William Kent

About William Kent

Results oriented engineering & product leader driving transformative business growth with 20 years of experience in engineering, product management, development, Cloud, SaaS/PaaS/IaaS/LaaS, AI & ML, & technical program management who is passionate about working in dynamic, collaborative, high energy organizations. Demonstrated ability to achieve strategic goals in a fast-paced environment while delivering on-time, insightful analysis, & customer-focused results. Consistently displaying excellent problem-solving skills to evolve strategy to meet industry needs & achieve success in the technology, software, R&D, & hardware industries.

Experience

1. Tpm

   Snowflake

   Mar 2022 — Present

   Build & operate highly available, scalable, & cost-efficient distributed compute clusters, to reliably host workloads • Launched 11 critical features defining feature scope, capturing requirements, writing specs, & driving design & implementation (Unistore, Budgets, Snowpark optimized warehouses, Snowpark Container Services)• Drive insights identifying anomalies & operational enhancements yielding a 38% reduction in platform incidents• Train, deploy, and launch LLM for internal use & workloads, reducing report generation cycle by 21% • Anticipated technical constraints making tradeoffs to balance business needs providing escalation management ultimately accelerating feature launch by 17%• Established platform monitoring & SLOs, driving warehouse resume latency reduction of 91%• Established engineering-support touchpoint process reducing support ticket backlogs by 23%• Drove planning & roadmap for strategic initiatives & dependencies managing large scale distributed systems supporting & 4.4B queries/day, resulting in 68% YoY planform growth across AWS, Azure, & GCP • Developed parameter management enforcement policy enabling programmatic feature control

Education

• University of Colorado Boulder

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics

• University of Colorado

  B.S, Engineering Physics. Emphasis: Optical Electronics, Computer Science & Electrical Engineering

  2003 — 2007

• UW Foster School of Business

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Entrepreneurship and Risk Management, Finance and Financial Management Services

  2012 — 2015

Skills

• Analytics
• Troubleshooting
• Change Management
• Process Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Product Development
• Analysis
• Physics
• Process Improvement
• Matlab
• Root Cause Analysis
• Programming
• Lean Manufacturing
• R
• Agile Methodologies
• Testing
• Management
• Ms Project
• Laser
• Systems Engineering
• Technical Writing
• Product Management
• Test Equipment
• Project Planning
• Instrumentation
• Engineering
• Aerospace
• Software Engineering
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Semiconductors
• Information Security
• Spectroscopy
• Data Analysis
• Six Sigma
• Energy
• Integration
• Engineering Management
• Visio
• Software Project Management