Will Sheldon

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Founder & CEO
British Columbia, Canada
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  • Autimo
    Founder & CEO
    Autimo
    Feb 2019 - Current (7 years 9 months)
    Canada Area
    Autimo offers DevOps as a service & cloud engineering. We are your flexible
    partner for consultation, implementation and support. Our expert cloud
    architects and engineers control risk, deliver new capabilities, develop your
    team and prepare your infrastructure to meet tomorrow's needs.
    Our team of containerization, automation, access control and compliance
    experts are ready to meet your Cloud & DevOps needs. Our expertise includes
    Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, IaC (Terraform/Cloudformation/Pulumi) as well as CI/CD and complex pipelines, gated deployments and more. Give us a shout at info@autimo.com!
  • Amazon
    IT Services Manager, Canada
    Amazon
    Mar 2017 - Feb 2019 (2 years)
    Canada Area
    As part of the Global IT management team I was accountable for IT at Amazon
    corporate sites in Canada in addition to various projects with AMER and global
    scope.
  • Best Buy Canada
    Manager, Infrastructure Platform
    Best Buy Canada
    Dec 2015 - Feb 2017 (1 year 3 months)
    Reporting in to the director of infrastructure and managing a team of ~20
    onshore staff plus offshore managed services teams I was on the hook for all
    physical & virtual servers, hardware, storage, backup, cloud and virtualization
    functions including strategy, new initiatives and operational support as well as budgeting and resourcing. It was our job to get infrastructure into the hands of the application support and development teams as quickly and painlessly as possible. My team and I covered everything from the data centre M&E to the OS including timely patching, capacity planning and architecture. I supported
    core applications and services inc. clustering, cloud mgmt. & automation. I was also involved in the architec
  • Appnovation
    IT Manager
    Appnovation
    Jul 2013 - Jan 2016 (2 years 7 months)
    Appnovation specializes in open solution web applications; clients include
    Google, Pfizer, Time Inc, Samsung, Disney & Intel. Working with a team
    spread across EMEA and AMER as we rapidly expanded was an immensely
    rewarding experience


    My responsibilities included accountability for IT & MS strategy, policy & team leadership, cloud architecture for internal and external clients, security, business continuity, disaster recovery & devops oversight.


    Accomplishments:
    Growth & development of the IT function from one person, one site to a team
    of 10 across 6 global locations.
    Reduced IT operating costs by 80% through a process of consolidation and development of an internal private cl
  • T
    Information Technology Systems Manager
    TEC The Education Company
    Feb 2011 - Jul 2013 (2 years 6 months)
    Oversight of IT/IS for TEC and subsidiaries, Stenberg College & The Center for Arts and Technology. TEC (through its subsidiaries) offers post-secondary
    education across a wide range of subjects including electronic art, IT and healthcare. Recent business strategy has lead to considerable investment in online and hybrid educational solutions with this market segment identified as a major growth area in the near term.


    A senior management role reporting to the president and working closely with the VP of education we planned and implemented a variety of projects that
    continue to deliver significant, quantifiable value to the business during which time the national IT team grew from 3 to 12-15 full time staff.
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  • S
    Technology Services Manager (contract)
    Slant Six Games
    Oct 2010 - Jan 2011 (4 months)
    A temporary contract providing cover for the current incumbent during an absence.
    Slant Six has produced the later titles in the SOCOM series for PSP and PS3.
    During my time we worked on Resident Evil Racoon City in association with Capcom (PC, PS3 & Xbox 360). With ~100 staff to support along with several
    concurrent projects this opportunity presented a fascinating insight into the gaming industry. My main responsibilities were to ensure smooth operation of the IT systems, however I also had the opportunity to lead and work on projects and took part in shaping enterprise IT policy.
  • K
    Senior Systems Engineer / Project Manager
    King's College School London
    Oct 2005 - Jul 2010 (4 years 10 months)
    KCS is a world-renowned school in London, UK. KCSIT provide infrastructure, support & development services for six sites in a campus area network. My
    role included management of the the network and associated services (cisco model) as well as leading various projects including a campus wide windows
    upgrade & SCCM implementation and deploying a custom wireless network
    solution.
  • P
    Network Administrator
    Peldon Rose Group Limited
    Aug 2004 - Oct 2005 (1 year 3 months)
    With clients including Yahoo! & Google. Peldon Rose offers a single point of contact and comprehensive service for workplace D&B requirements within the London area. My key roles and responsibilities included systems & network
    administration and staff training and development.
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  • Charles Sturt University
    Master of Business Administration Computing
    Charles Sturt University