Sophia M. Otero

About Sophia M. Otero

The most attractive qualities of my professional career are the ability to teach myself new things and learn on the go. It\'s where I flourish and the biggest benefit I bring to new businesses and teams. From showing up to my first ship in the Navy at age 22 where I was a leading systems engineer, managing 25 Sailors, to utilizing my statistic-heavy graduate degree to teach myself how to build AI/ML/deep learning models, I\'ve always been able to adapt and learn quickly. To that end, these traits led me to achieve the following-10 years of experience as a product manager within the defense and technology sectors-6 years of experience as a data scientist within both the start-up and technology sectors-13 years of experience as a people manager across DoD & technology sectors-10 years of active duty service in the U.S. Navy-121st woman to graduate from The Citadel

Experience

1. Principle Technical Program Manage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

   Oracle

   Oct 2024 — Present · New Orleans, LA, US

   Overview: Senior TPM managing Oracle’s largest revenue-generating media & entertainment customers\' cloud infrastructure requirements-Managed on-prem to OCI cloud migration for one of the largest film production companies in the industry, with no impact to ongoing movie production schedules-Scoped, roadmapped, and delivered critical streaming cloud infrastructure requirements to meet global streaming requirements & high-network traffic streaming events such as the recent presidential election and Super Bowl-Conducted proof of concepts in parallel to evaluate future media customer needs to transition services between competing public cloud providers-Onboarded media customer 3-party vendors to OCI’s public cloud to ensure software was scalable and adaptable in our cloud, resulting in customers maintaining the ability to build and stream content in our cloud with efficiency and reduced cost-Utilized historical CPU & GPU movie production and streaming data to forecast future needs, ensuring compute and network requirements were met based on customer requirements.

Education

• National University of Singapore

  Master of Science (M.S.), Systems Engineering

• Naval Postgraduate School

  Master of Science (M.S.), Data Science

• The Citadel

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Health exercise and sports science