Senior Director, Service Engineering
London, Uk & Sunnyvale, California
• Grew and directly managed global organization of 65 SRE/DevOps/Production Engineers and first/second/third line managers spread across eight countries.• From scratch, built up, managed and tore down teams in Silicon Valley, London, Hamburg, Trondheim, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, Singapore and Beijing.• Developed and executed multi-national/global location strategies aligned to long term business objectives.• Participated in global M&A reviews and due diligence.• Instituted scalable and efficient processes for incident, release, capacity, SLA, etc... management.• Optimized alerting, monitoring and response/resolution systems for TTD/TTS improvements and cost efficiency.• Managed multi-million dollar annual capex and opex budgets.• Rolled out agile and CI/CD automation programs.• Managed a variety of Yahoo's core services including Gemini (Native and Search Advertising Revenue platform), all Mobile services (including Mobile Homepage, Mobile Search, Mobile Mail, etc...), various Mobile apps, Personalization & Ad Targeting platforms, Cloud hosting, Registration/Login and Vertical Search systems.• Executed numerous new service deployments and launches to grow business successfully.• Drove wide-ranging cultural change, moving organizations from reactive/operational activities to proactive and efficient DevOps mindset and methodologies.• Mentored individuals, managers/directors and teams into "top talent" award winning levels.