Tom B.

Cloud Architect Lead at Starbucks

New Braunfels, Texas, United States

About

Constantly seeking to improve life through technology, by delivering simple elegant technical solutions, where the focus is on actionable information not the technology itself. Specialties: Scaling and building large physical or cloud deployments. Favorite Starbucks Beverage; Grande Americano w/ room.

Experience

  • Starbucks (21 yrs)
    • Cloud Architect- Lead
      Dec 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

      Consult with Development teams on concept designs for applicability to Well Architected Framework practices around Resiliency, Cost and Security for Cloud deployment and design. Create and Apply patterns and best practice to internal technology efforts for usability and consistency. Collaborate with teams on new designs to ensure we are leveraging ESM (Enterprise Service Management) practices through development lifecycle.

    • Cloud Architect
      Oct 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 10 mos

      Design and build out Cloud Centric Applications and Enterprise systems.

    • Enterprise Architect
      Jul 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 1 mo

      Design and build out future Enterprise systems with focus on enabling integration with Business Intelligence and infrastructure capabilities.

  • CISSP, Engineer at T-Mobile
    Nov 2004 - Nov 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Responsible for integrating new technologies into the Lab environment centered around Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Ericsson, and Motorola GSM and MMS componets. Network and security centric.

  • Network Operations Engineer at T-Mobile
    May 2002 - Aug 2003 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Implemented infrastructure modifications into the Network Operations Center and rolled out that [Seattle]implementation to Dallas and Austin as well. Led efforts to decrease company wide system alert/alarm coordination [2000 %].

  • VP DataCenter at FastIdeas
    Jan 2000 - Jan 2001 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Drive and select technology for the underpinnings of our accelerator customers. Correlate 8 startups to internet trajectories. Build and support computing environments for extensible shared usage.

  • Director Network Operations at MatchLogic(Excite)
    Aug 1996 - Dec 2000 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    MatchLogic(Excite), Westminster Colorado Negotiated deals to bring together Excite, SUN, and EMC for shared storage back end infrastructure. Architect and built a Global distributed ad-serving infrastructure responsible for 100% uptime while completing almost a billion transactions a day. Designed expansion of Data Center operations and services to an international scale, incorporating Germany and London facilities. Managed prioritization of operations tasks and capacity for 400% expansion over one year period. Designed system monitors, on call strategies and reporting methodologies.