Technical Director
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
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Brian Sowell Email & Phone Number
Director at DIRECTV (Bridging the Technical, Project and Product Sides of the Business)
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Director at DIRECTV (Bridging the Technical, Project and Product Sides of the Business)
Location
Culver City, California, United States
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Brian Sowell is listed as Director at DIRECTV (Bridging the Technical, Project and Product Sides of the Business) based in Culver City, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at att.com, phone signal with area code 310, 610, 718, 424, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Brian Sowell.
Brian Sowell previously worked as Technical Director at Directv and Technical Associate Director at Directv. Brian Sowell holds Extension Certificate In Linux/Unix from University Of California, Los Angeles.
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About Brian Sowell
>Over twenty years of IT experience including service engineering, site reliability engineering, DevOps, program, project and release management in fast-paced, large-scale, 24x7 production environments. >Skilled Service/Site Reliability Engineer with the communication and management expertise of a project manager – owned the availability, performance, stability and maintainability of production applications and services by monitoring, troubleshooting, automating and deploying to Linux/Unix systems. >Extensive success in project management – drove advertising projects accounting for 40% of the revenue for a multimillion dollar company; executed multiphased launch of two significant architectural changes and the internationalization of Panama for Yahoo's Content Match product which generated 200 million dollars annually; caught a major launch sequencing issue that would have impacted the video feed for the Royal Wedding, which would have cost Yahoo! millions of dollars in lost advertising revenue.>Exceptional documentation skills with a history of improving communication, training, SDLC processes and resource allocation.>Technical skills span Bash, Perl, PHP, Python, Java, Apache, Tomcat, JBOSS, BEA WebLogic, Linux (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu), UNIX, Windows, MySQL (SQL Plus), Oracle (Toad), MS Access, HTML, XML, SOAP, CSS, OpenStack Virtual Machines, Nagios, Splunk, Siebel, SVN, Git, Jenkins, and more. Vast experience with Agile Scrum.
Listed skills include E Commerce, Agile Methodologies, User Experience, Sem, and 21 others.
12 roles
Brian Sowell work experience
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Technical Associate Director
Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
Associate Technical Director
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Entertainment Group-Manager Software Engineering
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Eg-Senior Software Engineer Ii - Systems Integration Lead
Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
Professional-Software Engineer (Systems Integration)
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Principal Engineer - Systems Integration
Directv
Jul 2015 - Dec 2016
Service Engineer
>Provided operational support for the YAX and TnS applications which comprised global, 24x7 production environments in Yahoo's high-revenue Ads and Data division. >Deployed emergency and planned software and configuration changes to implement enhancements, bug fixes and new products following the Agile Scrum methodology. >Resolved system, functional, performance and stability incidents by serving in the on call rotation as the 3rd tier escalation.>Built out new production and non-production environments for a large-scale, global, multi-year infrastructure project to replace environments in co-locations being closed, significantly reducing costs.>Created BASH/PERL scripts to reduce time spent on repetitive tasks. >Drove and executed the effort to document run books in Knowledge Database to address alerts. >Trained and mentored new members to handle on call, build out the systems and support applications.>Created and provided SQL launch and rollback statements to DBAs for customer requests that needed database work. >Built out Windows servers to mimic Windows users while testing ad creatives.>Environments: Linux, Apache, PHP, Tomcat, JBOSS, MySQL, Oracle, Shell Programming, SVN/Git Version Control, TCP/IP Stack, SLB configs, Tibco Messaging, Y! Monitoring, Splunk, SMTP/IMAP.
Aug 2012 - Mar 2015
Launch Manager
>Managed major, patch, emergency, shadow and bucket test launches, which occurred worldwide anywhere from several a day to monthly for the Display Serving, Sponsored Search, Keystone and Federation products. >Set priorities, lined up resources, resolved issues and identified and mitigated risks associated with projects and launches within an Agile framework in conjunction with the Product, Engineering, SCM, QA and Service Engineering teams. >Developed SDLC processes to provide clear guidelines for scoping, requesting, scheduling and executing deployments. >Tightened planning for the Serving launch sequence during APT launches allowing for greater communication and visibility both within the team and cross-functionally. >Project managed cross-functional releases for Content Match, a product that generated 200 million dollars annually, including the multi-phased launch of two significant architectural changes and the internationalization of Panama.
Sep 2006 - Jul 2012
Project/Product Manager
Jul 2006 - Sep 2006
Enterprise Planning Manager/Technical Project Manager
>Managed a program that generated 7 million dollars in revenue annually and included deals with Chevy, Nissan, Infiniti, Lexus and Toyota. >Spearheaded the development of new advertising products, the maintenance of existing advertising products and the expansion of the tools the advertising operations team used to perform day-to-day tasks. >Project managed implementations from the Wireless, Finance, Insurance, Website Syndication, Reporting and Editorial Publishing programs.
Sep 2004 - Jul 2006
Project Manager, It
>Drove the weekly integration of new features and changes into all of the CarsDirect.com environments, including the website, the Siebel Customer Resource Management application, several Oracle and SQL server databases and many other satellite servers. >Led the Change Control Board, which defined, implemented, documented and enforced Development and Production processes. >Executed releases with financial partners and co-project managed the six month conversion of the CarsDirect.com website from ASP to JAVA/JSP. >Started and project managed the Information Technology Reporting Team, giving the company its first accurate numbers on a daily basis. >Produced several website projects and assistant project managed the Cold Fusion to ASP conversion of the website.
Jun 1999 - Sep 2004
4 education records
Brian Sowell education
Extension Certificate In Linux/Unix
Ba, Political Science
Education record
Westtown School
Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science
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Brian Sowell is listed as Director at DIRECTV (Bridging the Technical, Project and Product Sides of the Business).
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Brian Sowell is based in Culver City, California, United States.
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Brian Sowell has worked for Directv, At&T, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Reunion.Com.
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Brian Sowell holds Extension Certificate In Linux/Unix from University Of California, Los Angeles.
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Brian Sowell is listed with skills including E Commerce, Agile Methodologies, User Experience, Sem, Scrum, Linux, Management, and Unix.
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