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The Cloud, Us

Build & operate highly available, scalable, & cost-efficient distributed compute clusters, to reliably host workloads • Launched 11 critical features defining feature scope, capturing requirements, writing specs, & driving design & implementation (Unistore, Budgets, Snowpark optimized warehouses, Snowpark Container Services)• Drive insights identifying anomalies & operational enhancements yielding a 38% reduction in platform incidents• Train, deploy, and launch LLM for internal use & workloads, reducing report generation cycle by 21% • Anticipated technical constraints making tradeoffs to balance business needs providing escalation management ultimately accelerating feature launch by 17%• Established platform monitoring & SLOs, driving warehouse resume latency reduction of 91%• Established engineering-support touchpoint process reducing support ticket backlogs by 23%• Drove planning & roadmap for strategic initiatives & dependencies managing large scale distributed systems supporting & 4.4B queries/day, resulting in 68% YoY planform growth across AWS, Azure, & GCP • Developed parameter management enforcement policy enabling programmatic feature control

Specialized consulting focusing on New Product Development, Data Services, & Analysis.- Managed team of 8 developers & product managers implementing AWS based platform, website development, & building custom quoting application which reduced cycle time by 120% & improved profit margins by 15%- Leveraged AWS Lambda to enhance lead targeting and drive 300% growth in revenue- Implement & managed operations of cloud deployments & distributed systems- Experience deploying cloud infrastructure & computing environments via Taraform - Launch & managed distributed database systems including MongoDB & Cassandra- Managed website and custom quoting application development developed in Go & Node.js

Pleasanton, California, Us

Principal Demand Planning Manager – Engineering Cloud Infrastructure Services Establish and manage global cloud capacity planning and demand forecasting organization & analytics platform• Manage forecasting and planning process driving $5B revenue• Model & implement Long Range Plan & growth strategy for $250M+ in infrastructure investments annually• Reduce forecasting cycle time from 6 weeks to 24 hours with <5% variance • Created and governed operating models for end to end flow of capacity planning process• Develop multi-dimensional forecasting models from 1-24 month horizon• Develop & launch python-based data modeling platform enabling predictive analytics, multi variant forecasting & component analysis for engineering investments • Design & establish MySQL data repository supporting engineering & financial analytics across the organization • Plan, develop, and construct modeling platform architecture, ETL pipelines, and CICD process to support cloud engineering forecasting, strategy, and operations needs• Establish and oversee regression, ARIMA and distribution models leveraging prophet, scikit learn, and python based forecasting techniques

Redmond, Washington, Us

Azure Cloud Services Managing Global revenue and cloud capacity Business Intelligence and Analytics for Microsoft Azure business. - Support multi-billion dollar annual revenue plan - Drive & deliver Sales Insights for global cloud capacity management- Develop and manage multi variant dynamic model - Build and support business insights visualization - Reduced forecasting time by 20%- Manage team of 4 engineers and analysis - Manage and operate data warehouse - Model and support Compute, Storage, SQL and Networking Cloud capacity planning

Redmond, Washington, Us

Facilitate data enablement and data engineering for Office Marketing Automation by working across multiple teams with various stakeholders. - Document and gather requirements from multiple teams to enable marketing automation scenarios.- Work across IT and support Engineering groups to coordinate requirements for Data Platform enablement and reporting insights with a focus on driving delivery of scalable automation

Arlington, Va, Us

Conduct business case analyses, identify savings, and support contract negotiations with pricing and procurement evaluations and recommendations for 787.Negotiation Driven Savingso Principal on the team developing the strategic position for $5.5B supplier negotiationso Develop statistical cost model for contract negotiations and cost reduction team, reducing settlement price by 20%o Present data-driven recommendations advising executive leadership, driving strategy, and negotiationShould-Cost Driven Savingso Led team to calculate should-cost of titanium components and reduce production costs by $112M o Researched and estimate cost drivers, comparing bill of material structure to determine commodity optimal costsCapital Investment Driven Savingso Analyze capital investment opportunities for personnel, plant and equipment, enabling $18M in total reduction

Arlington, Va, Us

Reviewed and approved engineering designs and plans for 787, 777, 767, 747, and 737 aircraft. Developed assemblies for new products to reduce costs by $100K annually and increased build time efficiency. • Prepared and presented a $2 Million commodity analysis, advising capital investment for new product development. • Prepared and released engineering designs for 737-Max program, reducing costs $100K annually • Redesigned aircraft structure and systems to improve product safety • Resolved production issues and mitigated financial risk for 787 main fuel systems, avoiding 3 month, $1.8M delay

Louisville, Colorado, Us

Developed, tested, and installed software and hardware for high precision optical sensing equipment utilized to increase efficiency of electric generation utilities. Product Managemento Reduced product development time 5% by implementing Agile principles and production processes o Enabled Zolo to recognize 5% additional annual revenue by interfacing with international clients to resolve critical networking issues during the product installationo Installed and configured sensor hardware and software platforms at 30 plants in Europe, US, China and South Koreao Statistically modeled and analyzed customer data using Excel, R and SQL o Analyzed technical problems and identified improved assembly processes and product designs, reducing maintenance costs by 18%

Louisville, Colorado, Us

Developmento Managed security protocol for customer data managemento Defined and managed data governance protocols o Improved design of user experience (UX) and access to data by utilizing active filters and visual controls, which contributed to a 10% increase in sales orderso Identified and developed 4 new product features and functional specifications by engaging with customers o Developed and managed a SQL database that reduced data processing time and product development time by 15%o Reduced service and production costs 18% annually by using innovative programming of hardware to improve low level signal processingo Developed test applications in C+ and C# for features and drafted associated documents and procedures

* Operated Scanning Tunneling Microscopes (STM) to observe individual atoms and study surface characteristics of various materials. * Improved STM sample reading by building novel Walker controller which accurately controlled sample to probe distance.* Improved measurement accuracy by testing, assembling, wiring, and soldering circuit boards to control STM probe. * Managed procurement of 100+ electronics components, solid state devices and power supplies.* Constructed linear operational amplifier to control Scanning Tunneling Microscope.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Entrepreneurship And Risk Management, Finance And Financial Management Services

B.S, Engineering Physics. Emphasis: Optical Electronics, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics