Christopher Vasquez

About Christopher Vasquez

Experienced technology leader with a demonstrated history of IT Strategy and cultivating high performing enterprise technology teams. Skilled in Product and Service Management, IT Operations, Agile Methodologies, DevOps, and influencing the enterprise. I\'m passionate about technology, nailing the fundamentals, and the human experience in the enterprise.I\'ve most recently enjoyed owning the Product Management Organization for Retail Infrastructure Technology. This includes Development, Product Management, and Operations for retail infrastructure technology. I\'ve also enjoyed DevOps and Agile transformations in organizations leveraging my experience in Infrastructure and S/W Development to help bring the disciplines closer, cultivating growth, change, and maturation for teams along the way. I have built & led engineering and operations teams ranging in size from 5 to 50, owned solution architecture for communication and collaboration tools, led a monolithic to service-oriented architecture transformation, build a technical product management organization, and had a tour of solutions architecture and engineering consulting in many Fortune 100s. Technologies & Practices:Product and Service Management, Agile Project Management, IT Operations, Infrastructure Automation, Cloud, Server Virtualization, Workstation Management and Imaging, Load Balancers, Windows Server, Linux, Configuration Management, PowerShell, Hyper V, C#, Unity, GitHub, PagerDuty, Datadog, Slack, New Relic, Skype for Business, Google Apps for Enterprise.DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as Code, Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Lean, Kanban, SDLC, ITIL Service Management, Disaster Recovery.

Experience

1. Manager - Technical Product Management Retail Edge and Iot

   Starbucks

   Jun 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Leading Technical Product Management for Retail Edge and IoT

Education

• East Texas A&M University

  Bachelor's degree, Organizational Leadership

• University of Washington

  Certificate , Software Product Management

  2015 — 2017

• Brazosport College

  Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science

  2005 — 2007

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Microsoft Products
• Vmware
• Agile Project Management
• Mcitp
• Sccm
• Project Management
• Lync Server 2013
• Microsoft Exchange
• Itil Certified
• Hyper-V
• Virtualization
• IT Operations
• Sharepoint
• Windows 7
• Powershell
• Lync
• IT Service Management
• Microsoft Technologies
• Certified Professional Scrum Master Psm
• Windows 8
• Scom
• Scrum
• Microsoft Lync
• Disaster Recovery
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• IT Strategy
• Iis
• Mcitp Edst7 Certified
• System Deployment
• Itil
• Mcitp Eda: 7 Certified
• Itil 2011 Certified
• Integration