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Novato, California, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

Austin, Texas, US

Atlanta, Georgia, US

I was hired to build out an SRE team and lead a team of developers to create a monitoring solution for our Payment Services team that services over 2000 stores and processes close to $100 billion in transactions.

Austin, TX, US

I was hired at Q2 to build a Cloud operations team and lead the Security operations team. I also quickly recognized that the cost accounting method did not adequately capture costs, so I created a plan that would capture this data in great detail as the company moved from the datacenter to the cloud. I also worked closely with the Devops team in.

Austin, Texas, US

· Increased operational efficiency by over 50% in AWS while reducing costs by over 55% by transforming the deployment method from a single tenant to multi-tenant model· Standardized infrastructure and tools for project deployments which reduced complexity of supported environments and eliminated one-off configurations.· Initiated the security and.

Round Rock, Texas, US

· Managed projects using more than twenty contractors to refresh EOL infrastructure Storage systems using Dell Technology products which reduced operating expenses by over $7 million annually.· Replaced legacy backup infrastructure that reduced costs by over $1 million annually while also reducing the complexity of the environment leading to less toil.·.

Austin, TX, US

• Architected the IT infrastructure to meet the growing needs of the technology company using tiered storage, server virtualization, network infrastructure, security, and remote access.
• Managed all aspects of IT department from network design, security, Windows and Linux administration, vendor management, logistical support, facility management, as well as strategic initiatives for IT requirements.
• Designed a virtualized environment to replace an aging physical server infrastructure. This solution provided redundancy and fault tolerance while reducing administrative and infrastructure overhead.
• Led several corporate wide projects to expand our facilities, upgrade infrastructure, and end user productivity upgrades with minimal interference to other departments, including remote development environments in both.
• Collaborated with software and silicon development teams to define their technical requirements for network, security, application, and engineering resources to improve productivity to meet deadlines.

Austin, TX, US

Consulting practice focusing on start up companies requiring help planning and building their IT infrastructure.

• Planned, tracked, and executed a month-long enterprise-wide upgrade from Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 environment to Windows 2003/Exchange 2003. This project included budget, staffing and training processes to make.
• Transformed a dysfunctional and poorly documented IT group into an efficient IT team that delivered five 9s of reliability to simulation farms and network infrastructure. Reduced costs by eliminating costly vendor.

US

• Planned and managed the relocation into new facility. This included defining requirements and planning the IT, network, and security infrastructure, as well as the relocation of IT, security, and network resources.
• Managed the rapid IT growth of a startup company from incubation to acquisition by IBM. The limited budget of company required identifying creative and cost effective ways to provide IT solutions with modest.

• Worked on the “Verified by Visa” team to deploy web-based credit card verification applications in multiple datacenters for complete redundancy and failover. Worked load balancing systems for web applications in large.
• Worked on the “Visa Rewards” program to deploy infrastructure required for Visa and card issuers to develop automatic reward systems. Developed middleware applications and scripts to provide seamless back-end.

US

Exterprise was acquired by Commerce One. Moved to professional services role due to duplication of duties.

• Delivered five 9’s of reliability for customer e-commerce websites in hosting and datacenter environments of Inflow, Exodus, and DellHost. This process also included the migration of all disparate datacenters into a.
• Reduced deployment time of Commerce One/Exterprise software solutions from five days to fewer than four hours by designing and implementing streamlined and automated deployment processes.
• Coordinated the implementation of multiple customer projects simultaneously by utilizing limited human and equipment resources from deployment through customer support.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor’S Degree, Management

Computer Science