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Foster City, California, Us

Develop and maintain key vendor relationships for ensuring quality service at competitive prices. Generate demand forecasts of peak season infrastructure load requirements in preparation of Black Friday and Cyber Monday events by leveraging advanced statistical models. Maintain professional relationships between IT and multiple lines of business, including Commercial, Loyalty, and Risk Design IT standards, as well as evaluating vendors, and driving long-term architecture changes. Communicate infrastructure standards to application development teams by working across organizational boundaries and hosting tech talk speaker series. Coordinate workforce planning efforts across global engineering teams to balance staffing model. Ensure compliance with regulatory standards, while executing operations.- Directed the team of global engineers for supporting Visa’s IT infrastructure comprising 70K servers and 300 PB of storage.- Introduced Lean Six Sigma program to analyze and improve key group processes for eliminating waste and improving quality.- Represented Visa as speaker at several college recruiting events.- Devised and executed annual capital plan for $100M infrastructure spend.- Increased utilization levels by 20%, while reducing time to market with pre-positioned capacity.- Implemented delivery of private cloud infrastructure for several key product launches, including the Apple Pay and tokenization platforms.

Purchase, New York, Us

Led $1B outsourcing RFP that included global hosting, compute and network. Established a global data center transformation program for all infrastructure needs at PepsiCo. Evaluated emerging trends in cloud and virtualization with respect to the long-term business requirements. Worked across global organizational boundaries and created a cross-functional team to develop the strategy. Frequent presentations to regional CFOs and CIOs.

Purchase, New York, Us

Managed a team of 50 engineers who provide 24x7x365 operational support for: 136,000 network ports; 12,000 VoIP Cisco phones; 5,000 Windows servers; 3,500 wireless access points; 600 WAN links in the US and Canada. Responsible for a $20MM annual operating budget: provide accurate monthly forecasts, ensure spending is aligned with the strategic plan, achieve annual efficiency targets and unit cost reduction.Ensured corporate compliance with key controls for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulations. Maintained key hardware and software vendor relationships with Cisco, Microsoft, Dell and AT&T by hosting quarterly business reviews.Provided thought leadership and strategic direction for all network and server technology implementations.

Purchase, New York, Us

• Managed team of 20 network engineers providing Internet access, firewalls, and remote access for 22,000 users.• Balanced $6M operating budget; reduced department spending by 10% in first year by renegotiating contracts.• Delivered wireless mobility solution for 14,000 Frito-Lay route salesman that improved supply chain and product delivery labor efficiency by drastically reducing order upload time.• Led project to deploy wireless network by installing 700 access points across 10 major US campuses.

Global, Us

• Managed team of 24 network engineers supporting operations at 15 Motorola sites in Texas and California 50,000 nodes and 11 Internet points• Delivered $9M in annual revenue. Tightly controlled costs to achieve aggressive direct cost margin goals

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Led development and execution of many large-scale installations and upgrades to Motorola semiconductor• Evaluated new products from vendors which kept the team on cutting edge of network technologies• Managed $4.5M operating budget; reduced annual global remote access costs by $1.2M

Mba, Finance And Operations

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science