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B.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Alabama (1996), Pursuing MBA from University of California, Manager of Systems Engineering at Shutterfly (2005-2008), Director of Operations at Innotas (2008-2010).
Headline:
Entrepreneur
Work status:
Employed Full-Time
Industries:
Financial, Information Technology, Real Estate, Travel
Skills:
Business, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Languages, Leadership, Management, Public speaking
Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup, Starting a company
Schools:
University of Alabama - Birmingham, University of California System - Berkeley
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
Innotas
Position:
Director of Operations
Time period:
June 2008 - Present
Description:
Lead an Operations team supporting Innotas PPM (http://www.innotas.com) to a growing customer base of global customers
Employer:
Shutterfly
Position:
Manager of Systems Engineering in Internet Operations
Time period:
October 2005 - June 2008
Description:
Managed http://www.shutterfly.com availability which is Shutterfly’s single source of revenue generation and required supporting a 1000+ Server farm, ~12 PB of storage and 4TB database data. Responsible for managing the Systems Engineering team which included managing goals, performance and hiring. Led the operations implementation of a strategic new service offering leveraging the social network share functionality of the $15 Million dollar Nexo acquisition. Developed a Production Acceptance Plan & trained the NOC on supporting the new Share2.0 Site. The initiative helped Shutterfly establish a social networking presence seamlessly built around the existing service of photo sharing and developing products based on digital pictures. Ensured seasonal peak capacity preparedness when over 50% revenue is generated and demonstrated strategic cost savings alternative to the company in augmenting infrastructure expansion by leveraging Amazon’s EC2 utility computing model. Managed SOX compliance & conducted quarterly IT and IOPS SOX reviews collaborating with auditors to help define controls, remediation steps, documentation & testing methodology. Acted as a liaison between Development, Release Engineering & IOPS to collaborate on code releases & help eliminate site bugs. Provided leadership and direction in phased migration of 2000+ node server farm on HP DL140 hardware platform on Solaris 9 supporting Shutterfly’s key applications to cheaper AMD Opteron Solaris 10 x 86 platforms. This initiative was a key business need that drove increased rack density, scalability & performance i.e. 5-6x more computing power per dollars spent.
Employer:
Microsoft
Position:
Senior Systems Engineer - MSN Hotmail
Time period:
November 2003 - October 2005
Description:
Supported http://www.hotmail.com, ~500 TB of MSN Hotmail storage & data. Deployed series of hotmail systems to meet growing capacity needs. Managed Vendor relations with EMC, Sun & Veritas & leveraged their support in addressing production issues involving their hardware. Migrated the entire MSN Hotmail’s User Email account directory (~2 TB) from antiquated Sun T3 storage to EMC Clariion Cx700 storage hardware. Completed the entire project in record 5 weeks that had been in consideration for over 9 months by prior peers. Saved MSN Sun service contract costs & mitigated risk from downtime associated with antiquated hardware. Developed automated reporting utilities that 1) Gave visibility into email data corruption & loss events thereby reducing customer service calls. 2) Collected XFS (MSN mail delivery protocol) Error Codes across the site thereby giving visibility to mail delivery related issues to help improve performance & maintain user data integrity. 3) Reported on Memory board errors across the site giving insight into systems crashes owing to Memory failures.
EDUCATION
University:
University of California System - Berkeley
Time period:
2009 - 2012
Degree:
MBA
University:
University of Alabama - Birmingham
Degree:
Computer Engineering , BSc
INFORMATION
Sports:
Scuba diver (PADI Open Water Certified), Snowboarding, Tennis
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