Oct 2021 – Nov 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Managing the Availability, Security, Performance, Economics and Change of all Juniper-IT Compute, Storage, Network and Datacenter services while introducing modern management practices like Dev-Ops and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Responsibilities include End User Services.
• A sample of key results delivered according to plan and within budget:
• Implemented specific Operational GenAI governance practices in collaboration with legal and compliance, allowing for rapid and safe adoption of this powerful technology.
• Insourced all network and datacenter services without interruption while increasing service levels and supporting internal product teams with direct operational feedback.
• Build and expanded platform services and SRE resulting in increased visibility into existing services, reduced deployment times of new services, and an improved availability posture at all infrastructure layers.
• I'm an ally for women, equity and inclusion.

Sep 2020 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Aug 2018 – Dec 2023 · 5 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Jan 2018 – Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• StrataFusion Group is comprised of executive-level leaders who have transformed pioneering Silicon Valley companies, and now work as a partnership to develop and drive innovative technology strategies for competitive advantage. As transformational advisors for tomorrow's digital business, we take a relationship-based approach to bridge business strategy and solutions-oriented execution to drive sustainable business value. We help organizations drive strategic architectural restructuring and best practice guidance while modernizing the digital framework for efficiency, cost effectiveness and organizational agility.
• Project samples:
• Interim Head of Infrastructure responsible for day to day operations at Multi-Billion revenue companies.
• Capabilities assessments of team, process and architectures in context of new business requirements.
• Execute risk assessments and develop the associated mitigation road map.
• Develop and Implement organizational, procedural and architectural restructuring plans.

Jun 2009 – Sep 2017 · 8 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Burstorm was the first company to provide CAD applications for cloud architects. Burstorm's CAD application for cloud architects was doing for IT what Synopsys and Cadence did for chip design. Rather than using "pencil, paper and PowerPoint" to design complex next generation technology infrastructure the Burstorm application allows you to use Electronic Design Automation to do so.
• The CAD application is supported by the Burstorm analytics platform which allows architects to accurately and efficiently model, buy, sell and deploy any cloud infrastructure solution. And with any we mean private, public and hybrid infrastructures.
• As co-founder and CTO I'm responsible for all internal and external technology aspects of the company including the development of our ground breaking "CAD for IT" application that takes Computer Aided Design of IT infrastructures to a whole new level.
• Responsible for
• Product management
• Software development aspects
• Strategic planning and execution of the product road map
• Provide the company with the right tools and infrastructure to scale efficiently.

Jun 2008 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr

• Responsible for all aspects of IT supporting arguably the largest Genome Center in the world requiring to scale to 10,000+ compute nodes and tens of PetaBytes data.
• Organizational development and management.
• Process implementation using ITIL best practices to assure secure and efficient operations.
• Architecture design, deployment and support for all aspects of Corporate, Development and Production systems.
• Budget and planning
• DataCenter selection to support 1.5 to 3 Mega Watt power consumption.

Jun 2007 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr

• Build and lead a team of senior system administrators responsible for the architecture, deployment and day to day operations of Netflix's production infrastructure comprised of:
• 500+ systems (IBM P, Blades and X; Rackable and Isilon)
• 500+ TB Storage (SAN (ds8300), SVC and NAS (Netapps))
• Operating systems (AIX, Linux, WIndows 2003).
• Application infrastructure services ( Apache, Tomcat, BEA etc.)

Oct 2006 – Jan 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Thought leader and builder of a solution that will revolutionize the way you look to resolve PC problems.
• Responsible for technical leadership to design, develop, deploy and run a massively scalable online management solution.
• Responsible for maintaining service levels within a tight budget.
• Responsible for matching technology solutions with business models

Sep 2005 – Oct 2006 · 1 yr 1 mo

• ·Provide Strategic Technical leadership to the Offering Design team.
• ·Created the common service architecture to support the development of the global, no-touch service portfolio.
• ·Created the functional specification, use cases and development strategy for the no-touch Security Service scheduled to be delivered in June 2006,

Mar 2001 – Oct 2005 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Global IT Management Strategist, Sun Professional Services (SunPS) (2001- Present)
• Implemented IT Operations Capability improvements using the OMCM to provide clear metrics of success.
• Created and implemented universal IT management frameworks for use by Sun and its customers resulting in reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and improved operational effectiveness.
• Evaluated, created and implemented IT environments, streamlined operations, reduced total cost of ownership and improved IT Business value-add.
• Had field consultants and sales organizations trained to emphasize IT management solutions offerings resulting in a better market position for Sun.

Jul 1999 – Jun 2001 · 1 yr 11 mos

• · Structured and implemented the service level management information library and its resources and tools
• · Designed, built, and assessed service provider architectures for a variety of customers (i.e., healthcare, startups, telecommunications, financial, and internal reference laboratories) to extend functionality and improve reliability

Jul 1995 – Jun 1999 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Developed the "capacity planning and performance tuning" service.
• Managed a great team of Systems management Subject Matter experts
• Improved consulting utilization and grew revenues by more than 50%

Feb 1992 – Mar 1995 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• · Managed projects for international frame relay and private line networks with responsibility for project justification, budget control, and vendor coordination
• · Managed the operations for global voice data and video networks in 18 internationally dispersed sites in support of SAP-R3 deployment
• · Planned, designed, and implemented new processes for the helpdesk utilizing Remedy
• · Improved turn around time for service requests utilizing “Sigma” methodologies
• · Managed the day-to-day support for data center activities and deployment of new network and computing technologies (HP3000 and HP-UX)