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New York, NY, US

Tokyo, JP

Seattle, WA, US

• Technical point of contact for AWS Enterprise customers, help them to achieve their business goals through the application of cloud computing
• Act as the voice of the customer within AWS to escalate problems and to drive prioritization of business needs
• Provide strategic technical guidance to help plan and build solutions using best practices, and proactively keep customers’ AWS environments operationally healthy

Stamford, Connecticut, US

• Managing all aspects of engineering groups in the planning, design and global implementation of highly scalable, fully redundant and cost-efficient solutions for a 2,000-person firm across 6 data centers. Leading a.
• Collaborated with business units on the design and implementation of cloud services, resulting in deployment to multiple AWS accounts and Google projects, including services built on Red Hat OpenShift container platform.
• Defined and implemented the procedure to ensure correct allocation of reserved instances in Amazon Web Services resulting in $1M pa savings.
• Reduced user downtime from hours per month to near zero and minimized operational overhead on a shared file services system by implementing a scale out network-attached storage platform in place of Windows file server.
• Implemented the metrics and procedure to allow business units to be charged directly for cloud-based expenses and show back for on-premise infrastructure, resulting in the distribution of $400k per month back to the.
• Expanded a virtualization pilot to a multi-site fully redundant implementation hosting 1,100 virtual machines, eliminating the cost of 600 physical servers and 500 physical desktops.

• Transformed an ad-hoc support group into a cohesive unit providing 24-hour company-wide monitoring, support and break fix for all data center hardware and applications.
• Implemented a service oriented monitoring philosophy, moving away from servers as individual entities and looking more at overall monitoring of applications and systems.
• Wrote and managed the Request for Proposal process to determine the possibility of outsourcing a number of infrastructure services. Key contributor to the assessment and eventual outsource of level 1 and level 2 support.

• Managed a global team that implemented and supported the IT infrastructure of the Investment division of a Swedish pension company providing occupational pensions to members of 27,000 companies.

• Managed a support team that planned, implemented and supported European infrastructure.
• Established a training plan in Central European sites.
• Assumed responsibility for the IT function of a new office opening in Greenwich, CT.

• Managed a team providing delivery and support of all desktop services to 250 users.

• Implemented and supported IBM AS/400, PC, Windows and communications systems.
• Planned and managed voice and data network installations.

• Communications research and evaluation projects plus technical educational material for European Standards committees.
• Completed Masters degree in conjunction with University of Hull

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electronic Communications Engineering

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Electronic Engineering