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San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, California, US

• I am the Platform Leader for the technology team responsible for supporting the Digital Technology & Innovation portfolio which includes the bank's front end Online, Mobile, and Open Banking API appplications and.
• Leading the global platform team (150+ engineers) responsible for all build & release functions of the Digital Technology & Innovation portfolio.
• Applying DevOps, ModelOps, & LLMOps practices to enable our development and data science partners to quickly deliver for our businesses.
• Operating the bank's preditve and generative AI platform ("Tachyon"), including deploying new models, infrastructure, and supporting all training, scoring, and inferencing use cases across on-prem and public cloud.
• Integrating new technology portfolios into the larger Digital Technology & Innovation portfolio and transitioning their applications to our target operating model.
• Partnering with development teams and the business to establish a technology roadmap, building out required environments, establishing monitoring & metrics, and enabling the rapid delivery of changes into Production to.

San Francisco, California, US

• I manage the DevOps teams & scrum squads responsible for the development, engineering, & operations of the digital platforms that underpin Wells Fargo's Online, Mobile, & Open Banking API channels. As the VP &.
• Managing over $5M in direct report headcount across multiple geographically dispersed teams and agile scrum squads.
• Establishing new matrixed teams and scrum squads to address major technical and regulatory projects impacting the channels and the bank.
• Building out digital capabilities such as the Kafka based Enterprise Data River platform that provides real time data on fraud & business events.
• Defining the long term vision & strategy for the digital platforms of the bank's most frequently accessed channels.
• Accountable for the development & deployment of the Puppet infrastructure code used for the Banking as a Service (API) channel.

San Francisco, California, US

• I manage the Platform Engineering team responsible for supporting the bank's digital retail channels. My geographically dispersed team is composed of a diverse group of high performing senior engineers that are.
• Building out my team and securing business funding for critical efforts such as modernizing our web & messaging tiers and modernizing our application performance management (APM) tools & capabilities.
• Ensuring publicly accessible digital applications comply with information security policies & regulatory requirements.
• Making my team a diverse & inclusive environment where top tier talent can thrive, and proactively cross-training team members to ensure no gaps of knowledge or coverage occur.
• Engineering the infrastructure to ensure availability & performance for the bank's most frequently accessed channels (online & mobile) serving tens of millions of customers daily.
• Establishing team goals that meet business needs, developing strategies to achieve them, and aligning incentives & creating performance metrics to ensure success.

San Francisco, California, US

• The Infrastructure Architecture & Engineering team was restructured in 2011, and I was converted from leading the engineering side of the team to taking on a leadership role within the architecture side of the team. As.
• Acting as a technical lead and representing the line of business to the enterprise on several major technology programs including our IPv6 transition, DDOS mitigation effort, & cloud computing.
• Developing reference architectural patterns and governance strategies for the digital channel's infrastructure architecture team.
• Designing and implementing an external environment & strategy to securely test our mobile platforms and mobilized versions of our Internet platforms.
• Creating a multi-channel infrastructure which simultaneously supports Internet, mobile, store & call center users across multiple applications.
• Successfully guiding multiple major Internet & mobile banking platforms (such as our targeted advertisement systems, online sales & marketing system, etc.) from development to production.

San Francisco, California, US

• I initially joined Wells Fargo as a contractor in the Pre-Production Support team which was part of the Internet Services Group (ISG) June of 2006, and I became an FTE in March of 2007. After the successful migration.
• Creating the business group's UNIX/Linux virtualization strategy
• Engineering solutions for complex systems such as running Oracle RAC within a single system by leveraging Logical Domains (Oracle VM for SPARC).
• Presenting standards, technology roadmaps, & technical strategies to senior management as well as architecture, engineering and support teams.
• Representing line of business to the rest of the enterprise on several technical communities and committees, and ensuring the LOB followed the Enterprise Architecture governance while meeting audit requirements.
• Installing and deploying instances of enterprise applications & appliances such as Java, F5, Introscope, WebLogic, WebSphere MQ, NDM (Connect:Direct), Autosys, etc.

Berkeley, CA, US

• As a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) for EWMBA 293 Mid-Program Academic Retreat (MPAR), I helped coach four teams of Haas Berkeley Evening & Weekend MBA students who were working on an innovation consulting project.
• Assisting the MBA students with applying innovation consulting tools like post-it note brainstorming, affinity diagrams, ethnographic interviews, etc.
• Coordinating a conference with the client and the student teams ahead of the retreat.
• Helping the teams develop pitches for the client.
• Ensuring the students remained actively engaged throughout the course.

Berkeley, CA, US

• Haas@Work is an applied innovation program in which Haas MBA students work as consultants for partner corporations to address significant business challenges, uncover new opportunities, and refine innovation and growth.
• Acting as the Client Liaison for the project team team and managing the relationship at all levels with the client.
• Working directly with senior management in sales operations of the client company to define scope and clarify objectives.
• Using design thinking to properly frame the problem, and applying techniques such as diverging and converging around ideas to develop innovative solutions.
• Developing ideas through ethnographic observations as well as qualitative & quantitative analyses and identifying insights by examining the information from multiple view points.
• Leading weekly status meetings with the project team and the technical resources from the client.

• I was asked to join the WIISARD (Wireless Internet Information System for Medical Response in Disasters) project as a programmer after successfully designing and implementing a "WiFi Public Address System for Disaster.
• Developing & maintaining code for a custom dual processor (PIC & Ubicom) embedded system.
• Debugging and testing the device both in the lab and on the field.
• Assisting the middleware developers by creating new protocols to allow communication with the backend database.
• Demonstrating systems for guests & customers of Cal-IT2 and deploying the devices in field tests.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering

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