Normative July 2023 - Present

• Placeholder as I get settled in

Workday April 2021 - July 2022

• Successfully leading a post-acquisition, integration team
• Achieving 100% employee retention through 1 year post-acquisition
• Leading a multidisciplinary team of Software Developers, DevOps / Infrastructure, QA, and Security engineers
• Doubling the team size and leading recruitment efforts
• Creating and owning a 2 year product roadmap for the organization and managing OKRs to keep the projects on track
• Receiving multiple 0 finding pentest results (apps, network, platform)
• Responsible for the teams delivering the product with highest level of uptime in the company
• Driving improvements with cumbersome company-wide processes

Peakon May 2018 - April 2021

• Leading a multidisciplinary team of DevOps / Infrastructure, QA, and Security engineers
• Recruiting and onboarding 15+ engineers
• Creating and owning a 2 year product roadmap for the organization and managing OKRs to achieve the 2 year roadmap
• Ownership of 90% of the non-headcount budget for Engineering
• Mentoring senior engineers and coaching engineering managers
• Leading multiple initiatives to improve our commitment to core values
• Improving employee engagement and a positive work culture
• Playing a major role in obtaining ISO 27001 and SOC2 certifications
• Key member of the Due Diligence team pre-acquisition

Dubsmash March 2016 - September 2017

• Automating code testing and delivery
• Reducing operational costs while improving reliability
• Creating consistency though the migration to Docker
• Writing tools for system management

Wimdu June 2015 - February 2016

• Managing 2 individual teams (DevOps and Development)
• Implementing a roadmap to improve developer productivity
• Migrating the entire platform to AWS

HERE/Nokia June 2010 - May 2015

• Line manager to a team of 10+ System Engineers
• Mentoring and coaching to help engineers to do their best
• Migrating from multiple datacenters to a multi-region AWS setup
• Simplifying process to reduce cost and increase efficiency
• Automating configuration of the monitoring and metrics infrastructure

Aupeo! April 2009 - June 2010

• Performing general. Linux system administration tasks
• Office IT Support (Windows, OSX)

NTT/Verio February 2008 - March 2009

• Managing a FreeBSD/Linux web hosting service
• Technical lead for two data center builds, installing over 3000 servers

AOL/Time Warner July 2002 - December 2007

• Running a multi-gigabit audio/video streaming platform
• System administration of large scale websites including mapquest.com, netscape.com, shoutcast.com, and winamp.com

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