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Tokyo, Japan

• Lead high-caliber, global team across engineering, software development, marketing, and localization in Japan and India. Steer projects through the software development life cycle (SDLC), leveraging SaaS and AWS IaaS.
• Devised initial concept and conducted requirements gathering for high quality class-building automation app for professors that includes functionality to pre-populate student assignment trackers.
• Launched Acadeion under mentorship of venture capitalist and in partnership with full-stack developer, ultimately growing company from team of two to seven.

Golden, Colorado, United States

• As head of IT, oversaw all aspects of IT operations from initial formation through continual scaling and evolution during period marked by 33% revenue growth and 100% increase in headcount. Led five-member in-house.
• Directly enabled CME to achieve strategic goals and financial metrics, including expanding into multibuilding campus with international branch locations and introducing in-house manufacturing and quality control.
• Built IT organization from the ground up, collaborating with senior executives to define and drive execution of strategy, governance, annual budget, IT systems, network security, business processes, policies, and.
• Eliminated pain points, improved internal/external communication and collaboration, and drastically improved inventory control and supply planning by implementing Enterprise Resource Planning, CRM, manufacturing.
• Slashed support requests by 90% and boosted order fulfillment speed 150% by spearheading digitization project to transition from QuickBooks/Excel to ERP solution, completing evaluation, procurement, configuration, and.
• Improved inventory visibility and traceability through implementation of warehouse management system with Scribe integration to ERP system.

Tokyo, Japan

• Leveraged DevOps and Ops practices in steering cross-functional teams of up to 20 in Japan, India, and France, acting as Lead Operations Engineer and facilitating communications to deliver cutting-edge systems. Drove.
• Played a key role in on-time/on-budget deployment of Qualys under tight three-month time frame by implementing AWS Systems Manager and writing scripts to automate server configuration.
• Instrumental in achieving regulatory compliance by heading project using cloud-native services (AWS CLI, S3, Lambda) to query and generate reports on compliance status of all cloud environments.

San Francisco, California

• Controlled $1.5M IT budget and directed international team in overseeing data centers, network servers, and technical support. Allocated resources and project-managed new initiatives.
• Built IT department and operational structure to support 300% year-over-year growth, resolved stability and security issues, introduced wireless capabilities, and future-proofed infrastructure by redeploying entire.
• Decreased onboarding time from one week to one hour by leading team in architecting and deploying multisite Active Directory domain.
• Improved office productivity by implementing Lync/Skype for Business, Exchange, and Jira.
• Transitioned primary organization revenue stream to SaaS-based product by leading team following DevOps practices to build hybrid-cloud platform in colocation datacenter using Cisco UCS, VMWare ESXi, F5 Big-IP, and.

Golden, Colorado, United States

• Proposed and implemented IT solutions to address existing business needs, align with future goals, and improve cybersecurity posture.
• Redesigned infrastructure architecture by leveraging Microsoft Hyper-V technology, reducing upgrade costs and hardware footprint by 75%.

Boulder, Colorado

Earned four promotions over 11-year employment to hold responsibility for configuring, installing, and administering data center infrastructure and applications. Managed computer helpdesk and outsourced developer teams.

Master Of Science - Ms, Information Systems, 4.0

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, International Business, 3.99

Summa Cum Laude