Bill Urban

About Bill Urban

Seasoned technical and organizational leader emphasizing coordination of design, engineering, and operations to deliver clearly-defined and ambitious business objectives. Broad industry experience spanning global-scale computing infrastructure, enterprise software, aerospace, and research. Strong management skills: identifying talent, coaching and development, and organizational design.

Experience

1. Engineering Director

   Google

   Dec 2004 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US

   2020: Director, Google Core Organization. Formulating, structuring, and leading efforts to develop, extend, and revamp critical systems used throughout Google to enable efficient, safe product development and power compelling user experiences.20••••20: Manager, Google Maps Program Office. Responsible for governance and execution of strategic programs across a team spanning multiple globally-visible products and geographically distributed teams.20••••16: Manager, Technical Infrastructure Deployment Engineering (TIDE). Founded and led an interdisciplinary organization to accelerate penetration and adoption of new technologies into Google\'s data center infrastructure. Established scalable practices to bridge new-product introduction, capacity delivery, and production operations for compute, storage, networking, and other foundational technologies.20••••13: Manager, Platforms Infrastructure Software. Assembled and expanded a software team focused on monitoring, automation, and control of smart devices integrated with Google\'s data center platform systems. Launched a corresponding production engineering team to manage these systems to clearly defined and monitored reliability levels.20••••10: Manager, Platforms Program Office: Led and developed the team responsible for technical program management of all data center infrastructure initiatives at Google. Managed through rapid growth to deliver first-of-a-kind products spanning a vast range of disciplines: servers, storage devices, networking systems, data center architectures, systems for power delivery and cooling. 20••••07: Platforms Program Manager: Provided project and technical oversight for product-development projects critical to the rapid growth of Google\'s data center infrastructure during this period, including multiple generations of compute servers and novel cluster networking systems.

Education

• Stanford University

  M.S., Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

• Princeton University

  B.S.E, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Skills

• Software Development
• Saas
• Distributed Systems
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Unix
• Agile Methodologies
• Enterprise Software
• Cloud Computing
• Integration
• Linux
• Mobile Devices
• Telecommunications
• Perl
• Strategy
• Program Management
• System Architecture