
Senior Manager, Operations at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Manager, Operations at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
Engineering manager focusing on the interaction between development and internet operations. Currently with LinkedIn, previously with Yahoo! and Oracle. Direct experience with daily operations, scaling, and application deployment on large volume web properties handling data for hundreds of millions of customers. Special focus on "bridging the gap" between development and operations teams.
Highly reliable and available data storage, internet application failover and data replication
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2009 — Present (3 months)
Responsible for analyzing the production impact of new features and software releases to LinkedIn. By working proactively with development and other operations groups, ensure that proposed changes are well understood, resourced properly, and roll out smoothly without service interruption to our end users.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 3 months)
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
July 2005 — July 2008 (3 years 1 month)
Responsible for service engineering efforts for Yahoo's PIM properties, including Address Book and Calendar, that stored personal information for over 400 million users. Responsibilities included capacity planning, service and software deployment, and coordination of operations activities for these properties with network, storage, and system administration teams at Yahoo.
(Public Company; ORCL; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 2005 (10 years )
Engineering manager for packaging, integration and installation for Oracle's Internet Application Server. Managed a team responsible for integrating a diverse set of Oracle middleware and development tools products into a single unified suite.
BS and MS , Computer Science , 1986 — 1994
Internet operations, site performance and reliability, capacity planning