Okta

Leading the Developer Velocity project (#1 engineering initiative) to break down our monolith to improve speed for all developers. I also formed and now lead an architecture committee comprised of chief and principal architects, allowing us to promote long term technical excellence and decision making for the organization.

Engineering Principal Technical Program Manager

Edgio

Completed the merger of Yahoo + Limelight to form Edgio which now serves nearly 20% of the world's internet traffic.

Manager, Technical Program Management, CTO Org

Yahoo

Managed, mentored, and led a team of 10 Technical Project Managers. Orchestrated company wide planning events for 22 teams and 142+ engineering/product people across multiple locations and time zones.

Manager, Strategic Programs, Technical Program Management

Built out the global platform at scale and reduced business exposure to disaster scenarios within Yahoo Edgecast. I additionally built and led the innovation labs arm within the company from the ground up, producing unique forward looking projects that have earned patents.

Senior Technical Program Manager, Strategic Programs

Verizon Media

TechOps agile focused role where I led a team of 4 Technical Project Managers within the PMO. My team and I successfully completed agile transformations in operations.

Manager, Technical Project Management Office

Managed the strategic partner and infrastructure program around the world, building infrastructure at the edge of the internet in new and emerging markets.

Sr. Technical Project Manager

Planed and built datacenter infrastructure at the edge of the internet in major cities and markets across the globe to increase performance for end users “eyeballs” of the internet—from streaming video, images, applications, credit card transactions, and more.

Technical Project Manager

Southern California Edison (SCE)

A mix of engineering and project management: I was responsible for executing high voltage multi-million dollar substation projects that provide power for northern LA, eastern LA, and southern Orange counties. Worked with teams of 15-50 stakeholders regularly to complete engineering on 90+ substation projects to date. Work impacted millions of customers within the region. Fun fact: I had a big part in the effort to restore nationwide grid stability after San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was shut down.

Project Engineer

I write about program management in an effort to challenge what we know about it. My goal is for you to make a bigger impact as a program and project leader. I write a newsletter that breaks down program tactics that you can use (link in bio).

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My work experience (the regular LinkedIn stuff):
12 years of leading infrastructure and software projects at scale. 3 years leading direct reports with the last team being 10 people. I lead organizational process creation, strategic programs, and implementation of right-sized agile frameworks appropriate for the organization's use case (agile as a tool, not a dogma).

Matt McDannel

Siden

Head of Technology

Director Of Engineering

Principal Architect, CDN Engineering

Verizon Digital Media Services

Network Architecture and Automation

AT&T

Network & Systems Architect

Twitter

Engineering

Google

Engineering at Google
- Patent: 14/230,291 Specifying a MAC Address Based on Location

Telstra

Media Distribution Architect
•	Telstra's CDN Architect (Delivering a T-box and FOXTEL live IP streams, and VoD)
•	Adaptive streaming head-end architecture & deployment (~40 channels adaptive bit rates, multiple formats (HLS, Smooth, Widevine)
•	Multicast IPTV delivery solution impact assessment (DSL, Cable, FTTP, LTE)
•	Mobile network streaming platform, including development of certificate authentication on F5 load-balancers
•	Targeted advertising architecture, including DRM impacts
•	Telstra Media cross product QoE monitoring, alarming, and compliance architecture (MediaProxy, Ineoquest)

Media Architecture

Sensis

•	Design, implementation, upgrades, and trouble-shooting of very large high performance online Internet environment, including Cisco 6500s, Cisco PIX FWSMs, Netscreens 500s, NetApp Filers & Netcaches, Alteon
•	Consulting on behalf of the network team to help business reach key requirements
•	Primary network support escalation point (3rd level support)
o	Enterprise network environment including, >200 Cisco routers & switches, >20 Cisco PIX Firewalls, >50 WAN sites, >50 Cisco Access Points
•	Migrated CitySearch online environment to another (Cisco load-balancer to Alteon)
•	Migration of many sites from Frame Relay to fully redundant IPMAN with BGP
•	Work on many other smaller projects (Fixing spanning tree issues, Intrusion detection)
•	Avaya VoIP implementation & trouble-shooting of >1400 handsets (Testing, QOS, Firewall)
•	Administered Unix hosts including Sun Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, Network Appliance.Filers
•	Documented the environments (network diagrams), carried out security approval and change processes

Senior Network Engineer

Smarter Networks Pty Ltd - Dial & DSL ISP

•	Overhauled and maintained broadband DSL ISP network infrastructure (including Riverstone routers (4 BGP peers), multiple Cisco 7513 BRAS, Ascend & Cisco 5300 RAS, Net2Net SDSL DSLAM, Unix (Linux/FreeBSD) Mail/Web/DNS hosts, AAA Radius servers, Statefull firewalls, Layer 4 load-balancers, NetApp Filers & NetCache, 3Com and Lucent ATM switches, Lucent GE switches, Sun E450s)
•	Built & maintained IP based billing systems, including Netflow and Perl programming.  Upgraded legacy MS Access billing platform to the package Extent with Sun/Oracle backend.  Also migrated dail-up billing system to the package Rodopi, based on Windows 2000 IIS and MSSQL.  Data manipulation with Perl
•	Product introduction, including per-client ISP based firewalling, QOS, and active monitoring services
•	Senior support for the dial up business, including Cisco 5300s and Lucent RAS
•	Pre/Post sales consultation to clients about network improvements in both WAN and LAN
•	Systems Integrator and trouble-shooting for client networks, typically including Windows and Exchange.  Firewall and IPSec VPN configurations, including Citrix scenarios
•	Migrated internal phone services to WAN based 3Com NBX VoIP solution (with IVR)
•	Hiring manager

General/Network Manager

Saise

•	Solution Consultant and System Integration
•	Design, implementation, and supported broadband DSL ISP, included Cisco 7507s BRAS, Riverstone 8000s (BGP and core), AAA Radius (Radiator)
•	Built clustered Unix (Linux/FreeBSD) for DNS, Mail, Web (including MySQL authentication, and complete web administration), with Network Appliance storage, Riverstone 3000 load-balancers
•	Systems Integrator and presales for client WAN & LAN (Security audits, Firewall/IPSec VPN implementations, Netscreen, Watchguard, Sonicwall, Checkpoint, Cisco PIX, Extreme switches)
•	Network Administrator (Unix external hosts, 40 user Windows 98/NT/2000, Exchange, MSSQL, VMware)

Systems Integration

Leadership and Management
- Thought leadership, Business alignment through collaboration, and the ability to establish credibility through quality technical execution
- Cost optimization

Architecture
- Able to apply a big-picture perspective to assess technical architectures and understand functional requirements
- Can define and articulate the best technology strategies for security, reliability, scalability, and cost effectiveness
- Software development

Platform Engineering and Operations
- Offer a service provider and data center focus - architecture, deployment, optimization, and support
- Execute roadmaps with responsibility for meeting requirements, providing all necessary functions, testing and QA, maintainability, etc.  Able to identify lessons learned and integrate training into each project

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