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Twelve years of team management experience including six years within Yahoo! operations. Founding member of the Yahoo! storage operations team responsible for hundreds of petabytes of online storage, backup data and media management. Provided leadership for ten teams internationally to deploy data protection services, manage offsite media storage,
unify reporting on all backup and online storage devices as well as manage vendor relations. Co-founding member of Yahoo! Hardware Review Committee responsible for reviewing global hardware purchases to insure they meet customer requirements and architecture standards.
Solid understanding of the inner workings of large Internet operations and hands-on experience with site operations, network operations, system administration, storage operations, disaster recovery and infrastructure teams. Working knowledge in launching new production datacenters domestically and internationally. Developed operation and geometry standards for the worlds largest deployment of Network Appliance filers serving the yahoo.com portal.
Specialties
Large scale storage architecture (primary, secondary, archive and backup), vendor management and negotiation, developing and deploying storage standards, forward looking storage strategies, global team management, project management with a focus on international hardware shipping and deployments, hardware maintenance renewals
