Resume of Austin David: Sept 2022

Charleston, SC

415-845-4593, austin@austindavid.com

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Mission	Leading ROI-positive incubation and innovation programs to multiply the effectiveness of existing people and processes.
Summary	Hardware, mechatronics & automation Project & Program manager skills Matrix Leadership worldwide; staffing, career development, planning, resource allocation, budget management, etc Proven Linux/UNIX Engineer / Architect
Experience	Technical Program Manager, Google Mountain View, CA; Charleston, SC — 2012-present 2022-: Site Reliability Engineering Driving horizontal reliability programs (15k-person matrix org) 2018-2022: Global Logistics Organization, TPM & Logistics Systems Engineer Leading incubation and innovation programs, worldwide. owned 6-figure R&D budget supporting 8- and 9-figure global automation programs “self-funded” ROI-positive innovation programs for novel technology development full life cycle “cradle to grave” programs, from concept to sustained operation AGV/AMR, high-density storage, mechanical automation, customized 3rd party solutions Environments: production assembly warehouses & distribution centers, global; 3PLs 2014-2018: Datacenter Hardware Operations, Innovation programs TPM Leading incubation and innovation programs, worldwide. R&D / Technology Development, funding, vendor selection & management, etc Site selection, deployment, onboarding full life cycle “cradle to grave” programs, from concept to sustained operation Innovation / incubation programs globally, including skills development Environments: production Datacenter operations, global; internal teams 2013: Site Reliability Engineering Capacity & people management of a critical user-facing service; managing 7 in the US, partnering with another office. 2012: Site Reliability Engineering Overseeing capacity management for a large infrastructure service. IC on a team of 14+, split between two offices. Director, Island Services; Senior Manager, Network Engineering; Senior Manager, Service Engineering; Principal Service Engineer: Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA — 2008-2012 (4.5 years) Team-building, planning, etc Integration with many development teams, QA, and existing support structures at Yahoo! Architectural and design reviews Performance testing and certification break/fix and RCA Integration of existing and development of new operational tools and processes Technologies: RHEL, Perl, shell scripting, custom system management and monitoring, large-scale data center, Foundry SLB 50+% hands-on contribution including 24x7 on-call 1/10-4/12: Director, Island Services; Senior Manager, Network Engineering Managing the operations for Yahoo!s custom GSLB, Edge Proxy, and Caching solution: 5 direct reports + 10 indirect reports, worldwide Rebuild operational teams Deployment, scaling, and day-to-day operation of the worldwide CDN services >99.999% GSLB uptime over 2 years 60% management, 40% hands-on contribution 9/08-12/09: Senior Manager, Service Engineering Managing the serving operations team for an acquired advertising product: 5 direct reports in US (Santa Clara, NYC, OR), plus a manager + team in Bangalore Repair and grow a struggling serving platform Deployment, scaling, and day-to-day operation of 10k+ hosts, 100k+ QPS Technical lead and primary contributor for the design, testing, integration, and deployment of an L7 load balancer and worldwide network rearchitecture 12/07-9/08: Principal Service Engineer; Senior Manager, Service Engineering Managing the serving operations team for a new product: 6+ direct reports in US (Burbank and Santa Clara), plus a manager + team in Bangalore Deployment of a global serving platform for Yahoo!s new ad products Day-to-day operation of 1k+ hosts, 10k+ QPS Technical lead and primary contributor for integration and deployment of a proprietary in-memory data service Systems Engineer; Data Center Manager; Sr. Systems Administrator: MobiTV Emeryville, CA — 2005-2007 (2.5 years) Systems Engineer, Office of the CTO Managing several new projects for the CTO’s office: New datacenter planning Restructured network, servers, Operations teams RFP for Encoders, Digital Asset Manager Data Center Manager In addition to ongoing SA duties, lead a team of 3-5 engineers and 2 outsourced management partners for worldwide data center operations. Technical lead and primary contributor for production Linux operation; secondary for production network operation Deployed the new offsite data center Vendor, hardware, and software selection Hardware and software installation and integration Deployment of HA gigabit network, border to all servers (500, capacity for 1000) Staffing and management of the DC team Senior Systems Administrator Production System Admin / Architect for ~ 200 RHEL 3 servers in the US and UK. On a team with 4 other SAs for on-call rotation, as well as primary role for redesigning and deploying a new production data center. $multi-million budget for scaling production services Projected 900+ server environment Projected savings of $5mm - $10mm over 2 years Supporting worldwide production services Developed and deployed deep service monitoring using Cricket, Nagios Technologies: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Outside Sales Engineer; Data Return, LLC Pleasanton, CA — 2004-2005 (1 year) Solution Architect / Sales Engineer supporting 7 District Sales Managers in the Western US. 50% travel; remote employee reporting to Dallas, TX Customer-facing interaction including design, recommendation, negotiation, evaluation Migration of production facilities to Data Return’s managed services Consolidation of existing servers and services Technologies: Sun & Solaris, HP with Windows 2003, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Prior to 2004 Mixed System Administration & Software Development roles San Francisco, CA; Tallahassee, FL; Melbourne, FL; Atlanta, GA
Education	Florida State University Master of Business Administration — 2000 Focus on Entrepreneurial Finance. Employed full time in two research departments as a UNIX systems administrator. Georgia Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science in Computer Science — 1997 Specializations in EE Digital Systems; Graphics, Visualization, and Usability; Software Engineering Employed as TA; UNIX Adminstrator in several labs; engineer for Technologic, Inc; engineer for NationsBank
Skills	Management Multi-level management (ICs, Managers) in a global matrix organization Career development Sourcing, interviewing, hiring Team building & reorganization Technical management of software projects Hands-on / technical Communication & presentation to senior management Software design and development Systems adminsitration Architecture and large-scale system design Vendor selection and management
References	Available upon request.