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Salt Lake City, UT, US

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

South Jordan, Utah, US

• Optimize Key Metrics: Strategically guide the team to prioritize and improve key metrics, aligning technical efforts with overarching business objectives, such as reducing deployment lead time, increasing deployment.
• Enhance Agile Practices: Design innovative processes to streamline development efforts, incorporating Docker-based CI/CD and a more efficient deployment pipeline
• Champion Employee Growth: Formulate and execute employee development plans aligned with individual career aspirations and goals
• Manage Costs: Find and implement ways to keep cloud and service provider costs in check without compromising performance
• Ensure Regulatory Compliance: Architect and roll out infrastructure, alongside development, build, and release processes, to comply with PCI and privacy regulations
• Uphold Data Protection: Serve as the company's Data Protection Officer, safeguarding sensitive information and driving toward compliance

• Steered DevOps Strategy: Offered strategic guidance and spearheaded the implementation of industry-leading DevOps practices to enhance operational efficiency
• Architected Custom Solutions: Crafted tailored architectural designs to address unique business challenges and drive optimal outcomes
• Empowered Development Teams: Collaborated with developers, providing insights on architecture design to bolster service reliability and fortify data security

• Led DevOps Initiatives: Spearheaded DevOps collaborations, setting strategic priorities to drive operational excellence and efficiency
• Architected Microservice Solutions: Conceptualized, designed, and sustained a robust microservice-based architecture, enhancing scalability and system resilience
• Achieved Timely Launch: Successfully orchestrated the infrastructure design, preparation, and rigorous testing for the high-stakes Christmas morning launch of tvii on WiiU, ensuring a seamless user experience during.

• Conducted Technical Evaluations: Undertook comprehensive technical assessments for potential acquisitions and partnerships, spanning both US and Brazil markets, ensuring informed and strategic decision-making
• Guided Architectural Decisions: Provided pivotal guidance to the development group, influencing key decisions to ensure the creation of robust and scalable architectural designs

Provo, UT, US

• Orchestrated Rapid Migration: Spearheaded an emergency transition of infrastructure from co-located servers to AWS in response to explosive growth, accommodating a surge from zero to one million users within the first.
• Revamped Architecture: Strategically redesigned the system architecture to support and sustain the company's continued high growth trajectory
• Engineered Configuration Management: Conceived and implemented a robust configuration management system, adeptly handling thousands of cloud-based servers, ensuring streamlined operations and scalability