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Auburn, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Directed Corporate IT Operations to support Tally's transition from B2B to B2C, aligning IT strategy with the company’s evolving fintech goals and requirements.Optimized Onboarding and Offboarding Processes, significantly reducing IT setup time and boosting productivity for new and departing employees.Led IT Operations and Helpdesk Support for a.

Seattle, WA, US

Oversaw Cloud Operations, Infrastructure Architecture, Helpdesk, and Process Improvement Initiatives to enhance efficiency and scalability in a fast-paced environment, consistently aligning IT strategy with business needs.Led a CI/CD Pipeline Revamp that automated processes, reducing development time by 35% within six months and streamlining workflows for.

Seattle, WA, US

Hired, coached, and scaled the IT team to meet the challenges of an organization that tripled in 1 yearDrove the adoption of identity management via Okta for 80% of services and rolled out BambooHR profile sourceManaged the IT tech stack and device fleet: Okta, Slack, Zoom, Google Workspace, Office 365, Zoom, Atlassian Jira, JAMF, VPNDeveloped equipment.

Seattle, Washington, US

Successfully implemented a new IT infrastructure from a Whitepages.com company spin-offWorked with Legal, Finance HR and Engineering to decouple systems, develop policies, processes and infrastructure to build a new company from the ground up.Worked with the platform team to architectect and setup up a multi-region AWS infrastructureUtilized Docker and.

Seattle, Washington, US

Managed and Mentored the IT Team to deliver high-quality support and operational efficiency in a fast-paced, growth-focused environment, enabling seamless scalability for a rapidly expanding, startup-minded company.Oversaw Corporate Data Center and Infrastructure across three global locations (Seattle, NYC, Budapest), ensuring reliable, secure, and.

Seattle, WA, US

Windows Systems Administrator in charge of Microsoft systems (Windows Server, Exchange, Active Directory Sharepoint, OCS, SQL etc)Automated tasks with bash and PowershellManaged Netapp Storage SAN and upgradesManaged Juniper, Cisco and datacenter infrastructure Managed projects, documentation and code updates via Confluence, Git, Fisheye and Pivotal Tracker

Virtualized over 70% infrastructure of the server and desktop lab infrastructure using VMware VSphere, VDIModernized the Windows and AD Infrastructure to Server 2008 R2Managed The University’s Exchange email system and piloted the early adoption of the product now known as Office365 Architected a highly redundant DNS infrastructure utilizing F5 load.

Sacramento, CA, US

• As a member of the Directory and Security services team: Managed the Microsoft Windows infrastructure in a complex hospital environment with over 10,000 workstations, 500 servers and 8,000 employees
• Provided 3rd tier technical expertise and support to the Health system’s computing infrastructure. Mentored and trained technicians on advanced troubleshooting and resolution techniques.
• Technical lead and project manager for Credent endpoint encryption project deployed to over 10,000 devices
• Completed the migration from Novell Netware to Microsoft Active Directory
• Contributing member of the Clinical security committee
• Turned "building images" into a discipline and created a client engineering team with a documented QA process and test lab. Saved the health system $100,000 dollars in manpower per year by eliminating the need to hire.

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