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San Francisco, Ca, Us

High-end, in-home dinner parties, but not like your grandma would do! We specialize in amazing eating experiences hosted at your home. Damn good food, booze, and friends, without the hassle of cooking and cleaning. ​Food should blow your mind. The taste should linger not only in your mouth, but in your thoughts. And we believe that regardless of your dietary style, you should be able to eat food that does this!​We believe that vegetable based food (vegetarian/vegan) doesn't have to be on the side next to a slab of meat, or be an after thought in the menu planning process. For us, vegetables are the highlight and are f***ing amazing.Why can't meat AND vegetable-based dishes both be equally amazing, satisfying, & epic? We promise you they can.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Currently working through transition tasks with Hornblower and offering guidance during a time in which the hospitality, cruising and transportation sectors are looking to survive the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Head of IT, overseeing a $10mil budget, reporting directly to the CFO in which the primary objective was to mature the organization’s antiquated and disparate technology stack, that supported the business with current demands and future growth while working in conjunction with Software Engineering to deliver a technology first culture that is highly responsive and dynamic.Directly lead a crew of 35+ IT Gurus (internal brand created for IT) and contractors across the globe through 8 unique business units consisting of System/Network Engineers, IT Ops Technicians, Business Systems Analysts, Service Desk Technicians providing paths for internal growth in parallel with business needs. From contact center software to ticket booth POS systems to intricate vessel wireless systems, our approach to technology solutions consisted of these requirements: creativity, practicality, longevity, security & fiscal responsibility.

Austin, Texas, Us

Ownership of all CorpIT Sytems Architecture that supported a global user-base and CorpIT team (Helpdesk and IT Systems Admins). As responsibilities and team size increased, increased focus was directed towards standardizing IT infrastructure in all office locations, implementing consistent deployment processes and govern cloud application and hardware provisioning & spend. Managed and roled out enterprise-wide applications including OneLogin, Office365, Box, WebEx, Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye, Bitbucket), Slack, AWS, JAMF.Drafted and revised, after ELT review, Lithium’s software purchase process. The goal of purchasing was to spend money in a responsible and controlled manner that is in the best interest in the company. This required a process that involved multiple departments to properly vet validity of the software request, security vulnerabilities, meet certain compliance standards and vendor engagement on usage, seats and licenses.Created Lithium’s GDPR compliant policies for data retention, partnering with BizSys, HR, Legal and Marketing teams to develop a personal data inventory across all systems. With the help of Legal, we determined what personal data could be anonymized and draft exceptions that tied personal data to regular business operations.

Austin, Texas, Us

Managed multiple office moves and build-outs across multiple locations including San Francisco (HQ), Austin, Portland and India. Each had their own complexities and challenges such as logistical procurement, SEZ requirements, server room design, local ISP installation and budget control. Created a standardized project plan using Confluence, JIRA and Box for project stakeholders and participants to track progress, assign tasks and reference information. All office move and buildouts were successful in coming under budget.

Austin, Texas, Us

Archtiected and executed Lithium’s first Disaster Recovery system and plan within 2 months of hire date. Leveraged the Austin office location as our redundancy plan for network/server/storage infrastructure. Created a DR runbook that included a detailed plan of scenarios, how to open communication & notification lines and to whom, and detailed system failover procedures.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Core responsibilities as a Systems Engineer include supporting & managing server and storage infrastructure on a multi-branded retail e-commerce site (ProFlowers/Personal Creations/Shari’s Berries & more) from the datacenter operations layer to the OS layer. Ownership of all infrastructure in Production, Corporate, Dev, Performance Lab and satellite warehouse environments.Successfully integrated multiple acquisitions with Provide-Commerce’s infrastructure. Often times designing and implementing mature infrastructure in “mom & pop” type IT departments.Evaluated, architected and reconfigured the company’s server hardware platforms with HP and Cisco UCS blade systems to engineer a scalable and highly available solution for all environments.Designed and project managed the company’s new production data center at IO in Phoenix from the rack design to wiring to the blade layout to equipment procurement and timeline creation. Owned the process, from beginning to end, of moving our production data center from AIS in San Diego to IO in Phoenix, leveraging our newly architected DR site to minimize downtime.Researched, recommended and implemented production performance enhancements at the ESX level to maximize compute resources. Ran a grueling testing process in PL that improved site performance by up to 30%, saving money on scaling costs needed for peak loads.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

After ProvideCommerce acquired RedEnvelope, I moved into their Support Engineering group, doing many of the same tasks, but on a larger enterprise scale. Duties included, Desktop Support, data center operations, & remote warehouse IT support. I implemented a new ticketing system, that is still being used today and is being used amongst other departments other than IT.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Managed all IT related functions for a 200+ seat 24/7 call center that supported RedEnvelope phone orders and customer service: desktop support, PBX and phone systems, facilities, servers and call-center intranet. Slowly moved into more complex environments such as corporate and production and assist with site operations and corporate desktop support.