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San Francisco Bay Area

Wholly responsible for: Design, construction, management of AWS based, resilient, multi-AZ, auto-scaled, load balanced secure networks and Windows infrastructure. Development of AWS PowerShell based AWS rolling release system. Multiple migrations of on-premises Exchange to Office 365 including deployment of AzureAD Connect Hybrid mode. Multiple secure RDS implementations. Duo implementation with low user impact rollout strategy. ManageEngine ADSelfService Pro implementation and management. Design, implementation, management of Intune MDM to meet device management requirements for NIST compliance and workstation security.

Santa Clara, Ca

Hitachi Application ProtectorHitachi Replication ManagerHitachi Tuning ManagerSME for Replication and Backup • Decision maker – Managed and prioritized requirements and external design for all versions since 2008• Managed Indian outsourcing - Financial agreements, schedules, internal and external coordination• Primary Technical Contact - Education, pre-sales support, customer facing presentations and final stop for escalated customer problem resolution for World Wide customer base.• Championed Business Development Partnership – Integrated HDS backup with Kroll Power Controls• Doubled Replication Manager revenues in first year

Oakland, Ca

Founder and CEO of Shire Partners Inc. Privately held Pet Toy manufacturerSold Company in 2011Manufacturers of Paw Pets (tm)Don't Watch Your Pet Play! Play With Your Pet!

Oakland, Ca

Services provided include Web redesign, Project Management, Data Migration, IT Design and Implementation

Emeryville, Ca

Restored confidence of installed customer base by stabilizing product through improvements in development process reliability, expanded regression test suites and enhanced release management. • Supported crucial sales timelines - Partnered with sales ensuring accurate feature prioritization and release • Gained significant competitive advantage - Increased usability through redesigned web interface• Met key marketing needs -Targeted staff enhancement to support wider range of protocols

Palo Alto, Ca

Human Genome Target Discovery Acero was spun off from Incyte Genomics in 2001, I was asked to join to be responsible for all Software Development• Delivered the Genomic Knowledge Platform (GKP) – Pluggable platform for Genomic discovery• Managed GKP Server development - Server development; Build and Release teams; DB Performance; GKP Toolkit; SQA; DBA; Application Development; International outsourcing• Delivered release 1.0 of Foundation (Genomic discovery application on GKP framework)

Palo Alto, Ca

Human Genome Sequencing Director Web OperationsResponsible for all Web Development; budget; staff; inter-departmental relationships. Represented Incyte at domestic and international symposiums. • Created Internet Operations department -In sourced web development, reduced OPEX by 95%• Integrated acquired company’s website – Technical solution saved $500k plus • Created and chaired Internet Steering Committee – Tightened coordination with marketing and sales.Director Software Development Cluster management software for batch computing (pre-dates Hadoop, but similar)• Created novel functional design - Massively parallel Linux cluster management system, “Smart Farm” • Partnered with IBM Deep Computing - Presented “SmartFarm” at Linux World, New York to showcase IBM high availability, hardened, Linux Servers. • Designed and constructed shared document repository – Pre-dates but similar to MS SharePoint

Created strategic design and implemented long-term architectural plan to unify all customer-reporting systems while increasing capacity to 10,000,000 clients. • Met all regulatory deadlines - Decreased complexity, 4 fold increase in capacity, rapid problem resolution• Led pioneering effort to produce client statements on CD for Schwab Institutional Investment Managers

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