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South San Francisco, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

As employee #17 at Mezmo - a telemetry platform on AWS, IKS pushing petabytes of data per day, I oversaw our partnership with IBM Cloud. I played a pivotal role in scaling the company from Series A to Series D, managing critical infrastructure initiatives, such as cloud migrations, cost reduction strategies, and security enhancements.Defined processes where none existedExecuted on 4 major migrations across cloud services (Azure to Equinix Packet to AWS) reducing Sev1 customer-impacting incidents by 75%Developed quarterly OKR product roadmap for infrastructure and security teams to reduce cost, reduce SRE toil, increase efficiency and reliability, and solve key customer problems for clients such as IBM, Reddit, and American Airlines (ie. (ie. terraform automation, incident management, global routing, vulnerability patching)Achieved 65% cost reduction ($700K/month) by transitioning to advanced data search technology. I act as the main bridge between IBM’s technical architects and our SRE/SWE team - working on highly technical projects like service mesh integration, global endpoint routing, key rotations, private endpoint enablement etcScoped and project managed 8+ highly technical projects per quarter (ie. automation, privatelink integrations, large scale migrations, database replacement)Coordinated the launch of the first 5 on-prem and 12 cloud deployments in AWS, Azure, Packet, GKE, and IKS, as per customer specifications while improving turn around timelines from 6 weeks to 2 weeks.Orchestrated resolution of Log4J critical vulnerability across 25+ engineersDeveloped roadmap to bolster security posture - implementing tools such as HackerOne, Snyk, Falco Rules, Trusted Advisor, Sysdig Secure, LinkerD, Istio, RBAC, resulting in a 90% increase in threat detectionCoordinated compliance efforts for PCI, SOCII, HIPAA, ISO, data protection, and privacy policy standards across engineering and business teams

San Jose, California, Us

LogDNA is a venture-funded ($35M funding) leader in multi-cloud and on-premise log management solutions. It provides detailed insights into the production environment by enabling developers to centralize logs from all applications, servers, platforms, and systems into a clean and intuitive web viewer. Smart parsing and intelligent filters let users search through an unlimited amount of logs at blazing fast speeds. LogDNA is trusted by thousands of customers and powers IBM Cloud’s global logging platform.Work very closely with the infrastructure team focusing on on-premise deployments in AWS, Azure, Packet, and GKE. I worked with sales and infrastructure team to complete 12 SaaS deployments. I helped implement processes, jira workflows, track deliverables from the client to deploy, validate, and test a new environment in 6 weeks down to 1 week. Work with our IBM client to scope out new infrastructure or networking requirements. These could be new features or for compliance reasons. My biggest accomplishment was scoping & delivering a new geo-routing system between two regions to meet compliance. It was a 8 week project completed successfully with no data loss and no down time. Work with with the security and compliance team to ensure the engineers provide the technical evidence ready for auditors. We have been successful with every audit so far. The team has been able to resolve security vulnerabilities within timeframe from 0% to 80% since the beginning of 2020.

San Jose, California, Us

Madison, New Jersey, Us

Stephen Gould is a $700M corporation focused on package, design, and supply chain for thousands of products - including GoPro, Osmo, Peet’s Coffee, Coola.... etc! I was project manager to a sales manager in Sacramento. It was a completely remote role. Focus was on client in Palo Alto which required helping customer iterate in designs, communicate with Asia factories, and provide prototypes, material samples, color swatches etc. Then helped drive the entire supply chain from sample to production and ensure all the customers needs and requests were met. Extremely high volume and high detail product with high level of quality control

Elliefunday is a company that sells ethically sourced organic baby goods. We partnered with a sewing unit in India that employs marginalized women impacted by domestic abuse and/or rescued from human trafficking. Their products can be found at Nordstrom, Barneys NYC, Restoration Hardware and 100+ children boutiques across the USA. I focused on driving the supply chain, to produce several sample iterations and final products every season that were showcased at renowned NY & LA trade shows. Developed QC processes for incoming products. Helped solidify shipping & logistics processes Reached out and managed 50+ baby boutiques customers. Heavily involved in launching the collaboration with Restoration Hardware X Elliefunday within 8 months.

Corona Del Mar, California, Us

Parasol Co was a diaper & wipes subscription company for millennials. I focused on solidifying and accelerating the supply chain to ensure quality diapers were produced, shipped, QC’d and launched on time. Managed supply chain in Europe, Taiwan, China, and domestic (California)Worked with designers and regulatory documents to ensure packaging was labelled correctly. Vetted new supply chain for other baby products such as bottles, bags, and wipes Set up entire fulfillment supply chain - vetting, negotiating, implementing processes to ensure we had a solid logistic and shipping plan for Parasol’s subscription model.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Manage overseas and domestic logistics of 4 subscription production lines under aggressive production schedules each month Took the product for each month from product design to prototype stage to production to final assemblyCollaborated daily with design team and production team (overseas and local) to ensure we hit above margin target and schedule timelinesVery familiar with toy safety & labelling requirements (ASTM, CPSC)

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Curated over 100 DIY projects using variety of techniques such as clay sculpting, jewelry making, embroidery, leather working, paper crafts, food crafting, soap making etc. Managed logistics of taking a project concept to production to photography to launching on the siteCurated and managed google ad campaigns, facebook ad campaigns, facebook social page, weekly salesEstablished blogger outreach partnerships through affiliate and member programs

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Faculty of Nursing Department at Seneca CollegeSubject: PharmacologySubject: Medical Dosing and Calculations for Nurses

+8 years helped lead the logistics and organization of training, delegating, and executing a 20+ member team to put on a dayclub for children on a Native Reserve in Northern Ontario. tasks included running special community events, creating arts and craft activities for children (crochet, painting, sewing, quilting, pottery etc.), running games activities etc.

Creative director of designing and engineering simple yet elegant invitations for all occasionsOversaw the logistics of the business involving 200+ order per year (> 300 000 invitations) from sales to assembly to delivery process. Trained staff to help with the material purchasing and assembly of the invitations

Brentford, Middlesex, Gb

HPLC analyses, dissolution testing, developed a QC test for Flonase in GSK's product development department.

Interactive science demonstrator for elementary school studentsCreated budget-conscience toys to help teach science concepts to elementary students

Masters Of Science, Pharmaceutical Sciences

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Pharmaceutical Chemistry