• Launched a technology podcast aimed at demystifying industry jargon and providingactionable insights from leading experts in innovative technologies.• Curate engaging content that explores cutting-edge advancements, empowering listeners tostay informed and ahead in a rapidly evolving landscape.• Foster a community of technology enthusiasts and professionals through engaging discussionsand thought leadership.

• Spearhead technical due diligence processes for diverse investment portfolios, emphasizingdata center and advanced cooling technologies.• Drive strategic investments in innovative and sustainable technology solutions that align withindustry advancements, ensuring robust growth and competitive positioning.• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate cutting-edge technology solutions,enhancing operational efficiency and value creation.

• Established a global technology advisory firm specializing in IT strategy, cloud services,sustainable infrastructure, and software development.• Deliver fractional leadership services (CIO/CTO) to organizations, facilitating rapid access toexpert guidance and strategic direction for critical projects.• Successfully advised clients on transformation initiatives, optimization of operations, and bestpractice security implementations, resulting in enhanced business performance andstakeholder value.

• Directed product development and strategic planning initiatives, enhancing the company’sinnovation and market competitiveness.• Collaborated closely with executive leadership to align product features with market needs,driving growth and stakeholder engagement.• Implemented rigorous internal audits and gap analyses to support fundraising efforts andensure sustainable development.

Led engineering to deliver a 20MW immersion-first datacenter campus, with edge-style deployments including all software development (bare-metal and cloud services), networking, security, and systems engineering for the Firmus Group of companies (Firmus Technologies, Sustainable Metal Cloud, etc.) • Strategic Leadership: Reported to the CEO and Board, securing $100M+ in funding by presenting market opportunities and driving IT, digital infrastructure, and global operations strategy. • Cutting-Edge Innovation: Directed hyperscale data center development with immersion cooling, achieving industry-leading PUE (~1.03), and architected a global DWDM Supercloud network increasing WAN capacity 500x. • Operational Excellence: Achieved ISO27001 certification in 3 months, led ISO9001/45001/14001 rollout, and collaborated with the Australian government to certify first-of-kind edge data centers, influencing national policy. • Business Impact: Expanded Bitcoin mining operations 6x to 18MW capacity, producing 3+ BTC daily at up to 96% GPM, and delivered ultra-fast response energy platforms designed to stabilize >200MW for the National Energy Market. • Strategic Partnerships: Negotiated an MOU with NVIDIA, establishing Firmus as APAC’s first Qualified Service Provider, and led the development of portable, multi-PFLOP Hypercube supercomputers.

Leader of global network deployments for Microsoft Azure, encapsulating all layers of the production network.Primarily my teams responsibilities include;* APAC capacity delivery, including new Geo, Regions, DCs, Gateway, Edge, Upgrades - enabling >200MW of capacity in FY20/21* process engineering owner of Pre-Dock deploymentRHYTHM OF BUSINESS (ROB): Established ROB and dashboard within the Pre-Dock space, inclusive of key partner teams (Supply Chain, Capacity Planning, Finance) to collaborate on operational performance, and cycle time reducing initiatives. Trailing and leading indicators are now reviewed and discussed in one forum, rather than independently, or not at all. Outcomes are reported to senior management raising awareness and visibility.REGION LEADING PERFORMANCE and IMPROVEMENTS: Best in region performance achieved with regards to cycle time and process improvement. The APAC team have consistently demonstrated ~20% faster cycle times, and leading global initiatives spanning multiple workstreams outside primary focus.FIRST-OF-KIND PARTNERSHIPS and REGIONS: Supporting the ongoing strategic partnership with Reliance Jio in India, and new regions in New Zealand and Taiwan + others not yet public. Each new region involves unique challenges including trade, legal and logistical complications that need to be addressed quickly to meet customer commitments.METRICS REFINEMENT: Design and implementation of multiple initiatives to more accurately measure cycle time. Specifically, determination of mainstream projects vs non-mainstream, and pause/cancel projects when specific criteria is met.QUALITY IMPROVEMENT: Introducing new toll-gate mechanisms to ensure projects flow through each phase with increased quality, improving first pass yield and reduction of rework.REGION LEADING DECOMMISSIONING: My team has quickly ingested this new scope and established a benchmark of SLA beating performance, obtaining recognition of the Decommission team leader.

Developed a strategic framework for Microsoft software teams to modernize their DevOps practices for service deployment, standardizing methodology, accelerating deployment time and reducing time to market for new clouds. Decommissioned $7M of bare metal assets within 4 months of joining Microsoft.Architected, built and operating multiple Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIF’s) and corresponding datacenter infrastructure for government agencies at a Secret and Top Secret clearance level.

Built/developed team of Solution Architects to create cloud/non-cloud platforms and artifact-based infrastructure designs for customers and partners. Initiate and drive technical enablement of AWS strategic partners, develop patents, produce partner and community content, and present at customer/partner engagements to promote greater use of the AWS eco-system.TEAM GROWTH: Collaborated with recruiting team, validated pipeline quality, and improved process to quantify/sort candidates. Harvested candidates at industry events, personally networked with former colleagues, and grew team from 1 to 5 Solution Architects in less than 7 months.QUESTION & ANSWER TOOL (Q&A): As Tool Owner, led efforts and collaborated with other SA teams to develop simple, highly scalable, and anonymous Q&A application built entirely on AWS systems for internal employees and partners. Received Director and VP-level official recognition for leadership aspects and introduction of tool Upvote.click! (https://upvote.click/).400-LEVEL PRESENTATIONS, 2017 AWS re:Invent Convention: Owned 6 most technical partner/customer presentations at 2017 AWS re:Invent Las Vegas convention (40K attendees, 450+ presentation attendees). Delivered CSAT 4.3/5 score against average 3.9/5.EXECUTIVE SPONSORED “AWS Big Bet”: Partner with strategic initiative team to lead technical enablement of "AWS Big Bet,” a high visibility program with input from CEO Andy Jassy to accelerate the cloud practice. (https://bit.ly/2GlhR2w)EMPLOYEE PROMOTIONS SUCCESS RATE: Developed/led employee promotion document preview service across the Solution Architecture organization.

Managed 15 Seattle-based direct and 30 globally-based matrixed team members and managers (Network / Software / Systems Engineers) to scale Amazon’s existing data centers, build new availability zones, and design new regions in new countries. Controlled $xxxM budget. Led Seattle team to own and deliver networking capacity to the Americas region – 70% of global deploymentsTEAM GROWTH: Took over 4-person team and grow team to 15 within 12 months.NEW NETWORK DESIGN: Proposed and implemented new network design to double bandwidth and alleviate network congestion. Delivered solution in 2 months at 70% cost of 6-month alternative solutions. Extended life expectancy of datacenter and saved 4.5 years’ worth of cabling in first year.PRIME DAY / Q4 HOLIDAY COLLABORATION: Partnered with principal network engineers to define specific conditions for risk mitigation and worked with operations and service owners to target monitoring and development of new, cleaner control for traffic mitigation. This solution saves over $100M in excess capital spend.DEPLOYMENT TRANSFORMATION: Automated processes to dramatically transform deployment processes.3RD GENERATION COMMODITY NETWORKING PLATFORM: Defined global strategy and roadmap and deployed next generation 25G commodity networking platform to support Global Fortune 100 customers. For same cost, improved infrastructure density by 2X, and bandwidth by 4.5X (5.7T to 25.6T).CAPACITY AUTOMATION: Implemented automation and drove capacity deployment from several weeks to days and engineering cycle time from days to minutes - achieving throughput increase of 400%.PERFORMANCE TURNAROUND: Led Seattle team responsible for 70% of project work. Recruited top engineers, raised morale, and led Seattle team to outperform Sydney and Dublin teams within 12 months.SIX SIGMA / KAIZEN: In partnership with Six Sigma teams, reduced total cycle time of order-hardware-to-capacity-live from 45 days to 30 days - 33% reduction.

Created deployment team for APAC region with responsibility for existing availability zones (Australia, Singapore, China, Japan). Defined datacenter exit strategy and process. Reported weekly to senior leadership.NETWORKING FUNCTION CREATION: Launched Sydney-based networking function to oversee deployment in APAC. Established 24/5 model. Led recruiting and hiring efforts, doubling team in 9 months.SENIOR LEADERSHIP REPORTING: Built automated forecasting tool and owned/delivered global scaling forecast, a rolling 18-month plan for scaling bandwidth in over 100 datacenters. Generated reports on network utilization areas of concern and presented weekly to Seattle-based senior leadership.CHINA, SOUTH KOREA & INDIA MISSION CRITICAL REGIONS: Took charge of corporate-strategic, highly ambiguous, never-been-done-before or one-off projects for China, South Korea, and India. Overcame remote and linguistic challenges to deliver regions. WHITE PAPER: Authored white paper to implement new network design, extending datacenters useful life by 3 years, achieving a $2.76M CAPEX cost saving and 9-month engineering time saving on the next best alternative.LEADING / TRAILING INDICATORS & METRICS, NETWORK HEALTH: Developed leading and trailing indicators for network health, allowing deep visibility for granular placement of bandwidth-heavy server racks (eliminating hot spotting).STRANDED CAPACITY UTILIZATION: Developed and delivered $100M+ CAPEX cost saving project "Harvest" to leverage previously deployed ‘stranded’ capital. Partnered with software team to integrate into project initiation and local resources to implement physically. Improved utilization from 58% to >87%.WEB-BASED BILL-OF-MATERIALS TOOL: Replaced Excel spreadsheet template used for $xxxM worth of capital expenditure. Eliminated errors and reduced engineering hours by 240 hours weekly.

• Provided strategic technical guidance on IT infrastructure and client services to ensure robustprocurement processes and vendor engagements.• Chaired the Change Advisory Board, overseeing the impact and schedule of technologyimplementations, ensuring adherence to best practices.

• Oversaw the transition of HQ to a bespoke office environment, upgrading IT infrastructurewhile minimizing service downtime.• Managed a cross-functional IT team, ensuring seamless operations and implementation oflong-term strategic IT initiatives.

• Led infrastructure management across production and development environments, drivingefficiency and process improvement initiatives.• Collaborated with business units to implement technology solutions that supported overallbusiness growth and innovation.

• Developed and executed IT strategies that aligned with business objectives, ensuring highavailability and reliability of critical services.• Managed a diverse team, fostering a culture of accountability and performance excellencewhile supporting over 1,000 users.

• Provided expert infrastructure consulting services, driving process improvements andoptimizing IT operations for various clients.

• Collaborated on technology projects (Telstra) that transformed client operations and improved service delivery across sectors.

• Engaged in technical projects that enhanced client IT capabilities, providing tailored solutionsthat drove efficiency.

• Managed network operations across the region, ensuring high performance and reliability ofcommunication systems.

• Supported IT operations, maintaining systems integrity and performance, and contributing to ahigh-functioning technology environment.