Colin Haubrich

Direct report to the CFO overseeing all aspects of IT and leading the IT organization to scale with the rapid growth of the company. • Oversee AI council leading AI initiatives at Wisk to improve efficiencies • Led the ERP Selection process, negotiated final agreement and kick-started the project • Guided HRIS selection and negotiated Workday agreement, consulted on implementation • Matured and grew the IT team 3x to support the rapid company growth from 250 users to over 1400 enabling rapid development of our next generation aircraft • Built a security strategy and roadmap to improve security across the company with successful external audits. • Led business improvement initiatives that included improving the onboarding experience, HR data integrity, design to procurement and supported a PMO migration to Jira. • Collaborated with the business to implement an IT governance model for applications, projects, standards, metrics and set SLA targets driving a culture of performance within the organization. • Spearheaded effort to shut down our data center and migrate workloads to AWS and GCP cloud accelerating engineering turnaround time

Report Directly to the CIO and contribute as part of the overall company transformation. Lead IT Infrastructure Team (100+) from a reactive organization to a scalable, proactive, metrics driven and innovative organization with sound processes, financial discipline and strong customer focus supporting 6k+ users • Developed One Global IT team, improving employee satisfaction score year over year (61->73%), retention >95% and established 24x7 support team following ITIL processes. • Transformed and modernized IT employee engagement by delivering IaaS solutions: Office 365, Zoom, Slack, ServiceNow, Windows 10, OneDrive, Macs, MS Surfaces, Okta and Intune. • Collaborated with CISO to advance overall security posture implementing Okta, CASB, FireEye and Forcepoint and improved processes with minimal user impact to meet SOC, GDPR, SOX and ISO standards • Established and negotiated 4 regional data centers, migrated over 4k devices and 1 megawatt of power from on prem improving reliability of environment and creating a scalable platform for growth. • Minimized disruption to business through effective guidance of IT Operations through 4 divestitures and 3 acquisitions (Cavium, Avera & Aquantia) impacting 3K+ employees and successfully integrated all IT infrastructure. • Grew overall WAN bandwidth 7x while decreasing WAN costs 50% by initiating SDWAN project and successful RFP negotiations, upgraded aging LAN and WiFi network improving stability. • Negotiated new contracts and services for Office 365, Slack, and Zoom with minimal impact to budget by reducing existing costs (>$1.2M) in WAN, Colo, and Maintenance. • Improved resiliency and efficiency of engineering Unix grid (40k+ HPC cores) through monitoring, refresh, and relocating to colocation facility. • Drove down storage costs by implementing a dual-vendor strategy, consolidated and modernized 15PB+ of storage for optimal utilization.

Reported directly to the CIO, established Office of the CIO to focus on cross-functional programs, including strategy, IT roadmaps, enterprise architecture, portfolio management, vendor management, and security. • Spearheaded project to design a segregated secure engineering environment, allowing for isolation of engineering IP from outside threats. • Orchestrated mission, vision and strategy exercises for all IT, setting 3 year roadmap.

Led global group of 75 managing IT infrastructure including servers, storage, data center, network, and end user support. • Reduced operational spending 20% by driving efficiencies in staff and infrastructure. • Refreshed aging SAP environment and moved to 100% virtualized platform, improving reliability and performance. • Initiated program, spearheading relocation of disaster recovery environment from Asia where SLAs were consistently failing to Austin where SLAs exceeded 50%. • Launched innovative security solution to better protect end points from APTs.

Held responsibility for global compute farm, storage, backups, data center, disaster recovery, and general server infrastructure. • Consolidated and simplified infrastructure 50% and closed 2 data centers, reducing spend and operational overhead while increasing engineering capacity. • Brought 3 Engineering IT teams together into one global team of 17, supporting 24x5 improving and standardizing support practices. • Forged strong relationships with Engineering and developed collaborative IT strategies aligned to their engineering requirements. • Instilled metrics and monitoring for improved reliability, availability, and performance of compute environment. • Built mergers and acquisitions playbook which was leveraged for leading successful IT acquisition of Avalon Microelectronics.

Established IT group in Toronto and led office through hyper growth by scaling up to 3x. Established processes and systems while maintaining constant headcount. • Setup configuration management and monitoring tools to help manage and support infrastructure • Led project to expand and renovate office space and data center by 80%

Founded an IT solutions provider company, providing solutions for websites, network and storage infrastructure.

Managed corporate IT infrastructure supporting all North American sites. Maintained Web Site, E-Commerce and Database systems. Administered educational environment configuration.