Visionary leader with a record of excellence building and leading high performance, geo-distributed global technology teams, delivering multimillion-dollar profitability, cutting costs, and building thriving enterprises from the ground up. Earned fast-track promotion through increasingly responsible positions. Track record leading complex design, development, delivery and management of large SaaS-based data centers. Innovative and resourceful; critical thinker who identifies and designs solutions and adapts to and applies new technologies effortlessly. Equally adept at communicating with technical and non-technical audiences. Expert in cross-cultural communications and multicultural literacy.• Possess strong emotional intelligence to train, coach and mentor employees to peak performance.• Hold US National Security Agency (NSA) under the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) 4011 and 4013 professional recognition.• Awarded and recognized for consistent on-time, under-budget project delivery.• Manage global data center and business operations in foreign and domestic settings.Executive Leadership Highlights *Saved the company $1.2M in yearly OPEX through strategic hiring practices. Played central role in the attainment of SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and PCI-DSS certifications on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Alibaba and Yandex in a 6-month timeframe. *Played vital role in complex USPS Fedramp certification and AWS GovCloud migration; created efficient offshore staffing solutions. *Architected, designed and led highly scalable data center Cloud buildouts, network operations center integrations, complex migrations, and other operations that achieved dramatic growth and led to company acquisition by iHeartMedia in 2018. *Architected and delivered fully redundant data center in 4.5 months’ time, supporting complete migration of 3000 virtual servers from Cloud to Bare Metal saving company $9M over 2 years- monthly MRC savings of $600K. Managed double-digit growth for Google Ventures-backed startup valued at $1B+ and acquired in 2017 for $800M. *Produced $1.6m savings and improved disaster recovery through efficient systems design. *Played key role building private company from $529M to successful 2011 IPO, later sold to Oracle for $1.5B. Paved way for dramatic growth: led complex migrations; quadrupled email capacity. *Joined as an early team member#14. Played pivotal role in building company from $150M to successful IPO, and from startup to worldwide data center deployments.
Listed skills include Cloud Computing, Data Center, Management, Saas, and 46 others.