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Melville, New York, Us

New York, Us

Senior member of the technology leadership team, responsible for technology infrastructure application services, DevOps, Corporate IT and Client MSP Services involving over 1000 employees globally in support of over 100 long term care facilities across the US.• Successfully led migration of AMP (SaaS based product), into Azure from on premise leveraging Azure DevOps for CI/CD and Bicep enabling the organization to embrace infrastructure as code• Improved collaboration between System Engineering and Development teams resulting in increased product reliability, faster deployment times, improved DevOps culture and external client satisfaction• Began standardization of AMP product monitoring processes and tools using Azure Monitor and App Insights to improve operability• Led Engineering and Operations teams through a large ransomware recovery effort resulting in full recovery of data and services across environments

Performed Cyber Security and Compliance assessment and roadmap planning project to improve Tremor Video’s Information security posture and to position Tremor to meet and exceed compliance requirements for SOX and GDPR. A current state and future state assessment was performed with recommendation regarding adoption of cyber security frameworks and project roadmaps to reach compliance requirements.

Led the combined Systems Engineering, Network Engineering, DevOps and Corporate IT teams of Tremor Video, Taptica, RhythmOne and Unruly through the next phase of growth for Tremor International.• Payback of significant technical debt post RhythmOne acquisition - 14 global datacenters migrated into 4 new global datacenters within 3 quarters saving $2M+ / year in infrastructure OpEx expenses and simplifying infrastructure to improve efficiency, reliability, operability and scalability of production services and providing hybrid capabilities leveraging AWS• Led the scaling RhythmOne's exchange to support over 9M real time bid requests per second across SSP and DSP partners• Drove migration of Unruly's product suite into Tremor International's global infrastructure for an additional $3M+ of annual AWS cost savings• Consolidated and standardized IT services and tools across Unruly, RhythmOne, Taptica and Tremor Video to improve collaboration and reduce costs• Enabled the transition of 600+ global employees into a remote workforce during the global pandemic• Successfully scaled infrastructure and production services through the back half of 2020 breaking historic revenue records• Witnessed the completion of the DSPs evolution to micro services running hybrid in kubernetes across bare metal and public cloud

Led the Systems Engineering, Network Engineering, DevOps and Corporate IT teams through a divestiture of the DSP business (Tremor Video DSP) from Telaria to Taptica International (aka Tremor International). Focused heavily on cost management initially and innovation once cost targets had been achieved.• Significant contributor to DSP business unit reaching profitability within first 6 months post Taptica acquisition through aggressive cost management • $250k per year OpEx savings through datacenter consolidation • $3.3M+ annual cost reduction in AWS spend through workload migration to on premise datacenter infrastructure• Championed and led adoption of containerization and container orchestration, culminating in operating production workloads, both on bare metal Kubernetes clusters on premise and in EKS on AWS• In partnership with the CTO, helped drive the evolution of the DSP from a monolith into containerized micro services deployed across the hybrid kubernetes environments, generating millions of custom metrics and servicing hundreds of thousands of bid requests per second• Envisioned and implemented DevOps principles and fostered adoption across the technology organization by focusing efforts to empower developers to become self sufficing through: - Championed implementation of CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI (no GUIs) - Supported "push button" zero downtime deployments to production - Collaborated on automated test coverage support during builds - Supported significant usage of custom application and infrastructure metrics for monitoring• Established new Corporate IT standards, procedures and tooling post divestiture

New York, Ny, Us

Joined Tremor Video (aka Telaria/Magnite) to lead a team of engineers responsible for technology infrastructure across on premise datacenters and public cloud. The team was tasked with supporting Development, QA and Production environments for the Tremor DSP product and associated data pipeline and reporting platforms.• Drove down colocation and bandwidth costs by 60% while increasing power capacity 400%, bandwidth 2500% and reducing Internet latency to partners by 95% on average• Created a true hybrid infrastructure (colo + AWS w/ sub 1 ms latency)• Fully standardized operational tooling: Stacki, Ansible, Tower/AWX, GitLab, GitLab CI, Datadog/statsd, libreNMS (SNMP), Slack, and jira• Initiated DevOps as a discipline within the Technology Operations team• Led architecture redesign of Tremor’s datacenter switching infrastructure to a Spine/Leaf architecture for all datacenter builds• Replaced hardware load balancing with open source alternatives which reduced costs, simplified operations and improved performance and scalability• Successfully led team through SOX audits, demonstrating IT controls and oversight

New York, Ny, Us

Led efforts to grow the DevOps team and improve practices to support a period of hyper growth in the technology team while ensuring the organization continued to operate with information security as a priority.• Improved on call process by defining first responder procedures and shift handoffs• Led platform migration from AWS Classic environment to a VPC for improved security• Designed and implemented new change management process for production changes

Technology executive responsible for global technology infrastructure and operations, Corporate IT services and field technology support (Scale house and truck RFID technology). Additionally drove process improvement, Information security, capacity planning, IT infrastructure roadmap planning and implementation, budgeting, team building and mentoring.• Successfully delivered on time (within 2 months over the holidays) and within budget a production ready colo equipped with Cisco networking, KVM virtualized compute and 3par SAN to host a completely rearchitected production Recyclebank platform migrated from the legacy managed services environment.• Rebuilt infrastructure team through growth and training of existing staff, new hires and outsourcing to support the infrastructure.• Led improvements in infrastructure management and operations with the use of opensource monitoring tools, custom scripts, configuration management, KVM virtualization and centralized Identity Management infrastructure. This enabled real time feedback from production services and infrastructure, provisioning of new servers in seconds from a single command line and zero downtime deployments of Recyclebank’s loyalty platform.• Scaled Recyclebank’s infrastructure to support greater member growth and user engagement and improved reliability and capability.• Deployed disk based backup solution between corporate server infrastructure and datacenter which allowed for fast recovery of services and data during Superstorm Sandy.• Led the migration of the company from an aging hosted exchange service to a modern exchange service with another vendor, minimizing disruption to employees. This resulted in improved email reliability, performance and significantly reduced cost.• Led project to select a Data Warehouse and Big Data Analytics platform in order to better leverage company data and unlock valuable insights for the business.

New York, Ny, Us

As Director of Technical Operations responsibilities included technical operations for both Decide DNA, a market leading Search Engine marketing platform and The Media Innovation Group (MIG) Digital Advertising Products. MIG was a newly formed group acting as the Digital Strategy Advisor for GroupM, a sister WPP Company.Additionally responsible for the CapEx and OpEx budget projections and management to that budget for the group.• Successfully led the technical operations team through the launch of a new suite of products developed by The MIG. These products included Zap Administrator (data warehousing/reporting), Zap Reporting 2.x, B3 Reports Extractor (REX), Zap Reporting 1.x (OBIEE based solution), B3 Monitor (campaign reporting tool), Zap Trader (Real Time Bidding Application), Zap Ad Manager (Display Advertising Platform), Zap Segment Builder (Integration application between data warehouse and display advertising applications), and Zap Access (Launch page).• Supported Dev and business stakeholders with technology infrastructure and operational services including software deployment procedures, SLAs and SLOs as well as defining escalation procedures for production issues.• Grew and managed a global team of 12 systems engineers, administrators and DBAs spanning the US, India, South Korea, Australia.• Led development of storage strategies for production including current state assessments, capabilities and capacity forecasting for the organization.• Led investments in virtualization technologies to improve utilization of compute resources for non-production workloads to deliver on improved ROI on capital investments.

New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for Technical Operations support of Decide DNA, an industry leading Search Engine Marketing platform which grew organically from its acquisition by 24/7 Realmedia, managing $150M in annual global search spend to $800M over 3 years. Built and mentored a global team of System and Database administrators.• Rebuilt a global technical operations team from scratch to support the product and development efforts of the product after the existing team resigned from the company.• Migrated DNA from neglected datacenters into more modern 24/7 Realmedia production data centers averting downtime due to hardware failure in legacy sites.• Developed stringent release procedures for software releases in close collaborationwith Dev and QA as downtime was significantly costly.• Leveraged puppet to improve configuration management, enabled global failover ofproduction endpoints and scaled the infrastructure and services to supporthypergrowth of the platform post acquisition.• Responsible for SOX compliance for Decide DNA Technical Operations.• Two-time recipient of the 25/8 Award “In Recognition of Service Above and Beyondthe Call of Duty.”

New York, Ny, Us

Grew area of responsibility beyond Insight suite of products to support the launch of OAS v6, 24/7 RealMedia's flagship AdServing platform.

New York, Ny, Us

Recruited to manage the operations of Insight SE, an early Search Engine marketing analytics platform. • Automated provisioning of new customer deployments through scripting reducing provisioning times to minutes from hours • Built application monitoring infrastructure leveraging nagios, ganglia and a custom php app which provided data that supported application health and capacity planning • New open source monitoring infrastructure saved over $100k annually in proprietary software licensing fee • Helped operate Insight XE, a proprietary web analytics platform

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Bs, Social And Decision Sciences

High School