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Hayden, Id, Us

Tampa, Fl, Us

Lead a fully remote Data Engineering team (grew from 2 to 6 people) responsible for central Data Warehouse (Azure SQL), ELT (ADF) that feeds Business Intelligence and multiple ETL projects.Developing data solutions and managing data that meet PII/SPI compliance requirements.Fostered a culture of proactive engagement, collaboration, communication, and timely delivery.Improved Agile story creation, encourage team ownership of Agile process.Leading large HCM data migration.Proposed, planned and executing Azure Databricks implementation of a data lakehouse.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Led the Enterprise Cloud Data & Analytics, a dataops engineering team (from 3 to 8+ people) that ingests, enriches and transforms cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), and CDN cost and billing data of the entire Disney Enterprise for cost transparency, chargeback, invoice validation & cost optimization.Monthly scale: 4B+ records & $60M across 16 services (CDN and cloud being the largest). AWS, GCP and Azure tenants spanned Disney and all segments (Hulu, Parks, Studios, etc).Created cross functional team with accounts payable, corporate finance, and vendor account managers to drive understanding, communication and simplify invoice validation and chargeback process.Provided coaching and mentoring on continual improvement, architecture, coding standards, agile and leadership.Drove engineering effectiveness (~30%) by consolidating data technologies to a datalakehouse (Databricks) distributed across all three major cloud providers.Drove MDM through access consistency across UI/API, conformance of across sources, and transparency on data lineage.Created an engineering presentation series for leadership to stay informed on engineering wins, coached my team on presentation and communication.Created and executed strategy to reduce data exposure and increase data sharing to meet the needs of different consumer roles across different cloud providers and systemsResponsible for multi-million dollar cloud marketplace purchases as the primary cloud billing admin for Disney enterprise AWS, Azure and GCP.Reduced fiscal risk through GCP billing account cleanup, disowned accounts not associated with the company, and closed unused accounts. (30+ accounts resolved)Partnered with product owners on all OKRs and data products.Identified and helped to resolve numerous domestic and international AWS taxation issues in collaboration with finance.Managed vendor relationships and vendor resources (AWS, GCP, Azure, Databricks).

Burbank, Ca, Us

Pivoted and led the dev-ops Cloud Platform Engineering group (20+ people) creating cloud shared services: cloud account vending, consolidated cloud logging, cloud inventory reporting, consolidated cloud billing and management of the primary enterprise AWS, Azure and GCP tenants.Scale: 2500+ AWS, GCP Azure cloud accounts across ESPN, Parks, Studios, Streaming, etc) , multimillion dollar responsibilities, workloads across 11 countries.Grew and mentoring leaders through regular 1 on 1s and a leadership study group.I created a cross functional group to evaluate and recommend governance/stewardship policy for the cloud tenants involving SRE, infosec, cloud platform eng and network eng.I created a regular business review to inform, solicit feedback and align our roadmap with the needs of segment leaders (Parks, Studios, Media).I organized a cloud training program for the entire enterprise to increase awareness and use of free training opportunities provided by cloud providers.I created the team (infosec, legal, brand, corp) and oversight process used for cloud workload deployment into new and unopen international regions.Led updates to the AWS tenant to manage risk and provide org benefits to all accounts.Led a team to implement mature governance and management of the Azure tenant.Led a project to define governance and management for the GCP tenant.Managed vendor relationships and resources (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Burbank, Ca, Us

Led the dev-ops Platform Engineering group, grew from 2 (10 people) to 3 software engineering teams (20+ people) responsible for REST API service, cloud account vending, patch reporting and ServiceNow Orchestration workflow automation.Promoted the self-service integration strategy through easy to use REST API service (Service Desk, ServiceNow, F5s, Orion, Proteus), embedded documentation, and simple examples in common scripting languages.Primary API Lifetime - 200 Releases, 208 Features, 115 Defects fixed, 2 P1 Defects, 200 Releases, 5x9s uptime, used for automated incident creation for tier 1 operations center.Proactively established technology patterns for decoupling risks of dependent services such as upgrades, config changes and outages to maintain 24/7 uptime for critical path services.Provided patch reporting across all on-prem servers (3 data centers) for Enterprise Tech.Delivered 1000s hours time saving/month through Orchestration automation.Mentored and grew team leads, leading to 2 managerial promotions.Provided steady leadership during 3 directors and 2 VPs changes. Created partner relationships with any contracting companies and other service vendors.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Grew 1 team of 2 people to 2 groups (10 people) within the dev-ops Tools and Automation Team. The Software Development group develops foundational REST API services and web applications to facilitate self service automation and integration. We use a measured iterative, incremental methodology and development practices. Our customers are the system engineers and system administrators at Disney.The RunBook Automation develops orchestrations as an extension of the ITSM system (ServiceNow). These orchestrations are developed on behalf of, and in collaboration with system engineering and infrastructure groups. We automatically fulfill tickets for provisioning/decommissioning of servers, VIPs, WIPs, etc. We also work with policy owners to refine their processes/runbooks. Our customers are the system engineering, infrastructure groups and tier one support in at Disney.Both teams use Agile and Lean practices in development.Roles and Responsibilities:+ Release high quality, high value solutions to internal customers+ Product management and communication+ Collaborate on all design and architecture+ Continually drive to improve our SDLC and SLC+ Push direct reports to partner and collaborate with internal customers+ Mentoring and growth of directs reports

Burbank, Ca, Us

Built Enterprise Automation Development team from the ground up. Created both a Software Development Life Cycle and a Systems Life Cycle for our products and services.Responsible for mentoring, encouraging personal growth of those I lead. Mitigated personality conflicts and resolved technical disputes to minimize or prevent loss of productivity.Implemented development methodology based on Agile and Lean practices. Drove development with a eye towards ease of administration and maintainability. Focused heavily on automated acceptance tests. Drove practices such as group ownership, continuous code improvement and Acceptance Test Driven Development.Evangelized configuration management ideals and automation in general and through projects.Primary architect for all projects and API interfaces. Project lead or oversight on all Enterprise Automation Development projects. Created REST API wrappers for and integrated with numerous enterprise systems such as CA Service Desk, F5 iControl, SolarWinds Orion, Parallels Virtuozzo, CA Clarity, etc.Operational support of all systems (development through to production).All software development primarily in Python. We used a high degree of metaprogramming to minimize codebase size, reduce defects and provide consistent behavior.The software we produce is infrastructure. It is a dependency of our organization's monitoring, runbook and configuration management services. It's also used in many one off integrations throughout.

Los Angeles, Wa, Us

Developed software in Perl (mod_perl), Ruby (Rails), Javascript, Rake, Java and sh on CentOS using the Agile Methodology.Development platform: Linux (RedHat, Fedora, CentOS), MySQL, Oracle, Apache, mod_perl, Rails.Lead on numerous projects where I: Collaborated with business owners on requirements Performed due diligence on technology choices, designs, and risk mitigation Facilitated communication between technical and non-technical people Involved throughout the entire project lifecycle. Initiated, lead and managed many infrastructure projects such as continuous integration, toolchain project, application config simplification, etc.Lead and managed many user facing projects such as Groups Bulletins, Related Rides, Ajax Webservices Framework, etc.Integration with many third party services using different technologies. ie. (SOAP, REST, Javascript)Created analytical and functional tests to improve code quality.Drove the creation of development sandboxes which helped to streamline development.Mentored and collaborated with the other developers.Implemented numerous changes which lead to more efficient development as well as increased product performance.Identified and resolved issue which accounted for ~15% load savings across the database, all webservers, and total network traffic.Identified and resolved numerous issues which impacted uptime or response times.Created mod_perl REST consumers for Rails REST services and vice-versa.

Lead Tools Team which was responsible for designing, improving and implementing internal tools and build process.Developed software in C++, Python, scons and sh on Linux x86, Linux ARM, Windows XP, and Windows CE.Development platforms: Linux (Debian), Windows NT, GCC, Python, Visual Studio cl.exeLead a team of 3 people.Wrote business case proving importance of configuration management in the build system.Created an auditable, multiplatform build system for C++ and Python for: Windows XP Windows CE Linux X86 Linux ARMWhich was used as the continuous integration build.Made the developer builds a variant of the integration build which could do partial builds across all platforms.Managed the toolchains for all 4 platforms.Automatic provisioning and performance testing.Maintained the in-house software repository.

IT/Operations for all internal and external systems. Managed machine lab of +300 machines and +20 switches alone. Developed various automation scripts and processes to support development and qa. Maintained and configured switches, mail server, DNS, backups and firewall. Responsible for account provisioning and de-provisioning.Implemented PXE boot system which provided QA with the menu of optional builds to provision on each QA cluster.Maintained the internal and external websites.Managed the source code repository and build system.Responsible for addressing and helped to design a solution to the cabling issues that arose out of having to test against multiple switch configurations.Automated numerous operational tasks.

Lead of a team of 3 people. Mostly web programming with mod_perl, php and JSP.

C++ programming. Extending and fixing STL/STLport on multiple platforms and compilers.