Scott Ford
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Phil Prasek
Scott is a world-class DevOps leader trusted to architect complex solutions for Chef’s most strategic and demanding enterprise customers. While he does that exceptionally well, what truly distinguishes him from the pack is his ability to sell the value at all levels, lead others to achieve excellence, and do so with humility and compassion. I found Scott to be an excellent partner to understand customer needs, go-to-market, value props, and to rapidly iterate on product and solution ideas that were key to defining the new Chef Enterprise Automation Stack. Scott is passionate, works hard, and would be an indispensable asset to any high-performing organization.
Brian C.
Scott is an amazing professional and an amazing person. Though it's hard to describe Scott. He is part tech wizard, part salesman, rockstar (literally), family man, and all-round passionate individual. His compulsion and passion to personally improve has led him down an interesting career path, and by the time I had the privilege to work with him, he was already a great tech professional. I believe that it's his background of diverse experiences that have made him great, and he continues to get better. Scott's compassion and empathy for colleagues and customers alike drives his desire to help others and enables him to develop strong relationships that facilitates collaboration, problem-solving, ongoing achievement, and success. I hope that I will have the opportunity to work with Scott again and highly recommend him to anybody contemplating working with him.
Phil Prasek
Scott is a world-class DevOps leader trusted to architect complex solutions for Chef’s most strategic and demanding enterprise customers. While he does that exceptionally well, what truly distinguishes him from the pack is his ability to sell the value at all levels, lead others to achieve excellence, and do so with humility and compassion. I found Scott to be an excellent partner to understand customer needs, go-to-market, value props, and to rapidly iterate on product and solution ideas that were key to defining the new Chef Enterprise Automation Stack. Scott is passionate, works hard, and would be an indispensable asset to any high-performing organization.
Brian C.
Scott is an amazing professional and an amazing person. Though it's hard to describe Scott. He is part tech wizard, part salesman, rockstar (literally), family man, and all-round passionate individual. His compulsion and passion to personally improve has led him down an interesting career path, and by the time I had the privilege to work with him, he was already a great tech professional. I believe that it's his background of diverse experiences that have made him great, and he continues to get better. Scott's compassion and empathy for colleagues and customers alike drives his desire to help others and enables him to develop strong relationships that facilitates collaboration, problem-solving, ongoing achievement, and success. I hope that I will have the opportunity to work with Scott again and highly recommend him to anybody contemplating working with him.
Phil Prasek
Scott is a world-class DevOps leader trusted to architect complex solutions for Chef’s most strategic and demanding enterprise customers. While he does that exceptionally well, what truly distinguishes him from the pack is his ability to sell the value at all levels, lead others to achieve excellence, and do so with humility and compassion. I found Scott to be an excellent partner to understand customer needs, go-to-market, value props, and to rapidly iterate on product and solution ideas that were key to defining the new Chef Enterprise Automation Stack. Scott is passionate, works hard, and would be an indispensable asset to any high-performing organization.
Brian C.
Scott is an amazing professional and an amazing person. Though it's hard to describe Scott. He is part tech wizard, part salesman, rockstar (literally), family man, and all-round passionate individual. His compulsion and passion to personally improve has led him down an interesting career path, and by the time I had the privilege to work with him, he was already a great tech professional. I believe that it's his background of diverse experiences that have made him great, and he continues to get better. Scott's compassion and empathy for colleagues and customers alike drives his desire to help others and enables him to develop strong relationships that facilitates collaboration, problem-solving, ongoing achievement, and success. I hope that I will have the opportunity to work with Scott again and highly recommend him to anybody contemplating working with him.
Phil Prasek
Scott is a world-class DevOps leader trusted to architect complex solutions for Chef’s most strategic and demanding enterprise customers. While he does that exceptionally well, what truly distinguishes him from the pack is his ability to sell the value at all levels, lead others to achieve excellence, and do so with humility and compassion. I found Scott to be an excellent partner to understand customer needs, go-to-market, value props, and to rapidly iterate on product and solution ideas that were key to defining the new Chef Enterprise Automation Stack. Scott is passionate, works hard, and would be an indispensable asset to any high-performing organization.
Brian C.
Scott is an amazing professional and an amazing person. Though it's hard to describe Scott. He is part tech wizard, part salesman, rockstar (literally), family man, and all-round passionate individual. His compulsion and passion to personally improve has led him down an interesting career path, and by the time I had the privilege to work with him, he was already a great tech professional. I believe that it's his background of diverse experiences that have made him great, and he continues to get better. Scott's compassion and empathy for colleagues and customers alike drives his desire to help others and enables him to develop strong relationships that facilitates collaboration, problem-solving, ongoing achievement, and success. I hope that I will have the opportunity to work with Scott again and highly recommend him to anybody contemplating working with him.
Credentials
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Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator
Red Hat, Inc.
Experience
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Mondoo
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United States
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Computer and Network Security
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal Security Architect
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Jul 2021 - Present
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Lacework
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United States
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Computer and Network Security
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700 & Above Employee
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Principal Architect
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Nov 2019 - Jul 2021
I built and led a high-performing team of engineers building tools and integrations with the Lacework Platform that enabled DevOps teams to quickly get value from Lacework by automating the deployment of Lacework into AWS, GCP, and Azure, and by integrating Lacework Security data into the development process. Integrations Shipped: - GoSDK for Lacework - https://github.com/lacework/go-sdk - Lacework CLI - https://github.com/lacework/go-sdk/tree/main/cli - Terraform Provider for Lacework - https://registry.terraform.io/namespaces/lacework - Terraform Modules for integrating Lacework with public cloud - https://registry.terraform.io/search/modules?namespace=lacework - HashiCorp Packer integration - Jenkins Integration - CircleCI Orb Additionally, I launched a series called Up and Running with Lacework to help DevOps teams learn how to automate security with Lacework. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=up+and+running+with+lacework Notable Show less
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Chef Software
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United Kingdom
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Distinguished Architect
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Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
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Principal Strategic Solutions Architect
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Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
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WW Technical Sales Enablement Lead
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Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
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Sr. Solutions Architect
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Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
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Solutions Engineer
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Apr 2014 - Jun 2015
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Asurion
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Sr. Linux Integration Engineer
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May 2010 - Apr 2014
Responsible for design and implementation of all Nagios application, database, and network monitoring, and development of custom Nagios plugins used in production to monitor products and services such as JBoss AS, Postgres DB, Mongo DB, Cassandra DB, F5 LTM, Oracle iPlanet Webserver Lead Infrastructure Engineer for all Amazon Web Service deployments in US, Asia Pacific, and European Regions Linux systems support for global mobile application infrastructure across multiple enterprise and cloud data centers including 24x7 on-call production support, training, mentoring, and documentation development Cloud Infrastructure lead for global deployment of a mobile application scoring engine using JBoss AS and Cassandra database Develop internal tools written in Python to manage Asurion AWS resources Work with Engineering Program Managers across all products for software releases to production Created a go-to-production framework used in all production releases by operations team to drive stability and accountability Designed and implemented a production support runbook tied to each monitoring alert for quickly addressing and resolving issues Show less
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The Playlist Generation
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United States
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Musicians
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director Of Technology
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2007 - Sep 2010
Directory of Technology for music steaming and curation company servicing hotels, restaurants, bars, and retail clothing chains. Directory of Technology for music steaming and curation company servicing hotels, restaurants, bars, and retail clothing chains.
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Azoffmusic Management
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United States
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Performing Arts
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1 - 100 Employee
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Network Administrator
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May 2005 - May 2006
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Product Test
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2003 - 2005
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Scout Electromedia
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United States
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Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
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Network Administrator
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Nov 1999 - Dec 2000
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IT Administrator
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Jan 1997 - Nov 1999
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Education
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UCLA
IT Management -
San Francisco State University
Music, Audio Engineering
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