Jason A. Dour
Skills
- IT Architect with decades of experience, including senior-level roles in global enterprise.
- Broad ranging technology experience on-premises and in cloud.
- Excel at cross-organization collaboration to serve business needs.
- Strong trouble-shooting, problem-solving, and design skills.
- Excellent writing skills, leveraged for clear and usable documentation and architectures.
- Enterprise Architecture
- Business Continuity
- Disaster Recovery
- Automation
- Availability Engineering
- Cloud Architecture
- Systems/Network/Storage Architecture
- Data Protection
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- CI/CD
- API (REST, GraphQL)
- git/GitHub Flow
- Microservices
- Documentation Automation
- AI Code Assistants
- Python
- Go
- Javascript
- NodeJS
- Markdown
- Github
- Github Actions
- Terraform
- OpenTofu
- Packer
- Vault
- hugo
- Mermaid
- Typst
- PanDoc
- Graphviz
- git
- VS Code
- HTML
- CSS
- shell
- R
- Ruby
- Perl
- tcl
- tk
- expect
- Visual Basic
- C
- PHP
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Microsoft Azure
- Functions
- Serverless
- Microservices
- Containers
- Load Balancing
- Object Storage
- CDN
- WAF
- Secret Management
- IAM
- VPC
- Linux
- UNIX (HP/UX, Solaris, others)
- MacOS
- VMware
- Windows
- Auth0
- Okta
- SAML
- OAuth
- OIDC
- Github Enterprise Administration
- Xopero GitProtect
- Tableau
- OpenDNS
- Infoblox
- Netscout
- Docker
- PostgresQL
- SQLite
- MySQL
- Athena
- BigQuery
Projects
A quick summary; more in the Projects section.Architecture Repository
Developed an Architecture Repository portal for all documentation of Standards, Guidance, and reference architectures. GitHub focused with automated, revision-controlled publishing engine.
Business Continuity Portal
Developed a BC portal for all documentation of BC standards and practices. With an automated, revision-controlled publishing engine garnering multiple glowing reviews from external auditors.
Cloud Automation
Class A Exit
Kentucky's First LEED Platinum Data Center
During my time at GE Appliances, I helped design and build a world-class Tier-III LEED Platinum data center; and after eight years it still is unique and ahead of time in several ways.
Experience
Senior Principal Enterprise Architect; Business Continuity Coordinator
- Currently serving as member of the Enterprise Architecture team.
- Providing architectural guidance and documentation across the enterprise. Covering: policies, standards, and guidelines; availability and resiliency; business continuity; technical debt.
- Serving as Business Continuity Coordinator. Responsible for collaboration with the Risk Management team and application owners to ensure their applications are resilient, protected, recoverable, documented, and compliant with BC policy in an ongoing improvement methodology. Designed and implemented a cloud-hosted BC portal, author guidelines, and provided editorial oversight.
- Providing Reference Architecture for the enterprise. Defined processes for how to document standards guidance, maintain ongoing architectural design records, and create a collaborative group of solution architects with ongoing dialogue and reference library.
- Designed and implemented a portal for Reference Architecture. Defined cross-organization processes for ratifying standards, guidelines, and reference architectures. Automated publication to portal from source documents, with review and approval workflow in CICD. Contributed to the growing body of reference architecture documents.
- Platform Owner of GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Responsible for license administration, enterprise standards of use, organization structure and maintenance, security policies, and integration with other systems.
- Responsible for creating and maintaining metrics to advance elimination of technical debt, and identifying the most critical debt reduction with most impact to business operations availability and success.
- Key member of data center build project, responsible for the design and build of the first Tier-III LEED Platinum Data Center in Kentucky.
- During tenure have served as: UNIX Systems Administrator, Storage Architect, Data Protection Architect, Solutions Architect, Senior Enterprise Architect.
UNIX Systems Administrator
- Staff-Augmentation Contract; see summary above for GE Appliances.
UNIX Systems Administrator
- Staff-Augmentation Contract; see summary above for GE Appliances.
UNIX Systems Administrator
- Served on global UNIX Team, responsible for HP/UX, Solaris, and Linux.
- Lead tech on DNS Engineering Team. Administered global DNS servers.
- Developed and deployed automated BIND management and configuration distribution.
- Co-designed ESX and VirtualCenter infrastructure, deployment, and training.
- Developed and deployed SAN-mirror backup system.
UNIX Systems Administrator
Administered hardware and software on HP/UX and Linux production and development customer billing machines. Initiated security review of all systems. Drafted new systems security and administration guidelines. Initiated deployment of Secure Shell and other third-party tools for a more secure and manageable environment. Began cleanup of all systems to repair problematic user and administrative practices. Patched open-source code to meet new guidelines for security and logging.
Systems/Network Administrator
Designed, ordered, and installed new information systems, data and telecommunications, and security systems infrastructure. Implemented new physical and network security policies between headquarters, traveling staff, vendors, and Internet. Provided 24x365 information systems, data and telecommunications, and security systems management and support.
Installation Support Analyst
Designed and coded conversions for data migration (SGML to HTML/PDF) as part of legacy system overhaul. Designed and coded automated data conversion for a Y2K clinical management overhaul, merging four existing data sets. Designed reports for QA and maintenance of the new data. Prepared for installation proprietary clinical management systems. Performed ad hoc coding for group needs.
Founder & Executive Producer
Founded in 1996, and grew to be the premier fan resource regarding musician PJ Harvey. Garnered recognition from RollingStone.com, NME.com, and other publications. Managed all aspects of site and supervised volunteers in two countries. In 1998, worked with management to become official site.
Programmer Analyst II
Managed complete clinical management system overhaul. Updated aging LAN. Enhanced security policies and practices. Improved computing services, facilitating better research and clinical practices.
IT Consultant
Programmer III
Assistant Systems Programmer
Consultant Supervisor
Program Director & Disc Jockey
Computer Lab Consultant
Clerk
Education
University of Louisville; Louisville, KY
Bellarmine College; Louisville, KY
Saint Xavier High School; Louisville, KY