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Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Built, secured, and support greenfield infrastructure, DevOps, IT, InfoSec, and SRE functions, enabling 3X company growth while optimizing costs, performance, and security. Designed and built Zero Trust IT infrastructure with no on-prem services. Provide technology thought leadership to drive growth, reduce costs, and minimize risks. Direct technology support for growing organization (450+ users). Worked closely with Executive and Senior Leadership across organization, developing and presenting business cases for technology investments, securing multi-million-dollar budget based on ROI value. Built and lead high-performing team of 15. Report directly to CTO. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS➤Crafted and executed 1st Tech Ops vision and strategy, including technology, IT, infrastructure, SRE, and information security to support up to 5X growth; collaborated closely with CTO.+Increased system uptime from <99% to 99.9%; built off-shore team to facilitate incident response; unified monitoring/alerting/APM with DataDog.+Directed migration to AWS, reducing hosting costs by 68%.+Standardized local dev, pre-production, and prod environments with Kubernetes, allowing unlimited environments and enabling multiple deployments/day.+Architected and implemented real-time data pipeline to move production data from postgres to snowflake in <500 ms, enabling re-use of existing data warehouse code to support real-time credit decisions. ➤Created organizational structure and culture for centralized Tech Ops organization, building and leading high-performance teams to support growing organization.+Achieved 98% employee engagement for Tech Ops organization.➤Hired as Consultant for Technology Strategy; converted to FTE as Director; promoted to Sr. Director, Tech Ops

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Tech Stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, SIEM, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, GoLang, Postgres, GitHub, Crowdstrike, Netskope, Google Workspaces, Snowflake, DataDog, Linux, MacOS, WindowsKEY ACHIEVEMENTS➤Created enterprise-wide risk management program, introducing standardized risk grids to create enterprise risk profile.➤Built enterprise information security program, improving security and ensuring compliance for company. +Reduced external internet-facing attack surface of LOB apps by 95% based on traffic volume.+Built high-quality detection and response capabilities by integrating SIEM and creating SOC function.+Implemented real-time DLP solution to dramatically reduce enterprise data loss risk.

Angel investor in Resmo. Advise the company on development of their security product.Resmo sold to Jumpcloud Q1 2024.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Hired to reduce costs, develop DevOps team, and build truly global infrastructure. Took on IT and Information Security during company transitions. Coached and mentored DevOps Team. Directly managed team of 6. Reported to multiple Directors and VPs of Technology during volatile company transitions. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS➤ Introduced cost savings strategy and 2-year plan to save $1.2M annually (68% reduction) while enabling 10x site growth; saved $40K/mo in 1st 60 days. ➤ Led transformation of infrastructure to scalable, global infrastructure to support identical workloads with geographic-region data boundaries in China, USA, and EU while dramatically reducing costs.➤ Implemented serverless data warehouse, reducing costs, minimizing support burden, and decreasing ETL execution time by 66%. ➤ Managed DevOps, IT, and Information Security teams and operations, maintaining stability and reliability of services and teams while navigating unanticipated challenging transitions, including CFIUS forced sale and acquisition and integration with UHG.

Boston, Ma

Developed strategy and built microservices infrastructure for world’s 1st and only drug discovery R&D data cloud for net-new product supporting drug discovery research. Built and managed team of 3. Reported directly to CTO/CEO. Tech Stack: AWS, SaaS, Node.js, Cloudformation, Docker, ECS, Linux, Postgres, DevOps, CI/CDKEY ACHIEVEMENTS➤Built modular cloud infrastructure on AWS in <6 months using Cloudformation IaC, supporting multi-tenant SaaS, single-tenant SaaS, and customer environment deployments.➤Deployed software and infrastructure in 21 CFR Part 11 environments at multiple major pharma companies.

Boston, Ma

Manage US operations of global technology team headquartered in London responsible for delivery of SaaS productsLead large-scale projects with revenue risk in excess of $25 Million including Server 2003 EOL migration and TLS 1.0/1.1 sunset

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Directed all aspects of internal IT including network infrastructure, telephony, workstation support for users across the country with major offices in DC, Chicago, Boston and home offices in 30+ statesDeveloped and maintained organization-wide security standards and documentation

Washington, Dc

Joined growth-stage startup as a member of the engineering team supporting a rails application on AWS/Heroku.Created/founded internal IT team focused on in-house technology needs.

Masters Of Science, Management Of Information Technology

McIntire School of Commerce

Bachelor Of Science, Marketing

President, Providence College Debate Society