Google

Bootstrapped the first effort to productize Google's Internet Edge Infrastructure for Product Areas (eg YouTube, Cloud, Search, etc), and to productize Google’s Peering offering for ISP, Teclos and Google Cloud Customers

Developed the product vision for Internet Edge and Peering, collaborating cross-functionally and across organizations to ensure alignment and a drive customer-centric approach.

Published quarterly product roadmaps and conducted product roadshows for internal and external customers to communicating product value and solicit feedback.

Produced comprehensive customer consumable solutions guides, product data sheets, and FAQs to facilitate customer adoption.

Took ownership of driving peering policy changes, enhancing Google's internet availability.

Developed the business case and authored multiple PRDs to bring feature parity for Google peering in line with other cloud providers.

Successfully developed and drove approval of internet connectivity and peering requirements for all Google Cloud regions.

Successfully developed and drove approval of peering pop infrastructure requirements for all new Google Cloud regions. 

Co-authored end user internet latency requirements for all Google Cloud regions.

Lead the effort to implement reduced cost network architecture updates for Google’s internet edge infrastructure at new Google Cloud regions saving $XXM.

Owned peering and internet edge product feature prioritization, ensuring strategic alignment with business objectives and customer needs.

Managed external-facing Google network and internet POP (Point of Presence) location counts, showcasing the breadth of Google's network to our customers.

Conduct market research and competitive analysis to identify market trends, customer needs, and growth opportunities.

Continuously developed and maintained relationships with executives, customers, and cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment on product goals, timelines, and deliverables.

Senior Product Manager, Peering and Internet Edge, Google Global Networking

Product Manager for Peering and Internet Edge, Google Global Networking

Product Manager, Peering and Internet Edge, Google Global Networking

Technical Program Manager, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)

Lead Customer Engineering team with a focus on Cloud Networking for the Western US.

Manager, Customer Engineering Network Specialist Team

Supporting Google Cloud Customers on all things cloud networking - Design, VPCs, Hybrid, VPN, Interconnect, DNS, GKE, etc

Google Cloud Customer Engineer, Network Specialist

Scaling Peering and GGC Planning by Automation

Technical Program Management

Team Lead, Peering and GGC Planning Americas Region

Peering, GGC (Google Global Cache) and Content Distribution for Google AS15169, AS36040, AS43515.  Interconnect planning and implementation management for Google content in the EMEA. 

Accountable for planning and implementation management of interconnection, peering and GGC (Google Global Caching) plans for network operators in the EMEA region. 

Developed and implemented peering strategy for Russia and CIS Countries

Analyze terabits of traffic flow data using complex SQL queries leveraging multiple data sources to assist in interconnection planning to optimize quality of user experience for Google services and reduce OPEX/CAPEX expenditures. 

Developed automated reporting dashboards based on those SQL queries and data visualization to automate planning for the global peering team to reduce hours of wasted time.

Serving as the primary technical point of contact for network operator peering coordinators and Network Operations (NOC) staff to facilitate troubleshooting of traffic flows, optimization of traffic flows and improve quality of user experiences by leveraging internal relationships, detailed BGP knowledge and Content Delivery (CDN) algorithms.

Represented Google at various peering conferences to enhance relationships with network operators by participating in frequent face to face detailed planning sessions. 

Produced short and long term interconnection, peering, transit and GGC forecasts to assist with global network planning.

Worked with various network operators globally to optimize their traffic flows by reconfiguring their Layer 2 and Layer 3 configurations using the above methods. 

Expertise in BGP, CDN Operations, Internet Routing, EMEA Colocation Facilities, Layer 1/2/3 provisioning and troubleshooting.

Markets I work specifically in are Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Gulf Region and Sub Saharan Africa. I also have experience work with United States network operators.

Technical Program Manager, Peering

Pacific Studios HOA

President of the Board of Directors, overseeing a community of 8 units.

In general, advocating for homeowners' interests and concerns, helping to drive increased property values, serving as a point of contact for inquiries, conflict resolution, and enforcing community policies and guidelines.

Lead and facilitate board meeting

Lead yearly budgeting and accounting efforts

Long term community financial planning

President of the Board of Directors

Microsoft

Responsibility for core network infrastructure deployment at edge locations and data centers from planning to production. 

Scope of deployment work includes high level design review, hardware procurement, development of low level design (rack layout diagrams, cable run list, etc), managing smart hands rack/stack, testing/validation of all hardware and layer 1 fiber optic components, final mesh into MPLS production network and interconnection turn up.

Developed work instructions for standardized core network deployments

Deployed Layer 1 -3 peering interconnection between public exchanges, private peers and paid transit providers located at colocation facilities worldwide. 

Developed internal relationships with Interconnection Team to understand peering and interconnection policies. 

Developed IP Address Management Policies for deployment engineers

Onboarded and developed deployment process for new Out of Band Router Deployments.

Worked daily with the following:
DWDM
Fiber Optics
MPLS
Colocation
Peering
Core Network Infrastructure
Deployment Engineering

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