Rob Gooch

About Rob Gooch

Senior Technology Executive with 15+ years experience leading globally distributed teams of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Platforms, DevOps, Network Engineering, Storage Engineering, Data Center Operations, and Campus Network. Proven track record of architecting, building, and maintaining technology systems while owning a $45M P&L.Leadership experience includes leading 50+ individuals across the US and Europe, creating individuals\' personal development and performance plans, and ensuring OKRs are understood and achieved using coaching and leadership principles.Career Highlights:• Oversaw technology systems growth from $250M to $3.8B ARR while managing global organizations of 50+ people and maintaining 98% retention rate with 9.5/10 NPS score• Maintained 99.995% uptime year over year for global company • Reduced mean time to recovery (MTTR) 40% across all technology departments by developing and implementing Incident Response to standardize reporting • Reduced CapEx $12M to $6M by leveraging existing capitalized expenditures (while company grew from $2B to $3.8B)• Saved $15M over 5 years by migrating 3 colocation data center facilities • Elastically scaled private cloud infrastructure to support 205% customer and 114% sales growth in Q2 2020• Helped 10+ individuals secure senior leadership promotions through direct training and mentorship.Key Skills and Tools:Skills: Coaching and Mentoring, Communication Skills, Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Data Visualization, Cross-Functional Leadership, OKRs / KPIs, Stakeholder Management, Data Analysis, Strategic Planning, Financial Acumen, Project Management, Global Collaboration, Budget Management, Software Development, Emerging Technologies, Vendor Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Regulatory Compliance (SOX and PCI), Change Management, Talent Acquisition and Development, Performance Optimization, Scalability, Machine Learning, Business Continuity Disaster Recovery (BCDR), Cloud Architecture, Digital Transformation, Continuous Improvement, Quality Assurance, Incident ManagementTools: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), OpenStack, Kubernetes (K8s), Splunk, Elastic Search, New Relic, Service Now, Asana, Catchpoint, Slack, Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Confluence, VMWare, KVM, Hyper-V

Experience

1. Senior Director, Network Engineering

   Proofpoint

   Jun 2024 — Present · Draper, UT, US

Skills

• Product Management
• Dns
• Vpn
• Disaster Recovery
• Voip
• Data Center
• Virtualization
• Networking
• Network Architecture
• Load Balancing
• Troubleshooting
• Security
• Linux
• Team Leadership
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Network Security
• Network Engineering