Director, Engineering & Business Success
CurrentAccomplished people-oriented technical leader with measurable success delivering and managing large infrastructure initiatives with zero data loss or customer impact. A respected and recognized leader who has built lasting relationships through trust, support, and encouragement through recent world challenges.Recent Proud Accomplishments *Responsible for internal engineering operations, enablement, and engagement initiatives: innovation programs, patent program, engineering training, and employee recognition*Interfaced with enterprise customers upon escalations to strengthen trust and ensure satisfaction *Established an industry-first, Vendor Success charter to enhance partnerships, align on key initiatives, and added measurable accountability *Inspired team members in the transformation from operations based to dev-centric world-class engineers*Led a multi-disciplinary, multi-faceted charter of migrating all services and over 145,000 customers from globally distributed data centers to AWS cloud services in under 18 months with zero service disruption or data loss-AWS Relationship Manager -Currently involved with overseeing critical initiatives such as Service Mesh/Istio -Introduced and launched a cloud-based training portal for all engineers during Covid and new staff members -Post mortem author and incident commander -Ripe/Atlas Supporter and Sponsor for increased observability and community recognition -Negotiated and secured new data center space during explosive growth while managing the team(s) all vendors, hardware, carrier services, and operating budgets.-Responsible for all Network and Data Center Operations (Global) including support, budget, ISPs and audit/compliance-Involved in nearly all areas of technical operations during start-up mode -Key contributor to Technology Continuity Programs -Added industry best practices to day-to-day operations to streamline delivery and availability