Yuri Yaport

**** ******* ***., ***** *****, CA **051

415-***-**** s acr938@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

Seasoned IT Professional with many accomplishments in various areas of IT Operations, Automation, DevOps, Platform Management, Project Management, Network Engineering and Security.

Professional Summary:

Solid knowledge of all aspects of SaaS/PaaS operations, NOC and IT/MIS

Expert knowledge of wide variety of switching, routing, security, load balancing platforms

Experience with designing, building and operating platforms for various WEB and Enterprise Applications

Experience building server platform based on VMware, ESXi and ZEN solutions

Worked with major cloud providers (e.g. Amazon AWS, Azur, RackSpace and Terremark)

Carried 24/7/365 responsibilities for high availability, integrity and performance

Managed outsourced service and platform development

Knowledge of retail systems and supporting Ecommerce applications

Familiar with DB platforms (Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, CouchDB)

Managed CRM/ERP applications, SFDC, Data-Warehouses / Data-Marts, OLAP/Reporting

Troubleshooting, optimization, clustering, monitoring, backup and security of UNIX/Linux and Win32/64

Experience with NAS and SAN storage solutions

Excellent negotiation/communication skills with vendors, service providers and consulting firms.

Responsible for security, PCI, SOX, SAS 70 / SSAE 16 (SOC 2) certification and compliances.

Operated under ITSM processes and ITIL standards.

Managed sizable teams of IT professionals and multimillion dollar budgets.

Experience:

Selectica, Inc. 2012– 2015

Senior Director IT Web Operations

Responsible for Web Operations, NOC/SOC, DevOps. Managed US and offshore teams.

Created new scalable SaaS platform for a hundred large enterprise customers (Nike, Biogen, Discover, PepsiCo, Disney, ADP, etc.) integrated with SFDC, CRM, ERP.

Planned and managed strategic migration to AWS clouds infrastructure. Developed a new cost efficient platform usage / management schema.

Build 24x7x365 NOC/SOC (Network Operations Center / Security Operations Center), hired and trained staff, established standard operating procedures and workflow.

Lead creation of automated provisioning, configuration management and deployment framework.

Created advanced security schema, policies and procedure, IDS/IPS solutions under SIEM.

Build advance proactive monitoring, scalability management, HA, DR solutions under tight SLAs.

Created interaction and communication process and workflow with engineering, sustaining, sales, product management, support and professional services teams.

Managed all IT and Web Operation aspects of two acquisitions.

Managed relationship with vendors/providers; negotiated special deals.

Provided expert assistance for the Sales and Account Management teams during critical engagements.

Lead SSAE 16 SOC 2, TRUSTe SafeHarbor audits compliance and certification.

Significantly reduced operating costs.

Logitech, Inc. 2009– 2012

Senior Manager IT Web Services

Responsible for consolidating platform and services for independent web services BUs. Created strategy for consolidating web services, advanced ecommerce solution, security framework, and cloud migration. Modeled financial benefits of the new strategy and multimillion dollar savings on a modest initial investment.

Managed IT Web Services for the Digital Home Group (DHG). Created and executed new operational workflows and procedures.

Managed consolidation of datacenters and integration with cloud providers and backend platform migration to VMware ESX/ESXi.

Managed cloud initiatives such as provisioning on demand and auto scaling, geographical redundancy and disaster recovery.

Introduced one-click deployment framework and continues deployment process.

Established platform monitoring, statistics collection/analysis and upgradability path.

Deployed automated inventory and support management solution.

Organized 24/7 Tier II support. Created SOPs and incident management workflows.

Defined new security standards and production systems access management protocol.

Manage relationships with various vendors and services provides.

Skiff (FirstPaper), LLC. (Hearst Digital Media) Acquired by NewsCorp 2008 –2009

Sr. Director of Web Operations / IT

Responsible for managing the OPS/IT team.

Led joint efforts with Operations and Server Engineering to design and implement a highly scalable and geographically distributed service platform for major (domestic/international) publishing corporations over Mobile Broadband networks to Android, Linux and Windows Mobile devices.

Maximized platform efficiency by leading architectural efforts to create a highly scalable, fault tolerant network infrastructure with 99.998% availability.

Provided expertise in network/security engineering for Linux/Unix based application platforms.

Lead creation of scalable production CRM and ERP platforms with HighDeal (SAP) price/rating engine as well as data-warehouse based reporting/OLAP.

Built relationships and integrated services with Mobile Broadband network providers (Vodafone and Sprint), logistics and reverse logistics centers, MFG, various vendors and service providers.

Architected a high performance database backend based on redundant SAN infrastructure.

Created SOPs and workflows. Established proactive monitoring and NOC platforms for 24/7 services.

Led PCI/SOX compliance efforts.

Identified and outsourced routine system/database administration tasks.

Dash Navigation, Inc. (Acquired by RIM) 2006 – 2008

Director of IT and Network Operations

Responsible for creating and managing both IT and Operations teams for Network Connected Navigation Devices. Created operational platform which provided nationwide real-time traffic information, local searches, RSS, etc., for mobile “in-dash” devices over GPRS and Wi-Fi networks.

Recruited the team of IT/Operations professionals.

Built a new datacenter under high-availability and strict security requirements (collocation based). In conjunction with engineering, created network and server application standards and specs.

Established SOPs and workflows based on 24/7 requirements. Successfully deployed custom proactive monitoring system. Created platform for business and data warehousing applications.

Provided hands-on network engineering/architecture expertise. Adopted PCI standards to meet certification requirements.

Managed the budget and substantially reduced operational spending.

Zinio Systems, Inc. 2002 – 2005

Director of Web Operations / IT

Responsible for building and managing both the Web Operations and the Corporate IT teams for a Digital Content distribution company, which provides an application platform and services for Time Inc., McGraw Hill, Acer, Ziff Davis, VNU, Hearst, Taurus, Playboy Enterprises, and many others publishers around the world.

Managed multiple data centers based on collocation facilities under 24/7 support with 99.998% availability requirements as well as corporate and development computing platforms. Created a number of PRDs and supervised the Product Management for IT and Operations related development projects. Managed the development and implementation of a custom monitoring system.

Organized Hotline services and a custom NOC based on an outsourced provider. Managed the Data Center relocation, company offices moves and the acquisition of the purchased company.

Ejasent, Inc. (Acquired by VERITAS/Symantec) 2000 – 2002

Senior Network Architect

Responsible for managing the network development and deployment team for one of most promising, startup companies in industry, which provided an Application Caching solution (Cloud) and a service platform for Sprint, Delta Airlines, Charles Schwab, MapQuest, CrickInfo, Sony and many other large enterprises.

Responsible for design, implementation and support of a large nationwide network infrastructure for 28 datacenters. Managed relations with vendors, service providers, government organizations and contractors.

Organized 24/7 Operations and Support schema. Responsible for knowledge transfer and staff training.

Mercury Interactive, Inc. (Acquired by HP) 2000– 2000

Senior Network Engineer

Lead network design and implementation projects as well as provided hands-on network engineering expertise.

Built the network platform for Mercury Topaz and E-Load services.

Responsible for reorganizing Corporate Headquarter networks and migration to a common hardware platform. Participated in building worldwide WAN infrastructure for 28 offices worldwide.

Auspex Systems, Corp. 1999 – 2000

Senior Network Engineer

Responsible for organizing a network platform for the Engineering, QA, Marketing, and Sales and Support departments.

Lead design, implementation of and maintenance for a network infrastructure divided over 140 VLAN segments.

Successfully managed the network system based on multiple topologies Ethernet, Token Ring, ATM/SONET, and FDDI/CDDI.

Provided technical training for Developers and Field engineers on a regular basis.

Cylink Corporation - Cylink Wireless/P-Com 1996 – 1999

Site Operations Manager/Project Manager

S. Levy Corp. 1994– 1996

Network Engineer/System Administrator

ELEX Silicon Valley, Inc. 1990 – 1994

System Administrator

Education:

BS, Applied Mathematics, State University of St. Petersburg, Russia.

Patent (US 200********): Method and System for Parallel Data Transmission on Demand to Unlimited Number of Clients without Acknowledgment and the Basis of Constant Data Availability.

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