Don Lens

Award-winning Technology Leader

// Intro

I'm an award-winning technology professional, with 15+ years experience leading global organizations and operations that create remarkable solutions for the worlds most prominent companies and recognizable market brands.

I specialize in digital transformation, applying an extensive background in software engineering, cybersecurity, operations and compliance required by accelerating industry and government regulation.

For inquiries and additional information, please reach me via the contact page below.

// About

Work

Successful track record of application, platform, and service development as well as leadership of teams that design, develop, secure and operate SaaS products and cloud-based systems.

Increasing revenue through effective P&L management while recruiting, coaching, mentoring and training top talent. Success has lead to career advancement and awards.

Positions

2017 - 2020

Vice President, Technology

2014 - 2017

Dir. of WW Operations, Cloud Programs

2011 - 2014

Dir. of Engineering, Release Manager

2004 - 2011

Engineering Manager, Principle Engineer

Capabilities

Building and leading global organizations

Managing multi-million $ technical services

Developing SaaS products and offerings

Operationalizing process via digital solutions

Driving security, data privacy and compliance

Improving quality and reducing technical debt

Partnering with customers and stakeholders

Advising and aligning with C-Level executives

Achievements

Digital transformation of client enterprises

Revenue increases from managed P&L

Commercial SaaS product releases

Operation of well-known e-commerce sites

Production applications with 99% uptime

Development and success of mentored talent

Foreign market support via I18N and L10N

Industry & government regulatory compliance

Passions

Leading

Inspiring, motivating organizations

Innovating

Driving from ideation to realization

Building

Developing apps and cloud systems

Coaching

Training, supporting and mentoring

Amazing

Providing remarkable customer solutions

Giving

Charities, Nonprofits and Environment

Other

Hiking, Biking, Sports, Stockmarket

// Skills

Expertise

Developing applications, automation and cloud infrastructure following Agile methodologies and SDLC practices to build advanced systems with technologies from Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

Applying expertise across cybersecurity controls and compliance frameworks to meet rising demand for governance as well as accelerating industry and government regulation.

Technology

Cloud Tech

AWS, GCP, Azure, Rackspace, IBM

Languages

C++, C#, Java, JS, jQuery, Python, Chef

Systems

Windows, CentOS, Ubuntu, RHEL, Mac

Database

PostgreSQL, MySQL, RDS, Dynamo DB

Web Server

Apache, LiteSpeed, NGINX, MS IIS

Web CMS

WordPress 5.x, Adobe AEM, Webflow

Monitoring

Pingdom, New Relic, AL, CloudHealth

Building

Jira, GitLab, Terraform, Bamboo, Zap

Governance

HIPAA

Security, privacy, breach, omnibus rules

PCI-DSS

Controls for payment transactions, data

SOC 2

Measure of security control effectiveness

GDPR

EU data privacy guidelines for PI and PII

CCPA

California statute of consumer protection

NIST CSF

Security standards (800-12, 800-53 etc.)

FIPS

Cryptography, encryption, algorithms etc.

FedRAMP

US government security for cloud services

This Site

Web CMS

WordPress ver. 5.5.3

Web Server

OpenLiteSpeed * 1.7 with LSCache

Network

AWS VPC, CloudFront, Route 53

Security

AWS WAF, SGs, LetsEncrypt **

Systems

AWS EC2, Ubuntu 20.04 on EBS

Monitoring

AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail etc.

Alerting

AWS EventBridge, SNS subscriptions

Languages

AWS Lamba, Python, PHP, jQuery, JS

Storage

AWS MariaDB, DynamoDB, S3

// Contact

Feel free to inquire, or just say hello. I look forward to hearing from you.

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