IT Director

Raimonds Turaids ********@*****.***

650-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/raimonds

Summary

Information Technology and Operations Executive

IT Infrastructure and Operations leader with over 15 years experience designing, building and transforming IT technologies and teams. Proven project and team leadership with a zero attrition track record. Strong technical background with emphasis on education, mentoring and sta development. Expertise serving as an IT Subject Matter Expert for private organizations as well as within educational environments. Recognized for implementing cost-cutting solutions and e ciency improvements.

Areas of Expertise

Simpli ed IT

Operations and Strategy

Cloud First Approach

Program Management

Process Improvement

Cost Containment

IT Transformation

Multisite Computing

High Performance Teams

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

M&A IT Integration

IT-Business Partnerships

Sales and Marketing

Datacenter Infrastructure

E ective Change Process

Team, Project and Program Leadership

Led the team that designed, deployed and supported Cadence’s hybrid cloud infrastructure

Managed a 20,000 ft2 datacenter maintaining a 1.4 PUE. Managed multiple smaller regional datacenters

Realized $3M annual power and cooling savings by eliminating 8,000 servers and consolidating 8 datacenters

Achieved $500K annual savings converting to open source private cloud and virtualization technologies

Enabled $350M business group by establishing a DevOps approach to systemmanagement that implemented self-service and automation to reduce server deployment time from weeks to minutes

Established a multitenant infrastructure to host Engineering, IT and Cadence SaaS o ering infrastructure Established and led Cadence’s Data Science team and practice

Performed weekly analysis of 500K daily High Performance Compute (HPC) operations yielding a 10% increase in e ciency by categorizing and mitigating problematic jobs

Provided business groups regular analysis of HPC farm health and job status to the user community giving them unprecedented visibility and empowerment to optimize their job submissions

Bolstered Cadence’s company-wide software quality initiative through a systematic analysis of consolidated customer crash log reports, leading to the identi cation and resolution of several software bugs

Developed a consolidated communication systems dashboard allowing managers to visualize and adjust the cost impact of their teams’ communications

Grew Business and IT infrastructure from startup to a mature business

Transformed Verisity’s IT infrastructure from startup culture to world class datacenter

Established infrastructure and application controls for Verisity’s Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

Built Etairos’ sales team, created marketing strategy and collateral and established IT infrastructure

Successful IT integration of seven Cadence, Verisity and Etairos business acquisitions Modernized Cadence’s real-time collaboration infrastructure

Deployed Microsoft Lync for IM, video and presence; WebEx & Intercall for web and audio conferencing, resulting in improved, mobile-ready connectivity options for over 6,000 employees globally

Increased audio quality and reduced communication costs for international, road-warrior and SOHO users

Eliminated the 50% failure rate for external parties connecting to web conference meetings Raimonds Turaids Resume, Page 2

Overhauled the Cadence Video Conferencing infrastructure

Addressed three long standing pain points: Usability, performance and accessibility

Delivered a globalized and immersive collaboration tool allowing unlimited face to face collaboration among sites and between continents without incremental cost

Uni ed multiple collaboration systems to provide a consistent and uniform High De nition video experience via mobile, desktop, Lync and in-room video conferencing systems Led Cadence IT’s Web and Creative teams

Evaluated and selected the Web Content Management Platform (Adobe AEM), the Infrastructure (Amazon Web Services), and the web design rm to completely overhaul and modernize cadence.com

Built SharePoint based work

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Operated technology for trade show appearances, documented corporate events on video and produced and live-streamed major corporate events to other Cadence sites and remote employees

Led the video production team in production, lming, editing, and release of internal and external corporate messaging videos for IT and other business units

Built and maintained internal IT support structures

Introduced a \TechStop" facility at Cadence’s San Jose HQ to augment email and phone support, adding an immediate, in-person IT service option for a 2000 person user community

Implemented a \LiteSite" approach to support users and systems at sites without permanent IT presence, introducing same-day IT service for most issues

Managed Cadence’s San Jose Desktop Support, North American Field Operations and C-level Executive Support teams to deliver 24/7 IT support to our user community Professional Experience

Etairos Consulting 2014-Present

VP Sales and Marketing San Jose, CA

Santa Clara Uni ed School District 2001-Present

High Tech Instructor and Member of Advisory Board Santa Clara, CA Cadence Design Systems 2005-2014

Group Director, Information Technology San Jose, CA Verisity Design 2001-2005

Senior Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA

Kensington Technology Group 1999-2001

Quality Assurance Engineer San Mateo, CA

Education and Certi cation

University of California, Santa Barbara, California Bachelor of Science, Biological Sciences 1999

California Vocational Teaching Credential 2005

Microsoft Certi ed Systems Engineer 2000

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