Pete K. Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston

Weston, Ma, Us

At Monster Worldwide, my core responsibility is to spearhead global operations, networking, data center, and cloud ops teams by utilizing professional skills. It is worth mentioning that I facilitate IT projects and the budgeting process by devising business case justifications and cost/benefit analysis. My duties comprise streamlining cloud and on-prem infrastructure contracts/services by managing the annual budget and creating recommendations. I am a quick and motivated learner who utilizes agile methodologies to manage operations proficiently. Attract and retain rich talent by coaching/mentoring senior staff. I am assigned with the task of supporting new cloud-native services by administering the development and execution of new AWS cloud infrastructure. Furthermore, I improve the overall infrastructure by constructing two new data centers and closing eight smaller ones.My achievements are as follows:• Sustained eight Datacenters globally down two sites to maintain disaster recovery requirements in compliance with project deadlines while serving as project manager and technical chief.• Assisted company in shifting to cloud-first and microservices-based architecture by establishing new cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure while supervising a team of engineers and solutions architects.• Acquired FedRAMP authorization status for Datacenter and cloud platform to assist numerous government agencies while coordinating with solutions group.• Achieved business goals by involving in planning and testing disaster recovery.• Adhered to company policies/procedures while lessening discrepancies and responding to incidents through coordination with the security team.

Weston, Ma, Us

As a part of this job role, I attained buy-in from executive and business leaders by examining technical and business requirements, accomplishing consensus, and predicting the benefits of virtualization. I was involved in accomplishing projects within a predetermined schedule by hiring and supervising a team of engineers. My notable duties were fostering new business lines by overseeing the buildout, design, and support of three new international Datacenters in the UK and China-based on new architecture.My accomplishments within this role are the following:• Reduced hosted infrastructure costs using virtualization technologies while promoting as a manager to direct server consolidation projects.• Assisted new projects and servers' progress as well as maintained flat staffing levels while reducing costs by more than 50% of Datacenter operating space, power, and cooling.• Utilized virtualization on VMWare and converged Infrastructure platform to consolidate 2000 servers.• Decreased maintenance and support costs by negotiating vendor management effectively.• Automated server deployments and streamlined processes to upgrade SLOs.

Weston, Ma, Us

• Led the formation of a new team to support Monster’s application performance monitoring initiatives including mentoring and hiring new team members. leading projects, working with development and business teams, and leading architecture discussions with vendors • Led the implementation of Monster’s APM platform using HP/Mercury BAC improving visibility into end user availability and performance. Used various tools such as synthetic monitoring, scripts, Dynatrace, and RUM to identify application bottlenecks and availability problems. Documented processes and escalation procedures for Operations teams• Deployed and supported security tools such as Splunk, WebDefend and RSA Envision to monitor malicious activity and meet SOX / PCI compliance reporting • Worked with vendors to evaluate and run proof of concepts for new hardware and software solutions for the Operations teams.

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