Brian Hicks Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

I'm the manager of the Core Infrastructure Team at OpenTable. We're responsible for the datacenters and cloud presence for the company's infrastructure. I am key to capacity planning, budgeting, and compliance in all efforts in those areas and several related services. I lead my team through transformational changes in technology, overall strategy, and new opportunities. I collaborate with OpenTable teammates to influence overall strategy, and work with Booking Holdings partners to support Opentable's growth. I have extensive knowledge regarding hypervisors, operating systems, networking, etc. I have a knack for thinking of how to grow infrastructure to scale with stability and resiliency at the forefront. We write a fair amount of custom code to help us with automation for management of the infrastructure, including provisioning tools, load balancing, and metrics collection, amongst several other things. Hypervisors add a layer of complexity, and we've done a ton of research to understand them and help us manage them more effectively.

Westlake Village, Ca

Leader of a team of senior level, highly skilled engineers (linux, storage, and monitoring).Supported all divisions, multiple complex suites of custom applications, with an extremely highthroughput (over 1 trillion queries per day), low latency environment.Supported the largest Greenplum database in the world and the largest Cloudera Hadoopcluster that runs on SSD’s. Implemented 2PB Netapp storage cluster.Created the company’s first OpenStack cluster and containerization (Docker) platformImplemented the company’s first continuous deployment system, to deploy Puppetmasterconfiguration changes

Santa Monica, Ca

Responsible for designing the network and server infrastructure required to serve 16000 queries per second on a worldwide, globally load balanced adserving network, capturing the resulting logging information and feeding that into our reporting infrastructure for analysis, display, and billing. Manage a team of engineers that range in expertise from junior to senior level. Work with them to ensure that they are on a career path that fulfills their needs while at the same time accomplishing the project goals of the company. Work with the project management teams to make sure the needs of the end users are met, as well as with the software architect on the future global infrastructure needs of the system. Collaborate with the Chief Technology Officer and other executives to determine the infrastructure development initiatives for the company. Lead developer for my team and have designed all of the workflows and processes related to software deployment and configuration management.

Columbus, Oh

Analyzed the monitoring and workflow processes for inter-team/inter-process communication and automation. I maintained the CVS source code repository and wrote several extensions that enforced rules based around SOX requirements. I also automated many processes related to deployment of software using Visual Basic .NET.

Maintained the Department of Chemistry's grid computing clusters as well as designed the infrastructure for, built, and maintained the department's network, email, and file and print services.

Maintained the network infrastructure for a high profile ground control station. I also designed many of the network monitoring solutions and software configuration management strategies.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bs, Computer Programming Technology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Programming/Programmer, General