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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Leading cross-functional teams (in design, construction, mechanical/electrical, procurement, cabling, networking and software) to deliver large-scale global edge data center projects worth over $28MM • Scaling AWS’s ultra-low latency infrastructure offerings by 300% including launching one local zone in LA and launching five Wavelength Zones (a new AWS service that embeds AWS infrastructure within communications service providers’ (CSP) datacenters at the edge of the 5G networks) • Managing up to 40 highly-technical enterprise-scale edge, networking, and infrastructure projects concurrently, each requiring in-depth knowledge of datacenter technologies.• Owning major metros in the US Southwest, Texas, California, and Colorado to plan and execute projects utilizing virtual teams managed remotely.• Increased CDN capacity for AWS within the Texas region by 266% and saved the company $10MM per year in legal fees by existing a data center in a plaintiff favorable county.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Devised, implemented, and managed pricing strategies and pricing models for EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), a multi-billion-dollar department with the largest product offerings within Amazon Web Services• Led the business strategy to roll out EC2 services in new AWS regions (Osaka, Japan; Sweden; Hong Kong; and Columbus, Ohio) by analyzing competitor positioning, setting the product mix, and devising the pricing strategy• Managed and approved custom pricing for large, multi-year enterprise deals worth over $500MM dollars

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Implemented a program that processes over $2.1 billion U.S. dollar equivalent a month through a centralized payments platform, reduces the maintenance of banking platforms from eight to one, and enables smart automation including: multilateral netting and automatic cash balancing• Managed a team of bankers and consultants to develop over 149 new XML payment formats (wires, checks, SEPA, and ACH) for 39 countries where Amazon has a bank account• Spearheaded the adoption of the payments platform by writing training material and leading training sessions for finance operation users (accounts payable, payroll, and treasury) in the US, EU, India, and Costa Rica• Established a documentation program to map all treasury processes in order to improve training, ensure business continuity, and establish a regional treasury back-office in India

Wilmington, De, Us

• Performing on-site technical service utilizing portable gas chromatography for both domestic and international clients in the phosphate fertilizer, oil refining, and metal smelting industries with up to 50% travel • Advising clients on the overall health of their sulfuric acid plants and identifying improvement projects (including catalyst replacement, heat exchanger repairs, and analyzer calibrations) using proprietary modeling software • Coordinating with sales team to generate project proposals from the technical recommendations to boost aftermarket sales, which have generated $400K in revenue for the company within the first six months on the job• Supporting worldwide technical service operations including equipment maintenance, hazardous goods shipping, client scheduling, data analysis, report writing, and process improvements

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

• Optimized sampling plans and receiving inspection processes to improve cost and cycle time• Implemented improvements to supplier management and evaluation criteria for third party manufacturers• Instituted quarterly business reviews for high classification suppliers, including third party manufacturers

Wilmington, De, Us

• Spearheaded a capital project (budgeted for $30K) to streamline a manufacturing process that delivered savings of $50K in one-time turnaround costs and $10K in annual savings. • Managed cross-functional activities (design, procurement, construction, and finance) to deliver a safe and on-time completion of the process improvement• Supported a process hazard analysis (PHA) for the La Porte Insecticide Unit and streamlined process safety management (PSM) critical equipment saving the company $5K per year in repair and inspection costs

Abbott Park, Illinois, Us

• Developed a preventative maintenance program and established a spare parts management system for the Humira packaging line owned by a third party manufacturer located in Queensborough, England• Designed and manufactured a new nesting system using SolidWorks that expanded the functionality of a proprietary syringe crack detection system from one syringe type to six syringe types • Identified critical equipment needed to maintain Abbott’s packaging equipment lines and purchased over $100K worth of critical equipment spares to minimize line downtime

Berkeley, Ca, Us

• Investigated the regulation of cell-to-cell transport by redox-mediated cross-talk between plastids and mitochondria in model plants (Arabidopsis Thaliana and Nicotiana Benthamiana)• Assayed in vivo cell-to-cell movement using particle bombardment transfection techniques• Developing 3-D reconstructions of plasmodesmata using electron tomography for future fluid flow analysis

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, De

• Determined the stability and kinetics of lignin degradation (using a laccase-mediator system) in ionic liquids for biofuels research• Investigated the changes in electrochemistry for various mediators involved with lignin degradation when incubated in ionic liquids using cyclic voltammetry• Developed spectroscopic methods to quantify lignin degradation and mediator oxidation

• Catalogued the microbial populations of local wetlands and measured the fluctuations of nitrogen and phosphate concentration over time using analytical spectroscopy.• Established the foundations for a long-term environmental study on urban wetlands

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

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Education record