Experiences at Western Digital Technology

Lead a core team of nine IT professionals -- Network Administrators, Senior Telecom Technician, Helpdesk -- and provide indirect oversight to project teams of up to 12. Manage all human resources activities including recruiting, hiring, retention, performance evaluation, coaching and promotions. Allocate and control $1.1 million IT budget. Source, select and manage relationships with software and hardware vendors, and IT service providers/partners....

Top-ranking IT executive -- reporting directly to the corporate COO and VP of Global Information Technology -- for a mission-critical technology research and development group (as Senior Manager of Information Services, reported to the corporate CIO; a position that has since been dissolved). Manage all aspects of operations for an IT organization (two locations, 450+ employees, 800+ users and growing) encompassing CAD, design analysis and environmental testing, and manufacturing. Concurrently lead cross-functional management and technology teams across Western Digital worldwide -- Lake Forest and Fremont, CA, Malaysia and Thailand....