Director, Business Planning And Operations
Pleasanton, California, Us
Drove operational, Cloud infrastructure, and organizational growth through strategic planning, process development and improvement, and financial analysis o Built four functions (Decision & Financial Analysis, Capacity Planning, Demand Planning and Supply Chain Planning) from the ground upo Managed reporting cadences to senior leadership to report operational and financial health, progress of initiatives under development, and strategic projects in process to drive decision makingo Developed the organization’s first long-term budgeting and planning model for Cloud infrastructure; managed Capex and Opex budgets, which grew from $50M to $500M in 7 yearso Created and expanded the organization’s first private cloud and AWS capacity and demand planning models to drive informed decisions around operational strategies/initiatives, large-scale capital and opex purchases, and data center footprint expansionso Collaborated with stakeholders (Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Sourcing, and Finance) to align on business/operational drivers and hardware requirements to ensure accurate and timely purchase, order, and fulfillment of infrastructure hardware, software, and data center space/powero Drove process engineering (development and continuous improvement) around various supply chain processes (e.g., infrastructure hardware order/fulfillment, server rack build/integration, and server reuse evaluation)o Created and drove strategic decision analyses, such as new data center evaluations, new project cost/benefit analyses, and hardware TCO modelsLed Sourcing and Procurement M&A Team to drive completion of the largest integration for the organization o Managed cross-functional team to integrate Sourcing and Procuring functions across the organizationo Developed processes to manage the on-boarding, termination, and migration of 600+ suppliers
