About David Sowder

Experienced, and technically skilled engineer focused on delivering quality business focused solutions to better enable the revenue generating workforce to perf...

David Sowder's Work History
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Senior Solutions Architect

Adaptiva
Nov 2021 - Present
Adaptiva is a leading, global provider of endpoint management and security solutions. The company’s products, including OneSite Cloud, Endpoint Health and Evolve VM, empower enterprises to manage and secure endpoints at unparalleled speed and massive scale using the power of peer-to-peer technology. Leading global Fortune 1000 organizations, including T-Mobile, Nokia, HSBC, Walgreens, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, use Adaptiva products to eliminate the need for a vast IT infrastructure and automate countless endpoint management and security tasks.
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Manager, Global Test Lab

Marsh Mclennan
Jan 2010 - Jul 2020
Carried responsibility for all management aspects of the lab including hardware, software, processes, and support personnel. Interfaced with engineering and operational IT towers and business organizations to qualify lab testing needs. Performed people management activities such as career planning and performance assessment. • Planned and headed migration of Global Test Lab from Louisville, KY to Franklin, MA. Directed the design and build-out of the new Franklin facility, led migration efforts, and conducted the decommissioning of Louisville facility. 50 plus servers and 14 equipment racks were consolidated into a VMWare driven virtualized lab that occupied only 3 equipment racks. • Directed three separate Global Test Lab expansion projects to support the Windows application testing program. In just a few short months the environment grew in capacity from 200 to 1200 Windows VM test machines. Implemented self-service portal to handle increased testing workload without increasing headcount.
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Senior Engineer, End User Services

Marsh And Mclennan Companies
Mar 2001 - Oct 2021
Product owner and lead engineer for MECM infrastructure and endpoint management use cases. Define strategic use case and technology roadmaps in accordance with business requirements. Facilitate infrastructure upgrade cycles (document, test, deploy). Author documentation required to support operational functions. Provide 3rd tier support and act as primary contact during Incident/Problem Management activities. Author supporting documentation to support 1st and 2nd tier support activities. Periodically evaluate alternative and supplemental technologies to ensure delivery of best-in-class solutions. Onboard solutions including championing for approval with security, risk, and other regulatory requirements. Onboard new endpoint use-cases (mergers/acquisitions). • MMC Essential Employee award for exemplary efforts to maintain software and Windows 10 upgrade content delivery to off-prem endpoints during opening months of COVID19 response. Many challenges, including network bandwidth and port restrictions for off-prem endpoints, were conquered on the fly. • On-boarded Adaptiva OneSite technology as full scale on-prem software content delivery solution. Deployed infrastructure and fully integrated 90,000+ endpoints in just over 3 months. As a result, over 450 remote office infrastructure content servers, and a total of 1800TB storage, were decommissioned permanently. • Consolidated divergent endpoint management infrastructures representing individual operating companies into a single flat hierarchy eliminating 80% of data center based infrastructure required to support the enterprise. Reduced over 1 dozen management interfaces to single point of management. • Created customized processes to accelerate profiled software delivery activities to new endpoint builds. Reduced total end to end process time from over 24 hours to under 4 hours.
Company

NT Systems Administrator

Lockheed Martin
Jan 1998 - Jan 2001
No description available.
David Sowder's Current Work Details
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David Sowder's Expertise
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Experienced, and technically skilled engineer focused on delivering quality business focused solutions to better enable the revenue generating workforce to perform essential business functions. Emphasis is put on developing quality best-in-class solutions with considerations taken for TCO and risk (security, operational, etc). Finds the balance between time and ability to deliver, quality, and the impact of the solution on other vital business systems. Critical thinker that keeps the big picture in focus. Able to work across towers to bring together best contributions of application, engineering, and operations groups.
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Senior Solutions Architect | Global Enterprise Architecture and Engineering | Global Technology Manager
David Sowder's Current Industry
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Adaptiva
David Sowder's Prior Industry
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Lockheed Martin | Marsh And Mclennan Companies | Marsh Mclennan | Adaptiva
David Sowder's Education
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IVY Tech State College

IVY Tech State College Associate Of Science (A.S.) , Computer And Information Sciences, General

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