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San Francisco, California, US

South San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

Our team designs, builds, and operates Uber's global production on-prem and multi-cloud network which enables every Uber Ride and Eats (and more!) from 2014 until the present day. ∙ Responsible for delivery and performance of all 5 of Uber's on-premise data centers, ATG Depots, 6 POPs and associated internet, peering, backbone and cloud network.

San Francisco, California, US

As Uber's founding network engineer, laid the principles of Uber’s network architecture and led the build out of the first 2 Uber production data center networks, established global ASN and peering connectivity and connected a rudimentary nationwide and international WAN.∙ Greenfield design and build-out of Uber's first collocated data center, which.

San Francisco, CA, US

First dedicated network engineer in Yelp's 7 year (at the time) infrastructure history. Responsible for Yelp's 3 production data centers and 7 corporate office networks.∙ Designed and implemented a global WAN utilizing a 3rd-party service provider's MPLS (L3 VPN) service. This project included installing and configuring Quagga, deploying Juniper SRX220 and.

Los Gatos, CA, US

∙ Part of 3 person team that managed 4 major corporate networks, 3 data centers and a dual-homed mesh of 65 nationwide shipping hubs, as well as IPSec connectivity to streaming resources in cloud provider networks.∙ Assisted in designing and configuring routing and switching infrastructure for new DVD-specific corporate office, configuring Citrix load.

∙ Technical project manager responsible for CarRentals.com (subsidiary of Hotwire) datacenter build-out and site migration. This included designing, specifying, building and documenting all network and system equipment and applications.

San Francisco, CA, US

Hired and led the team of system administrators that managed and grew one of the world's first and foremost journaling/blogging global websites with a reach of over 10 million daily visitors.∙ Hired and managed small team of 3 systems engineers while serving as primary network engineer. Developed advancement goals and criteria for my engineers. Set goals.

US

Sole network engineer for a next generation teen-oriented social networking entertainment site.∙ Responsible for ensuring proper uptime for Doppelganger’s corporate and production networks.∙ Projects included: moving the vSide production network into a multi-homed architecture with BGP routing; implementing various SNMP and NetFlow-based freeware tools to.

Seattle, WA, US

Our team focused on the design of a global, converged network as we merged 4 separate legacy networks: Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire and Classic Custom Vacations.∙ Led the Expedia Inc. Network Architecture group with 3 direct employees from Expedia.com and Hotels.com.∙ Part of a global team that designed and implemented the Expedia MPLS network. The initial.

Seattle, WA, US

First network engineer for Hotwire. Architected all aspects of Hotwire networks – production, corporate and partner-located – and helped move the company networks from start-up phase to established maturity and acquisition.∙ Network architect in 7 greenfield data center build outs and 3 data center moves. Held final ownership of network specifications as.

New York, NY, US

Part of small fluid teams responsible for server and network design, engineering, 24x7 monitoring and maintenance of production web systems for multiple clients.∙ As Team Lead, built and mentored staff of 3 system engineers.∙ Specialties for this project included design and installation of the production, staging and corporate servers, establishment of.

Boise, Idaho, US

MACROMEDIAAssisted in strategic growth, re-architecture and integration of complex, global, multi-platform infrastructure. Supported network for high-volume, e-commerce website, among top visited sites in the world.∙ Role in $1,000,000+ network projects included shared responsibility for complete overhaul of both the core equipment and networks with an.

San Francisco, California, US

Stabilized distributed Unix system in a multi-protocol LAN with diverse WAN sites.∙ Roles in $200,000 network upgrade included setup and subsequent maintenance of the core Cabletron SmartSwitch router, DNS management, and assisting in topology layout. Maintained 8 Cisco WAN routers connecting to 7 remote sites.∙ Proactively managed heterogeneous mix of.

Lake Success, NY, US

2nd tier problem analyzer for growing start-up that produces usage reports for select Internet clients.∙ Provided second-level support in Unix production environment: process monitoring, disk space management, troubleshooting software, and knowledge of programming basics.∙ Level of responsibility continually increased to support accounts totaling almost.

Frontline enabler for progressive ISPs dial-up and webhosting customers.∙ Troubleshot network routing, DNS/mail/news server configuration, and connection problems with Windows and Mac OS clients and software.∙ Handled over 50 calls or 70 emails per shift with one of the lowest minutes-per-call average in the department while delivering consistently high.