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Shaw Taheri

Victoria,BC

Summary

A highly motivated, self driven, Cloud enthusiast. Worked in the Cloud computing industry for the majority of my professional career. I worked with leading Cloud companies in the Managed Service and Telemedicine space. In my career, I encountered a wide range of roles within the industry from purely technical engineer, leader/manager of a team of 40 engineers, to customer account management and sales. Collaborated with cross-functional engineering teams to design and implement seamless technology solutions. Managed end-to-end project delivery, coordinating with engineers to provide clients with customized technology services. Oversaw and tracked incident and service request queues, prioritizing swift resolution and ensuring clear, consistent communication with stakeholders.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

IT Solutions Specialist

Vancouver Island Health Authority
04.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for owning, administering, and maintaining software applications critical operations utilized by 20,000 Doctors, Nurses and other Health Care professionals
  • Provide expert vision, direction and leadership to advise executive and senior IM/IT staff
  • Guide project teams, staff, contractors and vendors to ensure technical solutions deliver desired business outcomes

System Administrator

Hims and Hers Health
02.2021 - 05.2022
  • Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
  • Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that elevated client side experience and significantly improved overall functionality and performance.
  • Collaborated closely with product development teams and other stakeholders, using effective communication and active listening skills.
  • Wrote code and supported architecture in high-throughput systems on multiple clouds.
  • Implemented change control, configuration status accounting and configuration audits.

Service Delivery Manager - Lead Cloud Engineer

Cloudreach
01.2020 - 02.2021

Managed and monitored customer ticket queues, prioritizing tasks according to urgency and impact to ensure prompt response and resolution

  • Documented incidents and service requests in detail, accurately reflecting work completed for clients
  • Evaluated employee performance on a weekly basis and coached and trained 40 team members, increasing quality of work and employee motivation
  • Coached team members in techniques necessary to complete various job tasks
  • Involved in pre-sales interactions with potential North American customers, gathering requirements and mapping them to Cloudreach products
  • Led and coordinated mass on-boardings of new customers, ensuring efficiency, and most importantly, customer satisfaction
  • Provided regular updates to company stakeholder regarding state of customers and ways to improve relationships
  • Mentored Engineers and Analysts towards improvement in their technical knowledge while fostering an environment that focuses on providing customers with the highest level of support
  • Took on additional job duties during unexpected backlog, resulting in meeting project target date.
  • Led employee relations through effective communication, coaching, training and development.

Technical Account Manager

Cloudreach
05.2019 - 02.2020
  • Cultivated effective and positive working relationships with lucrative clients through onboarding, initial training and ongoing support
  • Ensured proper staffing levels to guarantee timely and accurate deliveries
  • Advised clients on methods, technologies, process improvements and training that would increase overall business potential
  • Attended staff and client meetings and served as liaison to manage operations for account
  • Collaborated with manager to foster information sharing and account follow-up
  • Contributed to internal and external account reviews

Cloud Support Engineer

Cloudreach
02.2017 - 06.2019
  • Configuration Management: Utilized Chef to monitor and maintain customer environments, creating recipes and cookbooks to deploy various monitoring scripts to Cloud environments
  • Monitoring: Worked on enhancing the monitoring stack utilized by Operations including work on Splunk, Zenos, Datadog, designing alert thresholds, and maintaining SLAs
  • Maintenance: Ensured network, system and data availability and integrity through preventative maintenance and upgrades
  • Infrastructure Support: Ensured high availability of infrastructure through enterprise-wide planning, testing, implementation and support. Responding to customer requests and any after-hours emergencies that may lead to any outages. Utilizing the ITSM tool Service Now
  • Documentation: Expanded on the organization's knowledge base while ensuring that all current documentation was relevant and kept up to date

BCIT Lab Proctor

British Columbia Institute Of Technology
06.2014 - 06.2015
  • Maintained campus wide computer labs through WSUS
  • Assisted instructors with any IT related escalations
  • Tore down and re-built server rooms to ensure clean wire management

Education

Computer Information Technology

British Columbia Institute of Technology
Burnaby, BC
2016

Computer Science

Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC
2013

Skills

  • AWS, Azure, GCP, Chef, CircleCI, Terraform, Linux and Windows administration
  • Team leadership
  • Written and oral communication
  • Highly driven and self motivated
  • Presentation and facilitation
  • Maintaining strong relationships with remote customers

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • AWS Certified Developers - Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

Languages

  • English
  • Farsi

Timeline

IT Solutions Specialist

Vancouver Island Health Authority
04.2023 - Current

System Administrator

Hims and Hers Health
02.2021 - 05.2022

Service Delivery Manager - Lead Cloud Engineer

Cloudreach
01.2020 - 02.2021

Technical Account Manager

Cloudreach
05.2019 - 02.2020

Cloud Support Engineer

Cloudreach
02.2017 - 06.2019

BCIT Lab Proctor

British Columbia Institute Of Technology
06.2014 - 06.2015

Computer Information Technology

British Columbia Institute of Technology

Computer Science

Simon Fraser University
Shaw Taheri