Application Reliability & Operational Engineering

Dan Jackson

Senior Technology Leadership Professional

Leading enterprise reliability at scale — 244 application services, 136 business apps, 26-person team — keeping healthcare technology running for millions of Humana members.

244 App Services
99.49% SLA Maintained
26 Person Team
7+ Azure & Industry Certs

The Story

I'm a technology leader with a career built on solving hard problems at scale. Starting in the U.S. Army — where I learned that precision, accountability, and team leadership aren't optional — I transitioned into enterprise IT and haven't slowed down since.

Over eight years at Humana, I've worked my way from datacenter inventory to systems engineering, network operations, and now leading reliability for one of the most critical technology portfolios in healthcare. The AROE team I help lead supports the systems that enable agents to enroll Americans in health plans — when those systems go down, people can't get coverage. That's the bar we operate to.

I'm a builder as much as I'm a leader. I write custom monitoring integrations when the vendor doesn't have a solution. I automate workflows that save my team hours every week. I get certified in the technologies I manage because knowing the tool deeply is how you lead the people using it.

Core Technologies
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Mulesoft Dynatrace Azure DevOps Dynamics 365 ServiceNow SolarWinds IBM Watson Qlikview PowerShell SQL / SWQL Linux Active Directory vSphere / vCenter
Military Service
United States Army
Company Clerk — Fort Carson
May 2002 – Jan 2010

Career Timeline

Humana March 2022 – Present

Senior Technology Leadership Professional

Application Reliability & Operational Engineering (AROE)

  • Lead reliability operations across six development areas: Reliance CRM, Vantage, MP360, Gforce, Agent CRM, and Agent Assist
  • Collaborate with a team of 26 associates and contractors managing 244 application services and 136 business applications at 99.49% SLA
  • Partner with 16 business stakeholders from design through production release, representing full SDLC engagement
  • Lead weekly meetings with business and development partners ensuring application stability
  • Drive Operational Excellence Shift Left initiatives — automating legacy project loading into Azure DevOps and building front-end UI for Technical Debt tracking
  • Wrote custom Mulesoft integration monitoring in Dynatrace when no out-of-box solution existed
  • Became Salesforce Marketing Cloud certified to support SRE intake of SFMC and Mulesoft integrations
  • Developing a new Project Engagement Tracking Process to standardize SRE–dev partner interactions
  • Prepare critical applications for Stars, AEP, and OEP business cycles
Humana July 2021 – March 2022

Senior Network Operations Engineer

  • Designed and maintained multiple SolarWinds Orion/VIM dashboards using SWQL and SQL
  • Led development of IT infrastructure projects across data center environments
  • Performed complex troubleshooting of server hardware, software, and infrastructure systems
  • Communicated technical context across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Humana Sept 2018 – July 2021

Systems Engineer II

  • Architected Micro Focus Operations Bridge Suite for monitoring of 20,000+ servers and appliances
  • Led migration from HP Operations Manager to Micro Focus Ops Bridge Manager
  • Project lead for transition from MF Operations Agent to SolarWinds for server metrics and alerting
  • Performed service outage Root Cause Analysis and implemented monitoring to prevent recurrence
Humana Mar 2017 – Sept 2018

Inventory Specialist

  • Accountable for ~$60M of datacenter inventory monthly
  • Managed receiving, cataloging, staging, and shipping for datacenter equipment
  • Coordinated fiber optic cabling, rack/cabinet, and PDU procurement across multiple departments
Technology Integration Group Aug 2014 – Mar 2017

Systems Engineer

  • Managed HP Operations Agent registration and decommissions across 13,000+ servers and devices
  • Troubleshot bi-directional secure communications between remote agents and management servers
  • Scripted process automations for HP Operations Agent deployment and removal
United Parcel Service Jun 2013 – Sept 2013

Database Engineer (Contract)

  • Database administration and automated report processing for UPS Supply Chain Solutions
United States Army — Fort Carson May 2002 – Jan 2010

Company Clerk

  • Managed daily status updates and operations for a company of 125–130 soldiers
  • Supervised 14 subordinates — scheduling, task validation, and standards enforcement
  • Trained 25 soldiers on military SOPs and deployment procedures

Credentials

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AZ-104
Microsoft Azure Administrator
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AZ-303 / AZ-304
Azure Solutions Architect
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AZ-700
Azure Network Engineer Associate
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AZ-900
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
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CEH
Certified Ethical Hacker
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Linux+
CompTIA Linux+
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SFMC
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Certified
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Sullivan University — Louisville, KY
AAS, Computer Information Technology
Fall 2013 – Fall 2015
ITT Technical Institute — Louisville, KY
AAS, Software Development Technology
Fall 2011 – Fall 2013

Get in Touch

Available for professional conversations, speaking, and collaboration.

dan@dantjackson.com