Caleb Soileau

Summary

IT leader with 18+ years of experience focused on technical strategy for enterprise architecture and team development. Demonstrated success with implementing highly efficient tools to drive business goals and scale for long-term use. Seeking a new opportunity to be challenged and continue to make an impact as a Director of Enterprise Architecture.

• IT Strategy
• Vendor Management
• Team Management
• Process Improvement
• System Architecture
• Cloud Strategy

• Technical Roadmapping
• Change Management
• Research & Development
• System Migration
• Budget Management
• IT Operations

Amedisys
September 2018 – Present

Sr. Director of IT Strategy

Amedisys is the largest home health provider and fourth largest home hospice provider in the US, with over 20,000 employees, servicing over 10 million patients annually. Hired to establish IT strategy centered on strengthening platform efficiency and effectiveness.

Notable Accomplishments:

• Implemented Teams for instant messaging with field and back-office staff facilitating secure patient information exchange; and deployed telehealth with Microsoft Teams, saving the company $1.5MM
• Created formal architecture intake process to facilitate company-wide collaboration on new projects
• Spearheaded pandemic response for critical business continuity, providing platforms to collect employee exposure data and produce automatic messaging via chat bots for clinicians and patients within 6 weeks of COVID-19 lockdown

• Document technical strategic vision and roadmap for the enterprise, continuously conducting research and development of emerging technologies to assess benefits for business needs and existing technology stack
• Work closely with the business units to understand pain points and upcoming needs to ensure technology meets the needs of the company
• Modernizing data analytics and data warehouse services by migrating to hosted platforms using PaaS offerings such as Google Big Query, Dataflow, Data Bricks, Azure Data Warehouse, Azure Data Factory, and Cloud Run
• Leading initiatives to better engage patient population using modern speech dialogue and smart speaker skills, enhancing the patient experience, plan adherence, and major KPIs for reimbursement
• Collaborate with product groups through the Technology Adoption Program for feature discussion, pilot, and iterative enhancement for Microsoft Teams and room systems to enable an effective remote work experience

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana
October 2011 – October 2014, August 2015 – September 2018

Manager IT Security

• Managed highly motivated team designing and deploying the Microsoft Azure and Office 365 platforms to facilitate big data analytics, cloud service consumption, and streamlined communications
• Oversaw deployment of Microsoft Teams, new data solutions, and Azure hosted IaaS tools from a security perspective

Enterprise Architect, Application Architect

• Integral architect to stand up enterprise architecture practice; streamlined project intake and lifecycle processes in partnership with business stakeholders to ensure project efficiency and success; continuous evaluation of emerging technology for fit-for-use
• Led enterprise application rationalization by domain to simplify the application portfolio and reduce redundant software implementations, saving over $435,000 in just an 18-month period
• Defined enterprise cloud adoption strategy to reduce on premise hardware footprint using PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS models and enable containerization and large-scale data analytics
• Cultivated strong relationships with IT and business stakeholders to effectively onboard and scope out new projects following TOGAF, SOA, and ITIL principles
• Led SCOM implementation and ongoing management, including the automation of alerts and remediation actions for enterprise servers
• Designed and managed the implementation of SharePoint 2013
• Created usage models and policies for the Windows server environment

Albemarle Corporation
October 2014 – August 2015

Cloud and Collaboration Architect, IT Manager

• Spearheaded the design and planning of migration of Lotus Notes environment to Microsoft stack
• Designed and successfully implemented a greenfield VPC and SharePoint environment in AWS
• Managed team of 4 engineers to support the new environment with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings, serving 8,000+ international users

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System
June 2009 – October 2011

Senior Systems Administrator

• Informed management of upcoming technologies and project statuses to define long-term implementation roadmap
• Designed and led the consolidation of 3 single domain forests located across Louisiana in various versions of MS Exchange into a 20,000-user enterprise Active Directory single forest, single domain environment with a single email environment and instant messaging platform, implementing PKI infrastructure, Web Server Load balancing, HA Active/Passive Mailbox Clustering, system monitoring, and RADIUS authentication for wireless access

Louisiana State University
July 2005 – June 2009

Computer Analyst I, II, III

• Managed a support staff of 15 technicians to facilitate LSU’s 1000+ computer public access lab environment; designed and implemented technologies that allowed efficient desktop management at scale, enabling the entire environment to be managed by limited staff
• Managed highly available Exchange Server infrastructure including load balanced mobile access, serving LSU’s faculty and staff population of over 6000 users
• Created and managed a highly secure environment for extremely sensitive data, such as chemical agent research and active police intelligence

Education

• Bachelor of Fine Arts, May 2005, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
• AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• Azure Fundamentals
• Google Cloud Digital Leader

Publications and Blogs

• The Telehealth Boom in Home Health Care - CDW and Home Health Care News
• How Google Cloud Partners are Supporting Customers During COVID-19 - Maven Wave
• Insights on Telehealth Use in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond - Maven Wave
• Home Health Care News FUTURES Conference 2020 - Panel Discussion: Top Trends Within Home Health

• Microsoft Office 365 Platform
• Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Teams
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• SharePoint
• Azure Cognitive Services
• Google Big Query
• Data Bricks

• Docker Containerization
• VMware
• Active Directory
• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• ServiceNow
• ITIL, SOA, TOGAF