Experienced technology professional delivering a range of services to diverse clients ranging from large enterprises to early stage startups.- Cloud architecture and implementation- Devops and SRE roles- Database engineering and administration- Systems engineering- Technical project management- Software development- Systems security review, design, and implementation

Transitioned to an individual contributor role with the development team responsible for the customer facing E-commerce platform generating over 1 billion a year in sales. Focus on building, integrating, managing, and scaling systems and software.

Lead the service desk, internal corporate technology infrastructure, and production eCommerce store operations teams through a period of hyper growth. Managed the eCommerce site operations engineering team through a period of rapid site traffic growth with significant scaling challenges. Managed the technology infrastructure build out of four new business offices and two ECommerce fulfillment warehouses. Contributed significant engineering output to network engineering, database administration, and system engineering projects while managing the teams. Developed software for internally facing production monitoring systems, private cloud automation, and several other widely used internal tools.

Responsible for corporate IT and production Internet operations. Managed team of system, network, and database engineers supporting a consumer social networking site and a SaaS platform in an agile environment on a weekly release cycle. Significantly reduced operating costs through vendor negotiations, vendor replacement, and elimination of outsourced services. Migrated companies production recruiting/CRM application from internally managed data center to cloud (AWS). Managed the operational transfer of several divested product lines to acquiring teams.

Brought in to lead the companies transition of it's production hosting operations from a managed service environment to an internally run data center. Lead the design, vendor selection, and build out of the new data center infrastructure. Successfully migrated the companies production systems to new infrastructure and assisted with additional operational automation. Assisted with the infrastructure design and testing of companies upcoming Hadoop/HBase based platform. Significant cost savings, increased reliability, and increased capacity were realized.

Responsible for corporate IT, production Internet operations, and customer support departments. Built out and managed production hosting infrastructure and eCommerce platform. Worked with engineering teams on architecture of production applications. Prototyped several product add on components in PHP/Perl/Mysql. Lead the companies business intelligence initiative. Managed retail software customer support team.

Responsible for a team of engineers supporting a SaaS (mobile email) operation with 10+ wireless carrier customers and hundreds of thousands of end users. Contributed to major account RFP responses, SLA negotiations, and customer driven security audits. Highlights include migrating all Java application servers from Solaris to Linux and managing the physical move of the live production data center twice. Responsible for extensive customer integration projects. Developed Perl based monitoring system used to generate customer SLA reports and PHP based customer operations portal.

Responsible for design, implementation, and management of multiple Internet hosting facilities. Core responsibilities include design and deployment of scalable/fault tolerant network infrastructure, traffic engineering, bandwidth procurement/management, deployment of network management tools, security infrastructure, systems engineering, and participating with development groups to define product architecture and specifications. Lead the technical integration and consolidation of production hosting data centers through 4 acquisitions.

Initially contracted by Microsoft to work on the MSN backend as a systems engineer, transitioned to an MSNBC employee and a focus on network engineering after working on the team that created and launched MSNBC.COM.Technical lead for design, implementation, and support of multiple Internet hosting data centers. Research, validation, and integration of new technologies into production environments. Senior design reviews and approvals for network infrastructure changes. Technical project ownership from design through implementation.