Clint Anderson

Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Leader | Architecture, Security, Resilience

Greater Chicago Area
Contact: https://ClintAnderson.NET/contact/
https://ClintAnderson.NET
www.linkedin.com/in/clint-anderson-technology

Secure by design. Resilient by default.
Architecture that endures when others fail.

Professional Summary

Senior enterprise infrastructure and platform leader with 30+ years of technology experience and long-term ownership of mission-critical production environments across commerce, logistics, financial, transportation, and operational platforms. Builds and operates durable infrastructure where architecture, security, resilience, cost, continuity, and business judgment matter.

Strong fit for senior infrastructure leadership, including VP / Head of Infrastructure, Senior Director Infrastructure, Principal Infrastructure Architect, Executive Infrastructure Architect, Infrastructure Transformation, Private Cloud / Hybrid Infrastructure, and selective CTO / Head of Technology roles where infrastructure, resilience, security, cost, and operating model are central.

Core Strengths

• Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture
• Infrastructure Strategy
• Infrastructure Operating Model
• Infrastructure Modernization
• Infrastructure Transformation
• Platform Lifecycle Ownership
• Private Cloud Strategy
• Hybrid Infrastructure
• Data Center Architecture
• Data Center Operations
• Infrastructure & Operations Leadership
• Security Architecture
• Operational Resilience
• High Availability
• Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Business Continuity (BC)
• Infrastructure Risk Management
• Network Architecture & Security
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Controlled Change
• CapEx Ownership
• Infrastructure Budget Ownership
• Vendor Strategy
• Procurement
• Licensing Review
• Platform Sustainability
• VMware / Broadcom Exposure Analysis
• Cloud / Private Cloud Cost Tradeoff Review
• Executive Decision Support
• Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Integration
• Acquisition Continuity
• Hidden Dependency Discovery
• Infrastructure Consolidation
• Data Center Consolidation
• Decommissioning Strategy
• Institutional Knowledge Transfer

Selected Career Highlights

• Owned enterprise infrastructure strategy, architecture, operational integrity, and platform sustainability across mission-critical production environments supporting commerce, logistics, financial, transportation, and operational systems.
• End-to-end responsible for essentially every major StrategIQ server, switch, firewall, SAN, private cloud, network, security, storage, and infrastructure upgrade over nearly two decades.
• Architected and delivered two StrategIQ private cloud platform generations: approximately $1.5M in 2016 and approximately $4M in 2022, representing approximately $5.5M in combined private cloud platform investment.
• Owned approximately $1.5M in 2008/2009 infrastructure modernization and approximately $5M in 2014/2015 infrastructure modernization across SAN, server, blade, firewall, switching, network, security, and storage platforms.
• Managed annual technology and infrastructure budgets ranging from approximately $250K in earlier years to more than $1.75M by 2025.
• Led approximately $500K in technology scope for StrategIQ's first major headquarters move and approximately $100K for the second, spanning server room buildout, structured cabling, WiFi, video surveillance, video wall, switchable video distribution, and workplace technology.
• Designed, built, expanded, migrated, and operated multiple 24x7 data center and colocation environments across Uarco / Standard Register, AIT Worldwide Logistics, and IntraVex / StrategIQ.
• Led complete infrastructure redesign across 42 AIT Worldwide Logistics stations coast to coast, including LAN/WAN, redundancy/failover, domain services, email, and file/print services.
• Led enterprise integration across AS/400, SQL Server, client/server, web, EDI, flat-file, and paper/OCR workflows, including 400+ trading partner integrations.
• Maintained infrastructure continuity, institutional knowledge, and operational context through three corporate acquisitions across different career stages.

Professional Experience

Loop

Senior Director, Enterprise Infrastructure Technology

October 2025 - Present
Greater Chicago Area

• Retained following Loop's acquisition of StrategIQ Commerce to support infrastructure continuity, institutional knowledge transfer, and future-state architecture planning.
• Lead ongoing enterprise infrastructure continuity and transition support across legacy, current, and modernization-track platforms to reduce operational risk and preserve service continuity.
• Provide architectural direction across private cloud, data center platforms, security-aligned infrastructure, resilience, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Partner with executive and technical stakeholders to align infrastructure priorities with business continuity, security posture, integration needs, and platform modernization.
• Map infrastructure dependencies, identify operational risk, and translate platform realities into business-impacting options for future-state decisions.

StrategIQ Commerce / IntraVex

IntraVex rebranded as StrategIQ Commerce in 2010. Initially engaged as a consultant in late January 2006; transitioned to full-time employment in early March 2006.

Senior Director, Enterprise Infrastructure Technology

June 2023 - October 2025
Greater Chicago Area

• Owned enterprise infrastructure strategy, architecture, and operational integrity across mission-critical production environments supporting commerce, logistics, financial, and operational platforms.
• Directed private cloud, data center, virtualization, storage, network, security, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and facilities-integrated technology across high-availability environments.
• Served as end-to-end owner for major infrastructure investment decisions, vendor strategy, procurement, lifecycle planning, modernization sequencing, platform sustainability, and operational readiness.
• Managed annual technology and infrastructure budgets ranging from approximately $250K in earlier years to more than $1.75M by 2025.
• Led and mentored senior technical leaders while maintaining accountability for architectural direction, risk posture, operational integrity, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Partnered with executive stakeholders to align infrastructure priorities with cost, risk, operational continuity, client commitments, and future-state business requirements.
• Led infrastructure continuity through acquisition by Loop, preserving institutional knowledge while supporting integration, risk reduction, and future-state architecture planning.

Senior Systems Architect

June 2014 - June 2023
Greater Chicago Area

• Architected, procured, installed, configured, and deployed two major multi-node private cloud platform generations: an approximately $1.5M 2016 build and an approximately $4M 2022 rebuild.
• Owned approximately $5M in 2014/2015 infrastructure modernization across SAN, server, blade, firewall, switching, network, security, and storage platforms.
• Led data center and colocation expansion, migration, and modernization work, including colocation cabinet migration, cage expansion, node expansion, and major platform refreshes.
• Led technology scope for two major headquarters moves, including server room buildout, structured cabling, WiFi, video surveillance, video wall, switchable video distribution, conference systems, physical security, and facilities-integrated workplace technology.
• Designed and operated high-availability production infrastructure spanning private cloud, virtualization, storage, network, security, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Provided executive-level technical translation for infrastructure investment, vendor decisions, modernization timing, and platform-risk tradeoffs.

Senior Software Engineer / Infrastructure and Integration Lead

February 2006 - June 2014
Greater Chicago Area

• Led web development, business workflow systems, EDI, BizTalk, SQL Server-backed integration, and data movement work that became part of the foundation for later infrastructure and platform ownership.
• Transformed EDI and BizTalk infrastructure supporting enterprise integration and trading-partner workflows.
• Owned approximately $1.5M in 2008/2009 infrastructure modernization across SAN, blade/server, firewall, and switching platforms.
• Built and supported systems integrating SQL Server, web platforms, client/server applications, EDI, BizTalk, and operational workflows.
• Served as bridge between application development and infrastructure operations, ensuring systems were designed for operability, visibility, resilience, and long-term supportability.

Anderson & Associates

Founder & Principal Architect

June 1995 - Present
Midwest United States

• Founded and maintain a selective advisory practice focused on secure, resilient infrastructure design, long-term platform sustainability, and practical architecture for mission-critical environments.
• Advise on enterprise infrastructure architecture, disaster recovery, business continuity, platform sustainability, high-availability environments, infrastructure modernization, and risk-aware design.
• Maintain private infrastructure environments used for architecture validation, resilience testing, backup/recovery planning, and long-term platform evaluation.
• Use AI-assisted analysis as decision support for infrastructure review, dependency analysis, architecture validation, security/risk review, vendor comparison, licensing analysis, cost modeling, and cloud/private-cloud tradeoff evaluation.

Worldwide Logistics Solutions / Roberson Transportation

Acquired by TMC Transportation / Annett Holdings.

Director of Information Technology

September 2003 - January 2006
Mahomet, IL

• Designed, procured, and implemented a dedicated 24x7 core infrastructure and data center supporting logistics, financial, and operational systems.
• Served as principal architect for John Deere Freight Pay, an ASP.NET-based freight payment platform responsible for paying thousands of invoices totaling over $1.5M daily, with historical processing exceeding 1.5M invoices and $0.5B to date.
• Led enterprise integration across AS/400, SQL Server, client/server applications, web platforms, intranet/extranet systems, legacy applications, and BizTalk foundations.
• Led EDI integration with 400+ trading partners, including EDI, flat-file, and paper/OCR process integration.
• Developed, documented, and implemented IT policies and procedures, including hardware/software configurations, development standards, implementation procedures, and SAS-70-related materials.
• Recruited and managed application development and network/systems support teams while operating through Roberson Transportation's acquisition by Annett Holdings / TMC Transportation.

AIT Worldwide Logistics

Infrastructure & Application Development Manager

May 1999 - November 2001
Itasca, IL

• Designed and physically built AIT's Y2K production data center and coordinated the physical move from server-room infrastructure into a resilient 24x7 environment.
• Led complete infrastructure redesign across 42 AIT Worldwide Logistics stations coast to coast, including LAN/WAN, redundancy/failover, domain services, email, and file/print services.
• Implemented data sharing systems to enable integration of AS/400, SQL Server, extranet sites, intranet sites, client/server applications, and BizTalk foundations.
• Built internet-based shipment tracking and tracing systems, customer-facing logistics platforms, order management systems, inventory management systems, and drop-ship management platforms.
• Developed IT policies, hardware/software configurations, development standards, and implementation procedures while managing networking and application development teams.

Uarco / Standard Register

Senior Web Engineer / Senior Software Engineer, Web Platforms

January 1996 - May 1999
Barrington, IL / Dayton, OH

Acquired by Standard Register in 1998.

• Supported post-acquisition data center consolidation after Standard Register acquired Uarco, including decommissioning one of two data center environments.
• Designed and administered development and production environments, including web server infrastructure, SQL Server infrastructure, and development/production networks.
• Designed, developed, and implemented secure internet and intranet transaction applications, corporate internet sites, and client-use software applications.
• Built early platform credibility across ASP, IIS, SQL Server, Visual Basic, web application architecture, and Microsoft server technologies.
• Participated in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 Rapid Deployment Program and related Microsoft platform programs, preserved as historical credibility evidence.

Early Technical Foundation

Clark Wire & Cable | Manager / Cabling Engineer

June 1993 - January 1996
Mundelein, IL

• Supported communications infrastructure for recording studios, TV/radio stations, satellite broadcast news trucks, and enterprise facilities.
• Designed and installed company-wide communications and networking systems, building early physical-layer experience that later supported data center, network, and facilities-integrated technology work.

Early Systems, Diagnostics, And Operations

May 1985 - May 1993
Skokie, IL / Northbrook, IL

• Built an early foundation in systems diagnostics, electronics, root-cause analysis, and hands-on technical execution as an ASE Certified Mechanic specializing in onboard computers and electronic fuel injection.
• Developed fleet maintenance, purchasing, repair tracking, customer tracking, inventory, maintenance reminder, purchasing, and invoicing systems.

Technical Skills

Infrastructure Leadership And Architecture

Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture, Infrastructure Strategy, Infrastructure Operating Model, Infrastructure Modernization, Infrastructure Transformation, Mission-Critical Systems, Platform Lifecycle Management, Private Cloud, Hybrid Infrastructure, Data Center Architecture, Data Center Operations, Infrastructure & Operations, Technical Due Diligence, Vendor Management, Executive Stakeholder Management, Cross-Functional Leadership, Infrastructure Procurement, CapEx Ownership, Vendor Strategy, Platform Sustainability

Security, Resilience, And Continuity

Security Architecture, Network Architecture & Security, Operational Resilience, High Availability, Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity (BC), Backup and Recovery, Incident Management, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Least Privilege, Audit-Safe Administration, Controlled Change, Infrastructure Risk Management, Secure Connectivity, Network Segmentation

Private Cloud, Data Center, And Platforms

VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter, VMware Lifecycle Manager, HPE GreenLake, HPE Alletra, HPE 3PAR, HPE Nimble, HPE EVA, SAN, Fibre Channel, Enterprise Storage, Storage Replication, Compute Clustering, Enterprise Virtualization, Private Cloud Platforms, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec

Network, Security, Operations, Microsoft, And Integration Platforms

Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiAnalyzer, FortiAuthenticator, FortiClient, Aruba Networking, Cisco Networking, Enterprise Firewalls, VPN Infrastructure, Kemp Load Balancers, CheckMK, PRTG, Nagios, Active Directory, Exchange, DNS, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server, IIS, ASP.NET, C#, Visual Basic, T-SQL, Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual Studio, EDI, AS/400 Integration, Client/Server Integration, Legacy Application Integration

AI / HPC And Decision Support

AI Infrastructure Planning, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Private Infrastructure for AI/HPC Workloads, AI-Assisted Infrastructure Analysis, AI-Assisted Architecture Validation, AI-Assisted Security and Risk Review, AI-Assisted Dependency Analysis, AI-Assisted Modernization Planning, AI-Assisted Cost, Vendor, Licensing, and Platform Analysis, AI-Assisted VMware/Broadcom Exposure Analysis, Cloud / Private Cloud Cost Tradeoff Review

Professional Development And Education

Microsoft, Redmond, WA

• Internet Explorer 5 Rapid Deployment Program
• Visual Studio 7.0 / .NET Product Development Group
• Visual Studio Roundtable
• Office 2000 beta
• MapPoint 2000 beta

McHenry County College

• Computer Programming Certificate

Harper College

• Supplemental programming coursework

Lincoln Technical Institute

• ASE Certified Mechanic training
• Full scholarship / 100% free ride