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Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Us

Leading a NA-based SRE organization supporting all Kohl’s productsLeading automation and platform tooling efforts across Kohl’s Infrastructure teams. Driving asset management and CMDB efforts, adopting technology and practices to meet compliance and internal needs.Driving strategy and technical implementation for SLO reporting across Kohl’s. Driving strategy and technical implementation for performance testing practices across all products.Initiated and leading programs to reduce technical debt and vendor overhead within SRE. Drove SRE retail holiday season planning, testing, and overall operational readiness in 2023. Member of “practice collaborators” responsible for driving best practices across teams around SRE, XP, Lean, and User-Centered Design.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led a global SRE organization.Developed Operational Excellence reviews with Engineering and Development teams.Matured Problem Management for Platform Engineering, SLAs, and Engineering Reviews.Defined SRE and Engineering Operational KPIs and drove SLO-best practices for Platform Engineering.Developed Payments SRE 2023 and beyond roadmap.Developed automation and tooling roadmaps for alert and release management.Reduced operating expenses through various activities.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Led a global SRE organizationConsolidated Operations, legacy SRE, Ops Engineering into a new SRE organization. Renovating SRE model to support Yahoo Digital Transformation and the move to the cloud. Transformed from a US-based to global organization, reducing organization-wide operating costsImplemented standardized charge-back model for shared services within SRE. Shifted SRE model from support to platform engineering (e.g., Observability and Automation).

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Led a fully-remote team of extremely talented data, systems, and software architects.Drove security, engineering, and product efforts across infrastructure engineering teams. Built an automation platform, running on over 50K servers, and performing thousands of actions, each day. Built a federated asset registry to enable and mature the asset management program, processing over 1 million records of data on roughly 500K assets, each day.Won first place in the Verizon/AWS Machine Learning Hackathon, after which I joined the program as a judge.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Director of Verizon Media (formerly Oath, formerly Yahoo) Production Operations. Leading a team of 60+ highly talented engineers managing Operations, Service Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering and Database Engineering for Verizon Media platform technologies.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Leading Operations and Service Reliability Engineering global support for Yahoo's Communications and Publisher products.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Leading Operations and Service Reliability Engineering global support for Yahoo's Communications and Publisher products.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Managing the global Tier 1 Operations team

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Managing the global Tier 1 Operations team

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

First tier monitoring and response for all system, service and network faults. Built janky but useful tools for network triage and automation, incident management, IRC bots, metrics and reporting.

Indiana, Pa, Us

HTML/CSS/PHP/Javascript development and maintenance.

IT Operations for a medium-sized telecommunications provider.