Senior Infrastructure Analyst
CurrentI manage Ancestry.com’s seven-figure IT procurement budget for 5,000 employees, interns and contractors worldwide. My responsibilities include the following:1. IT Purchasing workflows: Using ServiceNow to define, simplify and automate IT purchases for onboarding, computer equipment bundles and enterprise software licensing.2. Enabling end users to purchase their own computer equipment and software licenses through Oracle B2B automation.3. Troubleshooting incomplete orders, resolving contract renewal issues (privacy and security concerns) and reconciling purchase orders and invoicesStrategic:- Finding more cost-effective ways to use and manage software licenses.- Negotiating favorable agreements with software and hardware vendors.- Standardizing toolkits to gain economies of scale.Efficient:- Surgically making IT infrastructure processes more efficient and cost effective.- Optimizing software licenses, saving the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.- Eliminated manual data entry redundancies and errors by designing automated data feeds between Oracle and ServiceNow.- Documented and optimized Ancestry.com’s AWS spend.Problem Solver:- Troubleshooting glitches in procurement workflows to ensure that end users have the hardware and software they need to do their jobs.- Clarifying statements of work for vendor agreements.- Adjusting and aligning, privacy, security and legal constraints.