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Austin, Texas, Us

• Manage a team of 26 engineers, data scientists and managers• Measure and drive continuous improvements to hardware quality KPIs• Building software systems and processes that monitor, detect and remediate hardware, firmware and driver issues in OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, our ‘next-gen’ cloud)• Implemented pipelines, data lake and analytics environment that captures and enables analysis and action on relevant hardware telemetry from our cloud fleet• Implementing ML models for predictive analytics of imminent hardware failure, enabling increased object durability (Object Store) and reduced customer impact of server failure (Compute)

Austin, Texas, Us

• Grew team from 4 to 36 software and hardware engineers and managers• Created next-gen RoT (Root of Trust) now embedded on all Oracle server motherboards• Created designs for third-gen cloud-optimized OCI server platforms rolling out now• Completed NPI (New Product Introduction) for all second-gen cloud server platforms

Austin, Texas, Us

• Grew team from 0 to 56 software engineers, network and data center sourcing specialists, analysts and managers• Created first gen virtual machine manager and control plane• Created infrastructure and data center inventory management system• Created region build automation and processes, owned and drove launch of first two OCI regions in PHX and IAD • Completed NPI for all first-gen cloud server platforms• Created first and second generation demand forecasting systems, interfaces to supply chain org• Responsible for all OCI infrastructure procurement, over $1B budget

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Grew team from 4 to 18 software engineers and managers• Delivered multiple generations of EC2 VM products that broke new ground in many areas, including m3, c3, r3, g2, hs1, i2 and t2• Quintupled rate of innovation (new instance types) and doubled rate of cost reduction while improving quality in multiple dimensions; further reduced new platform cycle time from 6 to 3.5 months• Owned the kernel and hypervisor used throughout Amazon and AWS, including operations on the entirety of Amazon’s server fleet – one of the world’s largest

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Increased fleet utilization 30% by leading cross-org effort that analyzed, instrumented and improved server lifecycle management, saving more than $1B/yr at the time• Reduced new server platform cycle time from 19 months to 6 months• Pioneered the industry’s first “early ship” of a new platform with cc2, bringing Sandybridge to the cloud four months prior to Intel’s public launch; this has now become standard practice

• Led 120 person team of full-time and contract staff building the front and back office replacement systems for all service and financial management systems at TrueBlue Inc.• Led multiple initiatives (2-30 people) at Russell and several other NW financial services firms, ranging from capabilities assessments, portfolio management, new application development, and data warehousing

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