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San Francisco, California, US

Leading the internal Platform and Security teams.

• Entrepreneurial Acumen: Established and scaled a consultancy specializing in IT and DevOps solutions, balancing client projects with in-depth roles at TuneIn and Roku.

San Jose, California, US

• Organizational Growth: Drove the expansion of the Cloud platform and FinOps teams, tripling team size to accommodate global operations and technology integration.
• Strategic Leadership: Administered cloud governance strategies that yielded significant cost reductions and optimized AWS and GCP utilization.
• Innovation in AI: Enhanced AI-driven code generation and operational tools, elevating developer productivity and optimizing software lifecycle management.
• Platform Modernization: Upgraded infrastructure to a cloud-agnostic setup, scaling to support substantial workload increases and facilitating robust cloud contract negotiations.
• Strategic Decisions: Championed cost-effective build-or-buy decisions, enhancing resource allocation and accelerating project timelines.
• Agile Transformation: Advanced Agile integration across teams, boosting project delivery speeds and alignment with business goals.

San Francisco, California, US

• Financial Stewardship: Implemented a refined budgeting process, significantly enhancing financial management and transparency.
• Systems Optimization: Overhauled key systems to improve data accessibility and cost efficiency, leading to a marked reduction in operational expenses.
• Infrastructure Upgrade: Completed a strategic migration from datacenter to AWS, renegotiating contracts, offloading leased hardware, and reducing operational costs significantly.
• Team Restructuring: Reorganized TechOps and DevOps into a unified team, improving morale and operational reliability while retaining high-performing staff.
• Agile Implementation: Standardized agile practices across engineering operations, and in concert with all of engineering, facilitating better collaboration and predictable project delivery.
• Cost Reduction: Achieved a 25% reduction in AWS expenses over two years by optimizing cloud usage and implementing cost-effective technological solutions, including Spot.io Eco and Ocean products. Additionally.

San Francisco, California, US

• Founding Team Contribution: Co-founded and guided technology strategy, contributing to the company's initial and ongoing successes.
• Systems Architecture: Spearheaded the integration of automated, modern cloud-native infrastructure, enhancing system reliability and performance.

Roseville, CA, US

• (Dual-role with Paramount Equity Mortgage)
• Rapid Deployment: Engineered and deployed comprehensive Google Cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure within eight weeks, setting a new standard for operational agility and scalability.
• Business Innovation: Transitioned Loanpal IP and team of 5 to form LoanSnap, leading to successful new startup venture.
• Agile Integration: Introduced Agile methodologies to the traditional IT team, implementing Jira boards and sprints to maximize project management and documentation processes using Confluence.
• Call Center System Stabilization: Led diagnosis and resolution of persistent call center issues causing call tree failures. Personally implemented fixes that stabilized systems and eliminated dropped calls, preserving.
• Network Infrastructure Expertise: Built OSPF, Cisco, and HP-based network infrastructure to interconnect 6-10 offices with redundant links via different providers that supplied automatic failover.

Roseville, California, US

Paramount Equity Mortgage and LoanPal (see above) were one and the same.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Infrastructure Virtualization and Expansion: Managed IT operations across multiple global data centers with VMware to ensure 99.999% uptime. Adopted a hardware-agnostic "rack and stack" approach for scalable.
• Scale: Built and hosted services that exceeded tens of thousands of requests per second, with a globally-replicated MySQL backend that was tuned to keep up with 50,000 transactions per second.
• Global Network Integration: Constructed a global service mesh interconnecting data center using BGP, OpenVPN, and IPSEC, alongside dedicated provider uplinks, enhancing network reliability and performance.
• Cost-Effective Contract Negotiation: Secured favorable terms with infrastructure and software providers, optimizing operational costs and supporting efficient scalability at Cloudmark.
• Automation in Configuration Management: Implemented Puppet, Redhat kickstart, and PXE for streamlined server and virtual machine provisioning, facilitating automated and scalable configuration management.
• Innovative Technology Adoption: Spearheaded the integration of cutting-edge technologies like datacenter-scale solid state drives (e.g., Fusion-io), significantly improving performance for stateful systems such as.

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Responsible for all aspects of IT and customer-facing systems, including those running on Linux, Windows, Cisco IOS, and Checkpoint.. Managed IT helpdesk staff.

Manage all IT infrastructure and services for the Corporate user base, including servers, storage, and networking.

Newport Beach, CA, US

Work with a wide variety of customers to manage their IT and Tech Ops infrastructure and services.

Manage all servers and network equipment for the Corporate user base.

High School

(Left Early For The Tech Industry), Management Information Systems, General