Chad Harp
Vice President Information Technology
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Harp is a veteran IT executive with over two decades of experience leading data center, mainframe, storage, and virtualization operations for large enterprises. As Vice President of IT at NCM Associates and former Managing Director at SS&C Technologies, he has overseen global infrastructure spanning nine data centers, 300+ staff, and a $174M budget while driving zero-downtime operations and measurable cost savings. He’s known for pragmatic automation and disaster-recovery innovations that cut implementation times by 80% and reduced work-hours by up to 50%, and for integrating a bespoke DCIM that documented every asset in 73K and 68K sq. ft. facilities. A hands-on technologist who rose through systems programming and operations, Chad blends deep technical knowledge (mainframe to hyperconverged private cloud) with financial governance and vendor management. He excels at translating executive strategy into operational change and has a track record of creating repeatable SOPs and automation that improve MTTR and service continuity. Based in Kansas City, he combines a people-first leadership style with a penchant for out-of-the-box solutions that scale across complex, heterogeneous environments.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Systems at Kansas State University
Github Skills (64)
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networking10
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security10
ruby10
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golang10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
harpchad/dotfiles
Dec 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:63 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
harpchad/trello
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Trello API wrapper for Go
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 8 months
golangapiapi-clientapi-wrappertrello-api
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