Seth Gillespie

Principal Enterprise Project Manager within Infrastructure Planning, Cloud Management and Forecasting. Coordinates multiple workstreams and divisions across Apple, including finance, computing and network infrastructure, physical build-out, risk management, and security.

• Principal EPM (Enterprise Project Manager) within Infrastructure Planning, Cloud Management and Forecasting.
• Responsible for coordinating multiple workstreams and divisions across Apple, including finance, computing and network infrastructure, physical build-out, risk management, and security.

• In the face of ambiguity, effectively lead and coordinate Data Center Tech Refresh projects, including requirements gathering, procurement and recovery of space and power, resulting in satisfied stakeholders.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead and collaborate with internal engineering teams and external partners alike by consistently delivering on-time, multi-initiative results under deadline.

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• Manage staff, contractors and FTEs within the PMO servicing and supporting ISO (Maps, iCloud, iWork, iTunes, Beats), SWE, HWE, FileMaker, IS&T and Global Security projects.
• Reduce lead times incident management and process automation through Jira, Confluence and other toolsets.

• Responsible for the ongoing and successful deployment of mission-critical Data Center Compute and Network infrastructure for Apple Pay® despite incredible deadlines and tight product specifications resulting in on-time and on-budget construction and deliverables including partner integration with Visa, MasterCard, Discover and AMEX.
• Influence and provide leadership to hundreds of staff dispers

• Provided management of multi-disciplinary IT programs, including Database and Internet Applications, resulting in high-quality, on-schedule, on-budget results
• Managed staff responsible for System and Database Engineering within the project management support program offering 100% uptime for client-server based enterprise project management software, utilized by thousands worldwide
• Performed

• Managed personnel including: system engineers, network engineers, site services and change management performing patch management, production launches, data center troubleshooting / developed first of kind distributed enterprise project management system based on Microsoft Project Server used by hundreds of IT staff nation-wide
• Responsible Production Data Center program management for Californ

• Managed staff of >100 IT contract workers for California-based clients including full-cycle recruiting, hiring, retention, and performance evaluations for managed services, including unexpected demand for increased staff by 2.5x for last-minute contract for client, resulting in meeting contract deliverables for hardware and software deployment
• Reduced number of product SKUs by 50% simplifying

• Created and directed master program and staff schedule for two Data Center migrations, enabling strategic visibility / accountability for management and employees to reduce program delays
• Oversight included System Engineers, Desktop Engineers, and Onsite Construction and Patch Plan management, resulting in zero defects subsequent to move and bringing facility on board
• Responsible for on-sche

• Supervised data center staff (including physical presence for oversight in Italy/Germany) worldwide to deploy database, application, web servers and software in Emeryville, CA, Seattle, WA, Marburg, Germany and Siena, Italy
• Spearheaded remediation of electronic FDA mandated records keeping requirements mandated by FDA for IT regulatory compliance for record-keeping of 25 business systems and

• Technical lead manager for build-out / deployment for data center including, physical site selection, racking, powering, cabling and relocation of existing data center services with minimal downtime and impact to research and development (R&D) scientists
• Managed IT portfolio of hardware and software procurement, installation, and maintenance for 500 employees at four physical sites within San

Attended a 3-day on-campus executive education program on Decision Science and AI, exploring AI use cases and networking with faculty.

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Pursued a PhD in Organization and Management with a specialization in IT Management.

Earned an MBA in Technology Management.

• Formulating Business Strategy • Building a Vision for Yourself or Your Organization • Managing without Authority

Pursued continuing education in Information Technology.

Earned a Bachelor's degree in Molecular Biology.

Completed a minor in Economics.