Zach Francis Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Crown Castle is the largest provider of shared communication and internet infrastructure in the United States. $50B+ Market Cap / F500I lead our unified Product, Architecture & Strategy function for Network @ Crown. My organization is responsible for both full stack Technology Development and full lifecycle Product Management. 60+ Staff. Direct management of senior leaders and principals across Product and Engineering. $xxxM budget on $xB revenue.Example product areas include IP (WAN, Edge & Carrier), Optical (Longhaul, Metro & DCI) and Platforms (Datacenter, Compute & Managed Solutions/Overlay Networking) as well as horizontal functions like Lab Infra and Zero Touch Networking.I lead other functions like our 24x7 function for Managed Solutions (SDWAN, SASE, SSE, Cloud Networking, Virtual Networking), Security products, Professional Services (PSO), Solution Architecture & the early days of SRE at Crown.

Houston, Tx, Us

Defined the Edge Network Architecture & Strategy for our full stack edge portfolio. (Datacenter, Networking/Connectivity, Power, Land, Partnerships, Market Planning, Distributed Compute, Enterprise, Hyperscale and Carrier use cases, proof of concepts, unique technology development etc.) Became the go forward network strategy and plan of record for Crown. Resulted in promotion beyond Edge to running all of product, tech dev, and network strategy for all aspects of Network @ Crown.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Tech Lead & Manager (TL/M) for Google Distributed Cloud (2020 - Exit)also Trusted Partner Cloud / Sovereign Cloud (and it's original incarnation years back) (2022 - Exit)Emeritus TL/M across various areas and organizations. (2014 - 2020)- Executive Staff for Global Network Deployment - TL/M leading R&D, Zero Touch Networking and New Product Introduction business lines for B2 (Google's Global Serving Network)- Espresso (Peering edge re-architecture)- Google Cloud Interconnect business case, arch and design that drove edge peering bifurcation of ASN15169- Google Cloud Interconnect Geo Expansion (new L1-L3 arch, 45+ new metros globally)- First generation sovereign cloud offering (became Trusted Partner Cloud)- B2 design of the Los Angeles GCP Region, us-west2https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/hybrid-cloud/announcing-google-distributed-cloud-edge-and-hostedhttps://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/07/our-los-angeles-cloud-region-is-open-for-business.htmlhttps://www.nextplatform.com/2017/07/17/google-wants-rewire-internet/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/thales-and-google-cloud-announce-strategic-partnership-to-jointly-develop-a-trusted-cloud-offering-in-france-301393410.html

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

Midland, Michigan, Us

Mechanical Engineering

Associate Of Science, Engineering