Kathie L. W. Email & Phone Number

Morgan Hill, Ca, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Machine Learning New Region and Local Zones International and in USA end 2 end deployment.Security status for Programs

Mountain View, California, Us

I was hired to specifically take over and operationalize critical tasks for an infrastructure shared service programs in need of vital turnaround strategy.I was responsible for coordinating teams and programs interdependencies, restoring teams and VP/Dir leadership trust, and facilitating stakeholder/business unit alignment for 20 multi-regional teams (500+ people) and 10 business units.Selected Contributions:✓ Facilitated the collaboration of 450 asset owners to complete cluster updates of 9,000 assets to support a Kubernetes pipeline upgrade in preparation with AWS.✓ Restored program velocity to place program on target for initial FY2023 deployment and massive FY24 adoption.✓ Established weekly program progress reporting to VP-level leadership.✓ Created and led beta business units and program proof-of-concepts.✓ Developed a dashboard that provided VP leadership visibility into the tracking of program risks, interdependencies, tasks, and milestones.✓ Automated development portal backend. Deployed new ModernSaaS AI-poweRed debuggability tools and observability, tooling, and resiliency improvements. Reduced infrastructure costs and improved reliability via app- centric runtime that increased average release velocity by 125%.✓ Completed Kubernetes upgrade in an unprecedented 60 days.✓ Earned 10 spotlight recognitions for customer experience excellence.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Reporting to Chief-of-Staff with a dotted line to the Director, I was hired to specifically set up a new, multi-regional organization (Infrastructure Shared Services) with 350 people and five separate business units.With my proven ability to float back and forth between strategic and tactical focuses, I supported efforts from annual planning all the way down to team execution on organization-wide priorities, while providing strategic leadership in driving new initiatives and process improvements to disjointed teams.Selected Contributions:✓ Established formal organizational structure with a 12-month forward-looking budget review process.✓ Provided program leadership and implemented scalable processes and tools.✓ Worked with VP, Sr Dir, and engineering managers in managing and providing visibility and communicating engineering infrastructure and services roadmaps, budgets, headcounts, risks, strategy alignment, AOP, and KPIs.✓ Led All Hands and executive-level reviews, building leadership trust through strategy alignment and reporting.

Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Us

Joined the company as the first program manager for the cloud automation DevOps/Networking team, working across multiple global teams on special programs and data center expansions and consolidations.Selected Contributions:✓ Led global SRE data center infrastructure transformation, driving efficiencies across front-end services, applications, software, and back-end hardware, compute, storage, network, security, and software.✓ Mergers and acquisition data centers standardization for scaling.✓ Working with Senior VP & Dir /management to create operational growth strategies.✓ Managed multiple global data center migrations, standardizing hardware and software implementation, implementation of DR strategy.✓ Implemented the global corporate network strategy for scaling solution for merger and acquisitions (M & A) activities.✓ Created and implemented a program management processes, including Confluence, Kanban dashboard, and Jira integration templates.✓ Developed a project onboarding process with the CIO team for faster prioritization of projects, and to resolve a highly critical SOC issue.✓ Directed a highly complex Cisco ACI fabric migration (24 locations) to enable infrastructure scalability across multiple teams, locations, over 10 maintenance windows, and with complex dependencies. Estimated at 2 years and completed in 8 months

Austin, Texas, Us

Reporting to the VP of Cloud Operations , I was hired to create a robust infrastructure from an existing disjointed business processes that would enable the cloud operation organization to drive supply chain transformation E2E, standardization, and best practice evolution within the business.By managing the value chain for Oracle’s cloud, I provided strategic management and operational oversight over day-to-day operations, processes, and costs.Selected Contributions:✓ Revitalized existing teams to support a $5B business unit.✓ Increased and supported cloud scalability and momentum to double annual revenue to $12B within two years.✓ Established a centralized global leadership role as liaison with finance, cloud architecture, development, manufacturing, deployment, capacity planning, project planning, and space andpower lines organizations.✓ Created and implemented a new E2E supply chain process, optimizing manufacturing operations into a robust infrastructure with standardized processes and cost reductions.✓ Implemented network cabling requirements process, ECO and MCO changes, hardware and software development, and cost changes.

Austin, Texas, Us

Reporting to the Sr Director of Operations, I provided organizational leadership and direction across two cross-functional manufacturing and external customer teams in developing, manufacturing, pricing, and creating program strategies for two of the company’s top five customers. (FireEye and Nimble Storage business lines.)Selected Contributions:✓ Implemented solutions within the manufacturing line that eliminated deficiencies and reduced overall manufacturing time and costs.✓ Restructured the quality team, reducing quality issues by 15% and driving an annual revenue increase of $140K.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Hired to this newly-created role to serve as expert liaison to all key stakeholders for supply chain analytics. Incorporated analytical leadership into the development of sustainable metrics data analysis and balanced scorecards to optimize decision-making throughout the supply chain. Managed a staff that included a Six Sigma contractor and Big Data Analyst on the 5-month project. Tapped by program sponsor to lead the Acquisitions Lean Initiative. Selected Contributions:✓ Created the Supply Chain Metrics Alliance, and led bi-weekly meetings with all Supply Chain Directors to approve metrics policies, recommendations, and goals; drives accountability, ensures consistency with business strategies and goals.✓ Expert liaison to all key stakeholders for Supply Chain Analytics. Used advanced data mining methods to perform metrics analysis, and move the organization toward leading indicators for effective process execution.✓Delivered high-quality solutions that provided predictability and efficiency in metrics implementation that led to a $ 895k reduction per acquisition.✓ Oversaw and facilitated program progress, presentations, communication, and issue resolution for the global release and integration of Oracle R11 to Oracle R12.✓ Risk mitigation specialist.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Reported directly to Director of Warranty Operations and selected by the VP of Operations to standardize warranty data collection and operational expenses by product. Recognized by the CEO with a retention bonus before the merger with Western Digital. Advanced to integrated positions of increased responsibility based on consistently exceeding expectations. Selected Contributions:✓ Drove cost improvements affecting $180M warranty reserves across all segments of $80M annual spend. ✓ Created uniformity for reporting operational processes across all segments, resulting in improved accuracy of warranty operational data reporting to multiple Directors, and Finance, resulting in 15% reduction in monthly processing time. Reducing the monthly read out to upper management by 1 hour due to efficiencies.✓ Implemented new Branded Credit Unit Cost forecast process. ✓ Key contributor in process creation of new warranty program that resulted in $25M annual savings.✓ Simplified BRIO process for data collection through formula changes and captured an additional month of pricing reductions resulting in an addition $4M savings.✓ Coached global sales force on new warranty implementation with external customers. ✓ Other positions, Senior Software Contract Negotiator, Senior Operations Warranty Program Manager

CFO for Real Estate and Property Management Company. Interfacing daily with private venture capital individuals. Resolving issues with private investors and maintaining daily operations of 100+ properties within the US. Selected Contributions:✓ Created and implements policies and procedures for 2 startup companies and providing financial strategy and budgeting.