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California, United States

San Jose, California, Us

Lead an international team supporting Xperi's global infrastructure in the Americas, EMEA and AsiaPacific. Responsibilities of my organization include Network Engineering and Operations, SDWAN / LAN, Corporate Site Infrastructure Operations, WiFi Platforms, VPN Solutions, Data Center Management, Network Security Platforms, Hosted Infrastructure (Servers, Storage), Virtualization Platforms, Cloud Platforms (AWS & GCP), Automation / Infra as Code, Backup & Recovery, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Infrastructure Monitoring Tools.

San Jose, California, Us

Lead an international team supporting Xperi / TiVo products' global operations, including Network Engineering and Operations, Network Operations Center (NOC), Monitoring and Alert Response, Deployment, Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management, and Capacity Planning.Analytics and Data-Driven strategic approach to Continuous Improvement efforts in people, process, technology and integrations. Governance of Release to Production processes and protocols, Operationalization of New Products and Services, and 3rd Party Operations improvements.

San Jose, California, Us

Responsible for Global Operations of TiVo's cloud infrastructure and services. Teams include Architecture, Technical Operations, Site Reliability (SRE), Network Operations Center (NOC), DevOps and Service Management (SMO). Heavy focus on resiliency and data-driven approaches to continuous improvement efforts. Major investments in people, process and technology to boost SLA performance, system responsiveness, scalability, rapid incident resolution and prevention of impacting events. Lead a global, follow-the-sun support organization, with teams in Asia-Pac, Americas and EMEA. Teams supported Cloud, Hybrid-Cloud and On-Prem data centers for the delivery of Linear video services, Video On Demand (VOD), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Program Guide Data (PGD), and Search & Recommendations for millions of subscribers.Key executive leader in the execution, operationalization and launch of IPTV and Stream4k services. Introduced key performance indicators, service level objectives, observability, telemetry, automation and data analytics for world-class deployment, management and continuous improvement of services.

Fremont, California, Us

Lead a global Infrastructure service delivery team, consisting of an 8-figure portfolio and over 600 full time employees in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Services include Data Center Operations & Logistics, Network & Security Operations, Audio/Video Systems Management, and Events Operations. Direct responsibility for business development, portfolio Profit & Loss (P&L), customer relationships, and contract negotiations.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Lead a global infrastructure and operations team supporting IT data centers, Public Cloud infrastructure and 40 world-wide sites in the Americas, Europe and AsiaPacific. Strategically aligned with Product Development and Engineering teams for go-to market initiatives. Organizational scope includes Enterprise Data Centers, Product Infrastructure, Cloud/Hybrid Cloud, Engineering Tools & CI/CD, Infrastructure Operations, Wide Area Network, Local Area Network, Network Engineering, Hosting, Vendor Managed Services, Enterprise Transformation, Facilities & Real Estate, Program Delivery, Mergers & Acquisitions and Divestiture. Directly responsible for 24x7 operations, DevOps, technology strategy and management, budget management, enterprise engineering, and architecture. Maintained 99.99% availability while highly focused on process improvement, standardization and infrastructure best practices.- Successfully transformed data center infrastructure from on-premise to 95% Cloud Infrastructure- Reduced operating expenses by $30 million per year by migrating network infrastructure, data center and managed services from on-premise to Cloud- Manage an 8-figure operating budget, successfully reducing expenses quarter-over-quarter - Migrated global SaaS infrastructure from On-Premise to Microsoft Azure Public Cloud- Developed and support common toolsets for CI/CD, automation, and orchestration for On-Prem and Cloud development, strategically aligned to corporate product roadmap

Santa Clara, California, Us

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Sr. IT Manager for Amazon Lab126, the company that developed and designed the Amazon Kindle and Kindle Fire lines of consumer electronics. My team's responsibilities include network engineering (LAN/WAN), systems administration/engineering, enterprise application development, systems integration, hosted infrastructure (Corporate and Cloud), application support, facilities expansion and site build-out. I lead teams which design, implement, manage and maintain the infrastructure for Kindle engineering, operations and manufacturing teams in the U.S., Asia/Pacific and Europe. I plan and execute on multi-million dollar budgets, and place a strong emphasis on process improvements through LEAN principles, operational metrics and key performance indicators (KPI). My team’s systems and infrastructure support a global user-base of over 15,000, while maintaining an aggregate up-time SLA over 99.995%.• Delivered multiple business system applications, collaboration tools and development infrastructure globally.• Managed annual infrastructure budget of over $15M.• Built over 600K square feet of employee space in US and Asia to support business growth and international expansion.• Formed a strong partnership with business leaders to initiate and support innovation in Operations and R&D.• Lead and implemented LEAN initiatives, focused on operational improvements, which saved the company millions of dollars annually.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

My responsibilities included everything from NOC, systems administration, systems engineering and architecture to facilities expansion and real-estate negotiations. I've managed the build-out of multiple locations in the U.S. and Asia/Pacific, which encompassed site procurement to infrastructure build-out and move-in. Additional responsibilities included designing and deploying business process infrastructure and collaboration with engineering to coordinate system development tasks.As IT Manager, I was responsible for managing day-to-day operations for networking, system monitoring, help desk/desk side and remote support. My direct reports included an infrastructure/NOC team and end-user support.Relevant skills:* IT Project Management* Annual Budgeting (Project and Enterprise-level)* Linux Administration and Scripting* Network Administration (Cisco IOS)* Virtualization (ESX, Cloud computing) * Database Administration* Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Preparation* System Engineering and Architecture* SAN Storage* A/V (SIP-based phone system, video conferencing)

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

I lead the group which managed enterprise implementations, custom system integrations and support operations for internal development teams and external partners. My responsibilities also included all IT systems, such as hosting, WAN/LAN, enterprise systems and applications development. I lead multiple teams who designed and developed business system solutions for Fortune 500 customers. I was the first point of contact for all system engagements and oversaw all aspects of the Project Management Life-cycle, from requirements gathering, through design and proof-of-concept, to production deployment and operational support. My teams supported data process flow (B2B), system design and architecture, system administration, RDBMS administration, application development and network administration.

Manager for all IT systems, which included hosting, WAN/LAN, business continuity/disaster recovery and help desk.

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