Bill Ducat
CIO at Austin Disaster Relief Network (ADRN)- Claim this Profile
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Julie Fox
I had the privilege of working under Bill’s direction for 3 years at Austin Disaster Relief Network. Bill has a unique mix of highly technical yet highly strategic super powers. I learned over time that anything Bill proposed, planned, suggested, or even mentioned in conversation always had a well thought out strategy behind it due to his ability to think 10 steps ahead about what an organization or application will need. Additionally, Bill was always eager to jump into the trenches with the Dev Team to write MySQL Queries and Stored Procedures. I loved seeing his eyes light up when he started talking database structures. Bill would be an incredibly passionate and loyal asset to any organization lucky enough to have him.
Chris Reighley
Bill and I have served together with the Austin Disaster Relief Network (ADRN) over the past few years. We served together in relief efforts in Denham Springs, LA and during Hurricane Harvey in Southeast Texas. Bill also serves as the Director of our Ham Core Team responsible for our communications. Bill, simply put, is one of the most amazing people I have had the honor to work alongside. Bill has a keen mind to see a situation, be able to assess it and provide solutions. Cool under pressure, kind to others and an amazing team player. He has been able to build a communication system on the fly, a trucking and distribution network on the fly, an Uber like transportation system on the fly and much more. In disaster relief, we work crazy hours under conditions that are sometime inhuman to volunteers. Bill is a smiling face amongst the chaos. Bill is an indispensable linchpin to any organization. If you have the chance to hire him, you would be silly not to. Chris Reighley Field Operations Manager Austin Disaster Relief Network
Julie Fox
I had the privilege of working under Bill’s direction for 3 years at Austin Disaster Relief Network. Bill has a unique mix of highly technical yet highly strategic super powers. I learned over time that anything Bill proposed, planned, suggested, or even mentioned in conversation always had a well thought out strategy behind it due to his ability to think 10 steps ahead about what an organization or application will need. Additionally, Bill was always eager to jump into the trenches with the Dev Team to write MySQL Queries and Stored Procedures. I loved seeing his eyes light up when he started talking database structures. Bill would be an incredibly passionate and loyal asset to any organization lucky enough to have him.
Chris Reighley
Bill and I have served together with the Austin Disaster Relief Network (ADRN) over the past few years. We served together in relief efforts in Denham Springs, LA and during Hurricane Harvey in Southeast Texas. Bill also serves as the Director of our Ham Core Team responsible for our communications. Bill, simply put, is one of the most amazing people I have had the honor to work alongside. Bill has a keen mind to see a situation, be able to assess it and provide solutions. Cool under pressure, kind to others and an amazing team player. He has been able to build a communication system on the fly, a trucking and distribution network on the fly, an Uber like transportation system on the fly and much more. In disaster relief, we work crazy hours under conditions that are sometime inhuman to volunteers. Bill is a smiling face amongst the chaos. Bill is an indispensable linchpin to any organization. If you have the chance to hire him, you would be silly not to. Chris Reighley Field Operations Manager Austin Disaster Relief Network
Julie Fox
I had the privilege of working under Bill’s direction for 3 years at Austin Disaster Relief Network. Bill has a unique mix of highly technical yet highly strategic super powers. I learned over time that anything Bill proposed, planned, suggested, or even mentioned in conversation always had a well thought out strategy behind it due to his ability to think 10 steps ahead about what an organization or application will need. Additionally, Bill was always eager to jump into the trenches with the Dev Team to write MySQL Queries and Stored Procedures. I loved seeing his eyes light up when he started talking database structures. Bill would be an incredibly passionate and loyal asset to any organization lucky enough to have him.
Chris Reighley
Bill and I have served together with the Austin Disaster Relief Network (ADRN) over the past few years. We served together in relief efforts in Denham Springs, LA and during Hurricane Harvey in Southeast Texas. Bill also serves as the Director of our Ham Core Team responsible for our communications. Bill, simply put, is one of the most amazing people I have had the honor to work alongside. Bill has a keen mind to see a situation, be able to assess it and provide solutions. Cool under pressure, kind to others and an amazing team player. He has been able to build a communication system on the fly, a trucking and distribution network on the fly, an Uber like transportation system on the fly and much more. In disaster relief, we work crazy hours under conditions that are sometime inhuman to volunteers. Bill is a smiling face amongst the chaos. Bill is an indispensable linchpin to any organization. If you have the chance to hire him, you would be silly not to. Chris Reighley Field Operations Manager Austin Disaster Relief Network
Julie Fox
I had the privilege of working under Bill’s direction for 3 years at Austin Disaster Relief Network. Bill has a unique mix of highly technical yet highly strategic super powers. I learned over time that anything Bill proposed, planned, suggested, or even mentioned in conversation always had a well thought out strategy behind it due to his ability to think 10 steps ahead about what an organization or application will need. Additionally, Bill was always eager to jump into the trenches with the Dev Team to write MySQL Queries and Stored Procedures. I loved seeing his eyes light up when he started talking database structures. Bill would be an incredibly passionate and loyal asset to any organization lucky enough to have him.
Chris Reighley
Bill and I have served together with the Austin Disaster Relief Network (ADRN) over the past few years. We served together in relief efforts in Denham Springs, LA and during Hurricane Harvey in Southeast Texas. Bill also serves as the Director of our Ham Core Team responsible for our communications. Bill, simply put, is one of the most amazing people I have had the honor to work alongside. Bill has a keen mind to see a situation, be able to assess it and provide solutions. Cool under pressure, kind to others and an amazing team player. He has been able to build a communication system on the fly, a trucking and distribution network on the fly, an Uber like transportation system on the fly and much more. In disaster relief, we work crazy hours under conditions that are sometime inhuman to volunteers. Bill is a smiling face amongst the chaos. Bill is an indispensable linchpin to any organization. If you have the chance to hire him, you would be silly not to. Chris Reighley Field Operations Manager Austin Disaster Relief Network
Experience
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Austin Disaster Relief Network (ADRN)
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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CIO
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Jan 2019 - Present
Responsible for design, implementation and support of all IT that supports ADRN Staff, volunteers, survivors of disasters and other disaster relief networks that ADRN is helping to launch. This includes back office infrastructure, the project management office and overall architecture/development of systems providing volunteer management, online learning, short and long term survivor case management, resource matching and reporting.
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Director - HAM Core Team, Hurricane Harvey Relief (Volunteer)
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2016 - 2019
Oversee management of 120+ volunteer radio operators.Responsible for bootstrapping trucking network in response to ADRN being named the primary donation collection point for the city or Austin in response to Hurricane Harvey which ultimately moved over 80 semi truckloads of donated goods to survivors.Co-lead several deployments to areas impacted by Hurricane Harvey, performing many duties including primary liaison for physical facilities providers, planning for overall logistics, overseeing the physical operations, planning traffic and pedestrian flows, route planning for door to door canvasing, setup of 30 vehicle transportation network, and overall radio communications. These deployments utilized over 1,000 volunteers to deliver over $500K in direct financial aid, as well as individual time with Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) trained volunteers to 14,000+ individuals. Show less
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Electronic Arts (EA)
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United States
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Entertainment Providers
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700 & Above Employee
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Director, Database Engineering - Technical Operations
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2010 - 2017
Built & managed team of 40+ DBAs & Storage Engineers responsible for over 4000 database hosts and several petabytes ofstorage supporting all of EA’s AAA titles in a multi tiered follow the sun model. Managed over $2M in yearly licensing and support contracts for MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Oracle, SQL Server, Galera and Clustrix, successfully keeping costs predictably year over year, and over $1M savings in one multi year renewal alone. Radically reduced player impacting down time caused by database and storage layers, completely eliminating it over several quarters. Developed strong team atmosphere that translated into low rates of regrettable attrition for regular employees and contractors. Managed contracts providing staff augmentation and managed services located off shore and at EA facilities, successfully keeping costs nearly flat for 7 years. Lead design and implementation of CMDB that formed a trusted basis for large-scale automation of deployments, QA tracking, backup verification, predictive analysis and proactive and reactive monitoring. Successfully lead efforts to stave off cancellation and salvaged a highly visible mobile title that was completely unplayable due to design issues. Title ultimately topped the IOS revenue lists for a time and is still highly ranked. Show less
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AOL
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Director, Database Services
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2008 - 2010
Lead the AOL Advertising DBA team (advertising.com) providing architecture and operations support for Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and Netezza databases in geographically separated data centers.Designed and implemented new infrastructure, automation, configuration management and documentation standards to increase overall database availability and scalability.Lead push to overhaul database monitoring & alerting systems to provide better on-call response times, issue prevention, and predictive growth analysis.Oversaw multiple upgrade and migration projects including Oracle 9i/10g/11g, data center migrations, and Netezza hardware replacements.Built out MySQL support capability for a large number of geographically dispersed databases. Show less
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Senior Database Architect
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2007 - 2008
Drove root cause analysis of production outages and performed detailed troubleshooting for database issues related to data integrity, orphan files, thumbnail performance, missing indexes, and performance of key queries. Rewrote key backend processes for such things as file deletion, quota calculations, canceled users, job control, and user migration.Developed on preliminary architecture to support dynamic tagging in Bluestring product and drove efforts to enhance the near term and long term stability of the database infrastructure and lead efforts to build Netezza based data warehouse. Show less
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Senior Technical Manager
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2006 - 2007
Managed Oracle & Sybase DBA teams for Xdrive, Bluestring, and AOL PicturesLead efforts to stabilize database infrastructure for Xdrive, methodically researching and addressing root cause issues and implementing long-term solutions.Oversaw effort to rework & restart billing system after lead DBA/developer of the code left the project with the billing system not running.
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Operations Architect
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2003 - 2006
Designed systems for internal use including Accounts Receivable, Billing, custom applications, etc. Systems typically use a mix of the Oracle, Oracle RAC, Sybase, Netezza databases (100G – 9T in size), Netezza, HP, Sun, Egenera, Linux, UNIX and EMC disk (Local, SAN, SRDF configurations).Researched performance issues and performed various technology assessments, including POC that was ultimately responsible for bringing Netezza into AOL.
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Education
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Oakland University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), MIS
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