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Jack Akova

@jackakova

Incident and problem management leader driving service resilience and continuous improvement.

United States
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What I'm looking for

I seek roles leading incident and problem management where I can reduce MTTR, improve observability, drive postmortems, and implement continuous process improvements within collaborative, metrics-driven teams.

I am a detail-oriented incident and problem management leader with 18+ years of experience owning major incidents, reducing downtime, and improving service resilience across enterprise environments. I specialize in incident command, postmortems, known error databases, and creating runbooks while collaborating with SRE, observability, and support teams to implement lasting corrective actions.

I have led incident programs at large organizations including Allstate, Airbnb, CarMax, and Penn Entertainment, leveraging tools such as ServiceNow, Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, SolarWinds, and Grafana. I focus on continuous improvement, clear executive communications, and building processes that reduce MTTR and prevent repeat outages.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Sr. Critical Incident Manager Lead

Nov 2022 - Apr 2024 (1 year 5 months)

Oversaw critical incident lifecycle and on-call response, produced operational metrics, led Severity 0–2 incidents and AARs, and drove process improvements to reduce downtime.

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Enterprise Sr. Command Center Lead

Jan 2008 - Apr 2019 (11 years 3 months)

Led command center incident and problem operations across two sites, trained incident managers, drove RCA and SOPs, and improved MTTR and enterprise application availability over a multi-year tenure.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

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ITT Technical Institute

Associate Degree in IT, Computer Network Systems

Completed an Associate Degree in Computer Network Systems focusing on IT and networking fundamentals.

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