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Orlando, Fl, Us

Redwood City, Ca, Us

• Lead the build, delivery, and support of organization’s global corporate datacenter, compute, storage, virtualization, database and networking teams serving 55 global offices, accountable for continuous improvement of service levels and driving cloud adoption• Engage with key supply chain partners to understand roadmaps and long-term strategic benefits of the business strategy in enabling infrastructure solutions to ensure objectives on budget, risk, and compliance are adhered to and met• Facilitate data center buildout for studio automation farms for Quality Assurance and Verification that cost over $10M while saving thousands of hours of developer productivity and improving overall product quality and customer product satisfaction𝑺𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔• Establish clear vision for the business and operations of Infrastructure Architecture and Engineering functions, maintaining long-term view anticipating obstacles and opportunities while generating breakthrough ideas, and defining staffing models to support• Extensive full lifecycle infrastructure and application engineering design and delivery including architecture, design, and deployment, code development, secure and agile development practices, and capacity forecasting and planning• Recruit, hire, and retain a top notch, globally distributed team of 25 technical professionals, from Engineer through Director level• Lead the innovative implementation of remote access technology program to enable the future of remote and hybrid work scenarios across the $36B organization• Directed the technology solutions for pandemic response, delivering technology to enable 15,000 global staff, that were in office pre-pandemic, to work effectively from home through massively distributed development - in just a few weeks

Redwood City, Ca, Us

• Led the Solution Architecture, Design, and Delivery of enterprise network at 55 sites, Private Data Centers (10), and Public Cloud Regions (10+ Azure, Google, Amazon), and 70+ partners, exceeding demanding capacity, resiliency, and performance requirements• Fostered excellence across team, nurturing commitment to a common vision and shared values, developed plans and business case than resulted in doubled headcount for the department, while growing skillsets with key skills in automation, orchestration, programmability, and software defined infrastructure ( SDx / SDN / SD-WAN ) • Led data center consolidation that combined 10 corporate datacenters into 4 saving $7M and reducing global carbon footprint• Regularly and proactively communicated the status, risks, dependencies, issues, and successes of network development with senior management and contributed substantially to the company’s long-term planning initiatives𝑺𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔• Led and delivered on vision and integration strategy for “Cloud Connect” a custom automation pipeline for private cloud connectivity between any location and region• Implemented Kanban and educated on best practices increasing predictability, agility, and reducing story completion time by 40%• Built diverse and inclusive team across 8 locations and 6 countries with focused domain expertise and skill development• Internally developed enterprise grade software defined network (SDN) for connectivity to GCP, AWS, and Azure at scale• Led and mentored new team members in both technical and personal growth including 10 Senior Engineers and 5 Architects• Consistently secured enterprise against advanced persistent threat’s (APT’s) - malicious and sophisticated hackers• Redesigned enterprise connectivity for China studios and partner sites providing 20x capacity at 25% the cost• Retired and decommissioned corporate private MPLS backbone saving the company $3.3M annually

Redwood City, Ca, Us

• Transformed team of architects and engineers and developed network strategy to address prominent risks and business impacts• Built a culture of quality and ownership in a team of differently skilled entry-level and senior engineers• Collaborated with team and leadership to develop key career milestones for teams, aligning with organizational-wide objectives• Contributed to cross-cutting architectural discussions and set goals, metrics, and strategy to implement new designs𝑺𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔• Deployed a highly resilient edge mesh solution architecture provided the resiliency and scaled burst capacity that mitigated the need for software defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) appliances• Offset MPLS costs by diverting asset and build transfer over lower-cost high-capacity internet transit saving $2M per annum• Dramatically increased the scale (100x) and resilience of enterprise networks without increasing operational expenses on forecast

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

• Led top-level engineering design staff within Sprint Managed Network Services (MNS) with responsibility for 1,200 managed services customers and 22,000+ devices, along with Managed Security Services (MSS) pre-sales design team responsible for responding to 20+ customer prospects per month• Managed vendor relationships with CompuCom, Fortinet, Juniper, Cisco, and Check Point• Developed and presented product and vendor training for Sales and Solutions Engineers

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

• Managed team of Implementation Engineers and Project Managers that execute up to 1,000+ implementations events and onboard over 20 customers/month• Created workflow automation and integration plans and requirements to drive down operational costs

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

• Managed and mentored 15 direct reports, including Design Engineers and Subject Matter Experts (SME's), focusing on high-performance and customer-focus that received 50+ Excellence Cash Awards of which 3 were hand-picked for prestigious leadership programs and 1 received the Sprint Circle of Excellence Award• Took proof-of-concept implementation process reconstruction and added web apps to configure and pre-stage equipment prior to field dispatch that led to overhead reduction of 50% saving over $1M/year• Led MNS integration with Netformx and back-office databases

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

• Directed 35 Operations Engineering staff in 24x7x365 global operations center • Provided proactive converged network management solutions, including switches, routers, firewalls, call mgrs, and access points

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Jackson, Missouri, Us

• Directed engineering specifications and solutions for an intl mfg of data, audio, and video devices and cabling solutions with revenue $55M• Researched product opportunities and developed strategic partnerships for cooperative product ventures

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

• Worked in the Vyvx division that transported 85%+ of the sports and 50%+ of the commercial ads seen on national television as a Systems Engineer for broadcast video and networked video distribution schemes• Provided technical expertise for licensing, patent, and intellectual property cases.

Master Of Science In Telecommunications Engineering

Bachelor Of Science In Engineering Management