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San Francisco, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Provided strategic leadership for the design and development of a cloud security group from the ground up to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of digital information. Led the development of infrastructure, software controls, policies, and processes. Directed the development and integration of customized products for six different lines of business by building and leading software engineering, SRE, and service delivery teams. Defined and enforced organizational OKRs, KPIs, and KRIs. • Grew the organization from 2 to 200 employees across 3 locations (Seattle, Plano, and Dublin) covering security, software development, infrastructure, and management disciplines.• Developed annual organization goals and initiatives.• Managed annual Capex and Opex budgets.• Managed development, training and performance of managers and individual contributors.• Advisory member of Seattle Tech center, driving regional hiring and retention strategy.• Developed Cloud controls matrix that led to the standardization of security controls in applications transitioning to cloud native.• Built and managed engineering, reliability, and deployment teams focused on the automation and deployment of security and compliance products within the cloud.• Successfully transitioned all the trading floor transactional data to the cloud, without disrupting daily operations. • Product owner, Cloud internet edge. Worked with a matrixed team to deliver secure ingress and egress data from applications migrated to public cloud infrastructure.• Managed regulatory compliance of engineering products including PCI, SOX, SOC2, FIPS.• Led the transition to a DEVOPS operating model.• Transitioned organization to utilize Agile methodology.

New York, Ny, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

While working as a Sr. Network Development Manager at Amazon Web Services, I managed and optimized AWS edge networks to ensure the delivery of quality services to internal and external customers by leading a team of 12 people responsible for network architecture and design. I maintained proper functionality of EC2, S3, Corporate, Prod-dx, Customer-Dx, and VPN-VPC networks. I delivered hands-on strategic and technical leadership to engineers for the design, development, delivery, and implementation of all new products. I identified, analyzed, and mitigated network security risks. Developed and managed multi-million-dollar budgets for personnel, capital expenditures, and day-to-day operations. Highlights of accomplishments in this role include:• I drove organizational development and created agile standards while managing a group of 12 software developers to deliver a unified cloud management solution that increased cloud edge capacity by over 500% in 2 years.• I consolidated cloud edge infrastructure from 3 separate organizations, with differing design and implementation, and support strategies to a single organization with consistent design, implementation, and support strategy.• I ensured the cost-effective and on-time delivery of the product by leading the full product development life cycle, including delivery schedules, specification reviews, planning, budgeting, and resource allocation.• I helped three engineers move up their career track through training and ongoing coaching.• I delivered overall savings of 25%, including CAPEX and OPEX expenditures by improving the development and release process.• I trained, mentored, and led a team of 12 Development Engineers across Seattle, WA and Dublin, Ireland.

Bozeman, Montana, Us

As a Director-Network Engineering & Telecommunications, I developed network architecture and design of 20 data centers and 47 offices worldwide by leading a team of 14 direct reports and contractors. I oversaw the design of HIPPA, SOX, and PCI-compliant environments. I established in-house network engineering organization from the ground up. I managed the $18 million OPEX budget.Highlights of accomplishments in this role include:• I formulated 1, 2, and 5-year technology strategic plans in collaboration with VP, CIO, and CTO, including defining goals, objectives, metrics, KPIs, plans of action, and roadmaps as well as annual project and budget planning.• I achieved a significant reduction in Opex and Capex by moving the network to a software-defined network.

Burbank, Ca, Us

In this capacity, I provided strategic and technical leadership to a team of 10 engineers for the design and development of the network infrastructure and security controls for Disney media and Studios, including Disney ABC Television Group, ESPN, Shanghai Disneyland, Lucasfilm, Marvel (TV and Film), TV animation, Broadway, and Watch (online) networks. I gathered and verified the business and technical requirements from business units and stakeholders.Highlights of accomplishments in this role include:• I developed RFP and created the final design of LAN/WAN/WLAN/Security for Shanghai Disneyland. • I led modernization effort to broadcast the first Oscars online by designing the structure between AWS and ABC to do a full live production of the Oscars via the internet. • I enabled the world’s first online broadcast of the World Cup.• I led the complete modernization of the Jimmy Kimmel group from top to bottom, including wireless infrastructure and data transfer telecom.• I successfully led the integration of Marvel and Lucas Film into the Disney infrastructure and built out entirely new infrastructure in support of the Marvel/Netflix studios.

Denver, Co, Us

As a Solutions Engineer, I provided high-level design support and guidance to customers as a customer-focused technical sales professional; collaborated with the Account Team to recommend and develop appropriate customer solution offerings.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Education record

Biology/Biological Sciences, General