Herbert A. Richter

SUMMARY

An information technology leader and accomplished contributor with many years of proven success that combines experience in infrastructure, application development, project management, web development and software quality assurance. Some industries are insurance, financial services and higher education organizations and software development companies.

RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Reorganized the global software quality teams to maximize effectiveness utilizing local and centralized resources including an internship program from local universities while exceeding budget expectations.
  • Installed and supported the first network and server infrastructure at the company to support an imaging project that provided a critical competitive advantage over competitors.
  • Green IT project – Solaris zones and windows virtual servers were used to consolidate physical servers reducing hardware, floor space, cooling and electrical requirements totaling $80,000 in savings.
  • Green IT project – The testing environments shared the same hardware as the disaster recovery environments using available capacity and saving $50,000 in hardware costs.
  • Designed and managed the development of Business to Business and several Business to Consumer web sites that generated more than $10 million in annual revenues.
  • Identified and implemented new technologies while improving the consistency, efficiency and agility of existing systems.
  • Reduced testing costs by 40% through excellent onshore and offshore resource management and testing automation.

 KEY STRENGTHS

Quality Assurance Infrastructure Application Development
Global resource management Multi-platform experience Architecture and design
Best practices for automation Server consolidation strategies Resource management and planning
Effective testing strategies Vendor management Managing the business relationship
Process improvement Security and compliance best practices Release management
Test environment management Monitoring Client-server and web applications Software Development lifecycles
Risk management analysis Performance SAFe and Agile
Configuration Management

COMPANIES

Higher Education Insurance Financial Services Consulting/Development
South Orange County Community Colege District Balboa Insurance Avco Financial Services TimeSaver Systems
Countrywide Insurance Countrywide Home Loans Purify Media
The Capital Group Kaseya Development