Palomar College

Director of Engineering, OpenStack

Served as Product Owner and Engineering Leader for 3 Big Data Platform teams that developed Hadoop storage platforms and big data query engines. Supported the company strategy to migrate hundreds-of-petabytes of data to public cloud platforms, including the separation of data from multi-tenant on-premises platforms into decentralized single-tenant platforms for more accurate product accounting.

Yahoo

Director Software Engineering

Worked as Product Owner and Engineering Leader for 2 teams developing private cloud infrastructure platforms based on OpenStack open-source software. Established roles and responsibilities for 11 team members and created the project plans. Worked with key stakeholders to understand pain points and prioritize the most critical fixes. Inherited a large software upgrade project on a globally distributed platform and resolved a number of challenges.

Verizon Media

Managed a cross-functional engineering team that supported monitoring tools for 10,000+ Linux systems, AWS services, private cloud systems, networking devices, DNS systems, and infrastructure platforms. Informed leadership of service investment opportunities and tracked success criteria from inception to implementation and beyond.

LogMeIn

Technical Operations Manager

Led a system admins team in maintaining all non-product systems on premises and in AWS, including the public and private DNS infrastructure that was critical to the operation of any products.

Citrix

Manager, Operations Systems Administration

Managed a team of engineers owning everything from the lights and lenses in the studio, to the content management, edit suites, and live video streaming platform.

Carl Schwenk