Sr. Technical Director & Chief Architect at AOL Inc.
ARIN – Voting member representing AOL Inc.
RIPE – Voting member representing AOL Inc.
Executive technologist specializing in Technology Operations. Thought leadership demonstrated at 5 companies over 20+ years. Currently directs 50+ employees worldwide, with daily interactions from the CxO level to hands-on engineers. Moves freely from high-level business to deep technology discussions and decisions. Collaborative and nimble leadership style. Fiscal responsibility demonstrated through $XXM+ OpEx, $XXM+ CapEx budgets, and $XXM+ of deployed capital.
After one year of succession grooming, assumed role as Head of Network Engineering & Operations (NEO) in December 2009. Responsibility for the architecture, engineering, and operations of all AOL networks including routers, switches, SLB/ADC, GSLB, DNS, CDNs, DWDM transport systems, circuits, and worldwide co-location. Organization of six managers and fifty-nine total employees across US, Ireland, and India. Cost center responsibility has a yearly OIBDA impact of over $XXM (cost of revenue and operating expenses offset slightly by IP transit revenues), $XXM in capital expenditures, and $XXM of depreciation expense of a $XXM installed capital base.
In November 2006 took over the Network Architecture team as Chief Architect and Technical Director. Team had all design responsibilities for the above-mentioned services. In 2007 also took over DNS/GSLB Engineering & Operations team. The two teams were comprised of thirteen worldwide employees with one manager. Promoted to Senior Technical Director in 2008 for performance and in prep as successor to VP.
Various roles in Internal Computing network organization starting management track with leading Network Architecture and Internal Security teams in 2003. Continued to add responsibility eventually covering all aspects of worldwide employee networks in 2006 with three managers and twenty-two full-time employees located on both coasts of the US, France, the UK, and India. Managed $9M in OpEx and $6.5M in CapEx.
In September 2001 promoted to Chief Architect of Internal Computing. Responsible for refining and approving designs for all core employees IT services and overall secure enterprise design of the worldwide infrastructure serving more than 45,000 nodes, 19,000 employees, and 100+ sites for AOL. Responsible for the design of the worldwide network serving more than 20,000 nodes for Warner Brothers and Warner Music Group divisions from 2001-2004 cutting costs by $700k on $6M spend. Mentoring of over one hundred technical architects, engineers, and operators.
In May 2000 promoted to Network Architect of Internal Computing networks. These networks were the worldwide enterprise (employee-facing) networks.
Complete redesign of the enterprise networks. OSPF redesign brought stability. Gigabit Ethernet on Foundry Big Iron 8000s replacing failed Cisco 8540 router deployments. AOLWave provided no OpEx Gigabit connectivity between primary Northern Virginia sites replacing expensive and much slower DS3s.
In February 1999 joined AOL as a Senior Network Engineer in the Internal Computing organization. Responsible for engineering and deployment of the worldwide enterprise/employee facing networks.
Hired to re-architect customer IT solutions to meet their ever-changing needs. Employed tool-based design verification using simulation tools and troubleshot elusive end-to-end system issues using the latest in analysis tools.
Fulfilled a senior IT consulting role to health-care customers. Mentored other members of the health-care team in various technologies. Led project teams replacing legacy minicomputer/mainframe infrastructure with client/server network & systems.