Chris Holdridge

Chris Holdridge

Riverview, Florida, United States
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Proven IT leader with over 10 years of progressive experience in cloud transformation…

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Experience

  • Penske Transportation Solutions Graphic

    Penske Transportation Solutions

    Tampa, Florida, United States

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    Brandon, Florida, United States

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    Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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    Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

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    Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

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    Sarasota, Florida, United States

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    Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

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    Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

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    Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

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    Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Education

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    Trinity Law School

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    Studies focused in enterprise IT support, IT project management, technical support, technical planning, and business analyses.

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    The DIT program focuses on research and practice, developing IT, cybersecurity, and project management expertise. The program emphasizes real-world knowledge and application through an integrated capstone project.

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Volunteer Experience

  • Penske Transportation Solutions Graphic

    Community Engagement Committee Owner

    Penske Transportation Solutions

    - Present 3 years 4 months

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Led community outreach initiatives to strengthen Penske's local presence and foster positive relationships across the Tampa area. Coordinated volunteer efforts, charity drives, and employee engagement programs that supported local schools, shelters, and nonprofit organizations. Partnered with cross-functional teams to plan impactful events, aligning with Penske’s corporate social responsibility goals.

    Key Highlights:

    Organized quarterly community service events, increasing…

    Led community outreach initiatives to strengthen Penske's local presence and foster positive relationships across the Tampa area. Coordinated volunteer efforts, charity drives, and employee engagement programs that supported local schools, shelters, and nonprofit organizations. Partnered with cross-functional teams to plan impactful events, aligning with Penske’s corporate social responsibility goals.

    Key Highlights:

    Organized quarterly community service events, increasing employee volunteer participation by 90%.

    Collaborated with local nonprofits to support food drives and back-to-school programs.

    Boosted internal engagement through recognition campaigns and feedback loops.

Projects

  • vm ware offsite replication project

    - Present

    Large scale offsite replication project for VM Ware and Citrix Server farm this will connect our data center to an offsite fall over network for DR and sand box environments

  • Enterprise Azure Tenant Buildout – Greenfield to Operational Excellence

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    Led the end-to-end deployment of an enterprise Azure tenant from a greenfield state, aligned with Microsoft’s Well-Architected Framework. The design focused on enabling scalable, secure, and governed cloud operations across five key pillars.

    🔹 Reliability:
    Established high availability and fault tolerance using Azure Landing Zones, paired regions, and subscription isolation. Integrated Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and backup/DR automation to ensure resilience and uptime.

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    Led the end-to-end deployment of an enterprise Azure tenant from a greenfield state, aligned with Microsoft’s Well-Architected Framework. The design focused on enabling scalable, secure, and governed cloud operations across five key pillars.

    🔹 Reliability:
    Established high availability and fault tolerance using Azure Landing Zones, paired regions, and subscription isolation. Integrated Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and backup/DR automation to ensure resilience and uptime.

    🔹 Security:
    Implemented Zero Trust principles with Azure AD Conditional Access, RBAC, and JIT access. Hardened the environment with Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, NSGs, and Private Endpoints to meet compliance and threat detection requirements.

    🔹 Cost Optimization:
    Adopted FinOps practices leveraging Azure Cost Management, reservations, Hybrid Benefit, and budget alerts. Applied tagging, auto-scaling, and right-sizing to control costs while maintaining performance.

    🔹 Operational Excellence:
    Standardized deployments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform & Bicep) and CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps. Applied Azure Blueprints, governance policies, and management group hierarchy to enforce compliance and lifecycle management.

    🔹 Performance Efficiency:
    Optimized workloads using scalable compute, Azure Front Door, Redis Cache, and CDN. Enabled global reach with Traffic Manager and region-aware architecture, supported by workload benchmarking and auto-scaling.

    📌 Impact:
    Enabled secure, compliant, and scalable Azure operations for enterprise workloads. Delivered an entirely governed, cost-efficient platform supporting 10,000+ workloads, cloud-native development, and global service reliability.

Honors & Awards

  • Azure Innovation Leadership Award – Supply Chain Insight Rollout

    Penske Logistics

    Recognized for exceptional leadership in delivering Supply Chain Insight, Penske’s first 100% Azure-native enterprise application, revolutionizing how logistics are tracked, monitored, and maintained.

    Initiated in June 2022 and successfully launched to production in August 2023, the solution set a new standard for digital automation and cloud-native delivery across the organization.

    As Lead for the architecture and engineering teams, I designed and built the underlying Azure…

    Recognized for exceptional leadership in delivering Supply Chain Insight, Penske’s first 100% Azure-native enterprise application, revolutionizing how logistics are tracked, monitored, and maintained.

    Initiated in June 2022 and successfully launched to production in August 2023, the solution set a new standard for digital automation and cloud-native delivery across the organization.

    As Lead for the architecture and engineering teams, I designed and built the underlying Azure enterprise platform that supports the application. Key components included Azure App Services, Event Hubs, Data Factory, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, and Policy-based governance.

    This achievement laid the foundation for Penske’s broader digital transformation strategy, paving the way for future automated logistics solutions while ensuring operational scalability, compliance, and security through native Azure tools.

    🚀 Impact:

    Enabled real-time supply chain visibility and analytics.

    Reduced manual intervention across logistics workflows.

    Delivered on time with zero production downtime.

    Established reusable cloud-native architecture for future enterprise apps.

  • Office 365 Migration

    Integrity One

    Tenant configuration and migration of 10k plus mail boxes

  • Nimble Storage

    Nimble

    Nimble Storage SAN Certified

Languages

  • English

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