Adam Crown

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Senior Engineering Manager | DevOps, Infrastructure, & SREStrategic Operations Leader Driving Performance, Uptime & Efficiency | Champion of Team Collaboration & Individual Growth @ Verra Mobility
Adam Crown's Location
Simi Valley, California, United States, United States
About Adam Crown

As a dynamic and growth-focused first and second-line leader and mentor, I have extensive experience driving innovation and efficiency through cloud-first strategies and automation. With over 20 years of experience, I've led teams in high-availability environments, successfully implementing agile methodologies and optimizing cloud infrastructure.Being a forward-thinking professional, I have a proven track record of reducing costs, managing vendor relationships, and overseeing large-scale system rollouts and upgrades. I am known for my ability to mentor and inspire cross-functional teams, consistently achieving exceptional results. As a compassionate and motivational leader, I prioritize collaboration and problem-solving. My passion for mentoring and guiding team members has resulted in professional growth and excellence within my teams.Whether addressing technical issues or streamlining operational processes, I'm committed to resolving issues efficiently and effectively. My track record in spearheading performance review initiatives and identifying areas of inefficiency underscores my ability to analyze problems, implement solutions, and drive substantial improvements.My dedication to optimizing cloud resources, enhancing performance, and implementing cost-saving measures has made a significant impact on the organizations I've been a part of. I’m passionate about making a meaningful impact in the global business landscape and am always eager to take on new challenges. If you're looking for a dedicated and results-oriented professional with a track record of success in international collaboration and project management.Expertise:1. DevOps, GitOps, FiOps, and SecOps: I bring in-depth knowledge and practical experience in these critical areas, enabling organizations to maintain security, efficiency, and agility in their operations.2. Leadership & Development: My leadership skills have helped cultivate high-performing teams and drive professional development, ensuring that teams meet and exceed their goals.3. Staffing, Budgeting, Capacity Planning: I excel in resource management, budget allocation, and capacity planning, ensuring optimal resource utilization while meeting business objectives.4. Business Continuity & Compliance: I have a strong focus on business continuity and compliance, minimizing operational risks and ensuring that operations align with industry standards and regulatory requirements.5. Datacenter Management: With a deep understanding of data center operations, I can optimize infrastructure and resource management.

Adam Crown's Current Company Details
Verra Mobility

Verra Mobility

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Senior Engineering Manager | DevOps, Infrastructure, & SREStrategic Operations Leader Driving Performance, Uptime & Efficiency | Champion of Team Collaboration & Individual Growth
Adam Crown Work Experience Details
  • Verra Mobility
    Devops Manager
    Verra Mobility Jul 2024 - Present
    Mesa, Arizona, Us
  • Arc-One Solutions
    Devops Manager
    Arc-One Solutions Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
    Miramar, Florida, Us
    *Laid off due to company re-org*Led a team of 4 FTE and 4 contractors that were a dynamic mix of DevOps, Infrastructure, and Site Reliably Engineers building the infrastructure and delivery pipelines for a blood bank software SaaS company supporting the American Red Cross. • Reduced monthly operating costs by 5% by shutting down dev and test systems overnight when not in use.• Built SOP’s and policies for a regulated software environment to govern deployments for both software and infrastructure.• Developed a DevOps / Infrastructure roadmap to plan the next 9 months to get us to production launch.Tech Stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Java, GitLab
  • Relativity Space
    Devops Manager
    Relativity Space Apr 2021 - Oct 2023
    Long Beach, Ca, Us
    • Led a team of 6 DevOps, SRE, and Infrastructure engineers in constructing an automated Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS using EKS, Terraform, Terraspace, Helm, GitLab, and Artifactory.• Established on-premises Kubernetes orchestration utilizing VMware and EKS Anywhere for specialized manufacturing equipment with latency and network segregation requirements.• Worked with development teams to build new deployment pipelines and reusable Terraform modules to automate deployments and increase velocity.• Deployed PCluster Manager to allow for a fully automated HPC environment in AWS.• Developed dashboards using Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana to monitor deployments, resource utilization, and costs in Kubernetes.• Engineered an automated monitoring system with Prometheus, Grafana, OpsGenie, Loki, and Slack for real-time system and application alerts.• Implemented RedPanda (Kafka-compatible API) to enhance live and archival telemetry data ingress, replacing InfluxDB.Key Accomplishments:• Migrated CI/CD from Bitbucket / Bamboo to Gitlab and realized an over 300% uptick in automation and CI/CD.• Migrated 15 different hand-build and hand-managed applications from Azure into AWS as fully automated applications.• Realized a 67% cost reduction in HPC processing by running jobs in our AWS environment and not outsourcing the processing anymore.• Managed the build-out of a fully automated Kubernetes environment in AWS that includes Monitoring, alerting, and logging. • Led a migration and cleanup effort that reduced Azure spending by over $30,000 monthly.Primary Tech Stack:Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS EKS Anywhere, InfluxDB, GitLab, Artifactory, Vault, Grafana, Prometheus
  • News Corp
    Sr. Manager Compute
    News Corp Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
    New York, New York, Us
    News Corp is the parent company of Realtor.com. Continued to support Realtor.com as outlined below.• Led a team of 7 to 10 DevOps Engineers responsible for all of Realtor.com's self-hosted in AWS CI/CD tooling. Jenkins, Vault, Artifactory, Github, Sonarqube, Jira, and Confluence.• Member of the COE (Center of Excellence) and After Action Committee (Post Mortem team).Key Accomplishments:• Partnered with other News Corp properties (Dow Jones, News America Marketing, and Harpercollins) to create standards around the usage and management of Splunk. This allowed for more application support around the county.• Partnered with other News Corp properties (Dow Jones, News UK, News AU, News America Marketing, and Harpercollins) to create unified standards for GitHub, Artifactory, and Jenkins. This allowed for better application administration and support in a follow-the-sun capacity.Primary Tech Stack:• ECS, NodeJS, React, MongoDB, and Lamda@Edge, Splunk, Github, Jenkins, Artifactory, Vault
  • Realtor.Com
    Sr. Manager Of Systems Administration
    Realtor.Com Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    • Led the team of 7 to 10 DevOps Engineers responsible for all of Realtor.com's self-hosted in AWS CI/CD tooling. Jenkins, Vault, Artifactory, Github, Sonarqube, Jira, and Confluence.• Took over the DevOps team responsible for all infrastructure as code, administration, and deployment of Microstrategy and Informatica for the Business Intelligence and Enterprise Systems teams. • Took over DevOps responsibilities for the Marketing team, maintaining all infrastructure as code for their systems.• Spearheaded an initiative with development teams to track down tech waste and maintain cost savings.• Led site reliability efforts to stabilize NodJS API and front-end React webserver performance problems.• Member of the COE (Center of Excellence) and After Action Committee (Post Mortem team).Key Accomplishments:• Manages the migration of content switching and WAF services from Akamai to AWS Lamda@Edge saving $150,000 annually.• Re-write all CI/CD toolsets to modernize deployment methods and implement self-healing.• Saved over $750,000 annually using tools such as Cloudhealth and Trusted Advisor to identify waste. Additionally implementing scheduled system shutdowns in dev and QA environments.• Identified issues between front-end web servers and middleware NodeJS API servers that resulted in a 15% increase in capacity and a 25% reduction in downtime for that service. Primary Tech Stack:• ECS, NodeJS, React, MongoDB, and Lamda@Edge, Splunk, Github, Jenkins, Artifactory, Vault
  • Realtor.Com
    Manager Of Systems Administration
    Realtor.Com May 2015 - Jan 2018
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    • Led a team of admins and engineers in 3 different geographies responsible for maintaining the Realtor.com consumer website and TopProducer.com CRM SAAS product. • Ownership of 3rd party tools and platforms such as Akamai, New Relic, Splunk and Distil Anti-scraping.• Responsible for "lift and shift" of legacy products that were not being rewritten, to AWS.• Responsible for legacy data center functions. Operating system installation (VMware) and patching, DNS changes (Infoblox), Load Balancer changes (Netscalers).Key Accomplishments:• Managed the migration of 60 applications to AWS via refactor or lift and shift in an 18-month time period.• Managed the shutdown of 170 legacy applications in a 2-year time period.• Managed the reduction of over 1600 servers (VM and Physical) (42% reduction) in a 2-year time period.
  • Conversant
    Manager Of Systems Administration
    Conversant Aug 2009 - May 2015
    Chicago, Illinois, Us
    • Manage a team of up to 10 system administrators and 2 managers responsible for operations of 10 Datacenters in the US, Amsterdam, Stockholm, and China. Team responsibilities include hardware installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting; Datacenter power management; operating system installation and patching; and enterprise-wide backup and recovery.• Manage a team of five administrators responsible for the hardware and software maintenance of over 50 Netapp filers and 1 petabyte of storage.• Create budgets for server and storage hardware support, backup software support, backup tape purchases, and offsite storage.• Manage business relationships and contract negations with colocation and hardware providers (Equinix, CenturyLink, China Telecom, Dell, NetApp, EMC, and Sun Microsystems).• Manage a budget of over $10,000,000 for Hardware and Datacenter costs.• Work with Conversant product teams to schedule system maintenance, patching, and upgrades.• In conjunction with corporate governance and Conversant product teams, planned and executed business continuity testing.• Created best practice standards for Datacenter operations. This includes uniform rack and power installs, standard order lists for cables and PDUs, and ticket requirements for repairs.Key Accomplishments:• Managed the build-out of a new Datacenter in Amsterdam with the simultaneous teardown of a Datacenter in Stockholm. This allowed for the launch of a new ad serving and real-time ad bidding system in Europe that resulted in a $18 Million increase in annual revenue.• Managed the consolidation of 5 Datacenters into two geographically separate Datacenters resulting in annual savings of over $2.1 Million.• Managed the migration of two international divisions to unified systems standards, resulting in a 10x reduction in server build times, and implemented SOX compliance within these divisions. This Compliance resulted in an additional $10 Million in revenue from Europe and China.
  • Conversant
    Sr. Unix Administrator
    Conversant Jun 2006 - Aug 2009
    Chicago, Illinois, Us
    • Responsible for the configuration, maintenance, and administration of 450 terabytes of EMC, and Netapp storage, 3500+ servers in eight datacenters on three continents. Primary engineer for all EMC Clariion, Sun Solaris, and Netapp systems.
  • United Online
    Sr. Operations Engineer
    United Online 2000 - 2006
    Woodland Hills, Ca, Us
  • Ifuse Inc
    Sr. Unix Administrator
    Ifuse Inc Nov 1999 - Jun 2000
  • Pacificnet
    Unix Administrator
    Pacificnet Mar 1996 - Nov 1999

Adam Crown Skills

Unix Data Center Linux System Administration

Adam Crown Education Details

  • Moorpark College
    Moorpark College
    Radio And Television

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