John Ruppel
DevSecOps Leader and Developer
John transforms ideas into reality for the world's leading individuals, organizations, and governments. With 20+ years of leadership experience, his expertise includes DevOps and DevSecOps, digital and business transformations, CI/CD, Agile, global disruptive technology development programs, mission-critical business initiatives, and government programs and operations. John has a consistent track record of delivering results by leading transformations, improving culture, and growing people.
Portfolio
Experience
New Products & Services - 20 yearsTechnical Program Management - 20 yearsAgile - 20 yearsDevOps - 20 yearsCustomer Experience - 20 yearsBusiness Transformation - 20 yearsDigital Transformation - 20 yearsTransformational Leadership - 20 yearsAvailability
Preferred Environment
Agile, DevOps, DevSecOps, C++
The most amazing...
...experience has been leading transformations for the world's leading organizations, including industry change initiatives influencing our future.
Work Experience
DASA US Ambassador of DevOps
DevOps Agile Skills Association
- Progressed toward authoring DASA DevOps, Agile, and leadership standards; creating and delivering certificate programs and training; and applying the standards to customers' real-world operations to achieve results.
- Launched and continue leading a collaboration with DASA leaders in Canada and Latin America to organize a common forum to help organizations learn, understand, and apply the new DASA standards to achieve real-time results.
- Hand-picked a team to bring these DevOps standards to North America.
Transformation Leader | Consultant
TYIIR Institute, LLC
- Led and continue to lead transformations for leading global organizations, Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, and individuals. Well-known clients include Cisco, Pearson, and Buhler.
- Trained, mentored, consulted, facilitated, and provide leadership for mission-critical, high-profile business initiatives to transform culture, mindset, people, process, and tools for successful overall transformations.
- Collaborated with C-Level executives and hands-on with resources down in the trenches to provide transparency, alignment, and understanding so that everyone was on the same page, working together to make the shared vision a reality.
Transformation Leader | Change Agent | Program Manager
Consultant
- Served as the transformation lead or on a team of transformation leaders to lead digital and other transformations for many world-leading organizations and governments.
- Owned delivery of all aspects of transformations related to culture change; evolving mindsets; transitioning and growing people; and modernizing processes, tools, and technologies—all to compete and beat the competition.
- Led transformations for AWS (MIS service, aka Sentinel); Philips (global enterprise migration to the cloud and operationalization of HSDP platform); and CSC (modernized the global vBlock infrastructure and led transformations for global clients).
- Consulted with additional clients: New Age Systems (created GIS service offerings); SPAWAR now NAVWAR (program overhaul for the fleet system that became the standard for 10 years); and Netegrity now CA (SiteMinder, the world's leading SSO solution).
- Defined the strategy, gathered requirements, and led the development, rollout, and integration of 100+ products and services, several of which were industry-leading and breakthrough technologies and services.
Experience
Digital and Other Transformations
Consulting engagements have included all aspects from ideation through implementation, migration, support, and operationalization, and using a wide variety of tools and technologies, including legacy, for migrating onto various cloud vendors.
I have delivered infrastructures, security frameworks, and data transfers for thousands of applications and servers under a variety of situations; reduced operating costs; increased agility and flexibility; modernized operations to take advantage of new methods; and improved security.
Digital Services
World Class Service Development
Divisional Transformations for a Top-5 Global Aerospace Company
Skills
Paradigms
DevOps, Agile, Management, DevSecOps, Testing
Industry Expertise
Project Management
Other
Transformational Leadership, Business Process Improvement (BPI), Leadership, Requirements Gathering, Customer Experience, Program Management, Technical Program Management, New Products, New Products & Services, Digital Transformation, Business Transformation, Service Development, Business Administration, Software Development, Lean Six Sigma, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Development, Quality Assurance (QA), Operational Readiness, Auditing, Business Development, Product Development, Implementation, Governance, AWS DevOps, Web Services
Languages
C++, HTML
Education
MBA in Business Administration
University of Phoenix - Phoenix, AZ, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
National University - San Diego, CA, USA
Certifications
DASA DevOps Coach
DevOps Skills Association (DASA)
DASA DevOps Fundamentals
DevOps Skills Association (DASA)
PMP
PMI