My Résumé

Timothy M McGrath

Solutions Architect • Digital Technology Transformation • Technical Program Management

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

An innovative, senior-level IT product leader with over 20 years of progressive software engineering experience supervising global teams for a Fortune 100 company. Credited as a catalyst for change, driving multimillion-dollar enterprise infrastructure modernization, database management, and workflow automation.

Proficient in solution architecture, aligning technical products that meet business requirements. Leverages keen organizing skills to balance multiple projects and priorities simultaneously in the face of ambiguity. Committed to ongoing professional development by proactively staying current with AI and emerging compliances and technologies.

An influential communicator who can simplify complex technical information to effectively mentor junior developers and collaborate with cross-functional project teams, customers, dealers, executives, and platform vendors.

Additionally, possesses over 10 years of experience in the following processes:

Back and Front-End Application Development
Agile and Scrum Methodology
Enterprise IT Service Management
Microservice Architecture
RESTful API Patterns and Machine Learning Algorithms
Design / Code Reviewing and Quality Assurance
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Synchronous / Asynchronous Design Principles
Backlog Refinement and Release Planning
Object-Oriented Programming
SaaS / PaaS and Cloud Integration
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Enablement
Testing, Validating, and Troubleshooting
AWS Cloud Services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Caterpillar, Inc. Peoria, IL / Englewood, CO

Technology Manager / Digital Operations & Support – (Remote Fleet Vision) | 09/2019 to 10/2025

Led a team overseeing a global customer facing telematics platform providing asset health, fleet monitoring, events, diagnostics, and site productivity for Caterpillar’s Energy and Transportation customers and dealers.
Train and supervise an international enterprise team (U.S., Europe, and India) consisting of Tier 3 product support and DevOps engineers. Facilitate service contracts and adherence to legal compliance.
Administer digital platform operations and infrastructure for Caterpillar’s Oil / Gas and Marine Divisions. This includes cloud infrastructure, database administration, deployment scheduling, system monitoring, and incident management.
Navigated two major platform migration projects to AWS Cloud, along with integrating internal, third-party, and customer ERP systems.
Led the integration of a marine vessel engine monitoring and analytics platform (CAI) leveraging Kubernetes and PostgreSQL. This included a vessel tracking platform (Trident) with a third-party API provider (Vessel Tracker) to drive dealer lead generation.
Delivered quality and performance improvements to a customer API to support their fleet of 2500 hi-frequency devices.
Navigated the merger of two digital teams across the Oil & Gas and Marine divisions. Responsible for four direct reports, two contracted workers, and an intern.
Managed vendor relations with a Denver-based datacenter / cloud provider (Flexential).

Technical Lead / Senior Digital Technical Specialist – (Telematics data hub) | 12/2017 to 09/2019

Led in the creation of a new digital data hub in AWS cloud. Served as cloud architect and technical team lead and mentor for an offshore team consisting of five developers and two quality assurance engineers.
Implemented performance improvements to the Cat digital platform productivity APIs, consisting of over 20 API endpoints. Expedited functional testing to improve unit coverage and code quality.

Senior Software Design Engineer - (Cat Connect Digital Services) | 11/2013 to 12/2017

Oversaw the architecture, development, and support for Caterpillar’s Telematics cloud enabled asset registration platform, supporting nearly two million assets and devices.
Developed a new registration message ingestion system utilizing MS Azure and an SQL Server database. Additionally, incorporated Azure cloud services for logins, events, and reporting metrics, and Pub-Sub patterns using Azure service bus.
Mentored offshore junior developers on system processes, design, and coding.

IT Analyst / Lead Developer - (Global Information Services) | 12/2007 to 11/2013

Architected, developed, and tested the Product Software Programming System (PSPS) factory client interface. This was used in manufacturing facilities worldwide to automate programming and configuration of electronic control modules during machine and engine assembly.
Led four major installation and upgrade projects across Caterpillar facilities worldwide that included the Seguin, TX engine facility and plants in Greenville, SC, Gosselies, Belgium, and Larne, United Kingdom.
Re-architected the Factory Configuration Client, migrating from a legacy C++/windows app to .NET with a web front end.

Development Engineer - (Cat Electronics) | 10/2000 to 12/2007

Designed and implemented features for Caterpillar Electronic Technician (ET) service tool, a PC based application used to interface directly with Caterpillar machines, used at dealerships worldwide.
Responsible for ComET development and factory support
Responsible for maintenance and development of ET Flash Server and RUFUS ECM simulator.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, 2025
AWS Certified AI Practitioner, 2025
SAFe Certified Scrum Master, 2018

EDUCATION

Bradley University, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science