Supporting the growth of Riot Engineering & Design as we expand our portfolio of genre-defining experiences. Building teams around player facing features, services, and infrastructure-centric initiatives. Love games and tech? Let's chat!Email: mark.ray@riotgames.com Summoner Name: Feral Lifter Here's a few of the initiatives I'm currently supporting:Riot Discovery (R&D) - Our next games start here! Excited to support hiring for key leadership, engineering, and design roles that will shape the future of Riot's game portfolio. VALORANT - Bolstering the product, engineering, and design capabilities of Riot’s flagship first-person shooter. We’ll be expanding the game into new platforms and regions (你好中国!) as the PC product is taken to new heights.Player Platform - Building and delivering game agnostic services (Identity, Meta Game, Content Access, etc.) alongside the next generation Riot Client to millions of players around the world. Now on PC, Mobile, and Console!Infrastructure Platform - Laying the foundation for service delivery, deployment, and connectivity for Riot's next games - most recently responsible for the global launch of Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, VALORANT, Wild Rift, and Riot X Arcane!

StartupTAP (Talent Acquisition Partners) provides recruiting/talent acquisition support for fast-growing start-ups in Southern California. We help entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders recruit top talent for their companies.Responsibilities include full cycle recruitment (domestic and international), diversity and inclusion, talent acquisition, stakeholder relations, ATS mastery (Greenhouse, Lever, ZipRecruiter, Workable, etc.) and caffeine evangelism.

Supported the availability and operation of network devices in the world’s largest internal computer network - the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI/NGEN).Completed network maintenance to ensure software and hardware met government security regulations (FIPS, NIST, ISO, ITIL, etc).Troubleshot network outages and re-established connectivity for mission critical devices.Supported field technicians in solving end-user connectivity issues.Devices supported: Cisco routers (2500x, 2600x, 2800x,3600x, 3700x,7200x ,SUP2 MSFC, SUP 720), Cisco switches CAT/IOS(1900x, 2900x, 3500x, 3550x, 3560x, 4000x, 4500x, 6500x), Brocade FastIron series switches, Juniper VPN's, F5 Loadbalancers.

Troubleshot tape backup and network attached storage systems in enterprise environments.Navigated Linux command line to repair corruption, re-construct RAID’s, and restore system connectivity.Devices supported: snapsan, snapserver, NEO & REO series tape libraries.

Led teams of 100+ technicians to ensure successful moves of computer and networking equipment.Assisted technicians with computer and server installation for companies such as: Intuit, Electronic Arts, Activision, and Symantec.Ensured all devices were functional and network connectivity was present at the conclusion of each project.Provided post-move support/troubleshooting for clients via phone, e-mail, or in-person consultation.

Racked, cabled, and configured a Cisco lab environments consisting of routers, switches, and Riverbed WAN accelerators.Utilized Cisco Opsware to push command scripts and organize network devices across six continents.Dual-homed servers to ensure reliable and redundant 10Gig connectivity, eliminating the need for scheduled downtime when performing maintenance.Managed serial numbers, model types, and device locations for 3000+ devices in the LAN/WAN infrastructure.