Daniel Granja Email & Phone Number

United States

Olympia, Washington, United States

• I lead the development of nonpartisan customer software for legislative staff including 49 senators and 98 representatives, as well as the citizens of the state of Washington.• Agile leadership of a software portfolio consisting of custom House and Senate software used for lawmaking and legislating. I work in coordination with 3 other portfolios that comprehensively serve the needs of the public as well as Legislative users. • Leveraging my technical and organizational background to support DevOps integration and Agile transformation.

Olympia, Washington, United States

* I reported to the CIO while managing 3 of the 5 technical branches of our organization through "the Covid years": Customer Support & Planning, System Administration, and AV (Chambers & Hearing Room) Solutions. We serviced all staff serving the House, Senate, and related Agencies of the Legislative Branch of Washington State. * Direct decision-making responsibility and management of IT operations for the historic first remote Legislative session for the state of Washington, as well as the orchestrated remote work systems surrounding it.* Developed leadership in my staff in order to implement an ITIL approach to service management. My teams have enjoyed the success of a team running as an organism maximizing its potential. Things only got better every year both for us and our customers, regardless of external circumstances.

Moscow, Id

• Managed all cloud, data center, and virtual infrastructure (Iaas & PaaS) for over 20,000 users. • Established and oversaw multiple network security policies, standards, processes and procedures for our enterprise systems, with consistently successful compliance audits (HIPAA, FERPA, PCI-DSS, CIS, NIST).• Mentored and transformed technical teams from initial states of crisis to leaders in collaboration, continuous improvement, and service orientation.• Saved $450K through deploying networks and systems in hybrid architectures (onsite plus cloud) while maintaining high security, availability and performance. • Championed, deployed, and managed cloud & data center services in AWS, Azure & Oracle Cloud.• • Decreased cost and equipment footprint 75% in data center and annual renewal cost for backup by $25K.• Smoothly planned & managed growth from 120 managed Windows and Linux servers to 400+ with no significant increase in cost and gradual decrease in staffing.• Developed Security Strategies, Guidelines, and Architectures as well as Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans and systems. Led Cross-Team Incident Response.

Monterey, Ca

• Managed all IT infrastructure, services, DevOps, and personnel, short of software engineers. Delivered secure 24x7 world-wide network services and high availability architectures while reducing overall costs. • Early adopter and leader of DevOps, managing 350+ Windows and Linux web server farms distributed across enterprise data centers, domestic and overseas. • Saved approximately $100K per month in infrastructure costs in face of downturn in capital investment. Humanely downsized through three different business cycles.• Managed both local and remote team members, ensuring highest technical staffing in a very challenging market and demanding environment.

Santa Clara, Ca

• Orchestrated and implemented overhaul of UNIX & Windows servers, networks, and IT services.• Partnered with the VLSI design industry in Silicon Valley for training facilities and specialized software. • Coordinated IT staff in preparation for assuming the Director role (cancelled due to his deferred retirement).

Yakima, Washington

• Designed and supported network, server and workstation architectures for approximately 2500 staff members and student users at 12 locations. • Partnered with educational professionals to develop strategic plans and curriculum still in use. • Partnered with local utilities for fiber-based metropolitan wide area network.

Seattle, Wa

• Managed world-wide data center, infrastructure, client-server architectures and networked services.• Despite contracts with the governments of Peru and Minnesota and a high of 50+ staff, downsized twice after market domination by Verisign. Ultimately the CEO, CFO, and myself closed the business.

Prescott, Arizona, United States

• Created the college's modern IT department. This included building infrastructure, local utility partnerships for private fiber networking, and WAN connections to a satellite campus in Tucson and remote study areas in Mexico. • Collaborated with high profile NASA project analyzing climate data from new Terra satellites.