Anthony Assi ✔

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Cloud and AI Infrastructure Product Architect at Oracle Cloud @ Oracle
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San Francisco Bay Area, United States, United States
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About Anthony Assi ✔

Anthony brings over 20 years of experience in developing and designing large-scale data center infrastructures and cloud architectures. His expertise spans architecting cloud AI infrastructure solutions, spearheading large-scale data center infrastructure and platform architecture, Leading large scale transformation projects, and spearheading net new enterprise product initiatives. Anthony is adept at leading and mentoring engineering teams, delivering executive-level reporting, and driving initiatives with a proactive and autonomous approach. Anthony excels at cross-functional collaboration among engineering, sales and leadership teams to ensure organizational objectives and targets are successfully achieved as a cohesive team.Anthony has experience in International B2B markets, having worked in Europe, Middle East and Americas.My personal quotes:•"Things will break! Make sure you embrace that when designing your enterprise product architecture"•"Always do what's right for your internal and external clients"•"Build a team of A's, make sure you invest time and efforts in them as it will pay back"•"Activity Activity drives results and revenue"•"Measure twice, cut once"•"Hold firm to your product vision, but stay flexible on the details"

Anthony Assi ✔'s Current Company Details
Oracle

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Cloud and AI Infrastructure Product Architect at Oracle Cloud
Anthony Assi ✔ Work Experience Details
  • Oracle
    Product Architect And Technical Advisor - Cloud Infrastructure Product Management
    Oracle Sep 2021 - Present
    Austin, Texas, Us
    Technical Advisor for the VP of Product Engineering at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, I am responsible for technical leadership in the Product Management organization, by providing engineering and architecture guidance to our most strategic products and in-depth technical expertise for overall solutions and product engineering in the field of:Dedicated Cloud Regions (Oracle DRCC and Alloy Product), Sovereign cloud datacenter, AI/ML cloud infrastructure, GPU cluster architectures, Cloud resell model, Product management and Solution architecture across Compute/Storage/Network/GPU.Leading the design of our next generation datacenter cloud infrastructure architecture that is energy efficient, AI/GPU capable, Compact, Scalable (500+ racks), Modular, and Cost efficient.
  • Golden Gate University
    Senior Adjunct Professor
    Golden Gate University Aug 2018 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Big Data and Hadoop, Data Analytics, Database Systems & Design, DataCenter and Cloud Computing, Information Systems Security, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering and Agile Methodology, SQL-Programming, Management of Information Systems, and more.
  • Google
    Google Cloud Engineering
    Google May 2018 - Sep 2021
    Mountain View, Ca, Us
    Leading Strategic Enterprise Accounts in their Google Cloud ☁ Transformation Journey while navigating and solving very difficult undefined complex problems and delivering new products and solutions built from the ground up with the global product teams.In this executive level role, I like to think of it as serving as a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for one of GCP's strategic customers. I ensure the team continues progress to drive measurable customer outcomes, transformation, and acceleration of adoption while leveraging the Google Cloud Platform. I work collaboratively with both my customer and the rest of the google team to design cloud architectures that are scalable, highly performant and highly resilient, then define an adoption plan, and drive that plan through execution and ensure the critical workloads are running on GCP in the best way possible.I also share cloud architecture best practices and design reference architectures while providing prescriptive guidance around application and systems design to clients and feed back customer input to product engineering teams to ensure that GCP's products are meeting the needs of our customers, both now and in the future. (ex: TPU, GPU, Database, Kubernetes.)Awards granted: Allstar Award, Accelerate Award and the prestigious Google Stratosphere Award for spearheading a joint collaboration cross functions internally and externally for the development of a new engineered google server product offering that required navigating thru ambiguity and execution at scale.
  • Dell Emc
    Field Product Cto For Hyperconverged Infrastructure
    Dell Emc May 2011 - May 2018
    Round Rock, Texas, Us
    Part of the JV between VMware, Cisco, EMC and IntelAs Field CTO I provide technical leadership for the West. I am also engaged in the hiring and coaching of our technical team.I advise our top strategic customers, Fortune 20 and their CXO leaders in transforming their Business and IT. Helping them design, build and review their cloud strategy, service offerings and datacenter architecture. I build competitive business cases that include architectures and cost modeling of private, public & hybrid cloud: AWS, GCP, Azure, VMwareI engage in strategic discussions with our partners and customer C-Level Executives on next generation data center and application hosting around HPC, SDDC, SAP Hana / TDI, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, DR, Web-Scale architectures, Scale-out Infrastructures, Distributed Systems, CI, HCI, etcAchieving high customer satisfaction by optimizing their capabilities and productivity while reducing their cost and riskMember of the: Field CTOs, Technical Leadership Team, ScaleIO SDS SPEED GURU team (Software Defined Block Storage), VxRail Xpert, Hyperconverged Infrastructure Appliances(HCI) specialty team, TCO/ROI Champions, Business Value Assessment Champions, Speaker Bureau, SAP Champions and Oracle Champions; providing leadership, mentoring and architectural expertise in those fieldsPrevious roles include: Field CTO, Area Lead Architect (aka +1), Technical Team Leader part of the Technical Leadership Team, Global Principal Architect, part of the company "Strategic Account Team"​ then the "Elite Account Team"In 2013, I was tasked in growing the business and building out a team in the middle east to gain market shareAwards & honorable mentions:Top Achiever Award for 2013#1 ranking in Northern California with highest achievements for 2014#1 in division with percentage to goal for 6+ quarters
  • Dell Emc
    Principal Solutions Architect - Specialty Team Lead
    Dell Emc Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
    Round Rock, Texas, Us
    aka +1providing technical leadership to the teamsmentoring, training, hiring, onboarding solutions architectsassisting in the top strategic accounts or high revenue opportunitiesleading C-level conversationsTechnical enablement for our top partnersPart of the Product Management field eyes and ears
  • Dell Emc
    Global Principal Architect - Team Leader
    Dell Emc Oct 2013 - Sep 2015
    Round Rock, Texas, Us
    Calling on one of our top 20 strategic accounts worldwide.Fortune 20 company.owned the technical relationship, end-to-end globally.met customer business and technical requirements.Great customer success story.overachieved our sales number."Passion Award" (highest level of award, approved by ceo)
  • Dell Emc
    Senior Enterprise Architect - Team Leader - Emea
    Dell Emc May 2011 - Oct 2013
    Round Rock, Texas, Us
    Focused on enterprises in emerging markets, building out net new logos and penetrating new theatres.Building out the technical team across multiple theatres.overacheived our sales number. "Top Achiever Award 2013"
  • Cgi
    Cto For Cloud And Data Center
    Cgi Jun 2010 - May 2011
    Montreal, Quebec, Ca
    Reporting to group CIO, who reports to the CEO, I was Leading the Global Enterprise Services domain for the Outsourcing Division of Logica (Logica got acquired by CGI Systems and Management Consultants, Inc.): Defining the strategy, roadmap, key projects and investments in Cloud Computing, DataCenter and GreenIT. Leading virtual teams.Major Achievement: Leading a large-scale nationwide datacenter consolidation and transformation project, and centralising the datacenters servers and storage hardware procurement worldwide through a major RFP covering all countriesMy Advice & Believe : "Private Cloud Computing with the best partners should be on top of your enterprise Strategy" making you ready in the future for the public cloud move.
  • Thales
    Technology Stream Leader - Large Scale Cloud Architectures
    Thales Oct 2008 - May 2010
    Meudon, Île-De-France, Fr
    As a member of the Research & Innovation division for Military and Defense, I was:-Leading a Core Technology stream around Large Web Scale Cloud architectures. Due-diligence on the world largest Websites that are Highly Scalable, Highly Available and High Performance. Studying their Architecture and Patterns then creating Reference Architectures and content on an internal Wiki and educating the teams on all the technologies, designs and pitfalls, assist them in rearchitecting their environments. POC'ed and demo'ed some of the technologies and concepts in our lab.-Defining the Cloud Computing roadmap strategy around Technologies, Performance, Scalability and Availability.-Managed and developed a secure cloud computing POC project that won the division Innovative Project Call contest, and presented the project during the annual customers Technology day:-Designed and Built a full DC Cloud Architecture with VMware and Thales HSM.-Migrated one of the Gov most critical app to this private cloud; provisioning resources on-demand and monitoring the applications SLA, implemented an Auto-Scaling function to spin more middleware VM as load increases and Load Balancing queries.-Setting up a special security model of the cloud infrastructure and most importantly customer data, which led to filing a Patent.-Designed and Implemented a BigData Hadoop environment based on HDFS, HBase NoSQL, MapReduce and VMware.-Participating in the architecture lead and management of various Critical Information Systems projects such as airport crisis management. (DevOps style, SCRUM, Agile Methodology)-Conference speaker-Patent inventor
  • Inria
    Hpc R&D Expert Engineer - Genomics Bioinformatics
    Inria Sep 2005 - Sep 2008
    Le Chesnay Cedex, France, Fr
    Main Activities:•Designed and implemented a bioinformatics HPC (High Performance Computing) scalable infrastructure for Genomic Data Analysis: Designing the Architecture, Issuing RFP, Procuring, Building and Administrating an HPC cluster for a Bio-Informatics Distributed Computing platform (massive servers and massive storage, High Performance, Redundant and Highly Available WebServers).•Infrastructure Management, process automation of the admin tasks and workflow for spinning environments•GPU,FPGA,MPI performance benchmarking•Architecture Consultancy for designing distributed systems and software•Defining and leading a full system migration process from the legacy environment (SUN SMP to X86 cluster)• Hiring and Managing 5 engineers for software development projects: Cluster Orchestration, J2EE Automation, Peer-to-Peer, Cloud Portal for self service (PaaS)• Leading a project collaboration within a EU-FP6 European project called ACGT to fight against breast cancer by setting a BioComputing Grid infrastructure at the European scale to run massive Cancer simulation and Clinical Trials• Participating in the Management of a new BioInformatics collaborative project called BioMAJ: a Java framework for managing, mirroring and processing distributed heterogeneous genomics databanks, specifying tasks, roadmap, identifying and developing key differentiators, collaborating with partners• Setting an ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System (ITIL) and getting the certificationPublications, Conference Speaker :• Publications in international magazines (Future Generation Computer Systems journal, Oxford journal), lectures in many national and international conferences (IEEE e-science and Grid)• Presenting at Super Computing Conference USA• Giving training sessions and talks in software engineering (UML, Merise, Design patterns)
  • University Of Rennes 1
    Adjunct Professor
    University Of Rennes 1 2005 - 2008
    Rennes, Bretagne, Fr
    Teaching parallel programming (MPI, C, C++) and distributed systems at the engineering school.
  • Webscape
    Systems And Software Engineer
    Webscape 2000 - 2005
    Software Engineering:-Designing and Building e-commerce websites-Developed a program to ensure Business continuity of a critical large clustered Oracle RAC DataBase.-Developed a tool that automates the scanning process and the bar code recognition process from a TWAIN scanner.-Created a technique/system that enabled the Crestron touch screen system to draw Arabic letters in a ASCII 7bits mode (Technique that the manufacturer haven't conceived yet!). Evaluated the eligibility of the technique to be patented.System Admin: -Administration of highly available Linux servers hosting an e-commerce website(90k+ users).-Setting up a redundant server for high availability.-Conceived an algorithm for load balancing SMPP (Short Message Peer to Peer) queries over multiple queues dynamically (aka multi-pathing).-Building and configuring private networks-Custom Building, Configuring and selling Desktops and Servers HW-Web hosting servicesPre-Sales:- Sales consultant for high-end technology products- Selling Desktop and Server solutions (end-to-end responsibility for the architecture, design, procurement, HW build, SW configuration, deployment and implementation)

Anthony Assi ✔ Skills

Cloud Computing Data Center It Strategy Saas High Availability Infrastructure Storage Security Solution Architecture Management Strategy Vmware Enterprise Architecture Virtualization Scalability Architecture High Performance Computing Outsourcing It Transformation Product Management Distributed Systems Start Ups Open Source Strategic Planning Soa Disaster Recovery Information Technology It Operations Cisco Technologies System Migration Paas Partner Management Entrepreneurship Public Speaking Business Alliances Governance Technology Evangelist Cluster Oracle Hadoop Business Case Preparation Roi Optimization Tco Reduction Technology Evangelism Business Alignment Web Architecture Board Presentations Advisory Boards Business Case Amazon Web Services Algorithms

Anthony Assi ✔ Education Details

  • Stanford University Graduate School Of Business
    Stanford University Graduate School Of Business
    Managing Teams For Innovation And Success
  • Université Saint Joseph - Esib
    Université Saint Joseph - Esib
    Master Of Science In Computer Engineering

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