Hybrid Cloud Operational Excellence

Jason Bothe

Vancouver, WA ***** 713-***-****

linkedin.com/in/jason-bothe ******@**.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Engineering leader and transformation expert with over 20 years of experience that includes driving development of a variety of solutions. Skilled in defining technical vision in alignment with business needs. Proven ability to achieve operational excellence with a focus on observability and data-driven decision making with a bias towards execution. Effective communicator, motivator, and leader able to build teams and foster cultures that value judgment, empathy, and accountability.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MOODY’S 1/2020 - CURRENT

VICE-PRESIDENT - GLOBAL MANAGER OF CONNECTIVITY - PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE

• Responsible for the architecture and direction of infrastructure and network transformation initiatives including hybrid cloud that drive Moody’s global credit, risk, and analytics platforms, and presence in over 20 points of presence (POP) world-wide.

• Lead a highly skilled engineering and architecture team that design and execute continuous deployment of a software-defined secure, private global network to mitigate risk and foster cohesive connectivity from legacy on-prem environments to cloud including full stack automation of ground to cloud connectivity and front door unified (multi-cloud) landing zones leveraging F5 web application firewalls (WAF).

• Key liaison for infrastructure to lines of business to facilitate merger / acquisition activity and align resources as appropriate.

• Responsibilities include overseeing a departmental annual operating budget of $11MM, working with FP&A teams to analyze and provide forecasts based on current run-rates, and securing capital for strategic investments within the network/cloud infrastructure space. INVESCO 3/2017 – 1/2020

CHIEF ARCHITECT – NETWORK ENGINEERING – BACKBONE & EDGE

• Architected and led the deployment of Invesco’s next generation wide-area network world-wide utilizing both terrestrial and subsea private fiber wavelengths, establishing an ultra-highly available, scalable, and secure platform dual stacked with IPv4 and IPv6 to ensure continuity in a highly automated environment.

• Established 12 key points of presence globally to house key infrastructure to support a global hybrid cloud offering as well as regional compute and storage solutions to eliminate the traditional

‘hair pinning’ of client/server traffic.

• Responsible for the design and deployment of Internet edge architecture around the world to ensure branch offices and trading platforms are as close to the content/consumer as possible.

• Negotiate transit, peering and circuits that support our strategic initiatives. RICE UNIVERSITY 10/2012 – 1/2017

MANAGER OF NETWORKING

• Technical manager leading a team of six network architects and network engineers responsible for RiceNet Network Operations, Southeast Texas Giga POP ‘SETG’ Network Operations

(Regional Research and Education Network), and Transformation Projects.

• Improved network availability from 99.9% to 99.999% with the successful upgrade and deployment to carrier-grade DC power systems

• Led the transformation of Rice University’s “RiceNet” campus network to a 100G backbone. The transformation project included a $20MM network refresh, deployment of Cisco and ADVA DWDM, Cisco CRS and ASR 9000 routing platforms, high levels of automation and virtualization, and the building of operating procedures for transfer to operations.

• Designed and led the successful campus-wide implementation of IPv6 utilizing MPLS 6vPE.

• Served as peering coordinator, successfully negotiating 12 interconnection agreements with ISPs and CDNs (e.g. Akamai, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon)

• Hired, led and mentored high performance network engineering team.

• Delivered on financial objectives, delivering under budget the operations and projects budgets for the fiscal year.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER - HOUSTON, TX 05/2011 – 10/2012 SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER

• Team lead of seven network engineers responsible for the operation and maintenance of a global mission-critical patient-care network

• Led the design and deployment of Cisco ONS DWDM transport to interconnect three core data centers

• Supported encology research networks including high-speed connectivity to CDC, national laboratories and Internet2

• Design an enhanced virtualized network architecture to reduce hardware footprint and allow for the cohabitation of an educational/research network environment with a healthcare network environment

• Lead cost saving measures by researching and suggesting migration strategies for legacy TDM solutions to next generation technologies such as VoIP/SIP.

• Advised other network engineers within the team on how to leverage overlay technologies for seamless DC interconnects

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Expert in BGP design and deployment at scale, with vast experience with overlay technologies such as EVPN VxLAN, MPLS VPN (L3-VPN), IPVPN, IPSec, GRE and other routing protocols/architectures including OSPF, EIGRP and IS-IS

• Architecting cloud solutions in AWS (ECS EC2, EKS, Docker, Lambda, transit gateway, direct connect) as well as Azure with knowledge in hybrid cloud leveraging Expressroute.

• Architecting Clos data center networks

• IPv6 including 6vPE

• Vast experience with Juniper, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and F5 hardware (IOS-XE, IOS-XR, JunOS, PanOS)

• Extensive knowledge of peering and establishing Internet Exchange ports along with colocation space

• Data center infrastructure design including power distribution AC and DC as well as high- density cabling systems such as Corning EDGE/EDGE8 product lines

• Optical transport platforms (DWDM) including multi-degree ROADM design

• Veteran interconnector with extreme knowledge of IP Transit and IX peering

• Proficient vendor management experience, particularly telecom carriers and network hardware

• DCIM software platforms including Netbox, Sunbird dcTrack and PowerIQ

• Network automation and orchestration using Ansible and Python scripting MEMBERSHIPS AND ORGANIZATIONS

• North American Network Operators Group (NANOG), Program Committee

• American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN)

• RIPE

• APNIC

• PeeringDB

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