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Seattle, Washington, United States

Greater Seattle Area

Led company-wide deprecation of VeriSign and Symantec PKIs. Created company-wide program to drive certificate related outages to zero. Represented Amazon Trust Services (ATS) on the CA/Browser Forum, and managed ATS’ white label agreement with DigiCert. Led AWS CEO sponsored program to document critical service dependencies for customers. Created and led.

Greater Seattle Area

Reduced annual cost of internal monitoring system by $3.61MM. Led program to migrate Retail systems to new customer and address ID schemes before existing ones ran out. Managed internal PKI infrastructure and policies and external PKI relationships. PKI subject matter expert for response to Heartbleed and SSLv3/POODLE. Drove company-wide deprecation of RSA.

Managed 9 direct reports and $1.6MM budget for Professional Services, Support, Training, QA, and IT groups. Negotiated customer and vendor services agreements. Led development of integrations with Zendesk, Remedy, EC2, Eucalyptus, and Webmetrics. Managed 39 projects, each averaging 53 hours.

Developed fixed-price model for professional services. Negotiated statements of work. Delivered training to Partners in EMEA, APAC, and NA. Managed 7 direct reports and $640k budget. Managed 158 projects, each averaging 120 hours. Designed and developed monitoring solution for Windows, and integrations for VMWare vSphere, and BMC Service Desk Express.

Delivered 103 Professional Services projects, each averaging 135 hours. Developed application monitoring and highly scalable network scanning plugins. Developed and led customer training courses.

Managed development, QA, and performance testing services for Weblogic Workshop and supported 100 staff. Managed 2 direct reports. Planned migration of infrastructure from Seattle office to Boulder.

Migration of ASP co-location facility from Santa Clara to San Francisco, and of production facility from San Mateo to San Francisco.Network design and implementation in new co-location and production facilities.

Design and implementation of new multi-office WAN/LAN.Migration of corporate and customer facing data services from San Mateo to San Francisco.Support of WAN/LAN, Windows and UNIX-based services.

Design, installation and support of multi-platform enterprise monitoring solutions.Development of process improvements for solution deployment and supportability.Project management of customer installations.

Managed 4 direct reports and $1.5MM budget. Assumed role of Network Architect, establishing peering relationships and negotiating with transit providers. Design and implementation of video search service for AOL. Created IT policies to support SLA provisions in customer contracts.

Designed and implemented video search infrastructure for customers including MLB, NHL, NASCAR, CNET, and Citibank. Maintained 99.995% availability. Installed and managed mail, NNTP, security, and service monitoring solutions.

Deployed and managed security monitoring systems. Led incident response including liaising with FBI. Administered EMC Symmetrix and Celerra NFS/SRDF. Configuration of Alteon GSLB VRRP. Performed remote 24x7 administration of CMP’s web presence. Installed servers and upgrades.

Remote 24x7 administration and troubleshooting of the CMP's Web presence. Coordinating maintenance, upgrades and installations. Administration of a programming and analysis environment. Planning for future traffic growth.

Studied reaction dynamics using pulsed laser systems. Published results in peer reviewed journals. Interfaced lasers and acquisition hardware to x86 computers. Conducted data acquisition and analysis using C and FORTRAN.

Worked for Yuan Lee, Nobel Laureate. Developed ion imaging machine for photo dissociation of ozone. Interfaced lasers, CCD camera, and other acquisition hardware to x86 computers. Published results in peer reviewed journals. Administered group RS/6000 AIX and x86 Linux servers for data analysis. Conducted data acquisition, analysis, and presentation using.

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry

Construction of a molecular beam apparatus and study of the interaction of state-selected and spatially oriented molecules with.

B.Sc. (Hons. 1St Class), Chemistry

Completed a four year course in three years by direct entry to the second year following high marks in High School Bursary examinations..