Technical leader, within the senior leadership team, consisting of 200+ engineers focused on building an infrastructure platform spread between the data center and cloud, whose goal was to support the flexibility and cost efficiency needs of the business. Partnered with the engineering teams to modernize the data center, by developing self-service management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) processes. Collaborated cross-functionally with engineering teams to develop a self-service IaC process for migration to the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP). Drove vision and design for the development of self-service monitoring, patching, and governance tooling. • Provided technical and leadership and vision to engineering teams to modernize the data center with self-service provisioning and management, thus reducing deployment times from months to minutes • Collaborated with stakeholders and SMEs to develop a Cloud Connectivity strategy that improves reliability and reduces costs for the business by aligning connectivity with cloud hubs and moving to dedicated connectivity paths • Partnered with management and engineers to drive a DevOps Infrastructure as Code (IaC) model to improve quality and improve culture, by creating automation around IaC deployments with monitoring and connectivity by default • Worked with engineering teams to develop a vision and prototype for self-service Governance and Patching in both the data centers and Cloud, to increase compliance and policy accountability • Worked with CI/CD SMEs to develop a vision and implement a cloud infrastructure deployment, inventory, and management solution that aligns to the business model and application functionalities, in order to simplify development, deployment, and accountability • Aligned with senior leaders to drive tool alignment, centralized management of core services, API standardization, and service containerization to eliminate redundant efforts in the cloud, thus reducing feature code development times

Technical leader, within the Oracle Learn Service, focused on the improving the service's availability and quality. Collaborated with feature developers and operations teams to develop a deployment pipeline for consistency and scalable expansion to multiple regions worldwide. Worked with security teams and operations teams to meet FedRAMP certifications of Oracle Learn Cloud Services for US GOV customers. • Led a small team of engineers to design and build a deployment pipeline for infrastructure and application deployments to Oracle Data Centers worldwide, improving service availability by 60% and reducing build-out times by 70% • Collaborated with monitoring and operations SMEs to develop a self-healing platform to improve service availability • Worked with security teams to remediate infrastructure and deployments to meet FedRAMP certificates needed for US GOV customers

Operational Excellence lead for a small team tasked with the goal of designing, developing, and managing SQL Azure through its incubation to the general availability of the service. Primarily focused on ensuring that the SQL Azure service met operational best practices for deployment, management, and compliance. Collaborated with feature developers to develop deployment tools and gather customer feedback to enhance the service and maintain its availability. • Led collaborations with developers and operations teams to build an operational excellence framework for deploying and managing the SQL Azure clusters with consistency and high availability • Partnered with the Windows Azure team to help drive the migration of SQL Azure from physical servers to Windows Azure, using tools like Autopilot and Blackbird • Designed and built a certificate management solution as part of the CI/CD pipeline to eliminate certificate issues within the SQL Azure and Windows Azure clusters • Managed and maintained the code for the legacy Exchange Online Archiving solution until they migrated to Windows Azure • Designed and built the metrics data warehouse used to drive service level KPIs for executive reporting

Led a team of senior architects focusing on infrastructure architectural improvements in networking, hardware (server, desktop, & data centers), infrastructure systems, telecom, and storage. Responsible for providing technical strategies, implementation roadmaps, POCs/Evals, and evangelizing solutions within the business units and IT groups. Developed business cases for executive leadership to align technology innovations with business goals. • Developed a strategy to use Virtualization and Cloud technologies for high capacity growth and elasticity into the cloud. • Collaborated with the technology owners to drive the improvement of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery preparedness by implementing a strategy of highly available databases using SAN replication technologies to support the Active-Active Data Center needs. • Met the business goals to reduced WAN utilization and increased network throughput for data center replication by deploying DC-to-DC WAN optimization technologies. • Drove the procurement, design, and implementation of a new secondary data center for capacity expansion. Collaborated with Security, Network, and Operations teams to develop an active/passive data center implementation.

Lead architect in the Technical Architecture team responsible for achieving business goals through the innovation, evaluation, and implementation of new processes and technologies. Evangelized technology solutions and performed “Proof of Concept” evaluations of technologies for the business. Mentored architecture peers, and provided Subject Matter Expertise for engineering groups needing help with Microsoft technologies and .NET coding (VB & PowerShell)

Provided architectural design, engineering support, mentoring, and troubleshooting skills to operational support teams within the IT, Lab, and Site Operations departments. Engineered, documented, and deployed, application systems to improve administrative and departmental efficiencies. Developed migration applications and procedures used to assist with business integrations. Created Messaging, Backup, and Storage strategies and deployed a Citrix Server Farm to support call center agents.

Led an engineering team that provided high availability for the Windows systems, email, and Lotus Notes collaboration tools across North America. Drove the design and implementation of major infrastructure systems and evaluated the consolidation of application servers and infrastructure servers to lower TCO for the business. Managed the migration of services from Windows NT to Windows 2000 & Exchange 2003. Responsible for the management and availability for the Windows systems in the corporate, manufacturing and web environments.

Designed, deployed, and maintained LAN network systems including Windows NT4 Domains and Exchange 5.5 email systems for over 30 locations in the US. Implemented and maintained LAN/WAN infrastructures.

Administered Novell 3.x/4.x environments maintaining network applications as well as physical network assets (Coaxial/CAT5). Installed and maintained Inter-Tel and Nortel PBX systems and networked Octel Voicemail Systems. Managed the corporate ERP system (InMass).

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