Director Technical Operations
Victoria, British Columbia, Ca
Reported directly to the CTO regarding all online service deliverables and day to day operations. Defined and managed annual IT and operations budget. Managed Technical Operations staff across three continents. Designed and led efforts to migrate legacy data center infrastructure to AWS platform. Redefined team dynamic to integrate with product teams to create DevOPS vertical. Designed and implemented from the ground entire enterprise wide instrumentation framework. Integrated Ichinga, Graphite, Kabana, Elastic search, LogStash and Pagerduty for all product, engineering staff. Provided individual dash-boarding and interfaces for all business units . Implemented alert mechanisms to reduce MTTD & MTTR. Redesigned Puppet infrastructure to incorporate, product deployment as well as infrastructure needs to create "shared" self service platform fully integrated into source code repository. Revamped change management process, internal SLA's & KPI's to delivery daily, weekly & monthly metrics regarding all aspects of service delivery and team performance.