Clint Anderson

Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Leader | Architecture, Security, Resilience | Private Cloud & Data Centers

Greater Chicago Area

www.linkedin.com/in/clint-anderson-technology

Professional Summary

Senior enterprise infrastructure and platform leader with 30+ years of technology experience and nearly two decades of direct ownership over mission-critical production infrastructure. Deep scope across enterprise infrastructure architecture, private cloud, hybrid infrastructure, data center platforms, security architecture, disaster recovery, business continuity, enterprise storage, virtualization, network architecture, and facilities-integrated technology.

Known for owning environments where failure is visible, expensive, and hard to excuse. Strong fit for VP Infrastructure, Head of Infrastructure, Senior Director Infrastructure, Principal Infrastructure Architect, and Infrastructure Transformation roles where infrastructure cost, control, resilience, modernization, workload placement, cloud repatriation, SaaS repatriation, AI infrastructure, or High-Performance Computing (HPC) readiness has become an executive-level issue.

Secure by design. Resilient by default. Architecture that endures when others fail.

Core Strengths

• Infrastructure Leadership: Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture, Infrastructure Strategy, Infrastructure Operating Model, Infrastructure Modernization, IT Infrastructure, Infrastructure & Operations
• Security and Resilience: Security Architecture, Operational Resilience, High Availability, Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity (BC), Risk Management
• Private / Hybrid Platforms: Private Cloud, Hybrid Infrastructure, Data Center Architecture, Data Center Operations, Virtualization, Enterprise Storage, Network Architecture
• Infrastructure Economics: Cloud Cost Rebalancing, Cloud Repatriation, SaaS Repatriation, Cloud Spend Creep Analysis, Vendor Cost Pressure, Workload Placement Strategy
• Governance and Integration: Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Integration, Technical Due Diligence, Vendor Management, Lifecycle Management, Decommissioning Strategy
• Executive Leadership: Executive Stakeholder Management, Cross-Functional Leadership, Senior Technical Leadership, Budget Influence, Platform Sustainability

Selected Career Highlights

• Owned enterprise infrastructure strategy, architecture, and operational integrity across mission-critical commerce, logistics, financial, and operational platforms.
• Led long-term infrastructure evolution at StrategIQ Commerce / IntraVex from early application and integration platforms into mature enterprise infrastructure, private cloud, data center, security, and resilience operations.
• Retained following Loop's acquisition of StrategIQ Commerce to preserve infrastructure continuity, institutional knowledge, dependency awareness, and integration safety during transition.
• Directed infrastructure planning across private cloud, virtualization, storage, network, security, backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and facilities-integrated technology.
• Led major infrastructure investment decisions, vendor strategy, procurement, lifecycle planning, modernization sequencing, and platform sustainability across multi-year planning horizons.
• Led data center moves, cloud moves, upgrades, and infrastructure buildouts with minimal service disruption across major infrastructure transitions.
• Led enterprise infrastructure redesign across 40+ locations, including LAN/WAN, core domain services, email, file services, data-sharing platforms, redundancy, and failover.
• Served as principal architect for John Deere Freight Pay, a revenue-critical freight payment platform supporting high-volume freight invoice processing.
• Led enterprise integration across AS/400, SQL Server, client/server, web, EDI, flat-file, and paper/OCR workflows, including 400+ trading partner integrations.
• Built infrastructure standards, lifecycle practices, platform patterns, and operating models supporting long-term growth, resilience, risk reduction, and operational consistency.

Professional Experience

Loop (formerly StrategIQ Commerce)

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 infrastructure continuity across legacy, current, and modernization-track platforms while protecting service continuity during acquisition integration and modernization planning.
• Map infrastructure dependencies across platforms, systems, teams, and operational processes to reduce transition risk and avoid blind replacement decisions.
• Provide architectural direction across private cloud, data center platforms, security-aligned infrastructure, resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, and platform sustainability.
• Partner with executive and technical stakeholders to align infrastructure priorities with business continuity, security posture, integration needs, cost discipline, and modernization sequencing.
• Support transformation planning where platform cost, control, vendor pressure, workload placement, resilience, and long-term operability require executive-level judgment.

Anderson & Associates

Founder & Principal Architect (Owner / CEO)

June 1995 - Present | Midwest United States

• Founded and led a selective advisory practice focused on secure, resilient infrastructure design, mission-critical platforms, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Advise organizations on enterprise infrastructure strategy, risk-aware platform design, disaster recovery, business continuity, operational resilience, and architecture governance.
• Serve as principal architect and executive sponsor for engagements requiring infrastructure judgment, durable platform design, and practical tradeoff management.
• Support architecture decisions where cost, performance, security, resilience, control, and long-term operability must be balanced against real operational constraints.

StrategIQ Commerce / IntraVex

Senior Director, Enterprise Infrastructure Technology

June 2023 - October 2025 | Greater Chicago Area

• Owned enterprise infrastructure architecture, private cloud strategy, and platform design across mission-critical production environments supporting commerce, logistics, financial, and operational systems.
• Directed data center, virtualization, storage, network, security, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity architecture supporting high-availability business platforms.
• Led infrastructure modernization and lifecycle planning across legacy, current, and future-state platforms while balancing cost, resilience, security, operational continuity, and long-term sustainability.
• Accountable for infrastructure budgets, vendor strategy, procurement, lifecycle planning, and major platform investments across capital and operating planning horizons.
• Led technical evaluation and vendor selection for enterprise storage, virtualization, network, security, backup, and infrastructure refresh initiatives.
• Established infrastructure standards, lifecycle practices, and architecture patterns used to guide modernization, risk reduction, decommissioning, and investment decisions.
• Evaluated private cloud, hybrid infrastructure, SaaS-first operating assumptions, vendor cost pressure, cloud spend creep, and workload placement decisions through business-risk and operational-fit lenses.
• Served as infrastructure continuity owner during acquisition-driven change, preserving institutional knowledge while supporting integration, modernization, and future-state planning.

Senior Systems Architect

June 2014 - June 2023 | Greater Chicago Area

• Led architecture and modernization of enterprise infrastructure platforms supporting production commerce, logistics, financial, and operational systems.
• Designed and evolved private cloud, virtualization, enterprise storage, backup, disaster recovery, network, and security infrastructure across high-availability production environments.
• Established infrastructure standards, lifecycle planning practices, and platform patterns that supported long-term growth, resilience, and operational consistency.
• Helped transition StrategIQ from application-led infrastructure growth into a more formal enterprise infrastructure operating model.
• Supported executive and technical decision-making by translating infrastructure risk, dependency, and lifecycle issues into practical modernization paths.
• Led data center moves, cloud moves, upgrades, and infrastructure buildouts with minimal service disruption across major infrastructure transitions.

Senior Software Engineer

February 2006 - June 2014 | Greater Chicago Area

• Initially engaged as a consultant in late January 2006; transitioned to full-time employment in early March 2006.
• Led development and modernization of web, data integration, and business workflow systems supporting commerce and operational platforms.
• Worked across ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server, EDI, internal applications, customer-facing systems, and legacy platform integrations.
• Helped transform early application and integration platforms into a durable enterprise foundation that later supported broader infrastructure modernization.
• Bridged application development, data integration, infrastructure, and operations as StrategIQ's technical platform needs expanded.
• Supported the technical evolution of IntraVex, which officially rebranded as StrategIQ Commerce in 2010.

Worldwide Logistics Solutions / Roberson Transportation

Director of Information Technology

September 2003 - January 2006 | Mahomet, IL

• Led IT infrastructure, data center, security, and application platform strategy for logistics and financial systems supporting mission-critical operations.
• Designed, procured, and implemented dedicated 24x7 core infrastructure across server, network, storage, and security platforms.
• Owned infrastructure supporting revenue-critical logistics, financial, and operational systems, including dedicated environments for major freight payment platforms.
• Served as principal architect for John Deere Freight Pay, a revenue-critical freight payment platform supporting high-volume freight invoice processing.
• Led enterprise integration across AS/400, SQL Server, client/server, web, EDI, flat-file, and paper/OCR workflows, including 400+ trading partner integrations.
• Developed IT policies, procedures, configuration standards, development standards, implementation practices, and SAS-70 support materials.
• Supported continuity and platform stability during Roberson Transportation's acquisition by TMC Transportation.

AIT Worldwide Logistics

Infrastructure & Application Development Manager

May 1999 - November 2001 | Itasca, IL

• Led infrastructure and application development across enterprise logistics platforms, data center operations, and customer-facing systems.
• Designed and operated 24x7 data center infrastructure supporting core business systems, redundant connectivity, domain services, and production platforms.
• Led enterprise infrastructure redesign across 40+ locations, including LAN/WAN, email, file services, data-sharing systems, redundancy, and failover.
• Built internet-based shipment tracking, tracing, order management, inventory management, drop-ship, intranet, and customer-facing platforms.
• Implemented data-sharing systems integrating AS/400, SQL Server, extranet, intranet, client/server applications, and BizTalk foundations.
• Recruited and managed application development and networking teams supporting enterprise infrastructure and logistics platforms.

Earlier Career

Standard Register / Uarco, Inc. | Senior Software Engineer, Web Platforms

January 1996 - May 1999 | Barrington, IL / Dayton, OH

• Designed, developed, and supported web platform, database, and secure transaction systems for corporate internet, intranet, and client-facing environments.
• Owned web server, SQL Server, development, and production environment support for secure internet and intranet transaction applications.
• Participated in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 Rapid Deployment Program activity focused on enterprise browser deployment strategy, browser administration, security, migration planning, and automated deployment architecture.
• Continued platform and operational continuity through Uarco's acquisition by Standard Register.

Clark Wire & Cable | Manager / Cabling Engineer

June 1993 - January 1996 | Mundelein, IL

• Designed, installed, and supported enterprise communications and structured cabling systems.
• Built physical-layer infrastructure experience that later supported data center, facilities-integrated technology, and enterprise network design work.

Early Systems, Diagnostics, and Operations Foundation | Manager / Mechanic and Automotive Technician

May 1985 - May 1993 | Skokie, IL / Northbrook, IL

• Specialized in onboard computer systems, electronic fuel injection systems, advanced diagnostics, and root-cause analysis.
• Built early automation around customer tracking, inventory tracking, maintenance reminders, purchasing, invoicing, fleet maintenance, budget control, and repair tracking.

Selected Technical Platform Experience

• Infrastructure Leadership: Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture, Infrastructure Strategy, Infrastructure Operating Model, Infrastructure Modernization, Infrastructure & Operations, IT Infrastructure
• Private / Hybrid Infrastructure: Private Cloud, Hybrid Infrastructure, Cloud Repatriation, SaaS Repatriation, Cloud Cost Rebalancing, Cloud Spend Creep Analysis, Workload Placement Strategy, Vendor Cost Pressure
• AI and Compute: AI infrastructure, High-Performance Computing (HPC), GPU-ready infrastructure planning, high-density compute environment considerations
• Virtualization and Private Cloud: VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter, VMware Lifecycle Manager, HPE GreenLake, enterprise virtualization, compute clustering
• Compute and Storage: HPE ProLiant, HPE Alletra, HPE 3PAR, HPE Nimble, HPE MSA, SAN, Fibre Channel, enterprise storage architecture, storage replication
• Network and Security: Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiAnalyzer, Aruba, Cisco, enterprise firewalls, VPN, secure connectivity, network segmentation, network architecture
• Identity and Messaging: Active Directory, Exchange, Outlook, DNS, file and print services, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Data and Integration: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft BizTalk Server, EDI, AS/400 integration, ASP.NET, data integration, legacy application integration
• Backup, Monitoring, and Operations: Veeam Backup & Replication, Backup Exec, CheckMK, PRTG, Nagios, incident management
• Development and Source Control: Visual Studio, Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Visual SourceSafe, C#, ASP.NET, T-SQL, JavaScript, XML, HTML, CSS
• Facilities-Integrated Technology: Structured cabling, access control, alarm systems, video surveillance, video distribution, AV systems, conference systems, UPS systems

Education and Professional Development

• Microsoft: Internet Explorer 5 Rapid Deployment Program, Microsoft HQ, Redmond, WA
• McHenry County College: Computer Programming Certificate
• Harper College: Supplemental Computer Programming Coursework
• Lincoln Technical Institute: ASE Certified Mechanic, Automotive Technology, awarded full scholarship