Craig Eidem Email Address

Vice President Information Technology

The Seattle Times serves the Northwest with thoughtful, independent, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism, as the region's most trusted news media company. The Seattle Times newspaper is the second largest newspaper on the West Coast. Seattle Times and The Times digital products are the most visited digital information sources in the state. Founded in 1896 by Alden J. Blethen and now led by the Blethen family's fourth and fifth generations, The Seattle Times is a multimedia news and information company which also owns the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, the Yakima Herald-Republic, the Issaquah Press, the Newcastle News, the Sammamish Review and the SnoValley Star, and their websites.

Track record of outstanding technical and operational leadership. I am an expert in developing the right people, processes, and partners to deliver innovative products on-time and on-budget in companies ranging from start-ups to mature organizations.Specialties:-Working with Senior Leadership to develop the vision and business strategy.-Developing products and solutions that meet or exceed business expectations.-Managing software engineering (Agile, SCRUM)-Building and leading strong cross-functional teams. (Sys, HW, SW, IT, Security, NetOps, test)-Driving operational excellence using ITIL best practices.-Driving security best practices into all aspects of product design (CISSP).-Building highly available, highly secure cloud infrastructure.-Creation and tracking to CAPEX and OPEX budgets.Competencies✔ System Security – (CISSP) Certified Information Systems Security Professional.✔ Amazon Web Services – Cloud Solution Architect - Associate✔ Amazon Web Services - Certified Developer - Associate✔ Amazon Web Services - Certified SysOp - Associate✔ Information Technology Management – (ITIL) – IT Service Management certified.✔ Working across the organization to capture product and engineering requirements.✔ Program Management and leadership.✔ Building nationwide cloud infrastructure (public and private), IaaS and SaaS.✔ Building highly available national network and voice infrastructure.✔ Building software applications (CRM, SalesForce, OSS, SaaS, Billing, Portals and Applications).✔ Architecting and developing for security and regulatory compliance.CONTACT ME Phone 206-407-8900 Email craig@craigeidem.comTags: Cloud, VoIP, Agile, Scrum, Portals, Disaster Recovery, VMware, Oracle, Cisco, Juniper, TCP/IP, Multicast, NMS, Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence, PCI-DSS, SOX, PMO, HIPAA, Billing