Curt Sundell

About Curt Sundell

As a Technical Operations Manager at ObservePoint, I leverage my 20 years of enterprise…

Experience

1. Technical Operations Manager

   Observepoint

   Nov 2015 — Present

   SaaS platform management to maintain maximum system uptime and stability• Datacenter, cloud operations, InfoSec, and DevOps• Manage corporate IT functions• Collaborate with sales and consulting to provide technical guidance and perform security reviews and audits for customers• Manage technology purchasing, vendor relationships• Infrastructure and application securityAccomplishments: • Drove security improvements across the organization by initiating 3rd party infrastructure/application security testing, adding secure access methods, expanding security policy and procedures, and evangelizing a security mindset throughout the company• Scoped and implemented major hardware and architecture migrations, including transition from standalone services to containerized Docker/Rancher platform• Planned and executed a migration of all product operations from physical datacenter to AWS cloud environment, facilitating dynamic auto-scaling to support changing workload requirements and faster response to load increases• Streamlined and standardized customer security review process to facilitate faster turnaround for sales teams• Led DevOps engineers to standardize and automate tools, enabling development and QA teams to be more consistent and effective• Performed telecommunication system migrations to reduce in-house management and support, while improving stability and reliability• Managed $1.2MM in annual AWS spend, and additional ~$750K in technology spend• Executed and drove cloud spending reduction by up to 50% through optimizations and infrastructure improvements• Collaborated with the engineering team to perform migration from in-house system tools to full AWS managed services• Provided support and guidance in transition to DevOps model, with distributed infrastructure and application support across the engineering team

Education

• Utah Valley University

  Information Technology

  2003 — 2008

• Western Governors University

  Information Technology

  2011 — 2015

Skills

• Os X
• Cisco Technologies
• Leadership
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Team Building
• Hardware
• Office 365
• International Project Management
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Storage Area Networks
• Computer Hardware
• Windows
• Microsoft Exchange
• Enterprise Mobility
• Wireless Mobility
• Telephony
• Network Administration
• Project Management
• System Administration
• Microsoft Office
• Vmware
• Telecommunications
• Dns
• Integration
• Vendor Relationship Management
• Exchange Online
• Voip
• Data Center
• Troubleshooting
• Storage
• Tcp/Ip
• Networking
• International Relations
• Virtualization
• Vendor Management