Drew Garner Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Accolade is driving the future of healthcare by enabling our clients to have a great care experience all while saving money. Our single, unified solution is delivered through a powerful combination of Accolade Health Assistants® and advanced technology platform. I am responsible for our Cloud infrastructure and strategy and SaaS vendors, Support, Customer Technical Implementations, Quality and Cloud Automation Tooling and Public cloud strategy and utilization. On top of these responsibilities, I founded and own the Accolade Prague lab which includes multiple teams the majority of which are currently focused on Services and Platform development, working on our next generation Healthcare Platform all hosted in the Public Cloud.Accomplishments:Moved all of Accolades environments to reside in the Public Cloud (AWS) closing all colocated datacentersImplemented Devops culture and centralized on infrastructure as codeEnabled all developers to own their stacks and applications via shared automationStandardized on Docker and Serverless frameworks to Deploy our new platformBuilt out over a dozen services teams in various areas and assisted them to come up to speed and start delivering services and value to the business

Seattle, Washington, Us

Working to establish and build a Prague office for Accolade. The teams in this office will be focused in building, maintaining and servicing a Healthcare cloud platform and the ecosystem that connects it to Accolades clients and our Healthcare professionals.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

In my role as a Senior Director in Cloud Services, I'm responsible for Private and Public Networking, Global CDN vision and strategy and content acceleration strategy, Platform and Service Automation, Continuous integration and deployment, and Logging and data visualization services in our hosted Cloud environments. The Agile teams I run to build, support and deliver these services exist spread all over the world.Responsible for Concur's offices located in Prague, Czech republic. This is one our largest EU offices and is a R&D Labs and Service center of excellence. As the Senior Leader responsible for the office, I'm involved in everything from Hiring/Recruiting, Human Resources, Finance, Team Building, and Leadership Development.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Responsible for Research, planning and implementing Cloud Computing, Performance and Scalability enhancements initiatives and concepts Instrumental in directing the evolution of Application, Datacenter, Systems and Network Design and PlanningResponsible for leading projects to improve Application Scalability and Performance in a environment that handles billions of web requests per monthLeading a Project Management Office (PMO) that is responsible for projects related to Datacenter, Infrastructure, Strategic upgrades and initiativesAssisted in Authoring and presenting a 3 year Strategic Vision and accompanying implementation timeline and plan

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Served a 2 year stint in Concur's Prague office, where I accomplished the following:Assisted in the Hiring, Training and Development of 92 people in 9 different departmentsDeveloped a local management team and led management trainingPersonally hired, managed and developed a Concur Operations teamLed several major office projects including 2 moves and 2 major office expansions

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Managed the Network and Systems teams within Operations and accomplised the following:Managed several large innovation projects including: Server Virtualization Deployment and initial purchase, several large infrastructure upgrades (servers, switches, storage), involved in 2 seperate Datacenter move projects, Involved in planning and implementing a major SAN expansion, Introduced several innovative new technologies that accomplished major cost savings (Server virtualization, Fax over IP, and Device based HTTP Content compression)

Participated in consulting engagements involving penetration tests, risk assessments, and forensics analysis. Supported client security infrastructure in a 24x7 NOC including after hours on call and escalation availability. Resolved advanced technical issues in network environments spanning the globe. Managed a group of twelve technicians including, training, and scheduling and project management. Instructed students in Firewall technologies, Intrusion Detection, User Awareness, penetration testing tools and methodologies. Implemented various types of security technologies in client environments including, firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention devices, email and data encryption technologies, anti-virus, anti-spam, and security event management software. Presented a variety of topics in different venues as an expert in Information Security.

Executed Quarterly Risk Assessment and Penetration Tests and reported the results to Senior ManagementOversaw corporate firewalls, routers, servers and switch equipment. Designed, implemented and managed an enterprise WAN VPN mesh network including remote client access.Responsible for network and host security in the corporate environment. Authored several enterprise policies for IS department and company-wide use including, acceptable use guidelines, security policy, and disaster recovery plans.Researched and directed management in purchase decisions for new systems and technologies