Mark Essig Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Lead IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Platform/Portal Development, DevOps and Security & Compliance teams. Provide software engineering leadership for multiple public cloud product offerings based upon VMware cloud platform architecture. Develop platform automation and operational tooling in delivering cloud services across an IBM Cloud global enterprise market. Lead Security & Compliance teams in maintaining industry standard compliance certifications such as SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA, FedRamp, PCI and Financial Services.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Lead IBM Blue Box Software Engineering and DevOps teams in product development, architecture design and operational support of Box Panel Suite platform applications. Box Panel is a suite of web applications for cloud management, providing cluster configuration, data center & inventory tracking, IPAM, DNS management, CRM, support ticketing, live chat, finance integration, and numerous cloud workflows. It provides a central OAuth/OpenID-Connect hub, to enable role-based views for staff, customers, and APIs. Built in latest Rails, React, and Elixir technologies.Partner with IBM Blue Box Cloud Product & Offering Management, Private Cloud Platform Engineering, Cloud Delivery & Operations teams in the planning and deployment of Box Panel product features, platform/component upgrades and software defect fixes in an Agile CI/CD development environment. Participate in Box Panel product design and requirements specification, drive platform architecture direction and product delivery initiatives that support IBM Cloud products.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Lead Technical Operations teams responsible for specification, design, and deployment of systems and network solutions that support company products in a 24x7 operations environment. Manage Datacenter Operations, Network Engineering, Infrastructure Procurement and IT teams that provide and support platform infrastructure and onsite datacenter engineering to ensure high availability of all production systems for our customers.Drive provisioning automation, scaling, capacity management and procurement for infrastructure platforms supporting Blue Box's OpenStack-powered private cloud as a service (PCaaS). Partner with Engineering, Development and Product teams in developing, building, deploying and supporting OpenStack private cloud environments across multiple, global Blue Box Cloud data centers.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Senior Technical Director - Infrastructure & OperationsMedia Platform Technology Operations (MPTO) - Audience Multi Platform Technologies (AMPT)CNN Center - Atlanta, GeorgiaLead MPTO's Platform Operations team responsible for infrastructure architecture and operational support of Turner Broadcasting System's News, Finance, Sports and Entertainment web properties.Provide operational leadership and architecture strategy for Datacenter Operations, Network Engineering, Ads Services platform and 24 X 7 NOC engineering teams in support of CNN.com, CNNMoney.com, NCAA.com, NBA.com, Cartoon Network.com and other Turner Broadcasting System managed and hosted network digital properties.Collaborate with business and development teams in architecture design and direction in supporting key product initiatives. Provide leadership, vision and direction for operations teams providing Turner's digital business properties with highly-scalable, resilient, open-source based web platform architectures – leveraging hybrid private and public cloud platform environments. Drive automation, configuration management (Chef) and tool development efforts across operations teams – embracing a more agile approach to systems engineering and a DevOps culture of collaboration between Product, Development and Operations teams. Manage large capital and operational budgets; manage and aggressively negotiate vendor contracts for datacenter facilities, bandwidth, platform infrastructure, software license support and third party services. Lead architecture projects and strategy meetings with Operations, Development and Business/Product teams. Provide Operations support for large scale internet media events, such as CNN Elections, NCAA March Madness and NBA.com League Pass.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Lead the technical operations team of Systems Engineers and DBAs in the 24 X 7 operations sustainment and platform architecture engineering supporting a highly successful, Top-40 website and the #1 people search site on the Internet. Support agile software Development and QA teams in the development, testing and production release of new enterprise software products.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Streaming Media, Video and Television Technologies DivisionResearchChannel.org, UWTV.orgTechnology Project Manager - UW TechnologyDirector of operations and projects for a division of the University operating three 24 X 7 non-profit television stations, web properties and one radio station hosted from the campus of the University of Washington. ResearchChannel, UWTV(1 & 2) and KEXP.Org. Lead a team of 40 Systems Engineers, Web Developers, Broadcast & Media Production Professionals and Administration staff in a customer facing media-services operations environment. Responsible for the direction of all major projects involving linear broadcasting and digital media delivery infrastructure, web services platforms, capital projects and special events projects involving technology demonstrations and media technology industry trade shows.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Senior Manager of the Media Delivery Operations team for RealNetworks. Leadership of an operations team of Systems Administrators and Design Engineers in the design, deployment and sustainment of an industry-leading digital media content delivery network (RealBroadcastNetwork). Planned, budgeted and coordinated large, international infrastructure deployment and development projects implemented in a Linux/Unix/Java/Oracle systems environment. Worked with internal project and product development teams, as well as external business partners in delivering and deploying massively scalable, resilient media delivery solutions. Broadcast Operations engineering support for 24 X 7 global internet broadcasting of movies, music, news and sports programming - such as ABC News, CBS Big Brother, Major League Baseball, NFL and Starz Movies.

Masters Business Administration - Is, Information Systems, Technology Infrastructure Management; Second Major In Finance

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Hospitality Administration/Management