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Mukilteo, WA, US

Austin, TX, US

Seattle, Washington, US

Developed and operated company-wide Tokenization solutions. 500M+ Tokens under management with 200ms response time. Built and maintained project plans, product roadmaps, risk assessments and mitigation plans.Expanded tokenization adoption through multiple data classes and organizations. Developed targeted solutions for data consistency. Managed both PCI.

Seattle, Washington, US

Owned and managed Reliability tools (New Relic, Splunk).Oversaw SRE engagements with dev teams throughout the company. Built and maintained project plans, product roadmaps, risk assessments, and mitigation plans in a highly dynamic environment that required frequent pivots and re-factorsOversaw major SRE reconstruction projects (redesign / rebuild DNS)..

Palo Alto, CA, US

Work with Varian to analyze cloud transition issues and strategies from a large-scale embedded solution. Provide cloud-centric perspective to challenge assumptions and established methods.

Austin, Texas, US

• Lead a team operating infrastructure and applications used by the OCI security teams to identify threats, defend the cloud, perform forensic investigation, and hunt “bad guys.”
• Took over existing Splunk implementation in four regions
• Built a skilled team to own and operate Security Infrastructure
• Worked with Splunk resources to redesign and reimplement according to Splunk best practices
• Built and maintained project plans and product roadmaps to expand service coverage both horizontally and vertically to meet key business needs.
• Expanded from four regions to 18 regions in 1 year. Team moved bootstrap time from 8 man-days to 1.5 hours using automation, scripting, and data modeling.

Consult with telecom customers on various Nokia Cloud offerings, including hardware, cloud software, virtualized network function (VNF) software, and integration services.

• HP VPC is a multi-technology hosting solution that spans 20 Data Centers worldwide.
• Exercised Director level oversight of multiple software development teams worldwide who built core management services, including automated provisioning solutions, APIs and API enablement, and billing.
• Built a complete end-to-end project plan for provisioning a new data center.
• Built a project plan and personally oversaw project to repurpose 20,000 node data center.
• Oversaw Lab Management team
• Formed professional services group to enable 3rd party use of provisioning APIs

Houston, Texas, US

• Exercised technical oversight over public cloud (90+ people) on behalf of the VP of Public Cloud.
• Exercised oversight of public cloud programs, including infrastructure build-out and migrations.
• Managed programs for capacity and hardware life cycle, including specifying all hardware configurations. Oversaw all BOM changes, specifically driving cost and delivery efficiencies.
• Consulted with customers and other Hewlett-Packard organizations to communicate best practices, lessons learned, and critical thinking about Cloud computing generally and OpenStack specifically.
• Consulted with the Helion OpenStack development and product teams to identify how HP can build a better product for Cloud Operators. Participated in the OpenStack community.
• Developed two new private cloud service offerings from the ground up, covering all aspects of business, from the initial concept to beta. This included: o all aspects of the business model, such as financial model.

Houston, Texas, US

• Brought the HP Cloud Services offering from Private Beta through to General Availability; specifically by improving stability, security, and incident response while simultaneously building both a global Systems.
• Managed capacity planning, bare metal provisioning, OS management, and Operations services (DNS, NTP, AD, etc) across thousands of servers for both production and lab environments.
• Managed database administration for production MySQL.
• Managed developer services – Jira, Confluence, github, etc.
• Developed the data center capacity planning process linking sales, product development, development teams, purchasing, and facilities
• Responsible for developing bill of materials (BOM) for equipment racks taking into account cost, capacity, performance, and power consumption

• Systems architecture, operations, and infrastructure responsibility for high volume / high visibility web properties and services, including ABC, Disney, ESPN, wired and wireless. Managed multiple teams.
• Managed service development and architecture to solve business problems for Disney business units. Built full solutions out of component services standard components, shared services, internal and third party.
• Managed infrastructure programs to meet performance, availability and capability requirements. Managed costs and assure efficient use of infrastructure.
• Managed a virtualization program that achieved over 70% virtualization, saving over $4 Million annually.
• Managed an infrastructure conversion program from Microsoft Windows to Open Source (LAMP), saving over $200,000 annually on license costs.
• Managed a datacenter migration program for multiple properties, including news organizations, with zero downtime.

Dallas, TX, US

• Led architecture for data products division including: o review of all designs, o developing logical architecture and design standards, o participating in early product design,o participating in product and offer.
• Chartered, assembled and managed an Architecture Council consisting of over 40 engineers from 12 separate organizations to review product technical designs. Developed the Architecture review process and Guiding.
• Architected solutions for key projects achieving $ 25 Million revenue
• Performed audits on internal and partner systems achieving $ 20 Million cost avoidance / recovery
• Led development of company wide Information Security Risk Assessment and Acceptance process.

Dallas, TX, US

Thought leader responsible for developing Internet business strategy and customer experience across all segments (consumer, business, and employee). This was a direct follow-on position to the previous position (Internet Architect) following reorganization.- Governed product, marketing and IT funding prioritization across multiple business groups.

Dallas, TX, US

Led the adoption of both Internet and intranet solutions at AT&T Wireless.- Led the push for our first e-business catalog - $4 million cost savings and $2 million revenue.- Represented the Wireless division to the other AT&T Divisions on all Internet / intranet projects and technologies. Worked as liaison to other AT&T Divisions on other special projects.

Dallas, TX, US

Directed a 30 person technical staff to provide 24/7 data center and system support for sales and customer service systems (20,000 end users). - Improved system uptime from 95% - 99% by implementing their first business continuity program with geographic failover, with annual cost savings of $30 Million.- Drove creation of an IT Career Path program for the.

Dallas, TX, US

Lead DBA on 7 TB Sybase system supporting sales and customer service.

Minneapolis, MN, US

Provided Sybase database consulting to McCaw Cellular / AT&T Wireless, including logical and physical database design, key transaction design and coding, testing, deployment and operations.

London, GB

Designed, developed, deployed and supported multiple support applications for the worldwide gaming (lottery) market. C, SQL, Unix, and 4GL tools. Introduced client / server technology and relational databases to the company. Multiple projects delivered on-time and on-budget. GTech is the world’s largest supplier of lottery systems.

Bs, Computer Science

Mba, Technology Management