Eric Thorsen, MBA

Site Reliability Engineering and Operations Manager

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I am an experienced technology leader in enterprise application management and support. My experience is supporting critical, highly available enterprise applications with thousands of users. I am focused on application availability, performance, and resiliency.


Work Experience

Systems Development Engineering Manager

Google LLC | 2022 - Present

Senior Manager Production Operations

Mandiant, Inc | 2022

Responsible for the uptime, performance, and availability of Enterprise Technology Service applications, and corresponding functions including incident management and problem management. Leads a 24/7 international team of Reliability Engineers and Availability specialists.

Software Engineering Manager

Wells Fargo Home Lending Technology | 2021 - 2022

Global Software Engineering Manager responsible for the development of the bankruptcy, claims and corporate advance applications. Leads a team composed 30 US full-time employees (FTEs), and managers.

Director of Incident Management

CO-OP Financial | 2020 - 2021

Leads the Enterprise Command Center operating as the primary 24⁄7 monitoring and support team, the Incident Management Organization and Enterprise Problem Management. Oversees enterprise-wide system availability through monitoring all applications and systems, leading efforts to recover systems experiencing outages or degradation of service, and leading efforts to resolve re-occurring system issues across the enterprise.

Systems Operations Manager

Wells Fargo Technology Infrastructure | 2019 - 2020

Global Site Reliability Engineering Manager responsible for the availability and stability of enterprise logging application Splunk. Leads a team composed US full-time employees (FTEs), US contract employees, and functionally supervises Enterprise Global Services (EGS) Support FTEs. Created and implemented the strategic plan for the formation of the SRE team from a merger of multiple teams to a new follow the sun support model.

Technology Manager

Wells Fargo Consumer Lending Technology | 2017 - 2019

Managed a distributed support team of 10 analysts, engineers, contractors, and functionally lead 12 resources internationally specializing in ECM technologies including, Kofax, Encapture, and FileNet supporting 20,000 end-users and dozens of partner application systems following ITIL standards. Led change from a horizontal team organization by function to vertical team organization aligned to supporting specific applications. Responsible for formulating and managing a platform support plan for an acquisition and the migration of new applications, including Datacap, SDL, and additional Kofax and Encapture environments.

Technology Manager

Wells Fargo Consumer Lending Technology | 2015 - 2017

Managed a distributed support team of 10 analysts, engineers, contractors, and functionally lead 12 resources internationally specializing in ECM technologies including, Kofax, Encapture, and FileNet supporting 20,000 end-users and dozens of partner application systems following ITIL standards.

System Support Analyst

Wells Fargo Consumer Lending Technology | 2013 - 2015

Architected the Windows 7 Remediation upgrade project from Kofax 7.5 to Kofax 10.0. Led the creating, testing, and updating of the business continuation plan for a highly available application, including a return to operations time within 30 minutes. Then new application design resulted in a 90% reduction of outage minutes in its first year. Member of 24/7 application support team supporting a Kofax Capture Enterprise Content Management application for the Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.

System Support Analyst

Wells Fargo Consumer Lending Technology | 2010 - 2013

Member of 24/7 application support team supporting a Kofax Capture Enterprise Content Management application for the Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.