• Responsible for daily operations of Wayfair’s data centers including servers, storage, network and physical site operations. • Responsible for setting the strategic direction for all aspects of the data center teams and ensuring data center services align with business growth requirements. • Led the effort to define architectures, roadmaps, mid and long term planning.• Provide senior leadership to the data center teams, built teams from scratch to address functional support gaps.• Lead major data center migration projects from site selection, design, buildout to implementation. • Put in place polices and tooling for multi-vender evaluations. Drove costs down while supporting rapid infrastructure growth 100%+ year over year.• The organization supported over 3,500 physical servers, 7PB of shared storage.• Executed many successful online migrations to different platforms and services.• Spearheaded project to re-vamp storage and virtualization monitoring to focus on actionable alerts, NOC run books, real-time capacity dashboards and forecasting dashboards.

• Responsible for all global IT infrastructure operations, 24/7 online web operations• Designed, maintained, and supported all IT networks and systems. Production data centers, disaster recovery sites, and global offices.• Provided five nines (99.999%) uptime of critical business products.• Oversaw growth of online product from 5,000 daily users to over 600,000 daily users.• Oversaw growth from 15 employees to over 270 employees around the world.• Implemented a fully HA (highly-available) web infrastructure with no single point of failure.• Directly responsible for management of system administration (SA), network administration, network operations (NOC), and helpdesk teams.• Responsible for all aspects of IT security including maintaining compliance with PCI, SAS 70 and SAS 94 audit and security standards.• Responsible for all IT budgeting (Opex & Capex).• Worked directly with business stakeholders to create short- and long-term IT roadmaps and project plans. Aligned IT products and rollouts with business requirements.• Helped move software development into a fully project-managed SDLC model.• Created and deployed ITIL model for all IT work, including change, problem, and trouble ticket management. • Responsible for vendor, software, and hardware manufacturer selection.• Oversight of all new deployments and migrations.• Designed and migrated infrastructure to a private cloud.

Senior Intel Engineer for the IBM Global Services team. Worked on a IBM customer site for an international investment bank.• Responsible for planning, implementing, and maintaining production servers.• Built and maintained a network of clustered file servers.• Responsible for implementing and maintaining a network monitoring solution.• Worked with project managers to develop software and hardware solutions for our client.• Responsible for maintaining Veritas Replication Exec for our DR solution.• Responsible for maintaining 30 MS Exchange mail servers.• Implemented and maintained a backup solution for Intel servers including “off-LAN” solutions.• Experience with change management and other production controls to ensure a stable and highly available network.• Worked on a technology refresh project to ensure all hardware and software was up to date.• Worked on the document and process projects.

• Responsible for maintaining a redundant web-based network of 200 servers with an uptime requirement of 99.999%.• Performed network monitoring, network routing, and security auditing.• Built and maintained clusters of MS SQL servers running both 2000 and 2005 software.• Implemented and maintained backup solutions for SQL servers.• Responsible for administration of an EMC SAN and an iSCSI SAN.• Wrote documentation for solutions I implemented.• Helped resolve tickets escalated from our helpdesk.• Maintained a farm of Citrix application servers.• Built and maintained VMware servers.• Worked with development teams to determine what hardware or software solutions were needed for their projects and then implemented the solutions.• Responsible for building and maintaining a redundant network of firewalls, routers, switches, and load balancers.• Responsible for designing and maintaining AD structure across 30 offices.• Worked to implement a MPLS network across all offices.• Developed a secure FTP solution for over 1,000 users.• Planned and implemented software update and backup strategies.