Kevin Hicks
Chief Information Officer
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Hicks is a Chief Information Officer with over a decade of technology leadership in the construction industry, combining hands-on IT operations with strategic business acumen from an MBA at UAB. He has advanced through technical and executive roles at MJ Harris, shaping IT policy, application development, budgets, and cross-departmental strategy while maintaining a strong focus on day-to-day reliability. Kevin’s background in building construction (BS and MS from Auburn) gives him uncommon domain expertise that he applies to digital transformation and construction tech innovation. As an active contributor to open-source tooling like tighten/takeout, he brings practical DevOps and backend experience—fixing cross-platform container issues and improving testability—to enterprise IT environments. He is also civically engaged and has advised peer CIO networks, reflecting a commitment to leadership development beyond his company.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at University of Alabama at BirminghamMasters Building Construction, Masters Building Construction at Auburn University
Github Skills (11)
php10
docker10
dockers10
cli9
command-line9
testing9
command-line-interface9
automations8
automation8
composer7
mysql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tighten/takeout
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Docker-based development-only dependency manager. macOS, Linux, and WSL2-only and installs via PHP's Composer... for now.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 29 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the Takeout project by fixing bugs and implementing new features related to container management within a Docker environment. This included resolving issues with stopping stopped containers and adding tests to validate fixes. Furthermore, they refactored code and integrated dependency injection into commands. The user also updated the project to support Windows OS and refactored OS checking.
mysqlphplinuxtakeoutdocker
delta1186/takeout
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Docker-based development-only dependency manager. macOS-only and installs via PHP's Composer... for now.
Contributions:67 pushes, 14 branches in 4 months
phpdockerdependency-managercomposerphp8
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