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 roles where the organization needs to modernize safely, reduce platform risk, regain cost or vendor control, improve resilience, or reassess public-cloud-first, SaaS-first, or vendor-dependent operating models without ideological bias.

Best Fit

• VP / Head of Infrastructure
• Senior Director Infrastructure
• Senior Director Enterprise Infrastructure
• Principal Infrastructure Architect
• Executive Infrastructure Architect
• Infrastructure Transformation Leader
• Private Cloud / Hybrid Infrastructure Leader
• Selective CTO / Head of Technology roles where infrastructure, resilience, security, cost, and operating model are central

Core Value

• Owns infrastructure outcomes across architecture, procurement, deployment, operations, lifecycle, modernization, and decommissioning.
• Connects infrastructure decisions to business risk, continuity, security posture, platform cost, and executive decision-making.
• Builds durable infrastructure that supports the business after implementation, not just during the project.
• Bridges executive strategy, technical architecture, and operational reality.
• Uses AI-assisted infrastructure judgment as decision support for architecture review, security and risk analysis, dependency analysis, vendor comparison, licensing exposure, and platform tradeoff decisions.

Selected Evidence Points

• 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.
• 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, 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.

Experience Summary

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.

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

• Owned enterprise infrastructure strategy, architecture, operational integrity, budget ownership, team leadership, executive partnership, and acquisition continuity across mission-critical production environments.

Senior Systems Architect
June 2014 - June 2023

• Architected and delivered major private cloud, data center, storage, network, security, and resilience modernization work, including approximately $5M in 2014/2015 infrastructure modernization and the approximately $4M 2022 private cloud rebuild.

Senior Software Engineer / Infrastructure and Integration Lead
February 2006 - June 2014

• Led web development, workflow systems, EDI, BizTalk, SQL Server-backed integration, data movement, and the approximately $1.5M 2008/2009 infrastructure modernization that formed the bridge into long-term infrastructure ownership.

Anderson & Associates

Founder & Principal Architect
June 1995 - Present

• 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, high-availability environments, infrastructure modernization, and risk-aware design.

Worldwide Logistics Solutions / Roberson Transportation

Acquired by TMC Transportation / Annett Holdings.

Director of Information Technology
September 2003 - January 2006

• 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 and led enterprise integration across AS/400, SQL Server, client/server, web, EDI, flat-file, paper/OCR, and BizTalk foundations.
• Led EDI integration with 400+ trading partners and supported operational continuity through acquisition.

AIT Worldwide Logistics

Infrastructure & Application Development Manager
May 1999 - November 2001

• Designed and physically built AIT's Y2K production data center and coordinated the move from server-room infrastructure into a resilient 24x7 environment.
• Led complete infrastructure redesign across 42 stations coast to coast, including LAN/WAN, redundancy/failover, domain services, email, and file/print services.
• Built and supported logistics platforms, shipment tracking, order management, inventory management, drop-ship management, and AS/400 / SQL Server / web integration foundations.

Uarco / Standard Register

Acquired by Standard Register in 1998.

Senior Web Engineer / Senior Software Engineer, Web Platforms
January 1996 - May 1999

• Supported post-acquisition data center consolidation after Standard Register acquired Uarco, including decommissioning one of two data center environments.
• Designed and administered web, SQL Server, development, production, internet, and intranet platforms while building early Microsoft platform credibility.

Early Technical Foundation

Clark Wire & Cable | Manager / Cabling Engineer
June 1993 - January 1996

• Supported communications infrastructure for recording studios, TV/radio stations, satellite broadcast news trucks, and enterprise facilities.

Early Systems, Diagnostics, And Operations
May 1985 - May 1993

• Built early systems diagnostics, electronics, root-cause analysis, and hands-on technical execution foundations as an ASE Certified Mechanic specializing in onboard computers and electronic fuel injection.

Core Strengths

• Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture
• Infrastructure Strategy
• Infrastructure Modernization
• Private Cloud
• Hybrid Infrastructure
• Data Center Architecture
• Data Center Operations
• Security Architecture
• Operational Resilience
• High Availability
• Disaster Recovery (DR)
• Business Continuity (BC)
• Network Architecture & Security
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Infrastructure Risk Management
• CapEx Ownership
• Infrastructure Budget Ownership
• Vendor Strategy
• Procurement
• Licensing Review
• VMware / Broadcom Exposure Analysis
• Cloud / Private Cloud Cost Tradeoff Review
• Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Integration
• Infrastructure Consolidation
• Decommissioning Strategy
• Institutional Knowledge Transfer
• AI-assisted infrastructure analysis
• High-Performance Computing (HPC) planning

Technical Skills

Infrastructure, Cloud, And Data Center

Private Cloud, Hybrid Infrastructure, Data Center Architecture, Data Center Operations, 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

Security, Network, And Operations

Security Architecture, Network Architecture & Security, Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiAnalyzer, FortiAuthenticator, FortiClient, Aruba Networking, Cisco Networking, Enterprise Firewalls, VPN Infrastructure, Kemp Load Balancers, Network Segmentation, CheckMK, PRTG, Nagios

Enterprise Platforms And Integration

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

Backup, Recovery, And Decision Support

Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec, Backup and Recovery, Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity (BC), AI-Assisted Infrastructure Analysis, AI-Assisted Architecture Validation, AI-Assisted Security and Risk Review, AI-Assisted Cost, Vendor, Licensing, and Platform Analysis, Private Infrastructure for AI/HPC Workloads

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