017 to July 2019 (1 year 11 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaSenior Leader, Software Engineering and DevOps @ Capital One From July 2017 to June 2019 (2 years) Washington D.C. Metro AreaProduct Manager / DevOps Engineer / Software Engineer @ Capital One • Created and led multiple Agile Delivery teams responsible for the architecture (network and compute) delivery for several of the CARD line-of-business Agile Release Trains, to include the new on-line servicing platform leveraging the Public Cloud.• Developed and Team Lead of DevOps early adopters. Grouped Software Engineers and System Integrators onto Scrum teams focused on Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery. The teams remained focused on embracing new technologies (Public cloud, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, etc.) to enable quicker business value.• As trail-blazers for the organization with respect to DevOps and the Public Cloud, led knowledge sharing initiatives to increase the organizations growth curve. This included several senior executive organizational presentations, demos, discussion forums, and other platforms for collaboration. From January 2015 to July 2018 (3 years 7 months) McLeanCard DevOps Lead - Cloud Operations and Compliance @ Capital One • Built a team of innovative and talented DevOps engineers focused on developing both strategic and operational solutions for security compliance, cost efficiency, and infrastructure resiliency in the cloud leveraging Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.• Orchestrated the Card LOB Cloud Operations support model to advise and lead the architectural function and transformational effort to move to the Cloud, implement DevOps/CICD, and improve Software Engineering practices and Operations.• Established a talent "upskilling" effort within the organization focused on talent retention and associate reinvestment by targeting non-developers and providing them with opportunity and exposure to the Cloud, DevOps practices, and other CI/CD tools and technologies. From August 2016 to July 2017 (1 year) McLean, VALead Production Support Manager @ Capital One • Built colocated teams of associates and contractors responsible for the availability, performance and reliability of over 30 Commercial Banking applications, including the most critical organizational platforms. These include Commercial’s online banking platform, ACH operations, Domestic and International WIRE Operations (~$8 billion a day), and other of the organization's critical Treasury Management and Payments platforms.• Implemented Agile Kanban methodologies to support partnering Scrum development teams• Developed a transition plan and implemented the Production Support model for over 30 platforms to my teams for support.• Served as Commercial Banking Incident Manager for high severity/critical issues.• Provided oversight and management for Change Management to Commercial Banking applications.• Formally integrated ITIL standards across all Treasury Management and Payments platforms • Leveraged Continues Service Improvement practices to manufacture a self-sustaining support model/team for Commercial customers.• Promoted an autonomous work environment by supporting associate growth and encouraging associate ownership.• Developed platform level reporting and meeting cadences to senior executive leadership. From June 2010 to January 2015 (4 years 8 months) McLean/Richmond VADirector, Software Engineering - Engineering and Operational Excellence for Finance T @ Capital One McLean, Virginia, United StatesDirector, Software Engineering - Controllers and Global Finance Technology @ Capital One Responsible for building and leading a next gen technology organization that promotes a culture of inclusion, innovation, and software engineering and operational excellence principles. My team’s responsibilities include the strategic plan, implementation, and adoption of the microservices architecture and cloud computing direction for the Controllers and Global Finance organizations. Through active collaboration and partnership between business and technology groups across the organization, we identify solutions that both align business opportunities and goals with the enterprise’s bold strategic digital transformation and cloud computing initiatives. From July 2018 to March 2020 (1 year 9 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area