Contact Me
Email - tucker (at) theshepherdandstaff.com
LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/tucker-barlow
Who Am I?
I am a senior IT strategest who has led multiple enterprise-scale transformations and efforts. I'm seeking an opportunity to take my next step in strategic leadership for an organization.
Over my career, I have grown from an individual contributor following the direction of others, into someone who is setting direction, pace, and vision for others to follow. These experiences have ignited a passion for leadership, strategy, and organizational architecture. I am interested in expanding my experience outside of a specific technical domain and bringing my leadership to a wider IT audience.
To get an idea of whether I'm a good fit for your organization, here are four traits that define the work that I am most passionate about:
Strategic Thinking
Stressful or complex situations can bog down even the most talented teams. My ability to translate the voice of the customer into clear direction brings clarity, confidence, and momentum.
Human-Centered
It's critical to remember that there are people on the other end of the solutions that we build. I use my perception, empathy, and taste for design to form strong partnerships with my customers and team.
Force Multiplier
My role is bigger than what I do with my own two hands. It's important to create room for excellence; recognizing and maximizing those around you into the best versions of themselves.
Adaptable & Versatile
I thrive in unfamiliar or undefined territory where I get to experience new challenges and opportunities to prove myself. Able to build structure and process that invites others to follow and be successful.
Core Competencies
Enterprise IT Strategy & Architecture
Driving modernization, consolidation, and resilience at scale
Large-Scale Program Leadership
Directing cross-functional teams of 50+ engineers to deliver complex initiatives
Mergers & Acquisitions IT Integration
Establishing repeatable patterns for rapid consolidation and synergy capture
Change Enablement
Aligning business, vendor, and technical stakeholders to accelerate delivery
Agile / Lean Enterprise Practices
Embedding adaptability, pace, and continuous improvement in enterprise IT
Recent Experience with Notable Highlights
- Directed a cross-functional team of 50+ engineers, guiding the delivery of a bespoke landing zone architecture
- Achieved unprecedented pace, driving a data center consolidiation timeline of < 1 year; significantly faster than typical multi-year programs
- Established repeatable architectural patterns as part of our foundational mergers & acquisitions integration strategy
- Implemented the endpoint protection roadmap for over 80,000 endpoints, including servers & virtual machines
- Resolved vendor and stakeholder alignment issues, accelerating endpoint protection rollout
- Mentored engineering resources on adhering and contributing to enterprise architecture
- Built new product area aligning enterprise data posture, leading 100+ engineers.
- Partnered with IT leadership to shape enterprise data strategy and roadmap.
- Formed and led a strike team of 20+ engineers to deliver shared data products.
- Delivered enterprise remote access improvements for 45K+ employees, establishing metrics and leading a multi-org tabletop for future service resilience.