Donald Picard

Donald Picard has extensive work experience in the field of IT and technology. Donald has worked as a Lead DevOps Engineer at Körber Supply Chain since 2023. Prior to that, they worked at Sogeti as a Manager, where they were responsible for leading the Kroger Corp. Health and Wellness - Innovation and Dev Ops Team. In this role, they were involved in various tasks such as migrating applications to Azure Cloud or Kubernetes, building application deployment pipelines for CI/CD, maintaining HIPAA standards, and implementing fully automated solutions. Donald also worked as a Desktop Support Manager at MediSync in 2013 and as a WinTel Engineer at Atos from 2012 to 2013. In these roles, they were involved in managing and troubleshooting network and server incidents, among other responsibilities. Before that, Donald worked as a Computer Systems Analyst at the City of Cincinnati from 2010 to 2012, where they installed, maintained, and troubleshooted workstations and servers. Donald also served as a Systems Administrator at Vision Technologies from 2007 to 2011, where they were responsible for installing, operating, and maintaining servers and peripheral equipment. Donald's career began in the US Army as an Information Systems Operator/Analyst from 2004 to 2007, where they coordinated and maintained network infrastructure and web pages.

Donald Picard holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree in Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services from Franklin University, which they obtained from 2016 to 2018. Donald also has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the same institution, earned between 2011 and 2012. Additionally, they hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology from Franklin University, completed from 2006 to 2009. Furthermore, they hold several certifications, including Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional, and Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate. Donald has also obtained a certification as a Certified SAFe Practitioner.