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Seattle, Washington, United States

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for Microsoft's production Access and Identity Services, including Active Directory and ADFS, Domain Management and Authoritative/Recursive DNS, Public Key Infrastructure, and Secure Internet Gateway.

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for a team of 70+ engineers delivering core data center services (Directory Services (AD/DNS), Remote Access (terminal services, remote desktop), PKI, SMTP, Storage Services (SAN), Content Replication, Data Protection Services, and Network Security Services to all Online Services Division properties (XBox, Bing, MSN, Windows Live, etc.)

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for developing highly scalable, fast, and efficient services that provide the building blocks necessary for Amazon’s development teams to build applications on the Amazon Website Platform.Products my teams delivered in this category include: Automated Website Hosting Services, Capacity Forecasting and Operational Management tools. Migrated.

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for the strategic direction and tactical management of automating Amazon’s massive Infrastructure. Led the software development teams that build the automated provisioning systems that scale to manage and recycle many tens of thousands of servers for Amazon’s internal customers. Led the adoption of Agile software development methods; improving.

Greater Seattle Area

Responsible for product development/delivery for Technology Operations to the AWS services group. Responsible for the management, definition, development, supportability and customer relationship for multiple TechOps teams and service offerings to AWS. Built and successfully managed the transition of international teams from a purely operational focus to.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Responsible for the strategic direction and tactical management of the Paramount Pictures IT Infrastructure group. Responsible for the stability and improvement of the IT production environment and client user satisfaction across the Paramount enterprise. Successfully defined and executed on the effort to realign IT Infrastructure Operations for increased.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Worked in a frontline position on several key programs with clients across various industry verticals such as Banking/Finance; Capital Group Companies, Wells Fargo, Government; City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Superior Courts, Los Angeles Police Department, Healthcare; Immunex/Amgen, Entertainment; Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, Merchandise.

Bakersfield, California

Defined and delivered, to the Kern County board of directors, the vision for the IT infrastructure. Managed, supported, project leads and the Infrastructure Engineering group. Established and managed strategic vendor relationships that would benefit the KCSOS corporate vision. --Led the design and implementation of a statewide Network Operations Center to.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Owner of Worldwide Investigative Services. Responsible for all business planning from inception to future growth projections that included client relationship management, balancing revenue and capacity, resource hiring and management, solutions definition and methodology governance. --Development and implementation of customized security solutions for data.