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Mark Garcia

Sr Manager Network Gateway Services, IBM Cloud Platform

IBM

Engineer

Location

Austin, Texas - United States

Industry

Information Technology & Services


Bio

A Senior Management Leader with 18 years of experience in conceptualizing, architecting, and leading world class infrastructures. Successful leadership and management of critical and high revenue generating SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS environments involving a complex and diverse range of storage, security, operating systems, and networking technologies. Expertise in process improvement, agile software development life cycles and design thinking practices. Highly focused in capacity planning, infrastructure design, architectural scalability, and datacenter management for Global Enterprises. Extremely analytical and data driven in executing on vision and direction for improving organizational health and establishing a cohesive team. Career Goals: - Immersion in building startups from innovative, relevant, and sound ideas. - Play key strategic roles in incubating ideas by providing my relevant experiences - Explore new technologies to provide scalable, efficient, and highly available infrastructures. - Building a healthy and strong organziation Qualification Highlights: ∞ Private/Public Cloud Expert ∞ Incubation to Production ∞ Open Source Evangelist ∞ Data Center Infrastructure ∞ Cost Savings Analysis ∞ Staff Development and Resource Forecasting ∞ Budget Forecasting ∞ Enterprise Resource Planning ∞ DevOps and Release Lifecycle ∞ Vendor Management ∞ Business Continuity Planning ∞ Process and Efficiency Expert Specialties: Infrastructure data/process work flow design and capacity planning, system build management, security auditing, scalability requirements, operational excellence, storage, network, firewall, and intricate network design.