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I energize teams and accelerate breakthrough results by modernizing organizations, businesses, and technology platforms. By defining customer value, aligning strategy and resources, motivating and coaching teams, re-architecting systems, and orchestrating transformations. I get excited by complex business and technical challenges which I tackle with curiosity, creativity, and deep insight from years of experience. I model and realize long-term strategies through the enlistment and alignment of diverse teams, focusing on understanding quality and improving productivity. I am passionate about helping others be great through feedback, coaching, mentoring and collaborative journeys through experiential development.- I Identify people with potential, maximize their contributions in teams, and provide opportunities for growth and development. I build scalable businesses, and skillfully restructures teams and workloads in ways that accelerate achievement of business objectives.- As a deep systems thinker, I envision, manage and control complex systems and processes. With a career foundation in big data, service operations, and platform engineering, I apply knowledge from experience (data systems, cloud technologies, datacenter operations and governance controls) and contextual understanding of customer value to power data-driven system capabilities which support scalability, quality, agility, efficiency and innovation objectives.- I offer a balanced blend of technology and business acumen to deliver on big innovation and operational challenges. Consistently noted for work ethic and judgment in technical and operational roles of increasing scope and impact throughout almost 20 years at Microsoft, before transforming platform development and technical operations at Quickplay, (landing at ATT through acquisition), and most recently coaching AWS customer executives through their transformations in my Advisory role with Amazon.
Amazon Web Services (Aws)
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Senior Practice Manager - Customer Delivery ArchitectureAmazon Web Services (Aws)Encinitas, Ca, Us -
Senior Practice Manager - Professional Services ArchitectureAmazon Web Services (Aws) Jul 2021 - PresentSeattle, Wa, UsIn my role as a CDA leader, I build, manage, and develop a hi-performing team of technical pre-sales solution and enterprise architects who identify customer objectives, discover the current state of environments, define target architectures and create variably-staffed build-plans to be delivered by expert AWS Professional Services and AWS Partner Network colleagues in tight collaboration with customer teams. My team supports multiple North American segments including Greenfield, SMB, Startup, Auto & Manufacturing, and others, wherein we advise customers on efficient and effective design and use of cloud services to achieve business objectives- often reworking enterprise architecture, business process, security posture, data strategy, product management, business continuity, DevOps, resource governance, and other practices beyond migration and modernization. Responsible for evolving the role over annual iterations, including applicable priorities, sales and delivery process improvements, productivity and performance KPIs, goals, and targets to ensure customer, consultant, and business objectives. Given the high rate of change in technical and process innovation this role needs to absorb, interpret and lead customers through co-envisioning and application, I am also closely involved as co-creator, reviewer, early adopter, and advocate for key centralized field enablement, delivery quality, and business change management, initiatives. -
Principal Advisory ConsultantAmazon Web Services (Aws) Dec 2018 - Jun 2021Seattle, Wa, UsIn my time as a Principal Advisory Consultant with Amazon in the AWS organization, I had a chance to coach and lead customer teams in Product innovation, Agile Transformation, IT Governance, Supply Chain optimization, Manufacturing modernization, applied Machine Learning (ML), and large-scale Software Development initiatives. By leveraging a breadth and depth of experience in overcoming strategic, organizational, procedural and technical obstacles to transformations, I've been able to quickly add value to executive and delivery teams by offering tools and techniques to accelerate results as they modernize their workforce and embrace new opportunities enabled by cloud technology. -
SabbaticalLife Jan 2018 - Nov 2018
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Vice President -Video Platform Development, Program Mangement & Engineering ServicesAt&T Jul 2016 - Dec 2017Dallas, Tx, UsAfter acquisition by ATT, delivered the "v1.0" ecosystem of content processing-related microservices and infrastructure and 12 months of subsequent iterations that underpin ATT's DirecTV Now and several other award-winning "Over-the-top" (OTT) video services. Partnered to transfer Infrastructure and Operations knowledge and accountabilities to pre-existing ATT departments; executed role transitions, job re-definitions, title-changes and compensation adjustments for remaining multi-national ex-Quickplay team. Retained >95% of talent across locations (LA, Toronto, San Diego, Chennai) through 18 months of acquisition-related activities; Delivered-to-target on service quality and financial targets. Significantly advanced a culture of data-driven decision-making and capability for agile response. Coalesced and grew a Development Services team to drive functions (Technical PM/Service Owner, Database Engineering, CICD Development, pre-production managemtent, release/crisis coordination) focused on unleashing code velocity and service quality across the division's software engineering teams. -
Vice President, Video Platform (Pm, Dev, Test), Infrastructure (Arch, Eng) And Service OperationsQuickplay Nov 2014 - Jun 2016Toronto, Ontario, CaScaling up with quality… aligned operational strategy to business strategy; catalyzed shift from product to services mindset; hired, realigned and developed leadership team; drove key changes in mindset and behavior to improve organizational effectiveness; created operational scorecard & KPIs to target, drive and recognize continual improvement; instituted organizational/individual goals and performance management practices; restructured SLAs with key customers to clarify and improve measurability and accountability; procured and integrated monitoring capabilities into roadmap for holistic service monitoring fabric; improved reliability and availability of existing services - reducing SLC exposure to known issues by 95%; implemented project management standards and best practices to improve delivery-to-promise; implemented utilization monitoring and capacity planning for key OpEx/CapEx cost drivers; initiated transition to DevOps from traditional roles to increase accountability, agility and code velocity; reduced/avoided marginal cost of growth; sponsored strategic migration from on-premises solution to hybrid cloud roadmap; instituted or improved key processes - including Incident, Change & Problem – to improve service reliability and customer satisfaction; demonstrate operational excellence and roadmap to help secure sales pipeline. Evidenced system maturity, resulting in not only being selected by ATT as service provider for DirecTV Now platform, but by being acquired. -
Senior Director, Cloud & Enterprise Group - Supply Chain Strategy And OperationsMicrosoft Aug 2012 - Nov 2014Redmond, Washington, UsManaged a team that drove broadly federated interdepartmental business process and engineering system improvement initiatives (Lean SixSigma, BPMN, ITIL, Agile) with a goal of integrating and optimizing software development (primarily the Azure, Bing, and Office 365 systems) with infrastructure provisioning and operations. Driving toward an increasingly DevOps & Agile culture, areas of focus included change& risk management, service intelligence (data quality, cross-domain correlation, operational reporting and analysis) improvements, problem management (fault-to-repair) taxonomies and priorities, knowledge management (org & workforce development, onboarding, training, taxonomy), configuration management (information modeling) and deep inspection and targeted revisions to the data center/cloud infrastructure supply chain systems and workflow processes. This led to assuming responsibility for the team of 75 and associated PMO providing all hardware supply management, delivery assurance, build-process prioritization and scheduling, coordination and communication across multiple stakeholders, quality assurance, logistics and general project management oversight for adding, moving or removing over $2B in annual spend on cloud infrastructure and services capacity. -
Director, Microsoft Operations CenterMicrosoft Dec 2008 - Aug 2012Redmond, Washington, Us- Led organization of 450 full-time and vendor staff in the planning, architecture, delivery and continual improvement of the Microsoft Operations Center – a 24x7, geo-distributed, live-site monitoring and support organization for the portfolio of 200+ Microsoft online services delivered to over a billion customers worldwide. Drove significant improvements in monitoring, automation, knowledge management an repeatable processes.- Provided strategic direction, roles definitions, process re-engineering, decision making and resourcing priorities. Recruited and hired dozens of engineers and support staff to quickly to fill core-competency delivery deficiencies. Focused work activities on those with most significant business value, and allocated strategic, operational and tactical resources to drive or deliver nested multi-year objectives in partnership with engineering teams by creating and leveraging a customer success organization and set of processes.- As organizations across Company were transitioning from a "product mindset" to "service delivery mindset" in an early recognition of the power of DevOps culture, I nurtured and evangelized service operations best practices and provided senior engineering training to address scale and quality issues across various engineering systems. Presented as a subject matter expert a CEO-mandated Engineering Excellence course to executive engineering leaders from across Microsoft to drive development of more efficient, effective and predictable service design and engineering.- Managed 12 managers-of-managers, provided executive guidance and formal training to organization of 2000+ on career development (i.e. empathetic listening, curiosity, sincerity), hiring and organizational planning. -
Lead Program Manager - Engineering Process ExcellenceMicrosoft Oct 2004 - Dec 2008Redmond, Washington, UsChartered function and team of Program managers to facilitate, formalize and document cross-organizational workflow and business processes. Product Owner for tooling initiatives producing vision/scope and prioritized business requirements, including business interaction models, context diagrams, UI mockups, and multi-year product development and business adoption roadmaps. -Developed Service Catalog and consumption-based IT cost allocation and charging model for the shared service operations organization underpinning all of Microsoft's externally facing online services.- Process Owner for Change and Release; drove 24-month company-wide transformation to service-oriented, shared, risk-informed change and release control process and tooling. - Rationalized 12 similar online services systems used across Microsoft, and with understanding of implementation and group culture for each, secured buy-in for design and delivery of a unified system supporting all stakeholders- Accountable for securing stakeholder buy-in, requirements inventory, rationalization, prioritization of solution delivery across Service Desk, Customer Support Services and Incident Response. Established business and information interaction models between inter-dependent service functions. Incorporated Security Risk, Compliance and Operations, as well as internal corporate and 3rd party audit concerns, to ensure solution met corporate, government and financial controls requirements.- Drove organizational, procedural and role-based changes, including employee training and development (i.e. instructor-led training, job-aids, certification, continual improvement programs). -
Sr. Program Manager - Enterprise Tools, Msn Service/Infra OperationsMicrosoft Oct 2003 - Oct 2004Redmond, Washington, UsDelivered business and functional requirements for shared business reporting hierarchy, application security, ticketing, configuration management and workflow systems used across functions in MSN Operations. Initiated Program Management Excellence effort that incorporated best practices from numerous frameworks. -
Group Manager - Microsoft Advertising Sales OperationsMicrosoft Sep 2002 - Oct 2003Redmond, Washington, UsLed and managed organization of ~60 fulfillment and sales support staff in concert with online advertising sales strategy. Drove YoY improvements in operational efficiency, Quality of Service and customer satisfaction while supporting online advertising sales organizations worldwide during a period of explosive (25x) revenue growth. - Deloped people and roles, provided experiences and feedback to enhance individual performance that boosted organizational health. Led recruiting and interviewing process to fill 50 FTE positions in 6 months’ time.- Represented Microsoft and MSN in Industry Standards discussions regarding digital marketing, and acted as reference SME in MSN’s most strategic business development partnerships. -
Product Owner, Business Operations - Online AdvertisingMicrosoft Apr 1997 - Aug 2002Redmond, Washington, UsFirst for Sidewalk.com, then for the entire MSN ecosystem, acted as Product owner/Program manager for ad/content system data warehouse, reporting and analytics.- Co-designed and delivered information model and functional reporting system for first generation click-through tracking system used for editorial/business optimization and advertiser reporting on one of Microsoft's landmark online services (first algorithmic search, first search advertising product, first local, first coupons, first online-pay, et al.)As Product owner, leading the design and administration of CRM/SFA/Sales Process Management system to improve transparency, confidence and fidelity of ad sales forecasts for global advertising sales team. Defined business requirements; and influenced feature design, development priorities and release schedule with 3rd party vendor. Delivered iterative customization, training and support to MSN Sales team worldwide. -
Support Manager, Dba/It Manager, Production ManagerDiamar Interactive Jan 1996 - Apr 1997Acted in various roles in small multimedia startup. Database developer/administrator, internal IT systems administrator for Apple-based network and PDX system; Provided tier 1, 2, and 3 customer support to end-users.
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Production ArtistMicrosoft Sep 1994 - Dec 1995Redmond, Washington, UsOn contract assignment at Microsoft, I worked in the Education Business Unit, leveraging expertise in multimedia software and Apple automation, transferred and optimized multimedia content from the Encyclopedia Britannica for publication in the Bookshelf and Encarta US and international CD-ROM products. -
Apple Student RepresentativeApple Sep 1992 - Jun 1994Cupertino, California, UsI was the sole Apple student representative on campus of about 2000, providing a full range of software and hardware support to students and faculty at Bates College.
David Beers Education Details
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Bates CollegeNeuroscience -
Champlain Valley Union
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David Beers works for Amazon Web Services (Aws)
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David Beers's current role is Senior Practice Manager - Customer Delivery Architecture.
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David Beers attended Bates College, Champlain Valley Union.
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