Lead a 16 person organization of 2 teams: Call Delivery and Call Delivery Enterprise Management
Call Delivery (Team 1) responsibilities: support, engineering and solutions for an Alvaria (Noble) dialer
Call Delivery Enterprise Management (Team 2) responsibilities: support of the call center including real time management of all agents, queues, pacing, real time dashboards and metrics
Individual responsibilities: Employee management via Workday, weekly one on ones with all members of Team 1, direct one on one with Manager of Team 2, development then implementation of new inventory system, strategy, guidance, motivation, direction and protection for both teams.
Engineering Manager
Blizzard Entertainment
12.2021 - 02.2023
Manager of the Activision, Blizzard, King Global Real Time Communications Team
Team responsibilities included Unified Communications, Zoom, Parsec, Legacy Telecom, Call Center, Video Conferencing, Audio Visual, Meeting Room Experience and Cellular support across the Activision, Blizzard and King global organization
9 Direct Reports in the UK, Spain and North America
Activision - 2 Engineers and 1 Support Blizzard - 2 Engineers and 1 Support King - 3 Engineers
Engineering Manager
Blizzard Entertainment
02.2021 - 12.2021
Manager of the Blizzard Real Time Communications Team
Team responsibilities included Zoom, Parsec Unified Communications, Legacy Telecom, Call Center, Video Conferencing, Audio Visual, Cellular support across Blizzard
3 Direct Reports located in the US and France
Blizzard - 2 Engineers, 1 Support
Lead Telecom Engineer
Blizzard Entertainment
08.2018 - 02.2021
Lead engineer responsible for the engineering of a multi-cluster + Webex Teams + Expressway deployment
Lead engineer on CUCM , SME , Unity Connection , VCS-E, VCS-C, TMS and CMS deployments
Lead engineer on VMN (Video Mesh Node) and full Webex deployment Cisco Collab Endpoints - 88xx, 79xx , Webex Teams, Room Kits Primary targets are leading and improving the performance of other members that are on the team
Principal Collaboration Engineer
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia
11.2010 - 08.2018
Principal Engineer for ongoing conversion from a legacy Nortel TDM SL100, CS2100, CS1k, Option 11 infrastructure to a full stack Cisco Collaboration deployment
Principal Engineer for ongoing architecture, design, resource management and delivery of all new facilities buildings + projects
Cisco Collaboration Infrastructure - Enterprise License Agreement, CUCM, Unity Connection, IMP, TFTP|Proxy TFTP, ELM, PLM, Webex SaaS, RTMT, Prime Collaboration Assurance and Analytics Cisco Collab Endpoints - 8851, 8832, 8831, 8961, 7965, 3905, IP Communicator, Jabber, Webex Teams, 8821|7925 WiFi phones, 3rd Part SIP devices Cisco Contact Center - PCCE 11.6(1) and 10.5(3), ICM, CVP, VXML, Finesse , CUIC , ECE and SocialMiner
Installation, support, admin|MAC of Avaya PBXs(multiple versions) Installation, support, admin of Avaya Voice Mail and CMS systems Design, support, admin|MAC of Avaya based VOIP systems Installation, support, admin|MAC of Nortel PBXs (11c and 81c) Installation, support, admin|MAC of Nortel MerMail, CallPilot and Symposium Support and admin of Aspect ACD systems Design, support, admin, installation of Verint and NICE Call recording systems integrating with both Avaya and Nortel Design, support, installation of all Telco services including T1|DS3|Toll-free Enterprise lead on design, support, installation of Symon Readerboard System
Information Systems Engineer
L-3 Communications (CSE)
Camden
03.2000 - 11.2005
Support of Department of Defense classified telcomm|network infrastructure and projects Installation , support, admin|MACD of Avaya G3 PBX Installation, support , admin|MACD of Avaya Audix Voice Mail Wiring support including punch downs, moves and new cross-connects
Telecom Administrator
MicroWarehouse, Inc
Gibbsboro
09.1996 - 02.2000
Installation, support, admin|MACD of Nortel Option 81c PBX Installation, support, admin|MACD of Nortel MerMail Primary design and support of Nortel Open and Integrated IVR
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform