rodefer ~ /dossier

Michael Cody Rodefer

Director of Technology Support Services Bellevue College ITS

MBA · CISSP · PMP · SHRM-SCP · ITIL 4

Callicles told Socrates that the good life is appetite without limit, always more and always bigger. Socrates called that a leaky jar you can pour into forever and never fill, and that was never what I wanted. What I want is to grow with my team and with this college, because in a place built around learning, IT is the work I would choose anyway.

An empty boat can collide with yours and stir no anger — it's the man at the oars we curse. So I empty the boat: no ego to steer around, no one to blame, only the river and the work. — after Zhuangzi · 莊子, the empty vessel (虛舟)

// certifications and certificates [5]

// education [2]

MBA

Information Technology Management · Western Governors University

Bachelor's

Double major · Computer Science & Mathematics · Maryville College

HONORSMagna Cum Laude MINORSEnglish, Japanese AWARDJerry L. Pietenpol CS Award

// selected work

Intune campus deployment

Bellevue College

I led the modernization of roughly 3,000 endpoints from legacy SCCM to a unified Intune platform, standardizing configuration, compliance, and application delivery across the college. I built the rollout on device-based self-deploying enrollment and staged it in rings for a controlled transition, and I folded BitLocker in at scale so a lost device stays a hardware matter rather than a data exposure. The support technicians were trained ahead of deployment and own device targeting today, leaving the college with a capability it keeps.

IIS deployment pipeline

Bellevue College

I designed and delivered the deployment pipeline our developers use to push work across multiple IIS boxes: a Windows Server environment with SFTP and DFS replication through a staging server, built to their workflow and structured to hold licensing costs down. I stood it up end to end on my own, and it remains in production today.

PLC backups & 2D imagers

Denso

I partnered with production and maintenance teams to deliver a centralized, networked system for PLC backups and remote deployment, paired with automated 2D imagers that read part marks directly in place of manual entry. Deployments that once required a technician on the floor now complete remotely in minutes, and preventing a single mislabel is worth roughly ten thousand dollars. The work paid for itself within the fiscal year and left the floor teams with a supported system they continue to run.

// focus

project management ITSM / ITIL maturity incident · change · problem security governance identity & cloud — Intune / Entra ID budget & procurement SLA & service delivery team leadership
Bloom where you are planted — and when you can't bloom, send the roots down deeper. — Watanabe Kazuko, 置かれた場所で咲きなさい ("Bloom Where You Are Planted")

— after W. B. Yeats, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" (opens in a new tab)